The dogs (Jingle, Smoochy, Lucy) doing what the dogs are usually doing.
The brewery changed Mark's schedule again, so he couldn't make it to Olivia's pre-k's "Donuts with Dad" early Father's Day celebration. Uncle Dave was game to fill-in for Mark, so Olivia was pretty ecstatic.
Here he is trying to show where he banged his eye with the hatchback on his jeep. Dave can be a little accident prone...
(I remember mother praying that he'd make it thru dental school before he cut all his fingers off...) The kids were able to go home early after this, so Olivia was doubly happy.
As soon as the donuts were done, we headed to Brooke's gymnastics "show". She and her classmates got to show their parents all the things they have learned, and we got to go into the gym to watch and take pictures. As before, my camera doesn't do well, since the flash isn't powerful enough for the big space. And if I turn off the flash, the shutter speed slows way down and everything gets blurred. But here she is at the end with her purple ribbon. Yeah!
Uncle Dave had another engagement after the gymnastics show, so we went out to lunch at Burger King without him. He has a rain-check to try out the delicious Shepherd's Pie at the new Irish place near us.
Next, we made a quick stop at Debbi's house to see what she had out at her garage sale. Lots of good stuff, but not many customers. Olivia has a horn-of-plenty on her head, Brooke has a ring of Fall leaves. Debbi had them in her "free" box, so the girls felt they'd found great treasure.
Finally, we called it a day and headed home.
The next day we went to Aunt Carol & Uncle Dave's house for a combination graduation cook-out for cousin Garrett and birthday party for Carol's dad, Buddy.
Garrett (he got his hiar cut!) will be attending Kennesaw State University next Fall. It's literally just down the street from his house, so it's super convenient.
I can't remember how old Buddy is, but it's early 80-something. He is in great shape and is still working in finance. Lately, he's been helping folks who are being railroaded into foreclosure by their mortgage companies.
Cousin Ivey hates to have her pictures taken. She hates it even MORE to find her picture, for everyone to see, on this blog. So, I'm posting every shot I have of her here, just to irritate her. Your Aunt Heidi loves you, babe.
Neither Olivia nor Brooke will ever own a pair of shoes like these until they move out of my house.
The most exciting thing at the party for Olivia was her 2nd tooth falling out as she ate her hamburger!! The Tooth Fairy brought her a Fancy Nancy book!!!!!
Sunday, we went to a little park. There's no playground equipment there, just a really nice picnic area, a fishing deck and a wonderful, wide, paved walking trail. Next time, we'll bring the girls bikes.
They girls got to watch fish and kayakers floating by from the comfy swing.
Swingin' with Dad!
Swingin' with Mom.
Both girls had to try to cross the dangerous rapids. Thankfully they both made it in one piece. Ha! Just a fun afternoon out. My next post will show the girls at the Asian-American Heritage Conference in Atlanta, where they performed with the China Tree School.
And one P.S. - Mark's nephew Sam is still on the Appaliachain Trail. To date he has walked 300 miles. Yeah!! (Glad it's him and not me...)
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