More 4th of July

Hello! I noticed the my Mom and Rachel have already posted 4th of July pictures, so I'll try not to duplicate their posts.

It was a beautiful day - Aaron took the above picture as we were driving home from the parade

Sunday morning, our church (Westside Baptist) had a patriotic service down by "The Point" - We were pleased with the turn-out (about 40 people) and everything went smoothly. At the last minute, we decided to have it inside the picnic shelter instead of on the trailor/bleachers - a good thing because halfway through the sermon it started to rain!

Someone found this keyboard for us to borrow - I've never played piano outside before, especially connected to a big speaker! There was no pedal, which was a little odd, but overall it went ok.

Aaron started and ended the sermon with history of our nation's founding and in the middle gave the gospel - telling how we can each have freedom from sin and it's eternal punishment.

Jeshua, Joshua, Matthias, and Caleb (there were a couple other boys around too...) - they "chased" Isaac to the house with cap-guns.

Miriam and Hosanna and someone's teddy bear...We went over to the Ortmann's for a picnic on Saturday, but sadly, I don't have any pictures from then, and on the 4th we had a picnic at the Krahn's -

One of the nice things about getting together in the summer is there's more room! This is Rebekah and David, and Joanna (Rebekah's sister) admiring the new puppies.

Elizabeth and Grandma looking at Aaron and I's scrapbook -

Abby, Benjamin, and Uncle Bruce playing Baulderdash in the evening -

Abby, Rachel, and Priscilla (and a few others...) playing Rook -

Then later in the evening we all caravaned down to the lakefront (about dusk - 10:15) and watched fireworks - Actually, Aaron and I watched the fireworks together last year - only a lot has changed since then...this time we held hands :)