No family reunion can be complete without home-made ice cream churned in an antique ice cream maker by hand. Yummy
Almost all of us had a 'turn' at it! :)
Licking off the paddles, making sure it's okay before washing and prepping the next flavor.
Chocolate - smooth!
Strawberry with FRESH strawberry chunks! Yummy and not pictured, red rasberry. All to die for! :)
We had the camp naturalist come take us for a 'short' hike (to stay dry) to show us some of the unique features around Lake Murray.
Aunt Jane told us about her trip to Greece and how it was interesting to be in maybe some of the same places the Apostle Paul visited.
Cousin Doug told a story about an Indian Chief searching for his son, "Watch for Falling Rock." :)
The kids sang about their little lights and how to let them shine!
And because of the rain we watched a movie or two!
What else do you do at a family reunion - but visit...
...and visit!
Oh yeah - a game of dominoes is always FUN! :)
Trying to go for a walk, when it wasn't raining, was something each of us tried at somepoint. Of course we had to walk around a 'river running through it!'
Some didn't make it back before the next wave of rain hit and got absolutely soaked and dried off in front of stoves cooking baked potatoes! :)
Lots of pictures were taken by lots of people - great for those of us with Short memories. (Lee M)
We had a 'sphere' puzzle to do. Quite a challenge. (Allison)
The kids spent lots of time doing crafts, due to the rain! :) (Natalie Chad & Teresa)
Some napped. (Jane)
Oh yeah, others napped too! Lots of reminising & catching up on each others lives can wear a person out! :) (Nelle & Russell)
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Comin' back from a trip, by myself, I called Doreen and she brought the girls out cuz they were wantin' to see inside the truck. They were most curious about the bunks.
Of course Joelle was excited about sitting in the driver seat and and HAD to push the horn. Precious.
Natalie had to be encouraged to sit up there and didn't want to honk the horn. She's extremely cute there though!
I had to get Doreen to grab a photo of me in the drivers seat that I spend a LOT of time in!
One final shot of the girls hanging out in the upper bunk.
For worship one night, Doreen got her guitar out for us to sing some songs, which we all enjoy! Well the girls got theirs out too, and whoa, what a sound! Hope it sounded like praise! :)
Joelle's guitar was outta tune, so Doreen did some double'pickin to tune 'er up! CUTE!
Electronic gear. The little box on top is my Sirius satellite radio. Love that thing. Music and talk radio anywhere.
One hand on the wheel the other on the camera. Took me three shots to get this right. Even though you can't see it, the truck has 527,000+ miles. Its a good one though.
This one is my favorite though, save the best for last. Got in some construction traffic - and to save being annoyed, snapped a photo or two.
One thing we did was to take the girls to meet Papaw, my grandfather. Now before some of you FREAK out, I still believe that he's sleeping until Jesus comes. They were just curious as to who Bub's husband was. So we showed them some pics and took them to his gravesite.
Before the Family Reunion, we had 2 days visiting with my Grandma, Bub, in Texas. I lived with here for 4 years while going to college, so it's always good to get back.
Natalie brought her little computer and Bub was helping her figure out the answers! CUTE!
We spent some time catching up on friends while we were there! John & Helen were teachers at a school I went to. They became friends of my folks, and later - our friends too! Had a great dinner catching up with them - the food was only OK, but the company was awesome!
One of Joelle's wishes is to have an awsome climbing tree in our yard. Unfortunatly, by the time one grows, she'll probably be over it! But Bub's yard had an awesome one, and Joelle took to it like a little monkey and Natalie enjoyed it as well!
Finally, here's my littlest spending some time with my DS. She LOVES bowling on it, Joelle loves Mario Kart - I enjoy them all!! :)
A while back, Doreen and I were on NetFlix. It was cool having movies delievered to our home and I really, REALLY liked being able to rate movies and make a list of movies I want to see for future reference.
I was just looking through the 'old' family pics trying to decide which to post and saw this one. My Grandma, Bub, has this up on her refrigerator in TX. It is a cute one, I just wish we would have 'updated' this photo, just for fun, at the family reunion. Doh!| Which 80's cartoon character are you? |
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Boy, do I have a TON of catching up to do. A TON!
After getting back on Tuesday night from our vacation to Oklahoma for our family reunion, I had to leave early, EARLY Wednesday morning for a trip to the north east. It's a pretty famous city that Frank Sinatra sang about. I actually had to go deep into one of the burgs of this city. And when I say 'downtown' I mean downtown. Of course, the directions were completely screwy and we 'wandered' around a bit to finally find our way.
At Joelle's most recent well-child checkup, the Dr noticed that she's not seeing things as well as she should be. So we had to take her into an eye dr for a more thorough checkup.
Well turns out that she does have an astigmatism that doesn't let her see as clearly as she should. I guess it's good to catch now so as they develop they're eyes get used to seeing things in focus.
So, Joelle will now be wearing glasses. These aren't the actual ones she got, they're somewhat the same shape - but a bit different. I'll post a pic when she gets them this next week!
Here's just some misc pics y'all might enjoy! Here we've got a group of Hip Chicks! Joelle, Rebekah and Natalie's futures are so bright, they gotta wear shades! :)
Our friend Jody brought a baby Kid to church for all the 'bigger kids' to see. My Kids loved that kid! :)
Here's an obligatory Artsy Fartsy pic as required by My Brother-In-Law. Gotta include one every now and then! :) Actually took this photo driving along some of the back roads of Virgina while at work one morning.
A few weeks ago we had an investiture service for our Adventurers. I can't hardly believe Joelle's been an Adventurer for 2 years now. Wow time flies. These kids did a LOT of work to get all these honors this past year.
Natalie finished her first year as a Little Lamb and will move on to be an Eager Beaver this next year.
Joelle has now taken the next step from Eager Beaver to become a Busy Bee. Amazing.
