family doings

The break from running is working well and I am beginning to itch to get out again.  I was hoping that would happen and it has.  Going to leave it another week or so and then go out again.
Had a very busy time again recently though, including a great week at the Keswick Christian Convention in the Lake District.
We attended a lovely wedding on 19th July of the daughter of some good friends.  The bride is also one of the coaches of the swim club where our three young children swim and the photo below shows some of the club with the happy couple.

It was a really hot day and we all went back to the bride's parents home for photos and drinks.  It was really hot in the garden and I wondered how the groom managed in his kilt.

The photo below is of our friends and all their family.  The bridesmaids dresses look orange here but they were really a lovely coral pink colour.

The reception was at a local hotel.  Rick and I attended the meal and then 23yos, 14yos, 12yod and 7yos came to the ceilidh in the evening.  Below is 12yod with the couple.  She really gets on well with Ruth and was delighted by how lovely she looked in her lacy dress.

23yos met some friends he hadn't seen for a while including one who had just had this lovely baby.  23yos has spent a lot of time with babies over the years, having so many siblings helps with this........

The day after the wedding we went to the Keswick Convention and had a great week with lots of good Bible teaching and good times with friends.  The weather was great, if a bit too hot, with a couple of great thunder storms.  What a great week....really refreshing.  Below is Rick making an unusual use of an umbrella in the UK.

8 yos had his birthday the day we went to Keswick.  He got this football strip as well as other things.  Here he is enjoying his birthday cake, even though he couldn't blow out the candles because the breeze kept blowing them out!!

Here is our tent, up and ready for action.  Our friend Sheila came with us as usual.

8yos made friends really easily as usual and spent lots of time playing on the field in the middle of the camp ground.  

Rick making the tea.  He is such a good man.

Below is the view from our tent.  Sitting outside the tent in the late afternoons, I really appreciated being there and the great outdoors.  Part of the Bible teaching was on Creation and where better to learn about that than in the beautiful Lake District.