Our Summer Begins!

This weekend really is the beginning of our summer. Bethany decided to delay celebrating her birthday until the weekend when "everyone" could come to her self-planned party. It's to be at a gymnastics center. How fun??? Anyway, her party is the kick-off to our jam-packed summer of running all over the midwest for the next two and a half months. We had hoped to make a trip back to California, but health issues and that old never-ending problem of money kept hindering our exhuberant plans. So, instead, we have several short trips planned including...

Lilly's 11th birthday celebration in Paducah, KY, Baha'i Summer School in Springfield followed up right away by going to Six Flags in St. Louis, then later camping on Lake Carlyle, a few weeks later spending a week in Chicago, then several other shorter camping trips, and to top off our summer...we'll be going to the Baha'i Conference in Greenlake, WI this year.

But first, we'll be celebrating Race Unity Day with our Baha'i Community in Southern Illinois on June 11 at a park in Carbondale where we've invited everyone. Flyers are posted all over towns around here; the Interfaith Council is supporting the event, we have live entertainment performing, our ads are set to run and we even have t-shirts printing. So, if you're anywhere near us on that date, come on over, hot dogs are on the grill!

A couple of other summer activities the girls will be involved in this summer are: Lilly is taking horsebackriding lessons at the Southern Illinois Equestrian Center. It is a week long camp sponsored by John A Logan College. She is so excited. It was one of her dreams when we moved here to get her own horse. This is on that path. Beth will be taking tennis lessons at So. IL Univ. on Saturdays for eight weeks. She started lessons before we left California, and is anxious to pick them up again.

Looks like our summer should zip on by...but then, like everything else in life, it could change...just like that! Check back, if for no other reason than to see if we can keep on track!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, COUSIN RAZI!"