First Week of July

Greg and "his crew" had the fireworks stands and three city shows this year as usual. That meant two good weekends for selling and a week-long family gathering in the middle. It was great to have Chad and Tara here from Singapore. We enjoyed many meals, fireworks, conversations, church services, and lots of craziness in between. Loved it!

It's a Girl!

Jenna and Jared recently did a very small and simple gender reveal. I say small and simple because all the family members knew the sex of the baby except Jonah and Glory. Jenna thought the kiddos would get a kick out of finding out in a way in little more exciting manner than just outright telling them.

Marilyn graciously made the cupcakes with pink filling for all of us. The expressions on their faces are reflective of what they had expressed regarding girl or boy.

Glory wanted a girl!

Jonah had wanted it to be a boy!

VBS 2015

Reasons I'm loving VBS this year besides the most obvious (teaching about Jesus is going on!) include:

*all the excitement on the children's faces

*Jonah and Glory are there

*little Anja is getting to be there

*Rick is able to help Alicia (worship leader) in the sound booth

*Marilyn makes daily bread

*I'm helping with registration

*great Tribe leaders

  

Nashville Notes 

Marilyn, Cheyrl, and I went to Nashville. We intentionally chose to avoid the Country Music Fest crowd; however, we did overlap it on Sunday. We had a great time doing some of the top rated tourist things. It was just impossible to get everything in though.

We saw great shows at the Grand Ole Opry as well as the "Wizard of Oz" in Nashville's symphony hall. We also toured the Ryman, Country Music Hall of Fame, Barbara Mandrell's former home (Fontanel), RCA Studio B, and Andrew Jackson's plantation (Hermitage).

We ended up in Memphis with a great four-hour city tour. 

Then...we flew home on a rough plane ride back to Texas through the "Tropical Storm Bill" stuff. It was scary might I say!

June Races

Just a few pics from our weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. Roger and Teresa also camped with us. Marilyn, Rickie, Justin, Jonah, Tim, Kelle, and John also made appearances. We missed Jared and Jenna as they were out of town.