Walkers' Trail

Grant and his friend playing golf during a playdate.  His friend has played in a lot of tournaments and it sounds like he is quite the player!  Future Phil Mickelson?!?! One of our summer to-dos was to have a lemonade stand, and one day after church, we hurriedly put one together and actually had a great time!  We pitched a tent in a vacant lot in our neighborhood and had some tunes playing.  Thankful for great friends, neighbors and supportive strangers who came to support them.  More than 50 glasses of lemonade sold and about 10 bags of Cheezits (that's one way to clear out our food clutter from bulk buying!).  10% of their earnings were returned to the church for their tithe.  Last I heard, they had both chosen to save the rest of their earnings. We had a quick, fun trip to Dallas/Arlington this weekend.  We stayed with family two nights - one with the Colvins and one with the Hefners.  My cousin, Libby, and her husband drove up to...

We are the "quiet house on the culdesac!"  It's official - house is on the market as of tomorrow morning.  http://www.terriblehousekeeper.com/

Dad, Bubba, B... whatever he goes by, it's his 60th birthday!!!   Happy birthday, Dad!  We love you.  Glad you're here to celebrate another year with us!

Lovebirds still.... Jason's cousins had a reunion a few weeks ago!  This is the whole gang.  Three of them were photoshopped in b/c they were unable to attend, but fun to have a picture of all 12.  There are 2 stepkids that aren't in here as the cousin who photoshopped didn't have their picture.  It was a fun few hours!

"At the Movies" series at church right now - basically, the pastor takes parts of a blockbuster hit from the past year and the sermon is based on it.  Yesterday's message was from Matt Damon's We Bought A Zoo.  Great sermon.  That, combined with three kids getting baptized, had me as a crying mess most of the service.  oh well - someone has to be that girl!  :)  The following is one of the movie quotes.  I love it.

Worry about tomorrow steals the JOY from today.

In real life, these two pancakes at Fair Hills were spot-on to look like Darth Vader and Princess Leia.  How fun are they?!?  The cook at the resort will make pancakes in to any shape requested, and I can just kick myself for never having my camera at breakfast.  We also had a Death Star, Cowboy riding a horse, horse, heart, Superhero and fish.

Fair Hills Resort is our "Family Happy Place" and we just finished up a week in Minnesota.  Jason has been there 7 years and the big boys have been for 5 years.  We drive in our car - loaded down with gear - for the 14 hour trip.  It's actually fun b/c we can bust out the traditional car games and goody bag surprises.  Here are my four shining men in the car! The first shot: we take out a captain's chair in the car, which makes a big open area for random stuff, including our ice chest.  You can barely make out the new goody bags hanging in the back windows - G and K both had one filled with fun activities for their brains.  Each of them also took a turn riding in G and B's car, who led the way.  Reid, sweet Reid - all he wants to do is sit and read books.  He managed, the entire 28 hours we were in the car, to take 4 - 20 minute snoozes.  That's it!   Our drive takes us to Pelican Rapids, MN, which is just the cutest, most qua...