hot, hot, hot....

Another wonderful summer day. I am exhausted this morning. Not sure if its the heat or business. Having the kids this week is a blast! I know you are all tired of beach pictures, pictures of my grandkids, or softball pictures.... but that is pretty much our summer! Yesterday after breakfast we went down to the beach. Thought we'd get it in early because I didn't want the dogs to overheat. Oh, and the kids. lol. Sandy is Andrew & Lauren's dog... for those that don't know. She is my second favorite dog in the whole world! Love her so much! She is timid, kind, sweet, happy with the little things, and she smiles when she is happy. All she wants in life is her family, attention and food. She had a pretty hard life we are guessing before Amanda rescued her from the pound. She loves them soooo much! She also loves the beach. She had so much fun down there. She has husky and golden lab in her (we're guessing) so the heat isn't her friend and it got to 103.... but not here. We stayed in the high 80's.... with a bit of a breeze. So the dogs loved it. Here is a picture of Sandy and her kids.... Andrew and Lauren! See how she smiles?


Andrew looking at a baby jellyfish.
Maddie with her "shirley temple" lips. She's so pretty.
Dylan.... without his walking stick. He didn't get too wet. He doesn't do too well in heat, either. Gets a headache and not feeling well.... like his mom. So last night he went home with mom and dad. Maddie, Lauren and Andrew got to come home with me again!Maddie trying to fill a hole she dug in the sand with water. She wasn't successful. I can't figure out boys. Why are they so mean? I gently tried to explain to her that she couldn't fill the hole because it would soak into the sand and Dylan pipes in and basically tells her to give it up. Boys have no tact or sympathy.

Lauren trusts her brother so much!
Maddie, Andrew, Lauren, Dylan, Sandy and Toby!

I love this picture of Lauren.... it looks exactly like she did at 2!
Andrew trying to get the dogs into the water!
Talking with Sandy... he loves her.
Sandy checking into what Maddie is doing.
Andrew and Lauren start cooling Sandy off.
Moses joined us. lol! Dylan loved his stick.... then he left it accidental when we left.
Andrew swimming along the shore keeping cool....
Apparently Toby seems to think he needs rescuing because he went in to help! lol
Andrew thought it was funny.
Beautiful Sandy is happy.
After the beach we took showers and baths. I called my "people" to confirm their dinner reservations (3 bailed on me) and then we packed sandwiches and chips for the game.... and lots of water! It was so hot when we got there! What a temp change after crossing that bridge. The other team never showed up so we went across the field and our team played another group of people who didn't have enough players. They put their team together and played against us. So technically we won because both our games were forfeited without enough players I guess. But the players had fun the 2nd half of the game. Thanks to Jay. He hit the ball and went from 1st to 2nd and got in a "pickle".... he eventually got out barely at 2nd... but it woke most of our team up and they had fun then. Kevon almost got a home run. Amanda got on first every time, Ryan played good, they all did pretty good. It was fun, but hot. Here is Riley spraying Jay with cold water.
Jay throwing his hat down....lol! Rachel and Tara in the picture too.
Kevon high-fiving Amanda for getting on first base again!
Son Kevon gave the ball a good ride!
Son Ryan going up to bat. Both my boys looked so handsome last night!
Our whole team high-fiving at the end.... most of them are my kids and some I've adopted over the years....

Joel (s-i-l), Ryan (son), Jay (adopted), Karla & Tara (daughters), Amanda (d-i-l), Kevon (son), Meghan (d-i-l), Rachel (adopted - Karla's best friend) and Jerk (adopted - kevon's best friend aka Jeff). Don't know where Lezli was in this picture.

Got home before papa last night. Had a nice evening with popcorn and chillin'.

Two years ago at this time Papa was in surgery having his bypass.... and his heart got angry and they had to quit before the 2nd. I'm so thankful to God, the doctors and our family and friends that were praying and supporting him during this really hard time. I'm so thankful God didn't take Papa home yet. I adore him.

Hope you all have a good day and stay cooooool! God bless!



Weather Lore

Observe on which day in August the first heavy fog occurs, and expect a hard frost on the same day in October.

If the first week in August is unusually warm, the winter will be white and long.

Weather To Expect:
We made it through the hottest day in Seattle weather history. The high temperature yesterday made it up to 103 degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded since records started back in 1891.
Even though we are seeing temperatures drop a few degrees today, we'll still be hovering around the triple digit mark. Seattle's forecast high at 99 degrees for your Thursday, shattering the daily record high of 94 degrees set back in 1965.
High at 88 on Friday with temperatures around 90 degrees through the weekend.
A stronger marine push brings in much cooler air by the middle of next week, looking to bring temperatures back down into the 70s.

HISTORY PICTURE: 1985.... 24 years ago! Ryan, Jack, Kevon, Tara, Heather, Karla and Kara! (Jack and Kara are my sister's kids)