Summer News

I have tried to get Shane to blog about his trip, maybe soon He will share his experience with everyone. He can talk for hours about it all but trying to sit down and put it into words is difficult for him. Shane got back from his trip to Brazil, school let out for the kids. In June we celebrated my mother's birthday and Austen's birthday. I decided to get my mom a subscription to the Birds and Blooms magazine. We grilled out and had Strawberry shortcake. For Austen's birthday, he decided he wanted to go to Crater Diamonds in Arkansas. So we took one of his friends and dug in hard crusty dirt for two hours and found a whole bunch of rocks. As fun as that sounds I really did enjoy water sifting. Afterwards, we went to the water park next door to cool off. I got sun burned really bad and paid for it the next few days. We then went to a touristy shop where I thought the kids would like to buy a neat crystal or pretty rock that would be a great souvenir but instead Austen bought a fossil of a fish. Yes, he still wants to be a paleontologist.

We went to say our goodbyes to Joel, Jill,Dara and Dade Skinner, who were heading to Africa with AIM. Shane then drove my mom to Pensacola, Fl to visit her friend for the summer, then Shane went on to His brother's house in GA to deliver a minivan to his family. Shane and his brother have quite a story to tell about their adventures together. To make a long story short, they drove an OLD Cadillac from Aaron's house to our house. It should have only taken 12 hours...it took 19 hours and it broke down somewhere in AL. It makes for a funny story when you hear the whole thing. They then decided that the rest of the trip would go better if we took our car and meet their sister Robin half way and she would take Aaron the rest of the way to their parents house. Shane is done traveling for awhile.