Life Lately

June has been a busy month for us.  We spent almost two weeks out of town dogsitting for Courtney's parents and doing some househunting in Cleveland.  We survived taking care of six dogs and we found a house, so I'd consider all the travelling to have been a success! 

Otherwise, I've been studying for the bar exam, which is one month from today.  This next month is going to be pretty intense!  The boys have been spending a lot of time out at the pool.  Here's a couple pictures of Leo getting ready to go outside:

They've played quite a bit inside, too, to get away from the heat:

On Thursday, we had a crazy, but very brief, storm hit Charlottesville that knocked our power out from 5pm Thursday until 1am Saturday morning.  Considering it was in the 90s, we missed the air conditioning!  The internet was down and even our cell phones didn't work for almost 24 hours.  A whole bunch of big trees fell over, it was quite the spectacle.  The boys did just fine, though, we just stuck Luke in this tank top so he'd stay cool:

Leo turned 8 months old yesterday!  After about 20 attempts to get a good pictures of him to mark the day, we ended up with a couple decent ones:

Since we were out of town the past couple weeks, we waited until today to celebrate Father's Day.  Here's one of me and the boys after they gave me a card:

And finally, about an hour ago, Luke handed me the camera and asked me to take pictures of him.  The result:

Catching up with Leo

Leo's been doing great.  All of a sudden, he's almost 8 months old!  He's not too big of a fan of sleeping, with his one hour naps and waking up before 6am every morning, but we tell ourselves it's just because he loves spending time with us so much.  Here are some pictures of Leo from the past couple months that I haven't put up on here yet:

Grandma and Grandpa!

The best part of graduation for Luke was having his grandparents in town.  They got in Thursday night and left Monday.  We played with dinosaurs, watched the Elmo's World segment on dinosaurs several times, and read dinosaur books (any guesses as to what Luke is really into these days???).  But we also got out and did some other fun things. 

On Friday morning, we headed out to the Chiles Peach Orchard in Crozet to pick strawberries!  Luke did his part to find some good ones: 

Leo wasn't quite sure what we were doing, though:

But he still ended up having a good time:

...as did the rest of us.  Luke even got to ride in a wagon:

We finished off the outing with some fresh strawberry milkshakes:

Besides strawberry picking, we also went to the park and did some walks around where we live.  But like I said, Luke was content to just stick around the apartment, play dinosaurs... and read the paper:

Here are some other good pictures from the weekend: