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In the last week we went to Dallas and hung out with Ricky's mom and George. His mom got married again so we went to the wedding.

When we came back to Tucson, Jenn and Kevin were in town and we had three wonderful day of hanging out and eating food and watching babies smile and scream together. Then, when the babies slept we played spades and no one got hurt...so it was good!

This is my only picture.






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Family

We've been hanging out with Ricky's cousin ethan and his aunt and uncle Karen and Josh. We had a lot of fun. It was a really quick visit.




Checking out Ethan's challenger.




Ricky and. Cody feeding Clair while I finished up working.



The stray dog on their property that everyone wants to get rid of. I took this before I knew she was unloved.
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Catching up with summer

So, we've been busy. Sorry about not posting more often. I think I needed a little break. I haven't posted since before father's day.

Well, let's see. I'll try to hit all the highlights.

For father's day we went to outback and hung out watching movies. I bought ricky like 8 gifts, the most popular one being a new ice tea maker...who knew.

Then the next week we had vbs with a church called San juan bautista in south Tucson. That was really a lot of fun. The church had never had a vbs before and they only have 12 kids who go there but 80 kids showed up for vbs so we had so much fun. It was every day that week so I didn't get a whole lot done. Cody came in on Friday of that week and I'd the last day of vbs with me.

He had been in Alabama and Dallas for about two weeks. Due to weather in Dallas on the day he left he had to go through san diego through north Carolina to charlotte and it took him two days. The boggs picked him up in charlotte and brought him back to their house for the night.

That weekend we had a car wash for the chic youth rally the covenant church puts on every three years. It was so hot and we had almost no cars come but we raised some money and I think God used it to really bring the kids together.













That next weekend ricky was in Dallas with Clair visiting old friends and going to a wedding so all we went to see UP in 3D.
This is ricky with his friends.












This is us being goofy.






That brings us to this past weekend when we began renovating our dining room. Oh, but first we had to fix a sewage pipe under our house. Ricky wouldn't let me help and i was ok with that.












That's right folks...they're covered in poop!

We are still in the process of renovating and it is keeping us very busy...well, it's keeping my mom busy because we have to fly to Dallas this week for a few days. Ahhhh...busy summer days.








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Sweet mornings

This is what I see almost every morning before I go to work. Love it. Lovely family.


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Visits and new friends

Our good friends Tre and Angela came to stay with us this past couple days all the way from Tennessee. We had so much fun hanging out and playing games. We played a very interesting round of Settlers of Catan an then last night had another very interesting dinner at the Racquet Club. There were little kids everywhere and lots of "hi's" and "cool's" and time outs. Not to mention the laughing and drinking coffee just too stay up way too late and, consequently be very tired the next day. Good friends...good times. And, a wonderful addition to the fun was a good friend couple of Tre and Angela's, Fred and Cara. Yep, that's right. There is another Cara is the world and we hung out together which meant I kept turning around all night thinking I was being talked to when I wasn't. She was much better at picking the right times to look.



Too much coffee--really long game


This looks a lot more intense than it actually was.



Miss Cara J. Had squirt guns in her car.


Troy liked the kids pool even though he insisted he could swim in the big pool if he wanted before we got there.


The squirt gun wars were great.


Little Cadence. I seriously loved having all the kids around all the time. I think we'll have to have some more.


This is the guys idea of a good time. We ended up segregating like a junior high dance.


Filling up the guns.


My baby--decided that throwing her toy off the bobble seat over and over onto the concrete was fun. I finally got smart and put her on a towel so she started throwing her toy past the towel onto the concrete again. Shot-putter in the making...well, maybe not.
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What a wonderful world

I was just sitting here at the coffee shop realizing how wonderful it is to see old worlds and new worlds come together. I have been so enjoying being a mom and sharing my life experiences with my little daughter. Some day we will share this table and read together over coffee, hopefully we will talk and grow together. For now though, her bottle shares space with my coffee cup and I read while she tries to flip backwards out of the stroller. She really has no idea that she could fall out and kill herself. I actually had to strap her back in out of fear for her safety...and she's only 5 months old!






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Fun at Knotts

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