Brent and his Dad, at swim meet

Alan is holding the heat sheet...at the swim meet, parents are strongly encouraged to keep their kids focused and ready for their next race. Making sure they know when they need to get up to the block, which lane, which stroke to swim.

Hangin' out in a tee-pee

At the High Desert Museum outside of Bend, Brent and I found a tee-pee and we rested.
We would have built a fire, but it was already around 90 degrees (record highs for that day).

It must be a guy thing

It must be a guy thing. I just don't get boys sometime. Patti took this photo on the walk up the Obsidian flow near the Newberry Crater. I'm certain my sister did NOT ask the boys to pose this way. But if you lift the camera to your eye, you will almost always get some variation of a pose like this.

Go figure!

Brent and Miranda......brother and sister

Giving his sister a piggy-back ride down the trail to the head of the Metolius.

Brent in Boat at Moran State Park, Orcas Is.

Every day the kids were in the water....I didn't think it was warm enough, but Brent had his swimming trunks and swim shirt and he was a happy clam. Two families brought two men rubber rafts and the kids had fun rowing around the lake. Here Brent is just goofing around close to shore and using a super soaker to try to soak someone dumb enough to get close to him! Sometimes, the girls would abandon ship and just swim to shore to avoid the water attacks from the boys!

What do boys think?

Patti tells me that one of the things Brent loves to do as soon as recess is called during home schooling is to run outside and start walking round and round this tree at the beginning of their driveway. There used to be rocks there and Brent would walk around the rocks, but it made them move out into the driveway and make it hard to drive.

So most of the rocks are moved now to the side yard. But Brent still walks round and round this tree. Usually counter clockwise but sometimes clockwise. When I ask him what he's thinking he says "Nothin." But Patti says he's inventing stories in his head. And each day if you ask him, he'll give you the next chapter in his story.

4th of July

Brent in yard on 4th of July wearing his swim team t-shirt. I think he's a piranah. Whatever he is, he's sure cute.