Here are all the other photos from the rest of July!  One day I made salmon using the marinade my dad always used to make, and it was a delicious trip down memory lane.

Here are the kids getting on the bus to Badger.  The bus might have been their favorite part!

On my birthday I went to Manor Beach solo and had a lovely time.  Andrew and I also had a fabulous sushi dinner in the city that night.

The following weekend the kids helped make and decorate a cake for me.

Andrew also made my current fave dinner, fish tacos!  Yum.

Sarah got her new backpack.  Pandas, of course.

One day at Badger I saw a hawk swoop down and knock a nest of baby birds out of this tree.  The kids and I alerted John, the head of Badger camp, and he and his staff were able to get the nest back up into its spot and the mother bird came back!  We were very impressed.

Sarah enjoying some Italian Ice at Villa Maria.

We finished this amazing wood puzzle Andrew gave me for my birthday from Liberty Puzzles.  It was tricky and beautiful, with many specially shaped pieces like sea creatures and lighthouses.

Blaine (reluctantly) kept a journal this summer, since we wanted him to keep up with his writing practice.  Sarah wanted to keep a drawing journal as well, and here is one of the entries, “Panda at the Zoo.”

Blaine loved using the paddleboard in the pool at Badger.

We bid on the old fire truck steering wheels from the local playground that were auctioned off when the playground was being redone, and won them!  They sat in our basement for months, and this summer I finally got around to building a frame to hold them up!

A hike at Cranberry Lake.

We hit 20,000 miles on our car.  Does anyone care about this sort of information?  Probably not.

Lastly, here are the kids in their tie-dye shirts from camp, ready for Carnival Day on 7/31.