Soccer ⚽* Driving * Thankful * Mail 📬and Rain 💦

Blog Post About Summer 2020 

We got back to Texas and enrolled the girls in ballet at the same studio they had attended four years earlier, and through a friend, we found a soccer club for Caleb to join.

He quickly had his very first game, and it was on a regulation-size field. 

There are very few regulation-size fields in our overseas country, so he had never played on one. Not only that, the heat this particular day was nearing 100 degrees. I was burning up just watching him, but when I went on the field after the game was over, the heat emanating up from the ground was mind-blowing! I have no idea how those guys don't pass out every time they are out there because the temperatures on the field seemed at least 10 degrees hotter!

August 16, 2020

A big day for Karis was August 17, 2020, when she got her provisional license (hard copy) in the mail.

I am so glad she had time to practice in America before coming back overseas because it's just hard to learn how to drive when so few people around you obey the rules.

August 17, 2020

August 18, 2020

*She's thankful for her brother and her mom

*She's thankful for Target and her mom

*She's thankful for Macaroni & cheese

*She's thankful for kangaroos

*She's thankful she gets to play "Littlest Pet Shop"

Keira rarely gets to bring things like this home, so I found great joy in seeing what did in Sunday school one day.

As we traveled around to visit friends, we often visited different fellowships, and if Covid rules of the church allowed, Keira got to visit a different Sunday school class each time. A couple of times we would get to a church and they would tell us you had to sign up the Wednesday before each Sunday to attend.  Since I rarely knew about this rule, I must say, there were a few really gracious places that let her go to class anyway!

On a side note of her being thankful for her brother (whom she adores), I love pictures like the one below from 2015 that show how early on she started modeling him :)

August 8, 2015

Keira had also never received a letter in the mail.

When my father learned this, he made the effort to send her a letter every week or so telling her about things going on at his house. 

She liked roller skating out to the mailbox to check to see what had come each day.

August 20, 2020

Keira has always loved to play in the rain. The pictures below are from when she was 2 1/2  years old.

May 2015

A warm Texas rain with no lightning present was a welcome invitation to play outside...every single time.

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August 26, 2020