We've been having a fun summer! We are so happy to have our neighborhood pool to play in this year. Last year we'd just moved into our house when school started, so we missed pool season, but we're making up for it now! We go several mornings a week.
My cutie girls, Tessa and Caylie.
Caylie with our friends Bryanna and Brynn.
Tessa and Brynn.
We renewed our season pass to the Denver Zoo, and have been there several times. This time with our friend Bryanna and her cuties. Brittany isn't up to walking the zoo anymore, since it's almost time for baby!
Samuel's favorite thing is the elephant show.
Tessa and her penguin friends.
Isn't he cute?
There are so many peacock walking around the zoo this year. This one was proudly guarding the Northern Shores exhibits.
My sweet girls, Tessa and Caylie!
Benji is enjoying his summer days.
Caylie went to Vacation Bible School at Calvary Aurora. I didn't think to take her picture with her teacher, but here's one before we left!
We went out for Mexican on Brittany's birthday, June 23. Here's the only picture I have from that day, while we were waiting outside for a table, ha!
June 29 is "Samuel Day". We celebrated two years of Samuel being in our family! He chose to go to HuHot Mongolian Grill.
Samuel on the Fourth of July.
Me on my birthday. Getting ready to eat some yummy strawberry shortcake!
Justin, Caylie, and Samuel making some birthday banners for Daddy's birthday.
Jim was out of town for work on his birthday, but the rest of us celebrated with free 7-11 Slurpies!
We like to go to Pacific Ocean Marketplace to buy Chinese snacks. That store is amazing. Huge, has everything imaginable, and smells just like China.
Samuel learned to mow the yard.
Justin was baptized on July 12 at Calvary Aurora. Can't wait to see how God uses him!
Samuel went to an FCA basketball camp and had a great time. I think he learned a lot!
He got a new Bible and won a new basketball! And now this shirt is his new favorite.
We went to the Rockies game last Sunday. Lots of fun and they won, but very hot. We used to go to lots of Rockies games years ago, but now we only get to one or two a year.
Sometimes you get really tired from all the summer activities.
Our dear friends Dan and Patti Maurer came to visit last week. It was so good to see them and catch up on life. They were the first people we met when we moved to Colorado almost 21 years ago. They were our neighbors and Dan became our pastor, but we've lived far away for many years. We love them a lot!
Justin had his second band camp this past week. His band is very big, with over 160 kids. They learned an awesome show! I will get video when they perform at their first football game. So proud of Justin!
Eaglecrest High School Band
We are coming to the end of our summer. Justin will have band practice a couple of days a week till school starts. Keelan has been doing landscaping all summer, but will resume his classes at Pickens Tech in a couple of weeks. Samuel and Caylie will be transferring to a different Global Village Academy, and we're going to meet their teacher this week. Jim will be starting football officiating again, for his 18th year. Both Samuel and Justin have church youth group activities going on, and are learning a lot. Brittany will have her baby any day now! God is good and is faithful in our lives. We're excited to see what all He has in store.
