Sam took a few photos of Nana’s flowers around the yard…. he is becoming quite the photographer.

A short trip up to Camp Waynesboro to see the girls and the fireworks.  The fireworks were a week later this year, July 11th.

We went over to the Friday’s (Joe and Kelly) tonight for the 4th of July.  Of course it was also Drew’s birthday and some of the Dilday’s clan came over too.

We made a trip to the beach on Monday to enjoy the beautiful weather and take Sam down for his scuba diving class.  Unfortunately the scuba class was rescheduled due to the water being too murky. There were some high winds off the coast stirring things up a bit, but we did reschedule for July 11th so we will make another trip down then.  One good thing about the wind was that it produced some nice waves for the boys to enjoy and kept the temperature down on the beach.  Overall the weather was perfect and the boys had a great time – they both were so tired they slept on the way home.  🙂

We didn’t think we would ever see the boys holding hands at this age!  🙂

There were some surfer dudes enjoying the waves a little farther down from us.

The wildflowers have finally started to bloom as has the sunflowers… must be that time of the year.  Luckily they seem to have survived the 13 days of +95 degrees, hopefully they will make it another month or two.

Today is the day that we ‘rescued’ Farley.  Back in the 2011 we found out Farley’s owner was looking for a new home for him as she was going through a difficult divorce.  Little did we know at the time, but the lady completely lied to us about Farley (“he loves driving in cars” among other things) or that Farley was completely crazy.  Since then though we have all grown to love him, some times more than others, and he has become part of the family.  We are guessing he is now about 6-7 years old (’40 something’ in human years) and his gray hairs are starting to show.  🙂

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Sam and Alex both got their annual check-ups for school last week.  Usually Alex wouldn’t get his until August but since they had an opening and we know August will be busy, Mom got him the next day after Sam.  During the visit, Mom decided to snap a couple of photos to text to Dad to let him know the visit details…

Alex weighs in at 5’8″ and 127 lbs.

Sam weighs in at 5’6 3/4″ and 147 lbs and for some reason Sam got to wear the paper gown. 🙂