Summer Flashback

~Posted by Rubia

These September days have been full of “Fall chatter” because everyone, including myself are excited about them!! However, you blog readers missed nearly all of our summer, so I’m giving you a sneak peek into a fun weekend we had at the beginning of August this year.

Our family has been developing a relationship with some neat friends from church, and we have found our families to be similar in some ways. They have two boys, 18 and 16, that my siblings and I have had the privilege of spending more time with outside of youth group.

One Friday in early August we decided to try a Mexican ice cream shop in town that most of us had heard about. It turned out to be delicious! I found the ice cream to be rich and creamy, especially the vanilla and chocolate flavors! They had other treats there too, including frozen chocolate-covered bananas and strawberries.

After we ate our treats, we needed to do something else. J So after buying a few groceries for our parents, we went to the park. (Yes, teenagers at the park. Why not?:-)

This park has huge monkey bars, swings, a climbing rock, and a walking trail.

We found a water hole to play in….and get wet in.

We ended up inviting the boys to come over for dinner, so they joined us for our traditional Friday-pizza-movie-night. THEN their Dad must’ve thought, “We might as well invite them out to the lake tomorrow,” so that’s what he did! Yay! J

The next day was a beautiful afternoon for swimming, tubing, and water skiing! Some of the experiences were new for me, like tubing, and I’m thankful that my first time could be with my family and these friends!

Roma and Mrs. B enjoying the beach.

Roma and Ben on the boat.

Beautiful lake day.

Dad up on the water skis.

Thanks so much to the B family for this memorable weekend of our summer!