Bragg Family South

I was going to make some comment about the "dog days of summer" for the picture above, but really we're in the cat days--believe it or not, this picture of Bella was not posed, she was just sitting in this style! We've started off the summer with a spurt of activity (hence the lack of posts over the last three weeks). During the first week of their summer break, both Kenny and Beth had some swim lessons: Beth is the girl in the blue swimsuit at the top of this ring of beginner swimmers. Kenny only went a couple of days because he went to an archeology camp at Toltec State Park three of those days (more on this later). We also used the hot weather as an excuse to get out to the Saline River and walk along the banks one evening. No, Hope's not crouching to try to avoid the camera--she's trying to spot the chunks of petrified wood we hunt for along this river. Kenny's giving her some of the finer points of wood hunting... Of course, the big event for ...