August

Recap of August:

*The month started out with the girls visiting Nanna & Grandpa Rink in West Va. They worked with Nanna @ her quilt shop Acorns & Oaks

*Next, there was Shakespeare camp for the girls at Covenant Life. The middle schoolers learned and performed The Tempest. The high schoolers learned and performed Romeo & Juliet. Both girls had small parts in each of the shows. Great performances at the end of the week.

Emily playing a boy Rachel with friends afterwards.

*And then... Fair Week ~ One of our favorite weeks of the year!! waiting for the parade to start

w/ dear friends, Susan and Char after the parade.

PC: Ron Moore

Em had another first place cake this year that was sold in the cake auction. It was bought by my parents and my dad's 2 brothers, Uncle Johnny & Uncle Billy. :) All the money goes to 4H.

Emily with Great Gommie at the cake auction (the original baker of the famed cake)

Rachel and Char at the Cheese Booth on PetsRUs day. Rachel worked several other days and loved it here.

The girls takin' a lunch break - grilled cheese & nachos!

the pet show - Rachel and Em took the cats

Caiti and Chris

waiting to show their dogs

Sarah with her pet rock and the girls with Josie and Claire

I love the demolition derby on the last night... it's the farm girl in me, I'm sure. ;)

PC: Emily

*Cook-out @ Peggy Ann & Fred's.

Peggy Ann had some things from Mamaw & Pap Pap for the 5 grandsons. So she invited us all to her place for yummy food and memento of the grandparents.

The 5 grandsons

Jeff, Julie, Zack and Tyler

Kevin, Susie, Brett and Billy

Jeff & PA

all the cousins being silly

*Rachel and I had a super time at the youth retreat @ Sandy Cove in MD

roommates: Libbster, Krissy and Rachie

M&M poker

*And we ended the month with the First Day of School - the 26th (no pics, sorry!)

Two days, Two posts... don't faint! :)

Now for July ‘08. This will be a big post as there were lots of pics taken. I’ve had a dickens of a time paring it down to the best few pics per event. First off… Our FUN day with the Nams! We’ve missed them dearly since they moved to Phoenix last year. So good to have them back for the month!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rachel took most of the pictures with the Nam kids. I loved the great faces they all make. Other favorites are all the “singing” pictures. If I had to guess, I bet they’re singing a Celine Dion song. Just a guess, tho’. Rachel did a good job capturing Connor, Em and Tay mid-singing. Too bad there’s no audio with these pix! We love and miss them. It was such a short visit. Looking forward to our next trip out there to see them!

Rachel & Taylor

Here are the kids singing and dancing - a favorite pasttime.

Silly Faces

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OK, these are VERY random July pictures. Enjoy our weirdness.

PC: Rachel

PC: Rachel

The next few shots are when Rachel and Emily played in the rain one warm July day. I had no clue this even happened! :) I love seeing the girls have fun together! It really is something I have prayed for since they were teeny tiny... that they would have a close friendship and be team mates instead of opponents.

Yes, Em - you're weird!

Game night with Uncle Mike.

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These pics are from my annual scrapbooking get-away to Camp Hill, PA. There are 450-500 people (mostly ladies) scrapbooking, laughing, journaling, resting, eating, sleeping and making new memories! It's so much fun. Danielle and Cheryl drove up from VB to meet me, Cindy, Teri and Dawn. What a great time we had!

shot of the scrapbooking room

my seat is right there next to Cindy

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next is our summer trip to VB to visit with the Haudricourts. The kids are growing up so quickly!

Lunchtime with Joy. :)