Summer in Review - July 2011 (Part 2)

Here is what we did during the second part of July!

We tried to make the most of our Saturday afternoons in the summer since Sunday is a work day for Richie.  One Saturday we spent the day downtown.  We ate at the famous Arcade restaurant, rode the trolley around downtown, and got some ice cream.


Another Saturday, we took a family bike ride on the Memphis Greenline.  Margaret wasn't quite old enough to keep up on her bike with training wheels.  Griffin also decided not to use his brakes for a little while that day, and he had a very memorable stop!


The following Saturday we went bowling with Uncle Spencer, Aunt Jenny, Simon and Sullivan.  It was so much fun.  I loved the tiny little bowling shoes.  Margaret kept dropping her ball into other lanes, so we became very familiar with the bowling alley attendants.

Afterwards we went to Jerry's for our favorite snow cones.


Some random things we did in July were: making gak with Griffin, going to the Children's Museum, playing in the sprinkler, Griffin's special dinner (grilled salmon), making play-dough with Margaret, and Margaret's special dinner (chicken tenders and corn).

The last week in July we went to Pickwick Lake in TN. A family that goes to our church let us borrow their lake house.  It was a great relaxing family time before the craziness of school started.

Summer in Review - July 2011 (Part 1)

July was a busy and fun month too!  I have a lot to share with you, so I am going to divide it up into two separate posts.

At the very end of June and first part of July Richie was the speaker at a junior high youth conference called Reformed Youth Movement.  So we spent another week in Panama City Beach, FL.  It was such a fun week for our family, and the beach was beautiful.  The kids' favorite day was the day that we went to the local water park.  It brought back lots of memories from our childhood and summer days spent on the lazy river!  (I promise I went on this trip!  There were somehow no pictures of me though.)



We stopped in Jackson on our way back from Florida and spent several nights there with my family over the 4th of July.  It was a great visit.  Maggie had just had another set of puppies, so the kids had so much fun playing with them.

Dad took Richie, David and I kayaking on the Pearl River early one morning.  We saw a lot of alligators and herons, and it could easily become one of my new favorite hobbies.

Dad, Richie, David and I ran in the Watermelon Classic 5K on the 4th of July.  Mamie and Griffin ran in the one-mile race.  It was HOT and hilly, but a lot of fun. 

Margaret dominated and brought home the gold in the 100-yard dash after some coaching by her Uncle David.  She was so proud, and on a side note she was clearly the oldest participant.