Hot August Nights

Okay, so obviously our backyard isn't home to the annual Reno event that my title brings to mind.  But it is HOT, and it is August, and these pictures were taken at an hour sometimes considered night. So that gets to be my title for this post. 

Thanks to G & G Wick, Sara is now the proud owner of a splash table.

Higgins likes it, too.

I can't even begin to tell you how many pictures I took before Sara actually looked up for this one.  And it must have been my lucky moment, too, because she even smiled!

It's been a good week here.  In addition to the arrival of Sara's splash table, she also received a wagon.  After so many rides from Gpa Todd at Lake Ida, my parents thought she needed a wagon of her own.  Any day now, one of our cars might lose its garage home.  All for a good cause, though.

I do need to publicly congratulate Steve, who received an unexpected - yet welcome - promotion earlier this week!  There were no interviews involved; the leadership team just chose Steve, which I think is a tremendous compliment.  He is incredibly deserving of the promotion, and I'm so proud of him. (Side note: the talented husband of which I speak just came in here to tell me that "blogging is so 2007."  Maybe I should take back some of the nice things I said.  No, I won't do that; he's still deserving of the promotion.  And I'm not above admitting that, like with most trends, I'm usually a good three years behind anyway.)