The Kavanaughs: The random summer

Monday, September 9, 2013

The random summer

Now that summer is over, I guess I should put up some summer pictures! Although it's 90 degrees today and we had to turn the air back on, so maybe it's not over. We did have a good summer - it was great having Calvin around to do fun stuff! But I feel like it took me a summer to get used to having him home and being able to do family things on the weekends. We were stuck in a Mommy and Jocelyn routine, and I feel that was hard to break out of. Next summer will be different!

We planted our garden again this year, but while we were cleaning it out found we had some critters living in it! The mama had built a nest under some brush that was in the garden. Jocelyn thought they were really neat, and my softie husband wouldn't let us kick them out. So, they stayed there, under a box he made for them (so they could still get in and out) until they were big enough to be on their own. And come back and eat things out of our garden.

Sisterly love...they do get along most of the time!

Building sand castles

Wearing the matching softball jerseys

Doing projects

The first weekend in June we headed over to Appleton for a friend of the family's wedding. See all the fun stuff Calvin was missing out on before?!

This is Madeline, my friend's daughter. She was the flower girl, and was so excited there was a pond at the reception site. She wanted to catch a frog so badly. Amazingly enough, Calvin caught one and didn't even get too slimy. I'm pretty sure she would have brought it home with her if she could have.

Jocelyn thought it was cool, but not cool enough to want to hold it.

Around Father's Day, Cory came home for a week. Then it was back to Germany for the remainder of his service. He's back now - hooray! And going to school at the Tech. We're so thankful he made it home in one piece and are looking forward to seeing a lot more of that boy.