Family Summer Fun, Jennifer's Birthday and More

July and the first part of August have been full of activities. Jennifer had a birthday on July 25th. We spent as much time as possible at the pool and parks this summer. I took a few weeks off at the end of July for a staycation to spend some time with the girls before they went back to school. We did the pool, a musuem, movie and a few other things.

Celebrating with the other family members on Jennifer's side.

Pool time...the girls have gotten much better at swimming this summer. We are grateful for the neighborhood pool and the kiddie pools in the backyard ;-)

Jennifer got to sneak away for about 24hrs to celebrate our 28th anniversary.

Musuem with cousin Eliza

Jennifer, Caleb and the girls went to KY where her sister lives to celebrate baptisms of two of Brandi's kids! Praise Jesus!

Summer ends. Sofia and Grace starting 3rd and 2nd grades. Caleb is a junior but refused a picture ;-)

Vacation

 We are grateful for a Lake House here close that our friends let us use so we can take some breaks occassionally from the norm and get some down time together. It was good to have this time after a crazy few months of life and ministry. It was hard to be there without the whole family though. Enjoy some pics below. 

(Apparently sun was bright and Emma didn't want to take her pic which is the norm)

We have 2 traditions every time we go there now. One is to eat dinner one night at Cracker Barrel and the other is to go hiking with the boys on some trails not too far from where we stay. (see pic below)

We had lots of time in the water or at least the kids did.

Cuties

Dad taking Emma on a Kayak ride

Hiking with the boys

Luke won't get in the lake but enjoyed the baby pool we set up.

Beautiful Sofia

The lake was very warm.