Small Group

Kylie and her friend Zoe jumping with total abandonment. Kylie has completely taught herself to swim. She started this summer off with a "fat suit"(inflatible suit) but soon discarded it and now is even diving to the bottom of the pool. 3 down one to go, maybe by next summer they will all be swimming on their own.
This is Dylan, Caleb's buddy. He was on vacation with us and they play awesome together.
Karissa with her BFF, Hannah(Dylan's sister), also from vacation. Sadly, they are in the small group that split from us.
Look at those blue eyes.

In the spring, we joined a new samll group at our church. We meet every other Sunday night at one of the couples homes. There are lots of kids running around but it is great fellowship time. By May, Our group had grown so large we had to divide but we decided every couple of months to have a combined fellowship. It is amazing both groups have continued to grow. Last Sunday, was our first combined fellowship. It was a lot of fun but a total mad house of kids. The people who hosted had an awesome pool and I don't think our kids got out in the whole 4 hours except to eat. It is so amazing to feel like part of the group. I love our kids having close friends at church!! Cara was visiting Grandma and Memaw for the week, so she isn't in any of the pics.

BackYard Fun

This is the first summer we have had last minute friends who like to come over and hang out. We have had such a blast bbqing, swimming, talking and just hanging out. The last time we got together our kids put together a concert in the backyard complete with music, dancers and costumes. It was really fun until after 40 minutes they said intermission and then we want to do it all over again. We applauded and encored and went inside to play cards. It is finally stating to feel like home here(for me). We have a church family and friends and the kids have friends. I don't think we ever gave any of our other moves a chance to get this settled. Anyway, it is awesome to have such fun family times for free.Kylie loves to sing and is good at memorizing the words. She knows all the High School Musical songs and some of Camp Rock already. Our church is starting a kids choir in the fall and I am so excited for the girls to have a place to sing as worship.
Dancing girls:)
Cara taking her turn at the mic.

Karissa sings really well she is just a bit bashful about it.

Caleb and Shermy (Jeremy) in the tiny pool. Randyll, our foster dog,chewed our big one up.
Cara enjoying the slip'n'slide.
Karissa sliding down our backyard hill.
Caleb enjoying the freedom to eat without mom watching how much he eats!!

Wichita Falls

Bobo & Caleb

We had a great visit in Wichita Falls. The air conditioner in our van went out Sunday night so my mom came and got us Tuesday to go to WF. We were supposed to meet her half way so Kirk could keep the car and we wouldn't have two in WF but since our air went out we didn't. Tuesday night my mom and dad's air conditioner went out in their house! We slept in their camper the first night and then the air was fixed. Kylie had a second birthday with grandparents and cousins at Chuck E Cheese. We also got to swim a couple of times at our cousins houses. We hooked up with some old friends and Kirk and I even got to go out with friends with NO KIDS! Overall, it was a fun and relaxing trip. We also got to attend the baby shower for our niece, Emma. We can't wait until she arrives next month. We came home and hooked up with our frinds who had been out of town most of the summer and hung out at the pool most of the day. After seeing all of Kelly's rearranging in her house I have the bug to rearrange, too. We'll see if I actually do. Karissa stayed for some me time with her grandparents. We will pick her up Friday at my brothers, in Krum.