Our Crazy Summer (Part One)

The month of May ended with many activities. Katherine finished Kindergarten at Swink School and had her first dance recital. All of us ended the month at our church's one day vacation bible school where we had fun learning what Jesus has done for us through bible stories, skits, music, crafts, and some fun games as well.

Our family continued keeping busy the first week of June getting ready for the Southern Baptist Convention and our family vacation to follow. On Thursday, June 5th, Wes, Katherine, Sebastian, and I began our two week vacation. We drove to Little Rock, Arkansas, where we stayed the night at my sister's apartment and took her out to dinner for her birthday. On Friday, after eating breakfast at Krispy Kreme dougnuts and dropping a dozen doughnuts off for my sister to share at work, we began our drive to Franklin, Tenneesse.

On our way to Franklin we made a few stops. We stopped in Memphis and visited Mud Island before having lunch at Corky's. We drove through the campus of Union University to view the progress of rebuilding from tornado damage several months before.




We spent the night in Franklin, Tennessee at the home of Dan & Sara Posthuma (Wes' aunt and uncle). We enjoyed an evening out with Dan and Sara at a small cafe' in downtown Franklin. The next morning we once again began our day's drive with a visit to Krispy Kreme.
Our destination on Saturday was Indianapolis, Indiana. We did finally arrive late that night after stopping to see some friends in Kentucky; eating dinner at The Brown County Inn; being rerouted because of flooding; and enduring a whole set of events from having our van's transmission go out. The highlight for the kids that day was the taxi ride we took from the Walmart parking lot, where our van sat, to the airport to get a rental car. We were rather exhausted by the time we made it to our hotel.

On Sunday morning instead of attending church with some friends we were busy making arrangements for our van to be towed to a repair shop.

Finally we were back on track with our plans. Katherine and Sebastian were very excited to met their Papa Verne Kenney for lunch. After lunch Wes and I said goodbye to Katherine, Sebastian, and Wes' dad, and they drove off for Grand Rapids, Michigan. Wes and I then checked into our hotel for the Southern Baptist Convention.