random pictures from the past month

I know its been awhile since I shared any photos, so here are a few random shots from the past month, which I thought I'd better get sent out before the Florida trip because hopefully I'll take lots of pictures and post them from that trip.

Fourth of July - Miran got the flag up that Margaret gave him for his naturalization and I made some festive star shaped cookies (in my hand are some we took over to the neighbors).

World Cup - I think Miran watched every single game during the world cup, and I probably wathced half of them. Here we are with some friends over during one of the US games. Since the flag was already out we hung it up to be spirited.

And a few shots from Megan's wedding that I took from other blogs or emails because we forgot our camera.

Shakespeare

Just to show we do things other than paint rooms and work on our garden, I wanted to post a shot of Azra I took last week when she and I went to see a performance of a Shakespeare play in a local park. It was fun and actually not too hot to sit outside that evening. She has to go see three plays for her communications class, so we need to find two more to attend in the next two weeks.

Megan's Shower

I just got back from a wonderfully relaxing week-end in Staunton. The purpose of the trip was to attend (and help cook for) my cousin Megan's wedding shower. And that was fun. But I also got to spend a lot of time with Cecilia and the twins, which was also great. Its always wonderful to see them, and really get to know their two very different personalities.

Below are a few pictures from the trip. I actually had lost my camera through the whole shower, and only found it again as everyone was leaving, so I got a shot of the guest of honor, Megan, and her brother Patrick in the driveway afterwards. Then comes Dad's great shot of the sisterly love followed by my shot of the same scene ... which was a little later when their natural smiles had turned into their silly "say cheese" smiles. The last shots are of Maggie and Ingrid enjoying licking the beaters after while we were making cupcakes for the shower and of Mom and Dad in the herb garden.

First Harvest

The other day Miran picked the first vegetables from his garden ... one zucchini and an enormous cucumber. The second shot with me is for scale - its bigger than my forearm! And the last shot is so you can see the size of our sunflowers, quite a bit taller than Miran!

Curtains and Doors!

Here is a view of the upstairs hall doors now that they are black. Miran still hasn't rehung our bedroom door, but you get the idea from the two guest rooms. The next shot shows the curtain panels that we hung in the bedroom. It looks a little funny because you can still see the squares of the windows behind. I used leftover pieces of the curtain panels to make inserts for the closet doors, which turned out really nice.