Summertime - Part 2

All dressed up for the 4th of July!

Notice that Savannah has her ears plugged before it was even dark. Once the fireworks started, she was just fine and didn't even plug her ears.



Too early to rise: I don't remember why she got up so early, but it must have been too early. Savannah played until she dropped!



Road Trip!!!

We knew that the gray van was on its last leg. In April, we looked at cars so that we would be ready when it was time. Kelli, Savannah and I were on the freeway on our way to pick Kasey up from Drum Major Camp when the van just stopped. Thank goodness for a cell phone and towing coverage! We had to wait quite a while, but the tow truck towed us to the nearest town. Kent and Nathanael were at Scout Camp, but Kent came to help us. The gray van needed a new engine. We felt that it was time to get a new car. We got this little Ford Focus a few days later. It is VERY basic (I had to talk Kent into air conditioning) and even has a stick shift. It has been really fun. Kent loves driving it! We really like the lower gas bill!

Out with the old:

In with the new:

For our summer vacation we spent a couple days in Springfield, IL. We went to the Abraham Lincoln Museum and New Salem, the village where Lincoln lived when he was a young man. Kasey stayed home to work.

How do we measure up to the Lincoln family?

We once heard that Abraham Lincoln said that he was 6'4", nearly. Since then, Kent has said the same thing. What do you think? Are they the same height?