Summer Fun

Well, it is summer and of course that means vacation. This summer Jasmine and I joined my parents to my dad's naval reunion. My dad served on the USS Wainwright DLG-28 for almost 2 years in the 60's and I have grown up hearing stories about the ship and it's crew. One member of the crew is my godfather, who I hadn't seen in a LOOOOOONG Time. So, Jas and I went with to get to see him again. I must say we had a blast. The crew of the Wainwright is absolutely amazing. They treated Jasmine and I so nicely and I got to hear more stories. Jasmine was the only kiddo there and made many friends. We were able to go to the Naval base we were near and got a tour of a frigate. It was an amazing reunion and we had a blast.

On the ship
Jasmine and her Poppop on the ferry after lunch
Jasmine and the pirate (AKA my god father "Cookie")

Watching the river from the hotel window in the hospitality suite.

Keeping busy

Well again it seems like forever since I have had time to really sit down and update this blog. It is sort of my diary, since I am pretty sure no one reads this. Maybe I should put the address to this on my facebook page. Anyhow, we are working on half way thru summer VPK. I have 6 boys in my class. Let me tell you they are a work out. I have climbed a rock wall, run around and gone on the sliding board more in the past few weeks than in the past year. We have had to use the elementary school playground more the last few weeks because we have had so much rain our playground seems to be underwater ALOT!

We had a fun 4th of July. The three of us went to the park for a while to the festivities they had. It included "snow". Well, it was actually ice put thru the chipper, but Jasmine was able to play in it and had a good time, she then proceeded to the water slides and was soppin' wet as well as fully dressed. We did not know that they were going to have the water slides, but for $3 she was able to play and the money went to the social services in our community. We followed it up by having a picnic at my parents house. My grandfather had also joined us. He loves to see the kids and it has been hard on him since my Nana died. He misses her so much and I think the kids give him comfort.

On Sunday Jasmine, Alecia and I went to a special service at church. We now have our own full time pastor. We had an ordination and installation service.

Well, I guess now is the time to sign off, but I will add this picture of Jasmine in the "Florida snow"