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: