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Tennis camp underway.

Team Ellerman is going to a tennis camp a few hours each day, while mommy "exercises so she doesn't get slat". Ever the sceptic, I wasn't sure how much they would absorb in so little time, but this morning they showed me some skills. 

In ready position when your opponent serves. 

Serve! 

Parents are encouraged not to come to camp, so soak up the pics above. That's all you're going to get. 

Pro-yets.

Our boys go to a language immersion school, and often that means the teachers first language is not English. And  that in turn means we have fun interpreting their notes and emails and sometimes even conversations. Our first encounter with this was when the boys got their first project assigned, and the teacher kept talking about the "proyets" that were due. Go ahead and say it with a Spanish accent, you know you wanna.

Right now I am working on a few proyets of my own. I am cleaning, wood puttying, sanding and priming. And soon, I will be painting. 

My proyets, pre-sanding.

The company I had during my work today. G us singing, C is trying to ignore him.

If it wasn't moving and was nearby, it got primed today.

I was also busy with kitchen proyets. A little key lime pie. 

And chicken parmigiana. My rendition of an Italian chef announcing the chicken parmigiana being ready nearly got astanding  ovation in the kitchen. Tomorrow night we grill pork chops and ocra. Suppose I need to work on my southern accent for that. 

Nom nom. 

Halfway through Summer

Holy crap. How did we get halfway through summer?

Little bit of what happened around here the last month. We painted rocks to decorate my girl Fannie's grave site. She is buried behind the house in a nice little circle of trees. I think she'd be very happy with her final resting place, and the colorful stones that are on it.

It was also Fathers Day in there somewhere. We gave Dada his gifts a little early.

 

Dada spied this puzzle on our Boston trip. We do love ourselves some puzzleds. I have to tell that I think all couples should be forced to complete a puzzle together as part of pre-marriage counseling. Nothing is more revealing or frankly as annoying as someone you think you know going all crazy with their puzzling technique. Its good to know what type of crazy you are going to be stuck with for life, ya know? I love him, despite his need to constantly look at the puzzle box's cover to find pieces that match. Just look at the shape and colors on the individual puzzle pieces, dude!

Now I must sign off because I have some car packing to do. We are hitting the road to see GG and Grampie at the beach! We were just there a few weeks ago, here are a few pics from that visit. We cant wait to sit with our feet in buckets.

 Listen to some tunes on the beach, and its always good to see this guy in relaxation mode.

 And this view, can you beat that? The answer is no, especially when you have a wine spritzer in your hand.

 And doesnt GG love having a wet little dude in her lap?

 At the beach you get to have as many Capri Suns as you want, with mom being all worried about you being hydrated and such. Its a juice and Capri Sun free for all!

 Dada gets to take his mini-me out to charge the waves.

 Team Ellerman gets to play.

 And Grampie catches some winks. And K and I sit and do nothing while GG helps the boys jump waves in the background.

Can't wait to get there!

Sorry!

We are prepping for a return trip to Florida, and playing some games in between all the work. We are busy baking goodies to take with us. Nom. 

And while those baked we learned how to play Sorry! Guess who won?