days in the life of summer....

So those lazy days of summer can best be described in pictures. The days sort of flow into one another, and after a while it becomes difficult to determine WHAT day it actually IS... since nothing is ever the same, week after week, in the summer. One week you're cruising the Mexican Riviera (and boy do we miss it) and the next it's time for swim dates and day camp. And hanging out with friends, going to hear bands, playing at the park....

but somehow it doesn't feel all that lazy. There is far too much running around, shuttling from one thing to the next to really feel lazy. But I do love summer.

P is a little fish in the pool these days... thanks to all our lovely friends with POOLS! That is the greatest gift... to be able to use the pool (and hang out with friends) but not be responsible for the pool!


I captured this one day from the car's thermometer... what the heck! The weather has been all over the place this summer, from crazy hot to freezing cold. A few days have been perfect.

This is what happens when my phone gets into the hands of little girls...Either that or Ariel and Eric are trying to get their headshots on my facebook account...

I'm so grateful for my hot mamma friends! We are a fun pack o'gals. I'm sorry for the blinking shot, Kelly... that is payback for telling my 20-something new neighbors that you were their TEACHER in high school!

On 7/11 it is FREE SLURPEE day at the 7-11! and my girls don't let me forget it... we have it on our calendars!

So we met the other Browns at the 7-11 and hung out on the corner, slurpin' slurpees. how summer is that? huh?

Miss Millie is a natural at soccor, much to daddy's delight. He is so eager to have a soccor player in the family that he found the class, signed her up, bought her soccor gear, and took her himself! You go, dad! Millie is going to pay for our house with her soccor scholarship, i'm positive.


Either that or her swimming scholarship....

Ok, check out the Spazmotics! What a hilarious band... I went with a bunch of girlfriends and had a blast!! With sexy guys like these, how could you not??


Penelope has become quite the little artist, and is taking both a painting class and a drawing class. This is a piece she was working on at home, after combining primary colors to create a palette of different colors---it was fun to see all the different shades of green and purple we could come up with.

One of our favorite summer (well year round but P can attend more often in summer) activities is visiting my dad. Nonno loves his grandkids, and our favorite spot to visit is for pizza and Starbucks. My dad loves his Starbucks. The girls are holding tiny tiny little princess dolls that they suckered me into buying for them at a buck a piece in a vending machine. Oh, the thrill of the vending machine... which princess will come out?? Of course, jasmine was promptly lost. She's out on an adventure in a nearby resteraunt, never to be heard from again...

Dad and his hot car...