More Vacation

 As I promised, more about our vacation.  There was a pretty important occasion, the whole reason Brandon took time off, that caused us to head south.  Brandon's sister Haley graduated from high school.  Yay!  So we spent a week with family and got to go to graduation.

 Doesn't she look so pretty?  I mean, as pretty as anyone can look in a graduation gown.  They just aren't very flattering, to anyone.

William and Caitlyn got to give her the flowers.  Because it was so hot and it took so long for the graduates to make it outside, this is the closest we have to the whole family with Haley.  Brandon had the two little ones in the van with the air on because it was incredibly hot.
After graduation Haley had a pool party, the kids were really excited.

 The coolest presents ever, from us of course.  Now she is definitely ready for college.

 Britton loved just floating around with her life vest, and then grabbing on to someone like Don.

 Brandon, Bradley, and Aunt Cara.  We were so excited that we got to spend some time with Uncle Terry and Aunt Cara and fam.  We should probably plan a trip to visit them.

 Britt had a lot of fun on the step.  She would just lay on her back and thought it was so funny.

 My boys.

 Caitlyn was having so much fun swimming around in her life vest.

 Loving the water.

I unfortunately totally spaced pictures for the majority of the trip.  The worst was that we stopped to see Scott and Susan, one of Brandon's old coworkers.  We had a blast, the kids were so excited to see them, but I forgot to take pictures.  Susan even got the kids to take their life vests off in the pool and attempt swimming.  So we saw friends, got donuts, went to a movie, the usual vacation stuff.

Okay, the next picture isn't from our trip.  But it is right when we got home.  I was so excited this year because my irises had buds.  I didn't get any flowers or buds on them last year.  But I figured they would all be dead by the times we got back, because they looked like they were going to bloom as we were leaving.

But look.  Pretty flowers.  The weather was cool enough while we were gone that they were still blooming for about a week after we got back.  So there you have it.