Ashlyn's 14!

Ashlyn's Birthday was yesterday, so, since we will probably celebrate her day while Jill's here (possibly a BBQ on the 18th), we let her pick out what to eat for dinner on her special day (spaghetti & meatballs w/ice cream for dessert) and I bought some mini brownies so we'd have something to put all of her candles on. Here's our 14 year old with her birthday brownies:

We've had a busy summer so far. This past weekend we went to Dayle & Dee's wedding shower and are sooo looking forward to their wedding on July 10. Sunday we met our friends, the Harwell's, at the Llano river to discuss menus for our upcoming trip to Balmorhea and Davis Mtns. We went there with them last year, too, but we're getting to stay in the parks this time (since we made early reservations unlike last year) and hopefully will get to have a non-stormy star party at McDonald Observatory. We are all looking forward to getting away for a few days. Then the next week Jill will be here for a week and I'm sure we'll do some fun stuff with her and then at the end of July, Colten will be going to Hermann Sons Camp and John will be going to another fire fighter training in College station, so it will be just Ashlyn & I at home alone that week - she's too old for camp already! Then it's August already - summer flies!