July 2009 Family Photos
07/03....We open July with a message from Thea.  
07/03....And then we take a look back at Dad, running 2 weeks ago, finishing his 10k.  
07/04....Happy Independence Day.   Tommy sends along this link. to explain why Mom baked that cake.
07/06....Our birding friend Jonathan Isaac sends in this photo.   And here's Jonathan, his Dad Bryan and his Mom Sue when the above photo was taken.
  Jonathan, by the way, had a fabulous spring.
07/07....While Sam played in a Yugioh card tourney for 3 hrs, inside, Dad and cousin Jake waited patiently.  
07/07....Abby leaves for girl scout camp with cousin Jamie  
07/07....Thea and Jake.   Thea will be at camp as well.
07/07....They'll be gone for 9 days.  
07/07....Enjoying being the only kid in the house this week.  
07/10....Sam meditates on being eleven.  
07/10....Mugging.  
07/10....Babci, Eric and Scooter, waiting for the cake and ice cream.  
07/10....Lighting his own cake.  
07/10....Ouch!!  
07/10....Reverting to olden days when he didn't like being sung to on his birthday. We take a look back at 2002when Sam ran away from his birthday cake..
07/10....Huffing and puffing 2009.  
07/13....Auntie Annie sends in a photo from Jake's 9th birthday party.
07/16....At Grandma's we sang Happy Birthday to cousins Jake and Sam.  
07/16....Blowout!
07/16....Uncle Ben.  
07/16....Dad.
07/16....Cousin Patrick.  
07/16....Cousins Jake and Jamie in dialogue.
07/16....Jake and his Dad.  
07/16....These two didn't join in....
07/22....We have photos of Mike at his month-long, Concordia College Chinese camp in western Minnesota! It was a total immersion camp.
07/22....With friends and his teacher.
07/22....A third photo.  
07/22....In study hall which they had every day for 75 minutes.
07/22....With friends.  
07/22....They only ate Chinese food.
07/22....Class photo.  
07/22....Abby on her way to her week-long Irish Dance camp. Abby had just gone to Girl Scout camp in Northern Michigan, including Mackinac Island.
07/22....Goodbye photo: "Dad, put away that camera."  
07/22....Dad got a text message 5 minutes later: "Abby forgot her dance bag." Mom then drove to Columbus and met Dad who then drove back to Dayton.
07/22....It was after 4 by the time Dad picked up Sam from Babci's. He had been there 9 hours.  
07/22....Sam starts working out with our friend Phillip. His friend Sean helped out, too.
07/22....Thea has a different style of working out.  So Dad never came close to hitting her.
07/22....Sam worked hard
07/22....Thea did too.  
07/22....Thea, later, had a unique perspective during Dad's tennis lesson.
07/22....Dad gets lectured.  
07/22....Mom at Tlaquepaque.
07/26....Experimenting with dry ice.  
07/26....More science.
07/26....Home from dance camp!  
07/28....Helping out.
07/28....Stopping for just a second.  
07/28....Out of hiding.
Dan and Tom's Annual Warbler-Watching trip to Magee Marsh
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