Nate and Christiana

We celebrated July 4th by attending the Morgan Hill Community Parade with Nate’s brother and his family. It was fun seeing the local creativity, as displayed in the various floats and other parade attractions.

Planes commencing the parade

The crowd

Our little group

Marching band

San Martin Air Museum

Morgan Hill mushroom mascot…hehe

An honored veteran

Some folks from our church, West Hills, volunteered to push the parade participants from Pacific Hills Manor

Don Kenyon’s God’s Great Outdoors float

Trader Joe’s even participated in this community event

Our friends’ Million Dollar Question float, the best one of the parade

Nate’s Dad, Bob Wells, dressed as Abraham Lincoln

Handing out the large million dollar bills (Nate’s mom is in the red hat)

On Friday, July 3rd, we joined Nate’s former Bible study group, Epoch, during their camping trip to Big Sur. We drove down for the day, enjoying the lovely California coast and the sweet fellowship of friends.

Driving down the coast

Big Sur coast – near the Plaskett Creek campground

Exploring for sea snakes

Resting seagull

Footprints in the sand

Surfers!

Adam and Nate reading in the sunshine

Playing around with a football and frisbee

Driving home

More pictures from our day adventure…

I snuck into our little den to take this picture of Nate and his nephew, Liam. Nate has been teaching Liam guitar this summer. They end each session by playing Wii Lego Star Wars, further deepening the uncle-nephew bond.