I Love Summer

Joni and Daytona show off their new necklaces










Susan and Gitte shop

Julie and Morgan hang out











We have been very busy having fun, hanging out with friends, going to baseball games, etc. Here are some things we have done over the last week:


1) I hosted a jewelry party as you can tell from the pictures above. It was very fun. This jewelry is lockets that have glass on both sides and you put little charms inside. There are hundreds of charms to choose from.


2) Baseball--We are on baseball overload and we love it. My friends Nancy's 12-yr. old son, Cole, is on the Tracy All-Star team for Babe Ruth baseball. So I've been going to a couple of his games. His team won and will be going to state in Fresno. Also one of my students from this year is on the team. Scott and I got to go to the A's vs. Giants game last Sat. night in Oakland and the A's lost 1-0 grrr! Then Tuesday night we went to Cubs vs. Giants in San Francisco. The Cubs lost 2-1 grrr!! But the whole experience at AT&T Park is so fun it almost didn't matter. Almost


3) I've been hanging out with Cyndra, Susan, Joni, and Nancy at Nancy's house eating lunch, swimming, laughing at the kids, letting the dogs out to run the neighborhood, etc. How will we every go back to work?


4) Today for the 4th we spent time with Nancy and her kids at Susan's. Both Cole and Kyle are becoming impressive BBQ'ers. But they are not so great at jacks! We got to play with our new Criket--if you're a scrapbooker you'll know what that is!!!!


5) Tomorrow (the 5th) we leave for a week in Seattle. We are so excited. We don't have much planned, but lots of ideas. We will be at the Mariners game Sun. afternoon rooting on Marshalltown native Jeff Clement. Hopefully he'll play. We have a banner ready. Check back next week for pictures of our trip!