A visit from Jeremy's family

What a beautiful little family!
Jeremy, Stephanie and Alexis spent this past weekend with us and it was great! She is growing so fast and what a cute little personality. She is such a good baby and well mannered. We sure do enjoy seeing each and every one of our children and their families. We also went to Chris and Carina's to play a game and get in the hot tub. Check out there blog for pix of that. What a blessing each and every one of our family members are to us. This summer we have been able to see every one of them in their own homes. It has been an awesome summer so far.
Nana and Papa with Alexis.
Dan also got his new car on Monday. What a great buy we got on it, too. He looks pretty sexy there on his hood. Now we just pray he will drive safely and that this car starts in the winter.

Dave's BBQ and the Park

Okay, so this blogging thing is more difficult than it looks. Anyways.... We went to this BBQ place and ate ribs and several of us had them all over our faces. Mmm, Mmm, good!

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

I'm finally getting around to getting the blog updated since our last trip. And wow what a trip it was. This was really our first long car trip in the 24 years we've been married. It was grand! We went to Lance's home in Liberty, Missourri. Spent a couple of days in their home and then went to The Great Wolf Lodge and swam and ate and swam some more.

We also went to a Cardinals/Royals baseball game and watched the Cards get whooped badly. Lance was pretty pleased about that. Jeff was not.

We also went to this supposedly nice little park unaware of the lurking danger in the grass. Needless to say Jeff has a nasty itch and welts to remind him of his mission days when they had to take care of Chigger outbreaks on there legs. He refused to let me take pictures of his outbreak for fear it would dement all of you. The funny thing was he kept talking of his experiences on his mission with these ugly beasts and then he was the worst affected. Dan and I have only one or two places on us and they were very mild compared to Jeffs. Then of course the baby blessing for Masen Maverick Carter was just grand. What a privilege to be able to witness this blessed event. To see the Priesthood used in such a wonderful way. Lance did a great job and gave such a beautiful blessing. What a great summer for traveling. We have been very blessed the whole time. No storm disasters while we were gone and no one got sick during the trips.