4th of July Fun!

After 3 busy weeks of youth ministry, we took off to Tennessee and Missouri to visit family and friends. It was great timing to get away, have much needed fun, and have a little refreshing time with our Lord. A big thanks to Nana and Papaw for hosting us and using their gift of hospitality in a loving and generous way. Below are some pics ranging from their backyard, to Silver Dollar City, to Kansas City, and to the Springfield Cardinals game. (You can click on every picture, except for the first one here, and they will get bigger.)

The boys love doing the slip n slide when we visit in the summer. Perfect weather all week!

We had a request for a water balloon fight. It took over an hour to fill them up, and two minutes to blast them at each other...but it was a lot of fun!

This was a very wet and fun ride down along and winding slide in a raft together.

This is us waiting to go on the train ride as Nana was with Andrew and Owen doing "Shootout".
We love our Kettle Corn at Steal Your Dollar City...the boys act like they haven't eaten for a week when we get this. This bag was gone in a couple of hours.
We got some spiritual refreshment time at IHOP with our good friends Cary and Tracy. After 5 hours of "soaking" in worship, you have to eat!
Nana and Papaw gave me the option of the James River Fireworks show or the Cardinals game. We were all impressed with a great fireworks show after watching the Cardinals win...I loved it!

They have a lot of friendly ushers at Hammons Field and they offered to take this shot before the game began. It's a great AA baseball atmosphere and it was funny watching Andrew and Madison having to wait till the 4th inning for the concession stand...they had a tough time waiting!!

If you didn't catch it in the picture above...Dad and I were matching. It wasn't planned, but I guess I could have changed! I thought it was kind of cute and you know Dad and me...we didn't care. We are pictured here at Andy's after the game. Scott and Heather, the fresh Blackberry concrete was awesome! Thanks for the reccomendation.

We were also blessed to spend some time with our good friends - the Pendergrass family on the way to Missouri. We miss them so much. Mom and Dad also shared our time with the Fouts family in Springfield. We are so blessed to have friends and family to share Jesus with and pray for each other...we love Christian recreation like that!!

Thank you Lord for a great trip...Easton just told me to write that it was a blast. God's blessings to all of you in the name of Jesus Christ! God loves you so much...receive it fully!!

Todd and Miller Family