Like we did last summer, we made a trip to Galveston right before school started. We took Molly again and the cousins had a great time together. Even though Molly couldn’t see out of one of her eyes with her goggles on she still managed to get a lot of mud on me.
I can’t tell you how grateful I am to everyone who contributed to the book we made for Shannon’s birthday. It was pretty overwhelming to read how many great things were written about my beautiful wife. Here’s some pics of her opening and reading it. 
We made our 3rd annual trip to Chick-fil-a on Cow Appreciation Day. I’m surprised more people don’t take advantage of this, but we had breakfast and lunch there. It happened to be on Shannon’s birthday this year, so I took her out for three meals. Here was Clark’s outfit. He matched the fireman cow for their recent spicy chicken sandwich promotion.
We had another great time in Estes Park this year. We stayed in a cabin with Bebe, Pop, Patrick and Molly. Gigi and Dada came up later in the week and stayed at the YMCA as well. This year we hiked to Black Lake which was a 10 miles roundtrip. The kids came with us to Bear Lake and Clark hiked to Bible Point. 
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. We haven’t been taking many pictures but have been up to a lot lately. Last weekend, we went to New Braunfels for a conference. We managed to have some time to make it to Schlitterbahn. The kids are crazy. They want to ride every ride, no matter how much Shannon is scared of it.
We had a great Father’s Day today. A very laid back day spent with our good friends, the Cartwrights. My lovely bride made a great pot of gumbo. Be warned grandmothers- she’s getting really good. This is a pretty important quality if you are married to a Beaumont boy. We went to Toy Story 3 and my little man sat in my lap the whole time. So other than having both kids sit with me, which isn’t to practical anymore, it was as good as it gets. The kids and Shannon decorated the pigs across the street with some of my ties. I also woke up to find my favorite breakfast waiting on me made by the only and only Fur-fur. 
We celebrated David’s graduation from UT this past weekend. Uncle Lloyd let us go to his land down at the Hollows on Lake Travis. It has some amazing pools, that the kids swam in for about 4 hours. We loved getting to see
baby Calvin and Stephers. Congrats David! You can always share a room with Fer-Fer if you fall on hard times.
Clark’s Terrible Eyes from Where the Wild Things are.
Audrey finished her first soccer season. We were really surprised at how much she liked it and she’s looking forward to playing again. 
