June 26

Since you got delayed again I decided to post, but do not have any new pictures. I found some from last fall I thought you would enjoy. Jonathan, Nathan, and Shawna helping rake leaves in our neighbors yard. I think they had as much fun as it was work. Of course the boys both had to give Shawna a hard time. She might think they were sick if they didn't!

I am so glad things worked out with the bank. I bet the problem earlier was a ATM problem and not yours. Who knows why but you needed to be in town another day!!! It could have been just so I could hear your voice again!!!!!! I loved the shower picture you posted. I am trying to figure out how you took it!

Katie, Dave, and Isibella spent the night last night. Dave has to work today so Katie and Isibella are spending the day on this side of town. Katie wants to start her baby album.

I haven't heard from Lynette yet and s he leaves tomorrow. I will try calling her today. She is such a busy person! Well I guess that is long enough, you will run out of computer time if I keep rambling! I Love you so much, consider yourselves hugged!!! Mom

Nana's Surprises

Saturday's surprise was breakfast at Aunt K's house. Then we took her to get her hair done.

A pretty view of Aunt K's backyard. That is Aunt Cindy in the background.

Nana with her hair all fixed. Later Aunt Gwyn and Natalie came in town to take her to dinner to surprise her. She thought they had to leave Sunday Morning. After Mom left for church Gwyn and Natalie started getting the house ready. Wes came in I and I went over to work.

The back yard looked so pretty when we were done. Daddy brought over some fans to move air on the patio.

Aunt Gwyn, Uncle Wes, Natalie, and Aunt Carolyn sat in the Gazebo at Aunt Cindy's. Mom came out and the first thing she saw was Gwyn and Wes, She thought that was the only surprise till she got close enough to see Aunt Carolyn.

We took them back to Nana's house for the surprise party with friends from church and then when Aunt sue Arrived we took her to the front porch to surprise her again. She was so surprised.

Sisters!!! Reunited. They were all so happy. We had fun the rest of the evening with lots of food and fellowship. Aunt Carolyn has to leave today, but Aunt Sue will stay all week! Aunt Gwyn is staying longer also. Natalie and Wes had to leave last night.

Sorry I did not post last night. I was to tired! Today Mom is fixing dinner for Cindy's birthday. Shawna is still at camp and Hannah is there this week with her. Gwyn willpick them up Friday and I will go get her next Monday or Tuesday. Well I better close Love you Bunches!!!!!!!

Saturday

Hello! I hope you had a good visit with Lynette. I believe they fly in here tomorrow night.
Today Cindy, Karen, and I had breakfast with mom on Karen's deck. It was very nice. Then mom got her hair done. This evening Gwyn and Natalie surprised Nana and came into town to take her to dinner. Hannah is at camp with Shawna.

Daddy worked outside all day. He trimmed trees, weeded in the gardens. Then he went and got a trailer load of mulch and started putting it in the flower beds and garden. I helped him some this evening. He finally quit around 7. I think he will be tired!

We only have the gardens beside the shed again this year. The big one in back is all grown to grass. Daddy planted strawberries again, but they won't produce till next year. We have tomatoes, we had peas and lettuce, but it is to hot for them now.

Did I ever tell you that We got Ryan and Amanda's old couch. The one she got from her Granny.
They got a new one when they bought their house. We put it in front of the fireplace for summer. The couch we got from Aunt Hilda is in front of the sliding glass doors.

No new photos today. I will add some tomorrow.
Love you,
Mom

a Trip to the zoo

Isibella's first trip to the zoo.
She got a lot of attention!

Zebra, (from Africa) They were out and the closest

I had seen them to the fences in a long time!

This guy posed for us! He followed along as we walked by.

He must be used to cameras!

Katie holding Isibella, Aunt K, Nana, and Amanda.

Aunt Cindy came later.

They were out but not near the fnece, It made it

hard to get good pictures.

Aunt Cindy holding Isibella, Nana, Aunt K, Katie, and Amanda

Pretty as a picture! We also bought her a zoo hot, but it was a bit big. It worked to keep the sun off her head though.

Amanda Playing ball with Zeke this evening. He still can never get enough ball. If the doorbell rings, he thinks they must be comming to play ball! The second pucture here is the redbud tree. We told you storms took it this spring. It is starting to grow back from the bottom.

It has been an exciting day! Daddy used the car dolly to get the van. It broke down on Jonathan on his way home from work. They got the van unloaded at the repair shop and were heading home when Ryan called. His car was broke down also!

Nana's birthday is next week. We have planned a special event each day since Wednesday. On Wednesday we ate lunch in Cindy's gazeba and then took mom to get her nails done.
Today we brought her over here and had lunch and watched a movie. ( the second National Treasure), tomorrow we go to the zoo.
I will post pictures when we get back!

Two more renformation pictures. Make sure and look at the previous post for more renformation pictures. I had called camp on Thursday( the day before the renformation camp started. I found out they could use some help so I ended up going and cooking for the weekend. It was fun!

We have had a lot of rain here. (over 4 1/2 inches since last Friday) The grass loves it!

You have been on my mind a lot this week. I was so pleased to hear you would be in town this weekend. I hope we can talk. Well that's all for now. Look for more after our zoo trip.

Love, Mom

Renformation Weekend at Camp

Sunday Morning Worship was in the outdoor Chapel, Shawna was one of the knights chosen to be in the procession. It was pretty cool. The picture of the river was taken as I was walking to the dining hall early morning to prepare breakfast.

The New pool is not in so the pool company brought out two big above ground pools.

The Man with the birds came. He talkled to the campers about hawks then after lunch let people hold the bird.

Photos from Stillwater

Animal and Amy had a very nice display of the things he and his dad had brought back from Africa.

Animal had the computer set up with some of his photos ready to show.

Sunday was actually Amy's birthday so after the presentation Amy had some gifts to open.

Zeke is not sure what to make of Baby Isibella! It the picture to the right He is looking at me, like "is this ok???"

Ok, so I have video from Sunday that I will try to put in another post. I am afraid if I try to add it here I will mess something up!!

Stillwater

Hi, We went to Stillwater for the presentation by Kris. It was great. I did use our digital camera to video some, but ran out of memory card part way through it. I will have to figure out how to make a dvd or cd from it now. They had another check for you! I will deposit it tomorrow (Monday) It is a big as the last one.

I will try to post some pictures from it in the morning. You guys have so much prayers and support from them! It was exciting to be there. I am amazed that such a small congregation raised so much money!Kris is planning on being in the city soon and he will show us more of his pictures then. He tried to keep the presentation to an hour so he couldn't show many. I can not wait to see them.

Well it is late and I want to be up in the morning in case you need me to call.

We Love you!

BIrthday Party

Baby Isibella at our house. Isn't she sweet! I got to hold her while they were getting ready to go over to the Perkins house. Zeke is not sure just what she is! He keeps smelling around when she is in the room.

A couple close up shots, she does have hair, but you see it mostly from the side or back!


Birthday Party at the Perkins House.

Lots of people and laughter. Amy flew in toward the end of the evening to see her new niece. It was fun, but I think Katie and Dave were worn out by the end of the evening.
Karen and Dustin
Typical birthday party, everyone laughing and talking. Sorry abour the hodge podge of order. I still have not got this down. The pictures do not end up where I thought I put them and the writing ends up in the wrong place!