Dog days of summer, about gone!

Notice temperature, yes that is 111*!!

Cool dog Rusty

Mom wanted a caricature of kids so on vacation she had one done.

Patiently waiting their turn!

More waiting

Now its Zachs turn

Now Josh

Finally Noah

Finishing touches

Final result

Playing catch up

Brotherly fun.

Our first baseball game

Mom and Chris took us!

Concentrating or bored???

What Noah did throughout most of game!

Could be fooled by that big grin, he didn't particularly like it.

Played into the night, with a great firework show after the game was over. And we won, 3-2!

Well I find it would have been easier to stay up to date on posts, instead of letting it go so long. Here's an overview in pictures!

Little Tweety

Our parakeet, Tweety, died today. We had him for at least 10 years, maybe getting closer to 11. Zach was just barely walking when we got him from the pet store in our mall. He started having problems with his feet a few weeks ago and could hardly stand on his perch. He took to laying in his food dish, I tried giving him a basket but he wouldn't use it. When I uncovered him this morning, he couldn't lift his head and keep his eyes closed. He died within the hour. Such a good little budgie, he talked extremely fast but you could pick up on him mimicking Shawn clearing his throat, phone ringing, and saying Tweety brush your beak, Want your cage cleaned, and Tweety wanta bath in Shawn's voice, plus many other things we couldn't always pick up on. We'll miss the little buddy!

Happy 16th anniversary to us!

On our anniversary get away, trying to take our own picture!

Anniversary away hike

Our room with the balcony

Today is Shawn and my 16th anniversary. Sorta funny to look at our wedding pictures and see how young we looked. When I find a minute or two, I'll scan our wedding photo and share it. Thinking of all the past 16 years has had in store, I'm thankful to see over again that this man and this woman was put together by God, and very thankful He gives us strength and help and guidance along the way. Thank you, honey, for all the memories, even the not so good ones. Like you said, they make us who we are today.

BRRRR!!!

Yesterday morning the morning temperature dropped to 39*! This morning was the same, with frost! Not heavy, but it was there. I thought it was worth recording, seeing as how we are in our last days of summer!

What we partook of...,

wonderful fellowship and fresh bread from above.

Happy Birthday Shawn!

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Happy Birthday to a wonderful husband. Unfortunately, the children and I didn't even get to spend his day with him, he left for work at 5:30 in the morning, and didn't return until 11:30 that night..;;(
Another year older, another year thankful God chose him for me!

"Big Storm" of June 2012

Very large storm that hit our entire state on Friday, June 29th a little before 6pm left us without power for 5 days. That seemed like a long time, but there were some in our area that were without even longer, so 5 days wasn't so bad. The top of a tree laid itself down directly behind our camper, in front of our dog cage, in a space only 2 to 3 feet wide. It brought the power lines down with it. If it had veered only a matter of inches, it would have smashed our camper. I'm so glad we still have a camper to go to convention with! We did a lot of cooking on the grill, so thankful Mom Karen bought it for us. It has a burner on it so we could still use pots and pans! Also found out ready made pizza's that are thawed out completely cook in 5 minutes on the grill and they are really good! The power crew that restored our power came from Alabama, they told us they drove for 24 hours to get here!

Camping trip pictures

We took a quick week-end getaway camping trip in June. Tad and Emily took Dad's camper and joined us. Even though it was over so soon, we did enjoy ourselves. Noah learned to ride his bike, (with training wheels). The camp ground also had a very nice water park!