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I can feel the ever so slight easing of heat around here.  We’ve had glimpses of some nice fall weather, so you know summer is wrapping up.  Here are some pictures from our summer.

Swimming at MamaLinda’s

Walking in the rain

Trying on a Burger King crown

Visiting the McWane Center

Celebrating a 90th birthday

Hm. Either the camera or our computer ate our pictures. Sorry. I hate that we don’t have them. I think we only had pictures from this weekend. It was our first visit to the McWane Center, Brian cooks in his new (to him) dutch oven and Samantha’s new dress from MamaLinda. Oh well.

What a treat for us today! We went to the McWane Science Center and had lunch at Newk’s afterwards. I’ll post pictures soon. When we first walked in, there were lots of big kids, so we weren’t quite sure how Samantha would do. However, we quickly found the toddler area, and she had a blast. She got to practice climbing stairs, went down a slide, played in some water, went aboard a space ship. Then, as she was getting hungry we took a short break for a snack then quickly strolled through the remainder of the museum. We saw a water exhibit with lots of fish and aquatic life, a train exhibit (Jackson would have been in heaven), dinosaurs and fossils, and lots of hands-on science experiment stuff. I think Samantha will enjoy it for many years.

We are ready to get back to normal life after our extended Christmas vacation. I think Samantha really enjoyed seeing all of her family. She seemed happy at each new place we visited and didn’t seem to mind that she was constantly surrounded by new people. She isn’t used to all her new toys just yet. She seems to be uninterested in most of them. If we play with one new toy, she is slowly getting used to it. I guess too many new things just throw her off balance. Life is full of change, little girl!