Wahoowa!

Dave and I left our sweet Doodle-bug with Honey and D for a few days earlier this month and took off to Virginia to celebrate my 10-year reunion at UVA!  We had such a good time on our getaway, and made the most of our time without a toddler companion by listening to some good Mars Hill interviews in the car (check out Mars Hill Audio if you don't know about them), taking detours, enjoying late suppers, and sleeping in:)  A few pictures from our journey:

 Now this is cool.  Down the shaded lane pictured above, right off the Blue Ridge Parkway in rural Virginia, lies a little fenced cemetery with some of Dave's ancestors' graves!  Dave's parents had actually found this particular spot before and directed us there; it was so neat to walk into those woods and find old graves connected to the Berry clan.

 One of our first stops in Charlottesville:  Bodo's Bagels on the Corner!

 We took a break during reunion festivities to re-visit the spot in the garden behind Pavilion X on the Lawn where Dave proposed:)

And finally, can I say how awesome it was to catch up with several dear old friends and roommates?  I loved having such good quality time in person, hearing about lives and jobs and neighborhoods and dreams for the future, and meeting significant others and spouses and babies for the first time!

Summer!

Oh, how we love the summer-time around here!  Dave is out of school, my tutoring has slowed, and the days are nice and long and warm.  Just right for doing all sorts of fun things:

Eating snacks and playing in water on the back deck...

Exploring creeks and the "dirt park" near our house...

 Swimming with Mrs. Carolyn (a 70-something Australian lady who taught all the Cummings girls to swim!  Note Ev's expression in the picture above; swim lessons were not her favorite activity to date:))...

 

And picnicking outside whenever possible!

And just in case we need to play inside for a while, we can always dress up and have a dance party: