A monkey. A squirrel. One happy family.

A few pictures from our 4th of July weekend at Holiday Acres Lake outside out of Cairo, MO. The pictures of Ella make me miss her more. She is spending four weeks at "grandma camp" in Florida. She just completed a week of film camp, and tomorrow she will be at Sea World day camp. I want her summer. Spencer and I spent the weekend farming Annie out to the neighbor so we could scrape off popcorn ceiling and rip up carpet and sub floor in preparation for this week's foundation repair. I would much rather be by the pool in Winter Garden. Happy summer! Annie June. Ella takes a grapes-and-cheese-stick break from swimming. Sisters. S'mores. Spencer very excited about grilling a ridiculous amount of corn. Jordan (nephew of my brother Aaron and sister-in-law Cristi) and Ella. Annie and cousin Trey ("It's too sunny!")

Spencer's last day in radio was Friday, July 12. Here is the message he posted on Facebook. A sad, exciting time. "And now, for something completely different. Tomorrow marks the last day of my radio career. I have finally decided to go get a grownup job, and have accepted a position as a loan officer with Veterans United here in Columbia. In my wake,  I leave 23 years of radio. I worked at some great radio stations in my career, with some great broadcasters - from K-Nack in Austin, KRBE in Houston, WTGE and WFMF in Baton Rouge, Z100 and The Buzz in Portland, and my current stations in Columbia, KFRU/KBBM and BXR. I did overnights, nights, afternoons, mid-days and mornings. I worked Saturday night bar remotes, washed cars for charity with the fire department, and camped out for a week for Star Wars tickets. I got to cover some great moments in Mizzou sports, and see the best concerts I will ever see in my lifetime. It was, in short, a helluva time - and they paid me too!...