Summer Randomness: Part One

We had a lot of little random moments throughout the second half of the summer that I think are blogworthy, but do not have enough to post about individually (thankfully because I'd be here all day if they did have their own posts).

Here are a few summer snippets for you:
Andrew made a homemade slip 'n slide for the girls one evening. He just laid out a couple thicker plastic tablecloths we had, added a slide, water from the hose, and girls in swimsuits. Viola! Instant fun!
Andrew flew to Los Angeles to shoot the Open for the Vikings. If you happen to make it to any Vikings home games this year, this might look familiar. Here are a couple fun pics of the shoot:

That is Bryan Harper with Andrew and the Viking. He's the Viking client and a frequent golfing partner of Andrew's.

Lily has a new "friend" nowadays. He goes by the name of "New Bear" or "Squeaky Bear". A couple years ago I tried looking online for a second Bear for Lily because I was so afraid we were going to lose it or something would happen to it. But at the time they were going for $45 USED on Ebay. There was no way I was going to pay $45 for a bear that had been spit up on by someone else before. Well, "Old Bear" (as he's now affectionately referred to) was getting to be pretty fragile after four years of frequent washing and lots of love. So I decided to take a look again at Ebay. And lo and behold, there were MORE Bears available and they were cheaper (gotta love supply and demand!). I got TWO gently used bears (the other people's spit up thing doesn't seem to bother me as much any more for some reason) for a total of $25! I was ecstatic! And Lily doesn't know we actually have TWO new bears. I rotate them as I wash them so they last longer!

Anyway, I wasn't sure how she would react to a new bear. But she has embraced "New Bear" with full force and still loves "Old Bear" just as much. New Bear now accompanies her to school and other places while Old Bear relaxes at home. He's an "inside Bear" now. And he doesn't seem to mind. :-)

Hmm....Can you tell which is Old Bear and which is New Bear? ;-) Oh, and Old Bear can look a tiny bit better than this. He was in desperate need of a bath when this photo was taken.

More on Summer Randomness in the next post...stay tuned. :-)