It is still summer!

I'm trying to remember that it is still summer even though school has started! In between rains this afternoon, I took the boys swimming. Our hot weather has finally come and we need to enjoy it because before we know it, it will be cold!

We had some friends from college stop by for a short visit this week. They live in Boston and were driving home from Chicago. We hadn't seen each other in almost 10 years. It was so fun catching up and sharing our ministry lives (they too are in full-time pastoral ministry). The kids had a ball playing together as if they had known each other forever.

I love how kids make friends so easily!

Above are the moms and dads and below are the handful of kids, minus my two oldest.
Can you believe they have 5 boys also but one GIRL in the middle. When I told the boys who was coming Owen said, "Oh man...they beat us!" I didn't know we were in a competition!

I was able to capture this dragonfly with my little camera. Not bad!

We've been busy picking green beans from our garden out back. So far I've canned 3 quarts and frozen 6. Plus we have eaten them at several meals. For the size of the garden, I'd say that's pretty good. And we have more coming!