Goodbye, summer

I love this quote by Helen Keller - My friends have made the story of my life.  And we added a few chapters to Ethan and Rachel's story this past month.  Even though it was hot, August was so much fun around here.

A few weekends ago, we got together with our old small group from Prestoncrest Church of Christ in Dallas.  It sounds ridiculously cheesy to say the standard 'we had a great time,' but it just felt good for all of us to be together again.  And we just picked right up - Kirk was annoying as always, Krista was busy with a kid, Sonal was getting ready to have a baby, Bryon was talking, etc.  And the kids had a blast playing together.  Rachel & Krista - thank you SO much for hosting, and we can't wait to do it again.



A couple of weekends ago we went with the Pilgrims to our first Fort Worth Cats game.  Minor league baseball is SO much more fun than a major league game (in my opinion).  It cost a whopping $9 for our family to get into the game, and we sat so close that Lauryn and Ethan were able to throw a baseball right onto the field...in the middle of the game...oops.  Thankfully the nice outfielder threw it back to us. 


We were also able to spend some time with the Davis crew as they welcomed sweet baby Kate into the world.  She's beautiful and perfect and came with a full head of hair!  We had fun hanging out at their house letting the kids break in the new playground set.




Thursday the Glover girls came over to brighten up our day.  Macy and Ethan had fun throwing everything under 40 pounds down the stairs (thankfully Paige and Rachel were not in sight or I'm sure they would have had a turn as well).  And Tracy - I can't believe you haven't been to our house since last October...shameful.  We'll make sure that doesn't happen again because Ethan took a 2 hour nap that afternoon.  You're a godsend.


And tonight we had a great time hanging out with Luke and his parents in Highland Village.  Well, actually we just had fun hanging out with Heather and Luke...not so much Marc.  Burned weiners - curly, burned weiners - seriously...BURNED.  But the burgers were excellent.  Ethan and Luke had a great time "swimming" in their clothes in the muddy water they created - gotta love boys.