August

Dan, Orion and I have been away or hosting (one week) eight weeks in a row! We've been to NY twice, for research and a friend's birthday party; to Missouri to visit Dan's grandmother for her 90th birthday; to Boston area twice, to visit my NEW NIECE! and visiting friend from England; and to a wedding of a college friend in Rochester, NY. We've: visited a truck stop on the highway, and the Strong children's museum, gone to the beach, picked blueberries twice, visited the Peabody--aka Dizazazz!--with both Grandma Susie and Grandpa Joe and Grandma Karen. Lots of fun, sadly unrecorded photographically. Oh, and I made a positively blue-ribbon peach pie with local orchard peaches, which was out-of-this-world ambrosial...if I do say so myself (I have witnesses). The blueberry cobbler was just averagely good. (a few pictures, not complete, of a handful of these occurrences, including Orion admiring my earrings.)



Best Wishes, Erin and Matt!
Finally, Orion chasing around one of the flower dogs.