Been a while. Hot days and summer nights here in Indiana are treating us well. about to embark on the Carpenter Family Summer Vacation 2010, a trip to Connecticut and New York to see old friends, some with young children friends, and of course the sights and smells of the east coast in summer. but here's a few recent pics in the meantime.

Some might call this our redneck tableau,
but when it's 95 degrees and your one-year-old
has a hankering for 'outside',
you do what you gotta do.


New playground activities for sister bear.
Note the plentiful 'silly bands'.

Samari with one of his favorite things to point at:

baby cousin Ella.

Sophie frolics with cousins in the sprinklers
at summer birthday party at Tita Nida's.

Daddy failed to clean the smudged lens,
but here's some pastoral familial beauty.