Rest of July 2025

One of the morning swims at the St Louis Park aquatic park. Love swimming outside with the masters group in the summer. 

Kyle had to take a trip to Missouri to help get his mom to a doctor's appointment, so he took the girls with him, leaving me home with the boys. We had a picnic before Thomas's baseball game. 

Kyle and the girls in Kansas City

They had fun hanging out in the city waiting for grandma to be done with her medical appointment. 

Thomas at a tennis camp:

And super excited to get his kiwi crate birthday present in the mail. Each month he eager awaits the box to arrive. 

Girls reading the same book with each other. 

Oakley and I on a run and my latest 3D print: a pill case for my daily supplements. 

Finally got out on the paddle boards for a second time. We really didn't get out on those as much as I had hoped this past summer. 

 

Girls being silly, Mary wearing two life jackets. 

On that same note, Kyle didn't get as much fishing done as he would have liked to either. Just a crazy busy summer. 

Rainbow after yoga class.

First long swim, preparing for Point to La Point which I will do at the start of the next month - two mile swim across Lake Superior. 

Oakley love.

Beach day!

Kyle took his motorcycle course this weekend (July 20th) just like I did the previous month. The kids and I took a trip to a nearby Thai market. 

Shared a big bowl of rolled ice cream... and a view from what the ice cream would see, lol. 

Didn't beat the rain on this run. 

July 21st

Monday - I taught my barre class in the AM then the kids and I all got on our bikes and rode to the library. We were in there for 20 minutes and came out to discover Mary and Isaac's bikes had been stolen!

Thomas had a baseball game that night. Hard to focus when I was so mad about the bikes. 

Tuesday we tried not to think too much about the darn bikes. We went to the Edina aquatic park. We had to leave for some body's sports, but then ended up coming back later that evening with Kyle since our entrance fee was good for the whole day.

On our way home we decided to ride through uptown on the off chance we could spot one of the kids bikes. And sure as shit we saw a druggie riding on Mary's. He was near a group of homeless people actively doing drugs so we called the cops to help us get the bike back. They came in a whopping 8 minutes, investigated the situation. We had to wait for them to finish breaking up the scene, do about 4-5 arrests (not related to our bike but due to drugs and warrants) Then we got Mary's bike back!

Wednesday was really rainy! floods around the neighborhood

Then Thursday on my way home from working at the hospital I drove through uptown again and found Isaac's bike! It was propped up next to wear the same group of druggies were. I again called the cops to help me not feeling safe going to get it myself. It was a single lady cop this time. She did not break them up but we walked together over to the bike and wheeled it away. I had parked under the library so took the bike down to put in the van. We got them both back!!!

Thomas had his appointment for orthodontic work to be done in his mouth. He is getting an expander to make some space in his mouth for his big teeth to come in. They said he gets the award for crowdests mouth they may have ever seen! 

After rescuing the bikes we had a bike washing party

More baseball! So much baseball this summer!

A friend wasn't able to attend this show so we bought her tickets. It was a nice impromptu date night. We saw comedian: Nate Bargetze

 

Vespa ride to swim in the morning

Car picnic

Thomas losing teeth and a donut run

Finishing with Emma's soccer photos from July 1st