Our friends Barry and Diane, and their kids Rachel and Bradley came over for a hamburger cookout. Here are Rachel and Luci, complete with headgear. We had two kids' tables! One just for the boys (our boys, plus Bradley and Josh, another friend from church--both boys spent the night) and one just for the girls.
JT all sideways.
Gran-
Je with Luci, in
Jemison on Tuesday
Gran-
Je and Grandpa, John's folks. They have an incredible view from their house.
Our Upwards Soccer finished up with a big party. It was sort of like a fair, with FOUR of those jumpy-things for the kids, a clown (Luci kept her distance), free food, and fireworks at the end. There were probably 800 people there. The fireworks were incredible--we expected the backyard variety that some folks get around here, but this was 15 solid minutes of beautiful fireworks in the fields behind our church building. I
tried to capture some. Luci wore her ear protection and loved it, too. It was wet enough from all the rain, plus the fire department was there in force "just in case."
Luci wanted some more of that
Splatter drink that she learned to love in Idaho. Cracked me up! It's called
Squirt!
John got to see the final game and a half of Luci's season. So nice! I thought he would miss all of the games, so this was a good thing. Here is (are?) most of the team (missing two boys) with their terrific Coach Crystal. The boy next to Luci (he's the third child from left, next to Luci) is the one who kisses her on the run during the games.
Bryan and Luci watching the stars at the Upwards Soccer party.
John brought home New Testaments for the kids. Luci especially loves hers, and immediately started "reading" Bible stories to us. (I can't find the pictures on my camera! boo
hoo)
Luci helped John fix the dryer hose--he needed someone to help him, and Luci was the only one who could fit back there. He's got most of the Honey-Do list completed. :) Just fun stuff is left, like take the boys to the movies, and have a tea party with Luci.
Bryan entertained Grand-Je and me with some songs...
Luci picked a daffodil and wanted it in her hair...
And JT tried out the doggy-door.
John, Bryan, Luci, Suzi (the dog! not me) and Grandpa put together an umbrella...
Luci was not happy that Daddy didn't follow the directions.
But the umbrella works anyway--as you can see, it folded up nicely on JT.
Luci wanted to re-plant her daffodil and Grand-Je helped her.
We loved seeing John's folks. Thank you, Willinghams for the hospitality!
JT all sideways.
Gran-Je with Luci, in Jemison on Tuesday
Gran-Je and Grandpa, John's folks. They have an incredible view from their house.
Our Upwards Soccer finished up with a big party. It was sort of like a fair, with FOUR of those jumpy-things for the kids, a clown (Luci kept her distance), free food, and fireworks at the end. There were probably 800 people there. The fireworks were incredible--we expected the backyard variety that some folks get around here, but this was 15 solid minutes of beautiful fireworks in the fields behind our church building. I tried to capture some. Luci wore her ear protection and loved it, too. It was wet enough from all the rain, plus the fire department was there in force "just in case."
Luci wanted some more of that Splatter drink that she learned to love in Idaho. Cracked me up! It's called Squirt!
John got to see the final game and a half of Luci's season. So nice! I thought he would miss all of the games, so this was a good thing. Here is (are?) most of the team (missing two boys) with their terrific Coach Crystal. The boy next to Luci (he's the third child from left, next to Luci) is the one who kisses her on the run during the games. 
Bryan and Luci watching the stars at the Upwards Soccer party.
John brought home New Testaments for the kids. Luci especially loves hers, and immediately started "reading" Bible stories to us. (I can't find the pictures on my camera! boo hoo)
Luci helped John fix the dryer hose--he needed someone to help him, and Luci was the only one who could fit back there. He's got most of the Honey-Do list completed. :) Just fun stuff is left, like take the boys to the movies, and have a tea party with Luci.
Wow! Did you see the Opening Ceremonies at the Olympics Friday night? It was amazing. The announcers said that the man in charge of it had a free rein and open pocket-book. The big screen thing on the floor was an LCD screen! Amazing. And those blue rectangle-shoebox shaped things that kept popping up, making designs--I just knew they were computer-controlled, but no! It was all choreographed and done by people. AMAZING.
We spent Saturday with John's folks. We went to Cullman to help them load some things from John's grandmother's house into a van. Jeannie showed Luci a jewelry box of costume jewelry and told her to pick something out. Luci was so enthralled by this box...you'd have thought it was a pirate's chest full of gold by her reaction. She picked out a string of pearls, and then found some old China pieces to bring home to play tea party. The boys worked hard for their grandparents and were cheerful about it. Afterwards, we traveled to their home about 40 miles south of Birmingham and the men unloaded the trailer. We had a great visit, and the kids heard some very interesting stories from Uncle David (John's brother) and Uncle Joe (John's uncle) and Grandpa. I just hope they don't try the same silly tricks their daddy did when he was their age!
John shows Luci an area he helped his daddy build when John was a youngster.
Luci sweating in her "new" pearls. It was a very hot day.
JT was a great helper.
The Three Amigos--Bryan, John and Olen (John's dad).
John's stepbrother, Frankie. Doesn't he look like a character actor? We think so. He's the most cowboy-lookin' person I've seen since moving from Idaho.
