July 4th Fun

We've been having lots of summer fun the past few weeks. Amy went to a Bible Study at a friend's house (her mom lead the study of John). Brooke and Christina have been going to swimming lessons for two weeks. Brooke learned to swim without holding her nose and Christina learned to swim with her face in the water - lots of progress for both! We celebrated the 4th with some of Neal's family at Nana and Grandaddy's. The kids and dads camped out in the yard on the 3rd.

The most exciting (well, sort of) event was that my mom, dad and grandparents were in a car accident on the evening of July 2nd. I spent the night with Grandpa in the emergency room while he was being scanned for a cracked sternum. Dad (who walked away fairly unscathed) spent the night in a DIFFERENT emergency room with Grandma and Mom. They are all bruised and very sore, but mostly ok. They narrowly avoided a head-on collision. As Dad said "the Lord must have been driving because I ain't that good."

Here are some pictures of our summer fun and not-so-fun. Unfortunately, I didn't take a single picture of swimming lessons or our visit from Jennifer, Lydia, Nathan, and Thomas last week (more cousin time!). Oh well! Sometimes it's good to just live the moment instead of trying so hard to preserve it.

At Nana and Grandaddy's on the 4th.

The cousins with Julie's dog, Tessie.

Getting Grandpa out of the car. At this point, I think Grandma and mom were still in the back.

Sophie (mom's new car) will never be the same.