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This was our first week of quintessential summer…sleeping in (7 or 8 am), going to the library (12 books), eating lunch at Del's Frozen lemonade (hot dogs and frozen lemonade – yum), staying up late, playing outside (in 100 degree temps), seeing movies, playing at the pool (although it was temporarily halted because of fecal contamination, just one more reason why I should have my own pool), and just doing whatever we want!

We're working on cleaning up, de-cluttering and re-arranging the game room and media room (the second game room).  It's still not done.

I'm trying to get CDs burned of my Girls camp slideshow, but it's giving me ALL kinds of fits and hours of work.

I'm trying to read three books at the same time, which is hard to do when you also have three boys.

We've already had our A/C go out downstairs, and when the guy looked at it he discovered that the last guys who worked on it (in Feb) had wired it wrong and had the fan going the wrong direction!  Thankfully it was an easy (and cheap) fix.

And we're planning our 10-day, 9-state, 2600-mile road trip that starts next week.  Excited about that and all of the possibilities!

So far…it's a great summer.

Here's a picture of the boys outside yesterday with 4 other neighbor boys.  They were all complaining of it being hot and said they wanted to come inside.  But I was raised by Nancy Haymond Robinson Lawson, who said that in the summer you "play OUTside" (and even locked us out once to prove her point!)…so I made them stay OUTside.  But I felt sorry for them (even though they were in the shade) and took them out a big bowl of ice with a box of Mike n Ike's poured in.  I threw it on the trampoline and let them at it.  It cooled them off, plus they loved the candy. 

And these two look like miniature versions of Mr. T!  It's shirtless season at the Smith house.  And I have no idea where Caleb got these necklaces, but he's worn them EVERY day this week.  Just yesterday Samuel realized he had two and begged for one. 

Today I'm off shopping with my Mom and anticipating my second favorite holiday tomorrow!  Happy Fourth!