Brown Family Summer...so far

Okay bloggers...things are a bit slow on the Bailey Family blog so I thought I would fill you in on the West Texas members. First of all I have done very little to report on but everyone else is quite busy. Tod has been preaching this month while Ronnie is on vacation. We just hired a new small groups minister so that will help with Tod's load a bit. He just returned from YouthWave Austin today and once again it was an amazing week. Bailey has been in Abilene for almost three weeks now. She is loving it and has made a great group of friends. She is taking two classes and doing great in both so far. She feels like MCS has prepared her well compared to the other Junior Scholars and she even had the highest first test grade in her psychology class...she is finding it very interesting to be in class with people in their 20's. She will be finished July 5th and I think she will be ready to see her friends and maybe her family too! Bailey and Hutton will be going to YouthWave Pepperdine in July and Bailey will go to cheerleading camp at Texas Tech too. Hutton has really been just in and out of Midland so far. He went on the youth group mission trip to Mexico and after being home a few days headed to Colorado to fish with a group of friends and a couple of dads. He is playing summer league basketball when he can and the football coaches mentioned they hadn't seen him much this summer but I explained that I hadn't either. He is now on a houseboat trip on Lake Travis with the McGraws. We are going to head to Dallas this Friday to see Les Mis...one of his birthday presents. On July 2nd he will leave to be a counselor at Op Camp for the first time. After YouthWave he will settle in and get ready for 2 a days. Connor went on a 2 and a half week trip with Tod's parents to the Northeast and had a ball. He did everything from a Yankees game to Amish country and loved it all. He will be going to McAllen for a 7th grade mission trip, to Panama with his friend Tanner and Tanner's dad for another mission and then to church camp with me and Reagan. He is also trying to work out for football when in town and playing summer league basketball...he had 6 points last night. Now for Reagan...I am basically trying to keep him busy and not too bored. We are spending a lot of quality mom and Reagan time together. He did tennis camp this week and charmed all the coaches...especially the college girls. They all think he has great potential and he won his first match against an older boy...I told his coach we didn't need another sport but we were enjoying camp...I'm sure everyone is busy but we need news. I will try and get Bailey to blog soon. Have a safe and fun July!

Family Vacation - Providence Point

We attempt to get the entire family together for a few days
vacation once a year. We haven't always been successful
but we were this year.
All the children with their spouses, and the grandchildren
gathered at Providence Point on Lake Brownwood, May 29
- June 1.
Providence Point is the beautiful lake place owned by
Dale and Rita Brown (Tod's parents). They are just about
the most generous folks I know, and they allowed us full
run of their perfect spot for a family vacation.
If it can be driven or ridden in the water, they have one or
more of them to play with, and believe me, we used them
all. The fishing was great and there were times in the early
morning or late evening when the dock was not so heavily
populated that you could get a hook in the water.
Tod and Lee Ann arranged for the food and did most of the
cooking. The only dish missing was Tod's famous "steak on
a bed of sausage." However, he substituted with the best
beef and chicken fajitas that I have ever had.
Unfortunately, I failed to take very many pictures and some
of the most important people are not included. However,
if you read some of the old posts you will see recent photos
of all of the family.

Stephanie and Rainey catching some rays.




















Connor & Reagan in beteen fights




















King of The Hill (Tubes) "King Hutton"




















It was Lee Ann's turn to hold Emily Rose

Congratulations Jordan Elizabeth Bailey

Jordan Elizabeth Bailey graduated Summa Cum Laude from
Birdville High School, May 28, 2006. She was ranked 4th in a class
of 424. Besides all the accolades she has attained along the way in
both academics and theatre, she now is listed as a Texas Scholar,
named to the National Honor Society and has received the
Chancellor's Award and Freshman English Major Scholarship
from Harding University. We are very proud of you Jordan. You have
always been an over achiever and we don't think this is the time to stop.

In your 18 years of life you have never disappointed me. We are
thankful that you have chosen a Christian University as the place
to further your education and we are thankful there are institution
of higher learning with academic standards that will challenge the
best students they enroll.


Jordan with her big/little sister Caitlin




















The Cousins - Except Emily Rose
Back Row - Bailey Brown, Jordan Bailey, Hutton Brown, Caitlin Bailey
Front Row - Rainey Bailey, Connor Brown, Reagan Brown





















Jordan Bailey with Emily Rose Bailey.
(The oldest and the youngest of our grandchildren). If I live to
see Emily Rose graduate I will be 89 years old. I'm going to start
getting in shape just as soon as we finish all the left overs.