And here we go with the photo dumping period. The first few are from what has become an oddly annual summer tradition at our house — raking the leaves from the tree by our driveway. Not all of the summers have been in this incredibly dry (see the backyard grass in later photos); in fact, I seem to remember 2012 being especially wet, or maybe it just rained a lot on days I was supposed to play softball. But as it relates to this particular tree, the only thing the drought did was accelerate the summer leaf drop. In the past it's usually a mid-August event, but these pictures are from July 8.
We also were lucky enough to have How stay with us for a couple of days in early July. I'm trying now to recalculate when all she was here and what all we did, but the closest I can come with any certainty is remembering she and Kristie took Jack and Max to the pool on a Monday evening. We were supposed to all go together, but Charlie took a late nap so I offered to stay home. Fortunately Kristie brought the camera.
The pool pictures are from July 9, and these next shots are from July 11, a Wednesday. That must have been the day Pop came out to bring How back to Fulton. And shortly after his truck arrived in the driveway, our boys were in the back trying to be cute. I simply could not choose between these first two photos of Max, so you get to see both of them.
