June and the 4th

Swim team always takes up most of our month of June.  Michael is finally off of the swim board so he had a good bit less to do his year with it all - thank goodness.  And Rachel didn't swim this year so it was just Jackson.  We started out the season with an unusually cold evening - I even had to have a jacket on!  We had many rain delays and weather-shortened nights.  Rachel babysat for a few of the meets also.  

Both kids went to church camp at the start of June.  Jackson's was the middle school camp in Kentucky and Rachel went to "beach camp" at Panama City Beach!  

He was most excited to see Lucy when he got home at the end of the week. 

Rachel got her permit a couple of weeks ago.  She's very excited about that. 

We went to White Water one day and Jackson had the chance to go to the lake with a couple of friends. 

And this past Monday was the 4th of July.  We went to the church the night before for their celebration and fireworks and then Monday night's fireworks got rained out with a big storm - mostly.  People have still been shooting them off in the neighborhood though since Saturday... Enough is enough already.  The loud booms cause Lucy's anxiety to go up - which in turns makes her have seizures.  So, I'm not a fan of close fireworks anymore.  We did go see the Woodstock parade Monday morning though.  We sat with some friends and had a good time.

This is Rachel's last week of summer as she starts band camp on Monday.  Michael and Jackson go to scout camp all of next week so they will be gone too.  I go back to work in just under two weeks.  Michael is staying busy with working from home now and trying to get into a routine here. Happy July!