First, our son-in-law Jonathan finished his military training and came home! Lex and Matrim were beyond happy to see him! Matrim took right to his daddy and his daddy stepped right up into the role. It's a beautiful thing to see!
Next, we celebrated Kerrie's 13th birthday.
A couple weeks later we said "good luck and farewell" to Jonathan, Lex, and Matrim as they moved off to Missouri to their first duty station. They stopped to visit grandparents and Great Grandma along the way and made it safe and sound. They are planning to live on base and will finally be out of their hotel the first of October.
We tried to have some down time to plan after the kids left, but it didn't work. We still got our planning done, but we were as busy as ever with projects, friends new and old, and getting things lined up for coming adventures.
As public school has started so has MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) and I have volunteered to be the mentor to the local group this year. They had they kick off and I have already been greatly blessed!
Then it was time to take our trailer in for a check up at the dealer down near San Antonio. So we made the appt and off we went. We decided to combine some fun in with that so we dropped the trailer off and headed for Natural Bridge Caverns. What a NEAT place! The pictures don't do it justice, but here are some that I took....
See the Natural Bridge going across?
Just amazing....
Notice the "jelly fish" formation
There were pools of water everywhere and the sound of dripping water. we even got dripped on a few times. They called it "Cave Kisses". Temperature is a constant 70 degrees with 99% humidity.
The "witches face" in the top of this structure
the wall of one of the rooms. The super thin pieces grow about an inch every 100 years.
and the light is shining on the "profile of the mountain king"
It was all just incredible!
So if you find yourself needing to escape and you are in San Antonio, head for the caverns for a tremendous treat!
More adventures to come.....
