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Backyard burgers… with alcohol-free margaritas.  What’s not to love about a salt-rimmed glass of ice cold limeade?

We love the Make it Plates decorated by our family this summer!  Watermelon balls and burgers with sautéed mushrooms and onions.  We don’t always go all out like this, but the stars aligned and we happened to have great toppings.

The devoted Mr. Garland has a new toy:  a quad-copter (4-blade helicopter):

Jeff + SJZ went ice skating thanks to a Groupon (that expired, but thankfully they still let us use it):

Josh models a CPAP ventilator face mask.  He’s going to start a new fashion trend.

This sweet 3.5yo girl has stopped taking naps.  That means the last hour before (an early) bedtime, matters of life are very fragile.  Hello drama.

Here’s Sarah, rockin’ her math lesson:

Jeff and I played the Game of CLUE at family camp over the summer and I thought that it would be fun to personalize it for our family (minus all the murder weapons and murder suspects)!  Thus, the game “PLAY” was born.  You try to guess “who” was in “what room” playing with “what toy.”

We each picked our own personalized Lego Mini Figures for our game pieces… and I picked out 6 small toys out of our junk drawer.  It’s a great game for logical elimination skills.  The devoted Mr. Garland’s mini figure has  Woody’s (Toy Story) long legs for extra height.  Turned out we didn’t have any blonde hair Lego pieces for our daughters:

Was it Zac, playing with the yellow magnet in the bathroom?

So fun to bust out my guitar and practice some songs for the pre-school bible study co-op class I’m teaching with my good friend Jenni Cliff. 

Our last visit to the Wave Waterpark… it’s been a fun summer!

I married the best man.  You’d think Jeff is big enough to warrant his own inner tube, right?  Oh no.  He’s got multiple kids draped all over him.  Can you even see him in his wide-brimmed sun hat floating down the lazy river?