Hot Air Balloon Festival and Pumpkin Patch

One of the greatest things about living here in Texas is being near Jenn's family. It seems like to we do something with them at least every week. She has a great family so we have a great time. Our latest two adventures were also classified: a great time. Plano, a town east of us 15 miles, host a balloon festival every year. Jenn suggested we go. We decided not to go into the festival but to follow the balloons around as they flew. We met up with her parents and nephew William.

We found a spot to park and then watched as they floated by. To our great surprise one of the balloons appeared behind us and decided to land right next to where we had parked.

We were able to get right up next to it and see it up close.

...and then we went and got ice cream.

Two weeks ago we also spent Family Home Evening at the Pumpkin Patch. Jennifer's sister Jaime and her husband Kevin were up from Houston, actually passing through. It was nice to be outside in the evening time. Usually that time of night we're relaxing after both getting home from work. I love being outside though. Especially as the weather improves.

Summer Highlights

This is a day at Grandparents house, Jennifer's parents. There are couple of Ipad games that they love to watch and play together. I guess 20 years ago, I probably did this around the TV, watching my friends play Mario Brothers.

I forced Jenn to make her happy "WOW" face for this picture after we had fixed our Washer. It had been making this terrible noise for a week. Jenn began to do some research on YOUTUBE and found a video that had a washer making the EXACT same noise! So she said, "We've got a bobbie-pin stuck in our water-pump." Interesting. So we starting taking our washer apart and low-and-behold....a bobbie-pin....IN the water pump. I guess I'm not the only person who needs to check their pockets from now on before putting my clothes in the wash. =)

This was some 4th of July art by one of our friends.

More like a low-light, we had to make an emergency trip to Austin after one of my teeth broke off. This is the before picture. My brother is a dentist down there and him and a colleague worked out in for about 6 hours. I was under the influence of Nitrous Oxide, so everything was just-fine. Thanks bro.

These are two pictures of The Sherrills and us on our trip to Six Flags in Texas. When Jenn and I arrived in Lewisville, she was assigned to visit teach Kelcy and I was assigned to home teach the family. After that, we became great friends and do lots of fun things together often. Our activity of choice is the board game "Ticket to Ride". It makes for a great time.

This is one of the rides we went on. "The Titan". It was my favorite. And it was quite the thrill!