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We've had a lot of days like this...

and like this....

 

and nights like this..

note the time stamp here - 10:18 pm and it's 90, feels like 95. yeah.

So when Sunday dawned overcast and cooler we knew we were ready for some outside fun (without the pleasure of sweat dripping down your back).   Early service and then long lazy outdoor lunch with friends.  

The kids spent a crazy amount of time jumping off this wall over and over and over again.  

Every now and then the jump got a bit out of control :) 

Maybe that's why John Paul was trying out the bike helmets?

Good to get a cooler day or two, and good to get some good time with Daddy who is traveling this week (and, bummer, many weeks) this fall. 

I think you might call this the last week of summer?  Local school starts Saturday for the girls (more like an orientation than the first day of class) and Isaac will be back at preschool on Monday morning.  I have this nagging suspicion that I should get some rhythm back to my home schooling days but so far we're not there yet.  We are doing a few things though, and I'm thinking we'll build up to a full schedule sometime mid September?  Gotta get the kinks worked out as we figure out what the local school demands will look like and when to best do our home school work.  

Today my helper brought her six year old granddaughter and those three girls played til they were teary-eyed at departure.  After much begging ayi said she would bring her granddaughter again tomorrow.  Fun to have a new friend around and I'm grateful for a little extra language immersion for the girls after a summer of mostly English speaking friendships.