The Brittons

We have lots and lots of pictures from our fun weekend on the river.  Thanks to Kimi for taking them and sharing!  Shortly after my previous post, we had Trent and Kimi and their family from Iowa visit us for the weekend and then we joined them on their kayaking excursion for one day on the Current River in Eminence, MO.  Nick and Owen had gone with them two years ago when they were down, but Gracie and I were up in Iowa at the time.  This year we all got to go!  I have lots of pictures from both Columbia and Eminence! Their family arrived on a Friday evening and we had dinner and stayed up late playing cards and being entertained by all the kids.  The next day we visited Columbia to go to the cave at Rock Bridge State Park and show them Mizzou Sports Park. Family pic at Rock Bridge State Park In the Cave Gracie and Claire Owen and Garin Trent and Nick All of the kids under the Natural Bridge. The water is still real...

Again, I started this over a week ago and have failed to complete the post.  So this will take us up to about July 10 or so.  We have done a lot more since then, but I'll save those for the next post. Happy Birthday Nick! I changed it up a little this year and made strawberry pie instead of the usually requested cheesecake.  I hope I did ok.  I'm not a big pie fan, so I don't know how it was.  Gracie approved and Nick didn't complain, so maybe it turned out ok.  It was officially the second strawberry pie I've ever made.  The first one was back in college and ended up more like soup.  This one at least looked better.  The addition of ice cream never hurts, either. Dig in! One more weekend of softball. Gracie played with a team in Colombia.  They had a pretty good weekend.  The team went 3-2 over three days.  They ended up being one of the last 4 teams left in the tournament.  It was pretty compe...