We spent last weekend camping...
Now, I am not a camp-happy person by any means, so when I suggested camping for the weekend, Eric jumped and asked how high on the way up! :)
It was just the 4 of us, lots of fun, relaxing, cooking as little as possible, lots of bike rides, walks, playground time, boating, fishing, fires, roasting marshmallows and just enjoying each other.

The girls wanted to make sure Loren's board got put to use since he's in Haiti. :)

"Please come with us. Can you ride with us? Will you walk with us? Is it time to go for another bike ride? Cooooooooooooooooome. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease."  You get the point. :)

 
We took the boat out for a spin and some fishing on Sat. Beautiful day!!

Fish weren't biting to well. This was the first one that was caught, (if you can see it) :) and boy was she proud.

We didn't go boating with the intent to go swimming so when they got hot, we parked along the side and they got out to wade. They took their skirts off and waded like that. :)

They were afraid we'd leave without them, so they collected rocks to pile on the anchor so we couldn't get away.  I put them up to trying to get this one. :)

Later Sat evening we went to the beach and let them run!!

Here they stopped for awhile and Reagan said they were looking for hump backed whales. :) She found one she said. (a large log floating nearby) 

Just the girls... and a 5 month baby bump!

We thoroughly enjoyed the weekend, came home to get ready for some company, had some more fun Sun evening and so far this week has been one continuous rat race. Doesn't look like this weekend or next week will be much better.

Enjoy your summer. :)

Well, it finally came and it's already over.
Seems like it took an awful lot of work for this one little weekend. :)
We had fun, it was was worth the work, I was blessed many times over. Sometimes it seems like the songs got monotonous and the next time the same song would speak to me in a way I hadn't thought of before.

Lots of good times on the bus, just plain out a lot of time spent on the bus. :) Our first stop was southern IN, then we headed for AR and gave 3 programs down there. Mon we traveled home, and a long day that was!!

Lots of time to catch up with friends, get to know others better and listen to a good story or two from someone.

 We left early every morning so you needed to catch a nap somewhere along the line. Only problem was, we never all slept at the same time. When the older/married people in the front of the bus wanted to sleep, the younger ones in the back where loud, but they claimed we kept them awake too. I don't think it was half as bad for them by the looks of things. :)

One stop was Hillcrest. As you can see it was dreary and rainy most of the time we were in AR. We were just happy to get off the bus and walk!!

grrr Lisa and Ashley. I think Bethany was the only happy one here. Lack of sleep maybe. :)

We spent a lot of time waiting...

Jade was the only child along so she got lots of attention..
More waiting here.

Our last program!!

Loading up one last time.
Waiting again!! :)

Way to early in the morning to be acting like this Amanda!!

The girls went along to IN to stay with Grandma. We met them on the way home again and they were more then tickled to ride the bus for awhile. As you can see they wandered around and were fed all sorts of things.

There were 34 people that were very glad to be home Monday night. We had a good trip and we're thankful to God for that!!

Xanga angers me greatly the last while. I can only upload photo's one at a time. Batch upload, worketh NOT! There. I confessed my anger. But I still don't feel better.

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Friends... there is just nothing like a day with friends.

I spent last Tue with these lovely ladies. Such good times.

We all went to surprise Jo for her 30th birthday!

I think we got the job done. Her husband was kind enought to help us out, then get their kids and take them home for the day so we could borrow Jo!!

We wouldn't think of getting together with out food of some sort! :)

After a stroll around Joanna's farm, we relaxed on the back porch to chat the afternoon away!

Good times friends, let's do it again.

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Remember those 6 kitties that are For Sale  FREE to a good home!!

Here's what happened one day!

Let's just have lunch in the kitchen!!! On the rug!!!

 I told them, "Cats are to stay outside!!"
Anyone want that snarling orange and white one?

The 3 black spotted ones get plenty of attention here.
I think the orange ones will have to go!

Reagan's been sick again. Can you tell it on this picture?

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School picnic today. Praying it doesn't rain.
Food to make.
Lunch with the Hostetler's tomorrow.  
Food to make.
Program and Graduation tomorrow night. 
Food to make.
Make supper for Loren's & family Mon night.
Help Berneice if she needs/wants it Tue.
Loren's leave for Haiti Wed.
Photo's on Wed.
Flowers to plant. (Finally)
Lawn to mow.
Rooms to paint.
Dresses to sew.
Spring cleaning that neeeds to be done.
Chorus trip starts Fri morning at 7!
So between now and then....

We're busy.

How about you?

"When can we swim? How soon will it be warm enough to swim? Can we swim today? Please? Please? Can we swim? It's warm today! We're soooooo hot! We need to swim!"

I've been hearing this every day that it has been relatively warm.

So! SWIM then and find out for yourselves that it isn't sooooo hot out here! It was very windy yesterday so I knew what was going to happen. :)

All we have is this little pool that is quite a few years old. They filled it and then stood in it for a long time! Just couldn't sit down.

Finally working up the nerve to sit in it.

And what do you know, 5-10 minutes later they were out and were coooooooooold. I kept right on mowing my lawn and they had to either keep swimming or air dry.

Sometimes it pays to listen to the Mom! :)

After running around awhile, they warmed up again and were ready to try it again. And so went most of the afternoon, until I caught the little one running back and forth from the sand pile to the pool.

Then their mean mom dumped the water!  

You know the mom has made cookies without chocolate chips too many times when Reagan says,

"I want Chipmunks in mine this time, Mom!"