4th of July weekend!

We had a great weekend packed with friends, family and great weather!
Saturday morning, we had  a time of prayer for the teens that were going to
Mexico.  Then that evening, Randy's sister Marcia and her family came for
the weekend.  They live in Pa..  We all had dinner together and then sat
around to visit.  On Sunday, we had church and then we had a big family
picnic.  My cousins, aunts, brother and his family from fl all came.  AJ had
some friends too.  I think there were about 25 of us.  We had tons of good food!
The weather was really nice in the mid 80's and low humidity.  We ate, swam,
played Can Jam, visited and ate some more.  Then that night Marcia and family
and my brother and his family stayed the night.  We were going to go to see
the fireworks but decided to stay home and do some that we had and have a bon fire.
Aj and his friends went to the fireworks and were able to go out on his friends
boat to watch them.  The boys slept outside in the tent.  Then in the morning we
had a huge breakfast and hung out some more.  It was so nice to see everyone and
just relax.  Here are some pics from the weekend:

(this was a technique that the boys learned at camp one year
to catch flies!  It actually worked.  Josiah caught one! :)


This morning the kids got up at 3am and left for the airport.
they are going on a missions trip to mexico for 10 days!  they
were both very excited about going and I know that they are
going to experience a lot of great things.  They are going to be
doing some work at a church, painting, street ministry, going
to an orphanage, and at the end they are going to a huge youth
conference for 2 days.  So excited for them.  I miss them already!
Not sure what we'll do while they are gone :)  We may take a drive
somewhere for a few days.