Open letter to our fans

Dear Fans of The Lynch Family,

I want to start out by apologizing for the total lack of posting to our family website. Also, all the links to our photo albums recently stopped working (thanks, Google), thus making our website a total waste of the interweb. However, I have repaired the broken links, and here I am, making a post!

Basically, we have been busy. Since our last post, Paige started and finished first grade. Rylie started and finished pre-k. Paige completed her last year of Daisy Girl Scouts and bridged up to Brownies. Both girls attempted softball. Both girls competed on a summer swim team. Izzy got more gray hair around her snout.

At the end of August, Paige started second grade, Rylie started kindergarten, Molly started her 14th year of teaching, and Dave....well, nobody really knows what Dave does for work.

Here's our fall schedule:

Sundays - Both girls attend Sunday school in the morning, and I (Molly) may or may not have just volunteered to be her teacher (it's unclear). Paige has swim team in the evenings.

Mondays - Paige has softball games in the evenings.

Tuesdays - Paige has softball batting practice in the evenings.

Wednesdays - Rylie has musical theater classes in the evenings.

Thursdays - Paige has softball practice for 2 hours (!) in the evenings.

Fridays - Rylie has swim lessons around lunch time. Paige has Brownie meetings in the evenings.

Saturdays - Paige has softball games in the mornings.

Rylie will be starting Daisy scouts once the troop has been created, so we'll squeeze that in there somewhere once that starts up. Add in a few birthday parties, family gatherings and other going-ons, and we basically live in our car. The girls love being busy though, so it's all good. I should wrap this post up so I can head out to Costco to gather the ingredients for our meals-on-the-go that we will eat this week. Hope everyone is well.

Molly
Head of the Lynch Household

Dream time

Our girls could not be more different, in personality. A few days ago, they both shared their dreams from the previous night. Here they are:

Paige:
"Mom, I had a bad dream. I was at a birthday party and you told me I could only have one piece of cake. But then a waiter guy walked by and he offered me a second piece of cake, so I took it. And I only had a few bites when you saw that I had a second piece of cake and you took it from me and threw it away."

Rylie:
"Oh, I had a bad dream too. There was a puppy stuck in a stroller, maybe with glue. The stroller was stuck in a tree, way up high. The tree was surrounded by hot lava, and I couldn't get to it."

So there you have it.

Video summary of June

So June is winding down. Here's a little of what we've been up to since the last post:

Paige finished kindergarten (she's in the back row, third from the left).


Paige's first swim team time trail. She's in the second lane from the camera. Pink goggles, stands up at end before touching the wall-whoopsie daisy.


Rylie overcame her fear of bouncy house slides.

Our April and May calendars were full, which is an understatement.

Here's what we did: Both girls had birthdays, we had an anniversary, there was Mother's Day, the girls "tried" gymnastics, Paige "did" field hockey, both girls had swim lessons, Paige had Daisy scouts....then there was all the normal "other stuff." Let's just say that it was hectic.

Now the school year is winding down and we're planning a little calmer summer relaxing at the pool.

Oh, and here is a video of Rylie sleeping while our wood floors were being installed. I just thought it was funny.

Olympics 2024?

Rylie dominates bowling

Paige is a mini-Molly

Today in the car, Paige said, "I like winter, but only because of Christmas; after that, I want summer." Then she did amend it with, "but I do like snowdays, so unless it is snowing, it should be summer."

Everyday she just gets more and more like me...