Bammy's visit

As I mentioned previously, this past weekend Patrick's mother, known around here as Bammy, flew down from Connecticut to visit.  The kids just adore her.  They especially love to swim with her and splash her and get her all wet.  A lot.  

And it's non-stop silliness, too.

The night before heading back home, we stopped down at the pier to snap a few photos of the kidlets with Bammy.

They did their best to be patient with me as I tried to capture, yet again, a lackluster sunset.  

Shame on you, sunset, for not doing me any favors.

After the river shoot was done, we headed over to our local ice cream spot, Moo's.  A few weeks ago, when we were coming back from Joshua's birthday party, we drove past a big Saturday night crowd enjoying the soft serve.  Well, I knew I wanted to try to shoot the bright yellow against the dark evening sky.  So I brought along my travel tripod in order to shoot at a slower shutter speed.  

Well, the slight problem I had was that my travel tripod stands about 8 inches off the ground, which left my face practically on the pavement as I tried to check focus and exposure.  Still, I liked the perspective in the shot above.

So, we ended the evening by enjoying some vanilla with butterscotch or sprinkles.  Nothing fancy here.
Just refreshing on a hot evening.

Then, of course, the kids rode the little rides.  Always.  A couple times each, I might add.
Madeline even brought one of her wallets with change, just to be sure.

Although Bammy's visit was short, we truly enjoyed having her.  

And we're looking forward to seeing her in October for our niece, Lydia's 6th birthday.

And if you can believe it, I have another upate on our adoption paperchase.  On Wednesday afternoon, I called immigration to let them know we were printed a little early and also to check the status of our application.  Well, the officer informed me that our application was pulled and APPROVED that morning!  So, the approval notice should be arriving in our hot little hands any day.  Also on Wednesday, we overnighted most of our Florida documents to a courier in Tallahassee who will deliver them to the Secretary of State for authentication.  We've been a little slow at doing this, but we figured we still had some time as we wait for our immigration approval.  Well, now it looks like we'll be sending the courier another package next week!  So my wish to be DTC by the end of the month just may come true.

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Have a fantastic weekend!