Summer 2010

Wow!  I knew that I had missed two or three weeks of blogging, but the entire summer has just flown by!  I know we had a great summer and I hope you did as well.  Here are some highlights of our summer -

Had church at Jasper Park on Sunday, July 4th - we had the best time!

This is from the fireworks show in Springfield

A couple weekends later, we loaded up the truck for a weekend of camping!

Where Caleb caught his first fish on his very own!

And Renee cooked up excellent meals!

and we gladly ate it!

Beautiful bike trails

Trip to the coast!

We celebrated Caleb's 9th birthday with a talent show modeled after the show "America's Got Talent"

complete with judges, where kids and adults both judged each other

and Caleb got to blow up a watermelon with my air compressor!

sliced it right in half with air (this is cool whether you are 9 or 39)

and had watermelon with cake and ice cream!  Happy Birthday Caleb!

lots of swimming this summer!

My awesome boys!

Went to Albany on Caleb's birthday...

to see Skillet in concert, along with Newsboys!

We then traveled to Renee's parents where we celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary!

Went hiking...

Up to beautiful Jump Creek Waterfall

Then we traveled to Mt. Rushmore, or as Micah calls it, "The Four Heads"

One of the original drillers of Mt. Rushmore

Saw lots of wildlife along the way - including this guy

And buffalo

Crazy Horse

Breath taking sunset