Ice Cream

Our family is going out to a local ice cream parlor tonight. 

Sims3

The weekend is a great time to play the new Sims 3 expansion pack called "Island Paradise". It has mermaids, island resorts, houseboats, and death by shark. Fun!

Iced Coffee

I love getting frappuccinos and mochaccinos from Starbucks, on hot summer days. 

Equality

I'm happy that the Supreme Court made the laws more fair.

Flora

I used my daughter's art for this design. It's from a Mother's Day card that she made for me. 

Intel

This week my daughter started her first internship, at Intel. She is studying to be a Computer Engineer.

Cosmetics

My daughter's make-up.

Fencing Gear

My daughter is a fencer. She is also an artist, and did the etching in the photo. 

Making Cookies

My daughter loves to make, and eat, cookie dough. Sometimes she will even turn it into cookies!

Summer Tree

First day of summer!

Camp Invention 2013

My son has his first job as a paid counsellor for Camp Invention. This is the 2013 emblem design. It changes every year. 

Watermelon

Delicious summer fruit. 

Movie Night

Our family went together to see a movie last night. This is very rare, now that the kids are old enough to go on their own. 

Dog Smile

My yellow Lab, Gidget.

Father's Day

My husband's BBQ.

Armchair

My Husband's favorite chair. 

Flag Day

American flag. 

Della Robbia Medallion

This ceramic medallion hangs in my backyard. 

Silver Car

We gave my daughter her first car today. It's our silver Hyundai Sonata, that she helped us pick out a long time ago. 

Hummingbird

Several Anna's Hummingbirds live in our backyard. They seem to eat the aphids on our sycamore trees. Once, I put out a red hummingbird feeder with yellow flowers, and the birds left until I removed it! I've learned since then that they prefer red flowers. 

Dresser

This is my husband's "Highboy" dresser.

Patchwork so far:

Did I forget to share this? This is what I have knitted so far (as of 3 weeks ago):

I have a planogram to helm me plan out colors:

Tropical

This is the shower curtain in my kids' bathroom.

Turtle

I found this big turtle in the street. We enjoyed it for awhile, and then released it in a pond. We marked it with a pink "S" so that we would recognize it later.