we are so lucky and blessed to have a fantastic lake just a few miles from our house. i say a few miles because our favorite lake in michigan was four hours away...so 20 minutes seems like it is at the end of our driveway!!
we have also been lucky and blessed to have spent a number of summer days at the lake this summer, with many of our friends and family.
at the beginning of the summer, we went out with our new friends, the copelands. dan and i work together, so we decided to introduce our families at the lake. thalia had a ton of fun with chase...and riley, chase, and dan had a blast on the boat!
over the fourth of july, gamma and gampa came down to visit. we had lots of fun digging in the sand!
unfortunately, we had forgotten to bring a swim diaper with us this time. so thalia sucked up half of the lake in her diaper!finally, just a couple weeks ago, we had lake day with our church. it was gloomy, but we did a baptism in the lake, and had a really nice time fellowship-ing, and getting to know some families better. there are a lot of young families at our church, so we fit right in.
this is a picture of chris with thalia, pastor mike with hannah, and brad with ellie - aka daddy/daughter moment :o)
i mistakenly thought that thalia was done swimming. so i changed her out of her swim suit and into her cover up. of course, since we didn't leave the lake, she decided to walk deeper and deeper and deeper into the lake until she was basically swimming in her cover up. the sun had gone down, and it was starting to get chilly. unfortunately, the only thing we had that was "dry" was chris' shirt! of course, everyone at the boat launch thought she was just adorable - and she ate it up!i'm sure i told you a few months ago that chris' cousin elizabeth had her second baby girl, emma ruth. we have also been blessed to spend a lot of time with the kruger-weathers girls lately. and thalia just LOVES baby emma!
emma was sleeping, so the bigger girls decided to "sleep" too. 
this was on the porch of cracker barrel today...my first endeavor to eat a meal other than breakfast there. what a success!! i think i may actually like the lunch menu better than breakfast!ok, this is a totally random thought...i don't know if i have posted this picture or not. apologies if i have, but i just love it! i saw it when i was scrolling through my ginormous file looking for the picture of the girls fake sleeping.
on that note, we head to michigan for Tini's grand entrance on wednesday night. so if you don't mind saying a couple prayers for us since we'll be driving so late. we can't wait to see everyone and meet this little person who thalia swears is a boy. she hasn't faltered since christmas! we'll see who's right in just a little while!
thanks so much for all of your thoughts and prayers. we love and miss you all!
much love and little sleeping in,
c, c, and t
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