Coulam Fam Visit

My friend, Melissa (Kirkham) Coulam, and her family have moved to Katy, just outside Houston. It is about two and a half hours from where we live. I went to visit there for a couple of days and then Mel and her family came to San Antonio to vacation with us for a few days. It was fun to have our first house guests and it forced me to finally clean out the spare bedroom. I didn't take many pictures during their visit, but Mel's daughter, Emily, played photographer for me. It was fun to see things from her perspective. We had a good time being tourists with them and it was fun to see Charly-dog playing with the kids.






Self portrait of our photographer...Little Em

Independence Day

I love the 4th of July and it was hard to be away from home. Independence Day is my favorite holiday, second only to Christmas. I missed seeing the hot air balloons and doing breakfast and games with my family, but we had a great day. Jon and I are on the Activities Committee in our ward. We had a ward pancake breakfast with games and activities. This really is a great ward and we had a really good time.

Our friends, the Ashmores, invited us over that night for a BBQ and we all went to Schertz (neighboring town) for a pretty good free fireworks show. It was a lot of fun.