Catching Up

I know, I know. It's been so long since I changed anything on my blog that most of you have stopped checking. Well, I'm back. And we've got some catching up to do.

You'll see that we got the whole Ward gang together again this summer. In the picture of the whole group you'll notice that Scott is missing. That's because he had to spend part of the week in Houston. If we had waited till he returned for the family picture, then Kyle would have been missing. (Kyle DeArmon is playing football for Liberty and had to report to practice midweek of our family vacation.) We did get a picture with Scott and the Renstrom family, as you'll see.

What a great week it was at Isle of Palms near Charleston, SC. Everyone enjoyed the beautiful house that Papa rented. It was actually big enough for all of us (that means 9 Renstroms, 7 Gossetts, 4 DeArmons, 6 Burns, 2 aunts, and Mama and Papa Ward)! We swam in the ocean and the pool, played games, put together a jigsaw puzzle, shopped, laid around and read some good books, played video games (including Grandma on Guitar Hero), enjoyed the babies, ate lots and lots of good food and shared a lot of laughs - just to name a few things! Some of the highlights were the evening devotional times when we shared God's blessings in our lives. We particularly enjoyed hearing about mission trips that different ones had been on during the past year.