summer '19

running through a sprinkler on a summer day 

we did it in the old days, literally a hose sprinkler in the yard, now Lili has a fancy waterfall poolside, but the feeling is the same, the excitement, the freedom of being a child with no worries

new baby Maverick taking it all in, watching his cousin running around granma's house

watching the trees blowing in the wind on the walk to his new house, they say it is a house but it looks like a flat dirt track longing for matchbox cars and tonka trucks, with neat rocks begging to be stacked and strewn

there's a new puppy rescued from the pound, bound to be an instagram story with a coat and a name like a shiny new penny!

there is the not quite grownup aunt who gets to live at Disney and works at neat jobs and sometimes goes to college :)

some JOHO going on next door, the house where all these folks were raised and grew up and moved away, and moved back, granma and granpa are working on fixing up the house for its ever growing cast of characters coming to visit

there is a lot of planning and anticipation for the big adventure elopement in a month - dress, suit, plane tix, photographer, hiking boots! 

and finally great granma and great grandpa counting the days to retirement with a future filled with travel and family and watching all the kids

running through a sprinkler on a summer day