The Daily Starr

Saturday morning, we met The Valera Family at Antioch Park for donut holes and fun with the kiddos. I know this blog over-indexes in swing photos, but bear with us a few more weeks, please.Here's Mighty Mite hanging on for dear life. I also like to call this pic "Jane of the Jungle."
A thunderstorm blew through a few hours before and little Salvador did his best to dry all of the slides for the other Saturday morning park patrons. So thoughtful!!!
I love this pic. Making a break for it!I think Sal and Herley were looking for Nessie.
And another sunshine swing photo of Miss Iris. Fun fun! I wouldn't want to go again before tomorrow! Thanks for the invite Valeras!!!

What a fantastic Fourth of July weekend we had this year! Started out with a little rain and then the sun came out - 80 degrees! Couldn't be better. We hung around the house on Friday and Saturday morning and then spent Saturday night with Mark's family - Aunt Linda, Uncle Gene, and his cousin Jennifer, her husband Phil, and Quinlan. What a great time at a backyard BBQ complete with DJ, Jump Jump, and Conga Line! Nothing says "Happy Birthday America" like some celebratory Golden Grahams!Uncle Gene and Nora checking out the Conga Line spectacle.
After the brief recess watching the Conga Line, it's back to her studies.
Jen, Quin, and Phil digging in to the feast.
Real men aren't afraid of Jump Jumps.
Self portrait
I think this is the best photo I've ever taken. Those girls sure love those swings. We drove up to Fairway Sunday afternoon. There's a great park we love there.
Giggles McGee strikes again.
Yay! Even Daddy loves the swings.
Nora's getting in her exercise keeping up with Daddy.
You can sort of see where she gets that red hair...
There is no pattern or order to how the teeth come in. They have minds of their own.
No Starr blog post would be complete without a pic of what what we grilled this weekend. I can hear my sister now...."Colin, they posted food again."

LOL. Love you all. Hope you had a fabulous Fourth. Thanks again to the Starrs for including us in their BBQ! Great fun!

Here is a mish-mash of what we've been doing the past few weeks. In early June, I went to Beaumont for Nephew Bodie's first birthday!!! The cake was fantastic - went with his "Big Kahuna" theme.
Here are Nana and James asleep on the flight down. They dozed off during "Cars," which I'd never seen - and which turned out to be a really great movie (wish I could have heard it over the snore symphony).
It was also Molly's birthday and BOY can she throw a party!
Ah the delights of cleaning up after the previous evening's festivities

After a very rough weekend last week I'd like to report that Nora and Iris are both feeling better. Nora had a bit of a teething problem and Iris had a bit more of a virus problem. She is doing much better now and finally back to her happy self.