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Last week was Jesse's senior piano recital!

His cake, quite appropriately, was purchased from Publix (where he works), but Mama wasn't sure what message to have put on it. Play well? Great job? This is your last recital, make it your best? She decided on Congratulations, but is still not sure what we're congratulating him for!

She also prepared a lovely spread of other treats for his reception.

Jesse and Sam opened with a Bach duet...

Then Jesse played the 'Pathetique', an entire Beethoven sonata... from memory, of course!

Sam played several pieces during what he referred to as the "intermission", before Jesse came out again to finish with Debussy and Rachmaninoff. Beautifully done, boys!

Little Evie (you knew I couldn't get through a post without mentioning her!) sat through the whole performance like a little angel, most of the time in Granny's lap!

It was a busy day for the Kawells, since we had also had some guests visiting that morning. Andre and Angela, cousins from Tennessee, dropped by with their sweet babies: four-year-old Claire and two-year-old Cade.

Only a couple pictures, we were having too much fun!

Father's day! (really)

Although we celebrated Father's day the day before (see the earlier posts) we spent the actual holiday at our friends' lake house. It has become tradition for our good friends the Harpers to invite the church to their lake house to celebrate Father's day and even have the service lake-side.

The ladies finish laying out the food.

A few people are still finishing dessert.

Jesse helps Sam onto the Jet-Ski.

Chris and Nathan on The Tube!

A less dramatic picture!

I guess this picture sums up the overall success of mine (Abby) and Sam's skiing lessons.

Although we did get up several times!

Blow this picture up to see how beautiful it is! Daddy's the one on skis.

Samuel dunks!

Gorgeous sunset!

Thank you Harpers, and happy Father's Day!

Nathan's baptism!

Nathan became a Christian this past Easter, so when we visited the lake he was baptised.

On the lake

Guess what we saw on the lake!

A seaplane!

Father's day! (sort of)

Since we knew that we would be at the lake for Father's day, we celebrated the night before.

Hard to tell who was more excited about the gift opening!

This is a really cool 'guess the word' game.

Sam acts out a word from Catch-Phrase.

The game is simple. Players chose a category and the disk flashes a word or phrase across the screen. The first player must make the others guess the word by gesturing and describing without using the actual word. When they guess correctly, he hands the disk to the player on his right who gets another word to act out. At the end of sixty seconds, the timer goes off and the player holding the disc loses. Near the end of the time limit, the game might be confused for Hot Potato!

The next post will be a video of us playing the game!

Catch Phrase

A couple games of Catch Phrase.

Cousins

We've had our cousins, Sarah and Evie, visit us twice this week. Here are a few pictures.

Sarah shows off her new shoes!

Little Evie checks for bug bites.

Big blue eyes!