Harvest Home Festival

Each year one of the local churches holds an autumn festival complete
with games, rides, and barbeque. We have attended sporadically for at
least 15 years. The horse picture is one we have repeated with all of
the kids.

More Park Pics

Pumpkin patch is shaping up very well!

Farm Park

We enjoyed some beautiful weather today at the park!

Guess Who's Driving Now?

Here it is - proof that Amber has driven my car (of course I had to
get new front end bearings this week, but she claims to have nothing
to do with that). Nathan is obviously very pleased about the whole
thing.

More St Louis

We enjoyed the World Bird Sanctuary, a new part of Lone Elk Park, the
arch, and the paddleboats in Forest Park.

St Louis

Nathan's first trip to the Temple. We continued our mini vacation with
a stop downtown by the arch.

St Louis Weekend

One last hurrah before school starts. We are enjoying a weekend in the
Gateway City with swimming, temple, and Forest Park. More photos
coming tomorrow...

SDC Fun Night

Thanks for the tickets Kennings and Barkers!

Founders Park Concert

Amber got to play in a mini concert today. She did very well!

Visions of our Future Leaders

Obviously we are in good hands...
(ah, twelve year olds.)

Nathan's Birthday

A bunch of crazy 12 year olds makes for an interesting evening!

Park 5

They added a butterfly house recently. Very nice!

Park 4

Park 3

Park 2

Sunday in the Park

We had a nice visit to the flower gardens at Nathaniel Greene Park
this evening. Hard to believe that this is July weather!

And the Winner is...

You know it must be a good summer when Dave lets me win twice in one
week! 6-3 on Wed and 8-6 on Fri. I just hope he doesn't get his racket
re-strung (or find out that I snipped it in the first place - just
kidding!).

Ben the Biker

Ben tried out the local bmx track with the scouts this week. He thought it was great fun.

Bike Ride

We enjoyed a little bike ride this evening after family time. The
geese were a little protective of these benches, but we discovered
that boys can scare them off with a bark just as well as dogs can.
Hannah is sporting a new look having finally lost her front tooth this
evening.

Grandmama

Jennifer Adams Weaver passed away on Sunday, July 5th at about 6am central time. In my decidedly biased opinion she was the model of a grandmother. Always loving and accepting no matter what shenanigans her kids, grandkids, or great grandkids got into. Here are a few pictures from the gathering in her honor from the time of her interment on the 7th of July beside her husband, Hugh. Her remaining five children were together again for the first time in many years.