Evening Storm!

I'm not much of a photographer so this picture doesn't begin to capture the majesty of a thunderstorm we had this past week. I took this from our back deck and Steve tells me that I missed the best part. It's been a cool, wet spring but we finally had a break in the weather last Saturday to get our flowers and our three tomato plants in the ground.There's been alot of flooding in some of the surrounding communities including our old neighborhood near Cottonwood Creek. We live on high ground now, but there's been a lot of sandbagging going on.

Saturday evening Benson, Sadie, Jeff and Libbie flew into town for a brief pit stop. In less than 16 hours, they visited, ate, trained on the treadmill for their upcoming race, slept a little, attended church and headed off to S. California to visit Jeff's family and attend a conference. It was fantastic to see them and fortunate that Jen and Will could see them too.

Super Benson and Princess Sadie get ready for bed after a long day of traveling. The next day they drove about 10 hrs to California. Wow! What travelers!Benson joins Will and Jen on a skype session with Taylor in China. We love to skype.

Jeff & Libbie eating on the run before they start their long drive to California.

Sadie wanted to be the baby for awhile so she climbed in the walker that Will uses. She tired of it fairly quickly but it was worth a few minutes of "baby attention." She wasn't feeling the best as you can see from her heavy eyes.

Here Sadie wants to hold Will.

Even though they were both exhausted from the long day of traveling both Jeff and Libbie forced themselves to run on the erratic treadmill. I didn't know how to re-program it, so they did their best to keep up. I have to give them credit for being diligent in preparing for the July 4th fun run.

Cousins have fun with grandpa and each other. Benson really got Will laughing.