Hot, hot month of July--a few misc pictures

The hot weather continues. It's amazing how quickly we can adjust to it, though. We've only turned on the ac a few times during this hot summer and we've survived so far :) The other day, it actually rained for a few minutes and the temps cooled off into the 70s. The kids said they were cold!!!!!!!! I said, "Whatever!" Anyway, here are my July pictures. Oh, and Tom is still working at the tutoring center and loving it. He's had several weeks of over 25 hours!!! We're still praying as to what our next step should be and when.

Proof that it got over 100 degrees in Ann Arbor

Tom drew this sketch of our house

Kids playing a tent a neighbor gave us

Haven hiding behind the couch and getting into something!

Haven and the neighbor boy

Rachel in a tree

Sarah and Rachel love to climb trees

Sarah in a tree

Rachel and Haven matching

All 3 girls matching--Sarah didn't want a picture just then!

  Peter , Rachel, and  Andrew--they did this on purpose!

Ethan

Sarah

Rachel

Abby K. and Haven at 4 July

Rachal C., Rachel, and Haven at 4 July

Ethan went to play with Haven after her nap--I found them reading books :)

I decided to break up the pictures a bit this month...hopefully, they'll be easier to look at this way. Not so overwhelming ;)

June 2012--my creative titles continue :)

June. It has been hot. It's continuing to be hot in July. I feel like I'm in an oven. We need rain. Lots of rain. Now. Our green grass is no longer. Green, that is. It's brown. The younger kids don't seem to notice the heat. They play outside all day. The older (wiser?) kids play outside during the hottest time of day on the hottest spot of our property. They've been playing basketball with Dad almost everyday. It's great exercise for all of them and most of the time, they sound like they're enjoying it. Except Dad. The next day. Great pain. Mom laughs :)

Here are our June pictures. If my camera doesn't melt in this extreme (90-100 degree) heat, I'll be posting July pictures sometime in the near future. Maybe I'll melt.

(The pictures are in random order.)

Ethan playing basketball--cool June 1st

Ethan and Haven found my mp3 player!!

Ethan with his Ireland shirt from John Jr Van Gelderen

Peter and Sarah playing in the water

Haven wanted in on the action, too :)

Peter took this job seriously :)

Sarah and Rachel drying off

Notice little boy Ethan in the background!!

Mom and Haven and feet!!

"My fingers might be small, but I can
still wrap Grandpa around them!!"
(Grandma shirt coming next month)

He actually fell asleep like this :)

Daniel vacuuming the grass--the trash bag ripped
and some glass and other junk fell out--YUCK!

Ethan and Haven reading before bed...notice Ethan's socks

Ethan and his friend next door. The spend all day, everyday
(well, almost!) together!

Haven playing with toys from CeCe!!

Proof that it got really hot on June 28--it actually
passed 100 degrees!

Andrew playing basketball

Ethan under the tree

Running--love that smile :)

Nathan and Daniel going to work

Haven playing in her car

Rachel set up this road for her

Rachel and Sarah on their bikes

Our front yard--after the improvements

Ignore any toys or shoes or whatever...

just look at landscaping type of things

Rachel getting her soccer medal

Soccer team

Sarah getting her soccer medal