Happy July 4th!!!

Hope you are having a wonderful summer.  I can't believe that in a little over a month Lauren will be headed to first grade!  Our summer is going by too quickly.  We kicked summer off with our beach trip and then had an amazing week of VBS.  I knew that this VBS was going to be different from any other I've been part of when the call went out for 40,000 cookies.  No, that it is not a typo- 40 thousand cookies.  It takes a lot of cookies to feed 4000 4-11 year olds and their teachers!  The girls had a great experience and I loved teaching.  It was my first opportunity to serve since moving to Memphis and I'm looking forward to getting plugged into regular ministry in our church's preschool department soon.  Since VBS someone in our house has been sick, primarily Jason.  It is no fun when Daddy is sick and not available to help.  The upside about being stuck in the house because somebody is sick is that we have racked up the hours with summer reading at the library.  The girls are so proud of their summer reading shirts.  We've also done two weeks of swim lessons, and though the girls didn't love the lessons, they love swimming and would spend everyday at the "big pool" rather than the zero entry preschool pool that I prefer.  We're excited about seeing my immediate family in July.  The hardest part about our move continues to be the distance from my family, so I'm going to savor every moment!  Emily took the last picture in the group above.  She was so happy to get her little hands on my camera and wanted to keep clicking away.