In honor of Camp Rock, we made some s'mores.....
The "music was in our souls" so we just had to do some dancing during Camp Rock! Even The Husband joined in on air guitar......
#1 missed all the action because she was at our church Jr. High Lock In. After picking her up the next morning The Husband and I went to a wonderful wedding with some of our old neighbors who we haven't seen in about 6 years. Our one neighbor's daughter got married and we got to reconnect with some old friends from the 'hood. We got to see two other families besides the family hosting the wedding and it was so fun to reminisce. It felt almost comforting to see them...they were the kind of neighbors that we would throw food on the grill and tell them to come over with their meat and join us or if they heard us out on our trampoline they would come over and jump, too! The trio below are brother and sisters and we knew them when they were all of our kids ages....so many happy memories. One Christmas morning when #1 was about 3 and a half, they put Santa hats on and brought her a play kitchen that they had outgrown and the whole family stayed for breakfast. It dawned on me that we never had neighbors like that before or since then. I learned how to can tomatoes in their kitchens and we attended the back yard funeral of their cat. The men worked on various "fix-up" projects and we spent many summer nights outside with watermelon and fire flies. We were the "youngins" of the bunch and we really watched out for one another. I didn't realize how much I missed them until my eyes filled with tears when I saw them across the church. So, congratulations "Yoda" (as #1 had called the bride, Laura, when she was a toddler)....we love you!
The picture below is of the little sister of the bride (age 20) who was #3's age when we met her! She was just so happy for her big sister she cried throughout the entire wedding and reception. In fact, their big brother cried, too....they were all basket cases! It was very touching to see the genuine love they shared and that's how close they were growing up, too.
So, after a busy day with a youth staff meeting and a search for a "real" horse shoe game set, here we are again with a new set of little girl friends sleeping over even though we start Round #2 of summer enrichment camp at school at 8:30 am tomorrow morning! I really enjoy having a house full of kids! Summer is so great!
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