Ft. Worth Baby

Anyone growing up in Cowtown has to have a cowboy hat!

Swimming!

Yesterday was Casen's first swimming pool experience and thankfully he loved it! We met a group of friends and their kids at one of their neighborhood pools and had a great time. I love summer!

We tried our best to get a group picture of the kids but as you can tell it was a little difficult. A couple of them weren't too interested in sitting and, of course, Casen couldn't keep his hands off of the pretty ladies. I think he is going to be a flirt!

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Bath time for the boys. Casen loved it at first then became alarmed when the suds started flying!

Carsten turned two while we were on vacation so we celebrated with a song and some cupcakes.

This is Ethan giving Carsten's new t-ball set a try.

Casen has a strange fascination with rugs. He loves to sit on them and pull the sides up. He really enjoyed playing on the Archbold's huge entry rug.

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Casen enjoying the beauty of God's Creation.

Ethan and Casen playing one morning in my favorite room of the house. It is a porch connected to the kitchen with giant screens on all three sides. We ate every meal out here and at night would play games as we listened to the raindrops fall. It was glorious!

Carsten loved helping Casen eat his Mum-Mums.

Arkansas

Last week Chris, Casen and I headed to Arkansas for a little R&R with our good friends the Leavers and the Williams. A wonderful couple, the Archbolds, from Chase Oaks church graciously let our crazy group move in to their lake house in Hot Springs Village for a week. I'll share some photos of our adventure in the next few blog posts.

Casen sitting on the dock of the lake.

Casen and his buddies, Ethan and Carsten on one of our late afternoon strolls.

Casen sitting atop a tank in one of the parks.

Helping Mommy unpack.

Our Adult Bible Fellowship (a.k.a Sunday School, flock, small group, etc.) does this fabulous thing called Supper Club where one guy pairs up groups of four or five couples randomly each month. This month Chris and I were in charge of our group so we had everyone over for make your own pizza night. We had a great time getting to know everyone better and it was fun to see the kiddos playing together!

Casen, Trey and Brooklyn