Sunday, June 20, 2010

Happy Father's Day!

I hope everyone has taken some time out to honor all of the wonderful fathers out there, both living and in heaven.

We have had a nice lazy Sunday with a big pancake and eggs breakfast. Then we sat around and reminisced, remembering Grandpa Tony and Papa and relishing the time we now have with Richard. We had a picnic in the park and played some volleyball and soccer. Now relaxing in the back garden (yard). Richard has requested Chicken Korma for dinner - yum! And then we will have family movie night.

The weather in England now is absolutely beautiful and the English roses are all in bloom. Days are about 75 degrees and nights get down in the low 60's. Lots of sunshine and fluffy clouds. It gets light somewhere around 4 AM and stays light until around 10 PM. It is hard to determine what time of day it is anymore and we have to use our blackout blinds to not be woken up too early in the morning.

I have been absolutely full tilt with work since before I was in Houston last month. I am hoping it will even out soon - at least by the time we get back to Houston for summer vacation. Instead of coming home at Christmas, we are going to visit in the summer when we can spend more time there. The girls are going to stay a full 5 weeks!

Amber and Alexa have five weeks of school left for the year. Amber has been taking the standardised testing over the last few weeks and things are starting to wind down. Amber tried out for the school talent show and made it. She is going to be singing "2 AM" with acoustic guitar back-up. Alexa is trying out for her school talent show this week with two other girls. They are doing a dance to "Parachute." Yeah - I am completely out of the loop because I had no idea what that song was. It is pretty good though.

Anyway, I will try to stay in touch a little better going forward. Happy Father's Day Dads!