God Bless America

I made 4th of July cards.

It's summer and we are moving so all the parents are letting kids play and play and play. Last night we ordered pizza for everyone.

Tonight it was just Blaine, Bailey and Emily who joined us. It's so fun when the kids can go play from one house to another...I am going to miss this neighborhood!!!

We have been watching lots of soccer. Ben and Madi wore their World Cup shirts today...we went with German ones. Ben has made it very clear that the USA is his 1st favorite team though.

Did anyone watch Wimbledon??? HOLY COW was that fun the last 3 days...and the winner (Isner) of that crazy game was a Georgia Bulldog too.

3+3=6 in 9 years

Those are Madi's stats. Steve and I were talking about them. When Madi is 9 years old she would have already lived at 3 stateside bases and 3 overseas bases....

1. Scott AFB, IL
2. Rhein Main AB, Germany
3. Wiesbaden AAF, Germany
4. Ft. McPherson, Georgia
5. USAG Yongsan, Seoul, Korea
6. Beale AFB, California

Now that is some record...she is going to be like me if she keeps it up. This next move will be my 9th move since marrying Steve 13 years ago but my 23rd in my whole life.

And since we have been in Georgia Madi has traveled to 9 states...Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio and oh yeah DC...District of Columbia and the Bahamas. She is going to add at least 4 or 5 knew states to that list this summer before leaving Georgia...we have a real exciting trip planned for next month!!!

Today I went shopping at my local quilt store and Hobby Lobby to stock up on a few things before my packers come, so I have lots of fun crafty things planned while living in Korea. I am a little freaked over leaving the land of quilt stores, Hobby Lobby, Target, Walmart............

This really cute State fabric was one of the things I picked up today and it only took me 15 minutes to whip up this super sweet skirt for Madi...I just love it!

Swimming

Monday morning at 0751 my phone rang...it was Ms. Jennifer the kids swim coach. She said she had an opening in both level 3 and 4 that were back to back this whole week and she would like for us to come free of charge as a Thank You for Steve's service in the Air Force. The kids were super excited and we took the offer! This is our 3rd summer at Ms. Jennifer's pool and boy are we going to miss it!!! Jennifer and her team have turned Ben and Madi into some really great swimmers.

Madi's best stroke is the elementary backstroke. In this picture she doing the backstroke...crisp arms and pinkie finger in first.

For Ben's level 4, the new strokes learned were the breaststroke which he mastered and the sidestroke which he needs to work at still. Also he started diving standing up rather than on the knee.

Ben always like to wear a swim shirt...everyday.

It's Friday and for our Friday night summer dinner we are having Greek salad with a new yummy looking summer dessert.

crust:

2 1/4 c. flour

2/3 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. grated lemon peel

1/4 tsp. salt

1 c. butter

mix

press evenly into 9x13 greased dish

bake 350 for 20 minutes

cool

topping:

1 pkg oz cream cheese

2 TBSP brown sugar

1 6oz flavored yogurt

1 tsp grated lemon peel

Spread this over cooled crust

Top with favorite fresh summer fruits

Every Christmas I am given the gift (thanks Liz!) of a subscription to the Pillsbury monthly cookbooks that are always a surprise in the mail...I love that. Anyways I was looking through a large stack of the books and saw this yummy summer dessert and decided to try it.