Thankful in June


It's summer time!  An easy time to be thankful!
Also a crazy time with no real routine and lots of excitement going on and a few meltdowns here and there. And life, life, life humming along with its ups and downs and gifts and blessings and challenges and struggles.... 

Here are my mid-June tomorrow is the official start of summer thankfuls....

Thankful for our beautiful trip to St. Louis to visit family and friends there-

Beauty in Art- the Chihuly Exhibit at the Botanical Gardens




We saw so many new animals there! An axolotl.

Beauty in God's amazing creatures.
 



Beauty in the simple things- my kids catching lightning bugs for the 1st time ever.
We don't get them where we live.




Beauty in nature


  






Beauty in family time!


Thankful for childhood summer joys--



Thankful for the amazing fun of church camps- for little ones and not quite so little ones--



Thankful for sports my kids enjoy--


So much more to appreciate in this world and in my life...but time is short and my days are busy as always....

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