July has been CRAZY to say the least. It started off not that great. We found out the first week in July that my sisters best friends (twins) were being molested by their father since they were 8 years old. Needless to say my parents turned their father in (who is also my Dad's good friend) He is currently sitting in the county jail and I hope he will go to prison for a LONG time. This was the only thing I could think about and I just couldn't get the girls out of my mind. Thank goodness for a loving Heavenly Father who is looking out for them and things are starting to iron out. We are working on getting the girls out of protective custody and back home. With such a bad start to the month of July it was going to take A LOT to cheer me up.
The blessings have been POURING in since the bad news. Mike's little brother and his family gave a semi-surprise visit. They stayed for about a week and a half. We did A lot of fun things together. We went to the 4th of July parade downtown, Gondola rides, fireworks, walks along the lake, and Mike even took us all for a boat ride. Our last family activity was a bike ride on the Hiawatha trail. To top off the Brian Dan family fun we found out yesterday that they will be expecting a baby girl! They will have one boy and one girl. YEAH!!
Next Mikes older brother Steve and his family MOVED to Idaho. We are so glad to have them here and have been hanging out almost everyday since they have arrived. We missed ALL of them and are happy they are here with us. Their kids are giants and their little Summer is such a cute little girl! We have been going down to the beach everyday that it's nice and taking advantage of Summer.
We just had a birthday party for the twins and we are able to have supervised visits with them. They seem to be doing well and I am thankful I have been SUPER busy to keep my mind off of the bad news.
This is BY FAR the longest blog entry and I promise I won't write books every time I post!
I posted most of the pics on facebook and I tried to post different ones on here of the craziness!
4 comments:
Wow you have been busy! Summer passes way too fast. We loved our time there, it was so nice to see you and your beautiful family. We love & miss ya all.
In spite of that sad news , You seem to have had a great summer so far! Lots of family and friends around :) That's great!!
We had SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun with you guys! I miss you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much now and think it's time for you to come down and have some fun with me! :)
life's ups & downs just wear me out sometimes. thank goodness for the UP's, right?
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