Fun with the Grandparents, Flashbacks, Slumber and July 4th

It's a picture heavy post. First few are from Ryan and Kathryn's stay with my parents. Mom put them to work immediately:

Also gave them ice cream cones (Kathryn's first - I think - unless her Papa (Paul's Dad) gave her one without my knowledge when she was in his care :-)

Wore Kathryn out to the point where she had to nap on the lawn: So I pretty much live in the dark ages as far as my cell phone goes. It's older than Ryan. I did finally enable the phone to allow me to text pictures, so I forwarded a bunch of my stored phone photo's to my e-mail. Here are a few:

Ryan April 2008

And again July 2009

And one of my all time faves:

Just past his first birthday, crashed out in the cart.

More slumbering photo's:

Ryan, protesting going to sleep - protested so long, he fell asleep

She hates the stroller these days, but crawled in willingly this day

On to the 4th of July

A truly fabulous day weather wise. Most of my time was spent lounging - or as Ryan calls it, being a Life Garden (life guard) by the pools pictured below.

It was one of my favorite 4th, to date. Great weather, not real crowded with people so it was easy to keep track of the kids and I just found it to be quite relaxing. Didn't make it through to the fireworks however. I had to work the next morning and I had a feeling keeping the kids up that late would create some difficult behavior for days to come.

Their beloved Auntie Karol

My parents and Ryan on the beach