If only every 1st grader had a Bandit...

Her creativity knows no bounds. She writes imaginative stories, sews, crochets and even does origami. Better yet, she's taught her younger sister to embrace creation and the two can spend hours together making beautiful things.

 

We had two sad goodbyes this summer...

Our favorite Canadian friends moved back, and we miss them terribly (Thanks to DMs for allowing us to crash their pool for a goodbye party.)

Then we fell in love with a Sproodle for a whole week while the family was on vacation but had to give her back when they returned... 

 

Then summer came, and the annual trip to the beach...

Nothing felt the same without swim team meets or color war games at the pool, 

and no cousins at the beach.

But the sky was still beautiful and the water too. All the same even if everything else had changed...