A little celebration!

We had a fun day on Sunday.  Laura and Aaron invited us, along with Andrew and Heather to their church.  They were having a special speaker.  He was a man who was born in Beirut, Lebanon and he spent his youth as part of the Muslim Brotherhood.  He was in the United States when he was in a car accident and ended up spending time with a Christian family when he rehabbed.  Through this he became a Christian, and now speaks about the difference between the God of Islam and our God.  The media likes to tell us they are the same, but that's not true, and it was interesting to hear from someone who really lived it.
After church we picked up KFC, and met at a local park for lunch and to celebrate Bob, because it was his birthday on Friday, and we also celebrated Father's Day early.

It was a very hot day, and we were happy to have a Pavilion to enjoy the shade!

Alaina and Ruby enjoyed their chicken, but were much more excited to get done and play.

A slide is fun, even in a dress!

They love these tire swings.

Have you heard of cottonwood trees?  This time of year they are releasing all this fuzzy stuff - it really does look like cotton!  While we were eating we kept having to brush it away, and when we took a walk, we saw it scattered all over the lawn. In some spots there were big bunches of it clumped together.

We walked to a stream at the park, and Alaina was enthralled by these bright blue dragon flies.

 Alaina took off her shoes and waded in the stream.  She would have played more if she was in a swim suit.

Here's Bob and his little girls.  What a nice afternoon!