Summer 2021

Summer was great!  Lydia and Isaac painted Isaac's room.  It was a bright green and PeptoBismal pink, and is now a lovely mint green.  Isaac was so patient to have a half pink room for 6 months.

There was lots of swimming!

 

Even in the rain.

Alice got blueberries from her little blueberry "trees."

And we had lots of visiting!  Lydia's best friend in Houston, Gabi, came up for a week.  Here we are walking around the beautiful indoor gardens in the Gaylord Hotel in Nashville.

We went up to Colombus, Ohio to see some friends AND got to take our nephew Spencer and his companion out to breakfast (he's serving as a missionary there!) to our favorite family restaurant! 

We were in Cincinnati to celebrate Oma's birthday with her!

And split wood with Opa, of course!

Our Calls stayed a night as they passed through Clarksville on the way from one family reunion on the East coast to another in the West. 

My Aunt Pam and Uncle Gary stopped for an afternoon visit on their way back home to Illinois from a trip.  How neat that Tennessee just seems to be on the way for people!

Mike's sister Angie and her family came to see us.  Free shaved ice at a library event.  (Hooray for free!) And thank goodness, because it was blessed hot that day!  We did lots of swimming while they were here.

All of us at Dunbar Cave.

Amanda and her kids came to visit too!!  Lydia and Isaac had just returned from youth camp.  Lydia was sick (although negative for COVID, but she still quarantined herself.  "What?  Stay home and watch movies all day while you galavant?  If I must.").  Lydia eating dinner in quiet solitude.  

I think Amanda doesn't slow down long enough for me to take any pictures which is why I hardly have any.  My neighbor, Jim, took us around the 101st Airborne Division museum.  It was super neat and we ate lunch outside amidst these cool aircraft.

It was a wonderful summer!