There’s my #14, at bat.  Ross enjoyed playing t-ball this year and what a difference a year makes.  He has quite the arm this year, and is getting the “swing” of swinging the bat!  Next year he will play “coach pitch” and not t-ball.

Here he is on base.  Francesca is Ross’ biggest cheerleader and she can not wait to turn 5 until she can play.  She is going to be so disappointed that it won’t be this next summer.

Really blurry, I know - it was hard to get a shot of him running.  The team went to Lisa’s Homemade Italian Ice after the last game for some yummy Italian ice.  At that my friends, is the end of the season.  Now we are trying to decide if Ross should sign up for Soccer again in the fall or football.  He wants to try football - he was too young last year and it’s only flag football.  Why is my little guy drawn to football and hockey? Boys are so different from girls.

Nothing like a water balloon fight to cool down a hot summer day!

We love summertime!

We went to the zoo today and I took this picture outside the zoo as we were walking to the car.  They are at such wonderful ages.  It was a real pleasure today enjoying the zoo animals together!

It looks like July is the month when my garden is in it’s glory!  Most things are blooming now, although a few things are not.  I’ve yet to have my blueish and pink hydrangeas blooming but the plants themselves are getting big.

The Annabelle Hydrangeas have bloomed!

The veggie garden is growing day by day!

The herbs are coming along nicely (garlic chives, cilantro, rosemary, oregano, chives, Italian parsley).

The side garden has hostas in bloom.

This is a new section I added - in place of some of the hostas.  It has grasses, Lily’s, sedum, Canna and a Holly bush.  Looking forward to the holly bush in the winter as it is evergreen.

The butterfly bush has purple flowers (hard to see) and the Autumn Joy Sedum is huge!

The Daisys and the yellow Yarrow.  You can barely see the Ivory Halo Dogwood’s beautiful leaves - I need to do a little thinning here.

Pretty pink Phlox.

Beautiful Coneflowers!  To think, I yanked the one in front out of the garden because I though it was a weed! I’m guessing that’s what I did the previous 2 years and why I couldn’t get my Coneflowers to grow back!  Ha!  Good thing when I yanked it out - the soil that came with it came out looking like the shape from a pot of some sort so I stuck it back in the ground.

The long view to the left.

Long view to the right.

View as a lunch guest!

I need to figure out how to add some curve to this garden space!