Some More Photos from Earlier this Month

Down at the pier in Emerald Isle with our friends from Chicago

In Emerald Isle for the 4th of July

Our new little American

Part of the reason I haven't blogged much since I've been back from Ukraine is that we have a new Mac and I don't really know what I'm doing on it yet!  I can tell that it's going to be great, but in the meantime everything is taking me a little longer while I'm figuring things out.  Our dear friends from Chicago came to visit us at the beach over the 4th of July weekend.  Nicole was in heaven getting to be with three girls everyday.  The boys had just as much fun though.  Their girls are so sweet.  They adopted their youngest from China years ago and they were very encouraging to me.  I will have to write more later because it's 1:30 a.m. and we are leaving this morning for 10 days.  We are picking up Jimmy from camp and I cannot wait to see him.  He's been gone for 2 weeks and I'm dying to hear how he liked it.  He wrote us a lot of funny letters, but he kept mentioning that he missed us so I hope he's glad that he went.  It's been over 100 degrees here so we are looking forward to a little cooler weather.  We will be meeting up with five families from TX, IL, and MD at a place called Camp of the Woods.  It's a Christian family resort that is on a beautiful lake.  We have been going there since Jimmy and Nicole were babies and Paul has been going since he was a child.  John is going to be in heaven with 17 of our friends' kids to play with everyday, most of which are boys, and that's not including all of the other kids that will be there.  He is very social and has had a great time at camp this week.  Then we will head to Stowe, VT for a lacrosse tournament for Jimmy.  Maybe I'll bring my laptop and blog from there.