(First) High Five for Friday!

Great to see you, Friday, welcome!

This is my first time celebrating Friday, but one of my most favorite bloggers, Lauren from @ from my grey desk, does this every week and I wanted to join in on the fun. 

Let's celebrate...

1.  FLOWERS!  All my hard work from last summer is finally paying off with a bazillion beautiful flowers.  I wish the yuccas had bloomed just a little later (because to get those in with this picture would have been wonderful) but I read somewhere that our mild winter caused some early blooming.  So I chalk it up to that.  But look at my beautiful day lilies and butterfly bush!  I love sitting outside and watching all our butterfly traffic!

 2.  Hi there!  Claire and I have spent all week together.  And I LOVE it!  This is Claire waving to Papa, who went on a little trip this week (gonna tell you about that, too).  She missed Papa, so I told her we'd send him a picture of her saying hi.  So, of course she obliged. 

 3.  Summer break, where have you been all our lives?  This is my first real week off (last week was full of meetings for my new job, plus meetings with the bank, plus meetings in STL for my car check up--so I had a long week).  But this week has just been us... being goof balls.  I love how she copies me.  Oh, and she informed me yesterday that I was a big girl because I use the potty.  That's probably the best compliment I've gotten all week.  Validation from an almost 19 month year old... that I've got potty skills. 

 4.  Welcome back, sun!  We've been swimming in Papa's pool a lot, but it's nice to have a little pool for just daily play, so I broke out Claire's little pool, too.  We've learned you can't put sidewalk chalk or towels in pools (because Momma get's mad).  We've also learned that we can splash the heck out of Momma and all she does is laugh.  Nothing is more fun than a little summer.

 5.  Remembrance.  My dad made an awesome trip with a huge group of motorcycles to Washington DC to see the Vietnam Memorial.  My dad is a Vietnam Era Veteran.  He got to ride his bike in Arlington (that's this picture), he saw the memorials, and he made a lot of great friends.  They had awesome stops all the way to DC with parades and hero's welcomes.  The group even had a helicopter escort on part of their ride!  How cool is that?  

So far summer is really turning out to be awesome.  Nothing is more rewarding than hanging out with Claire doing nothing and everything all at the same time.  She doesn't even miss going to Miss Beth's (thank goodness, I was worried I wouldn't be nearly so cool as Miss Beth...).  Every day I can't wait to see what trouble we get into!  Thanks, Friday, for letting me celebrate the week!