Spend a Little Time with Us: June 2010

June 28th Junior Camp

Today my babies left for camp. This is Shelby's first time going. She made me a card for every night full of hugs and kisses so that I would not have to go without. I made her a bracelet that said hugs and kisses from Mom so she can get one any time she wants one. I think we will both do just fine.

Of course her and Hannah had to dress alike and will do so most of the week.

Most of the kids that are going on the bus

Shelby helping Hannah with her luggage.

Julie lifting Shelby's luggage on the bus.

Double set of twins.

The girls from Cornerstone Baptist Church

Smiles!

Giggles.

Bye Bye kids! We will see you back on Saturday!!

I think that actually catches this horrible blogger up on the month of June. Let's wait and see what July brings....

Family Reunion June 26th

Saturday, since we survived the storm we headed over to Lake Crystal for a family reunion. Rita's sister Joyce rented a room at the rec center so the kids could go swimming and the adults did not need to fight the heat or bugs. It was a great day

Shelby loves having a girl cousin to play with. Sophia did not even seem to get too tired of Mommy Shelby...

Garrett was swimming laps and got winded.

Then he decided to see what variations he could use to increase his speed down the slide. We watched and timed all of the cousins and then he tried a bunch. He took a full second off his best time (7.26) but was only the 3rd fastest with the fastest two being 6.36 seconds and 7.07 seconds.

Can you say competitive?

Levi was quite a bit slower and decided just to have fun, and he did!

Straight on in and under...

Shelby even went down a few times. Seth decided that since Dad was busy telling everyone about his trip that he would sit with me and help time the kids. His favorite part was all of the delicious foods.

Sophia once again!

Storm, June 25th

Friday after Levi's band lesson we headed to Iowa to spend the night at Steve's parent's house. We had a family reunion on Saturday and had not been to visit the farm in quite some time. After supper we sat down to look at Steven's pictures from Ukraine and this little storm came rolling in.

Here pops down this nice little funnel cloud.

The temp dropped almost 15º in a matter of second and the wind picked up fast as you can see by Garrett here.

So instead of going in the house to take shelter...we stood outside and watched it come in...

Within 20 minutes the sun was completely gone and it was just after 7:00 p.m.

June 19th, 2010 Robot World & Water Show

We, Cornerstone Baptist Church, had our first church trip to the Robot World and Tommy Bartlett Water Show, since we all had $3 coupons...The Connor boys came with us since Jake had his gallbladder out the day before.