The Mingolla Kingdom: In no particular order.....

So, as promised, and after looking at everything I have to post, these will be in no particular order. So....here we go!

The slide show is from Izabella's birthday party. We had a camp out in the backyard courtesy of our fine neighbors the Brown's for the tent, and the Puckett's for the water feature, thanks! It was awesome as I'm sure the pictures tell. Sorry the slide show is so long, but apparently I took lots of pictures and couldn't edit any out. I want you to feel like you were there ;) Enjoy!

The next few pictures are just another night of neighbors all hanging out and letting the kids play. We do this every weekend and guess what, it's free and the kids love it. Before school started it was pretty typical for the kids to end up asleep before the parents were ready to go in, so if Izabella ended up sleeping at the Brown's then the next night I would offer to have their kids over, always a fun time!

The next few photos are from last weekend. The city had a Founder's Day celebration across the street at the school. They had food, music and an inflatable and then fireworks once it got dark. We went over to the school for a while and then I invited everyone back to our house to watch the fireworks. We layed out a blanket for the kids and the adults assumed their normal positions only this time in our driveway instead of the Brown's! (notice the Texas chainsaw masacre mask, niiiice! this has become a part of every weekend, after dark muwaa-a-a-a!) We ended up out there until almost 2 in the morning just talking it up! My how time flies...

These next few are just random swimming shots.......

And then the best surprise of the Summer was that Dad came to visit. Izabella was soooo happy to see Grandpa Bill! He got to come to school with her and eat lunch one day, that was fun! He made up a scavenger hunt for Izabella to play after school. He was really good at it, che had to find the first clue which led her to the next and so on until she found the prize, which was $20 and she had to read to him that night. She just can decide what to do with that $20 dollars but I'm sure it won't last much longer. We miss you already Dad!