June Highlights

June started with Vacation Bible School!  It is such a privilege to be part of VBS at First Baptist because they do it so well.  Cooper (and Miles a little...) learned about and I attempted to teach 4th and 5th graders about God.  The theme this year was Agency D3, and it was so neat!  We talked through hard questions that people (we) ask about God and discovered answers.

VBS was cut short for Miles because of a wrestling incident.  Cooper took him out, football tackle style and broke his collar bone on Wednesday morning that week.  Thankfully, Nate was in town and handled the injury.  Miles stayed home with Nate while Coop and I finished out the week.  (You'll notice throughout the pictures that follow that Miles' sling was often pushed up so he could continue to use his arm.  It was super effective. :)  Thankfully, the pain only lasted a few days.)

In the midst of that, Miles lost his first tooth.

And Nate built me this AMAZING shoe shelf for our garage.  No more pile of shoes to greet me every time I get home!

In May we did some landscaping, and in June we enjoyed hydrangeas across the front of our house.  Beautiful!

The second week of June, my nephews joined our family for the week.  The boys played together so well!  Miles' "enjoyed" having someone younger than him in the house.  (Read - he bossed him around every chance he had.) We swam, ran around and screamed in the basement, played in dirt/mud, and ate ice cream.

Our family visited a local pool every chance we had this summer.  Both boys have improved in the water so much!  This is Cooper running and jumping in.  At the beginning of the summer, both boys were wary to put their heads in the water.

The last week of June, Nate headed to Canada with his dad and brother.  This has been a dream of Tom's, and so it was really important to make it happen.  It did mean no communication for 8 days and no husband for 10 days.  But we made it!

We passed some time without Nate visiting cousins.  The Enid cousins took a trip with us to Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Wichita.  They got to hold lemurs!
                                              

Here is Grandma with all the grandkids!

We spent the following weekend with my mom.  She treated us to frozen yogurt.

Miles and Nana played some mean solitaire.

We visited the campus of KU in Lawrence during our time with Nana. We enjoyed the Natural History Museum as well as a game of bowling in the Union.