Some PA Summer Fun

We were down at Oma and Opa's to hang out with them while the Daneker's traveled.  Ben and Eli invited some Alert men over to hang out with us.  They had attended the Academy with them in Texas. I did not grab any photos of their friend that came up from VA.  On Friday, 2 friends came from different parts of  PA for the day. They had a game of trying to catch the football in the pool.  Eli was the thrower and their were all a bunch of dare devils.  They managed to catch the ball and pass it while entering the ball with 3 guys in a row.  It took many attempts and may laughs but they did it!

Sara was the photographer for all of these great shots!  I don't have any photos of her but wanted to give her credit.

 And I had to end with Becca's socks...on the way here I noticed she was wearing her Tommy socks.  It was so funny to see little Tommy's face plastered all over her legs.  They were given to her at our family Christmas swap were we obviously have become very creative in our gift giving.  She wore them with pride and a big smile!

So thankful for the fun week here swimming, visiting the farmers market (boy,was it HOT!) and just chatting with Oma and Opa!

Fourth of July Week

Fourth of July week is always a fun time at our house!  We did our town parade while we hung out at friends house.  They are on the parade route and it is a great spot!  Some traditions are just meant to be! 

Above is one of our cats, Joy.  She sat on Michael's car looking for something good to chase.  She is a great mouser which we are thankful.  She is a very sweet cat.

We decided to play some games on July 4th.  Joe begged for Axis and Allies.  These were the brave ones.  The others went and played Uno, Spoons and another card game.  Those of us brave enough to play Axis and Allie took an hour to set up the game.  The second hour involved us each taking one turn-it is an intense game with a thick play book.  We gave up after 2 hours and agreed, no thank you to another game.

Darrell and Jacob are twins at church-totally unplanned but fun anyway.  Had to get a shot.  This actually happens a lot.  We will say, " I see you got the memo!"

On Saturday, we went to pick up our friends from Texas who were attending Camp Maranatha.  We then headed over to the Bibeo's place for tea, snacks and some games.  We enjoyed the fellowship and the chatter of the kids practicing their Chinese with Ruby and Meiling.

A fun week and then we were off on our next adventure....another trip to Oma and Opa's to hang out with them while the Daneker's traveled.
 

Summer Happenings

Lots of summer happenings here--we spent part of June at my folks house.  My sister was traveling and we went down to hang out with them, cook, visit and of course, swim.

We've had some guest through but I neglected to take photos of all of them.  This is Ben's friend, Jacob.  He is an Alertman and the two of them traveled to Maine to attend another Alertman's wedding.  So fun!

And then there is the endless list of projects.  It was exciting to knock this one out!  We drained our pool and are in the process of filling it up again with clean water!  So glad for the help.  Devon has had the brains of this project but needed help to execute it all.  Ben, Eli, Joe and I helped figure it out with him.  Yeah for projects getting checked off!  

We are off to a great but busy summer....waiting for the slow down!
 

Celebrating Darrell

Happy Birthday to this guy!  We had so many places to be that it was quite a different day for him.  I had some of the kids in PA with me (he had traveled with me earlier in the week before heading back home) and some of the kids met with him and took him out to dinner on his big day!  So excited he got to be celebrate 3 different times!  How fun was that?

We celebrated with my folks at a special dinner with them and some of the kids in PA!  Yum, cheesecake! 

 

Family Celebration Day

Sometimes there are just so many things going on we do things a bit differently!  We had so many things to celebrate we decided to just celebrate everything at the same time!  We met in Keene at a park between Jess and the rest of us and played, ate lunch and celebrated.  The grands got to have fun playing at the park and it was just good to be together!

 Father's Day, Darrell's birthday and an upcoming wedding were all part of the celebration.  It was so good to be together...thinking we need to do this more often!

Becca Graduates NR!

Sarge giving Becca a pep talk and congratulating her on her hard work in NR!

 It's official!  Our last kiddo has successfully finished NR!  So proud of her!

Casts are Gone!

Dr. Dobbs walked into the room and said, "No more casts, casting is done!"  It was an exciting day in the office....a long exciting day!  Today's appointment was 3 hours and 45 minutes--cast off, cleaned foot, x-rays, and then fittings for 2 new AFOs. Great reports-his leg is healed and doing well! My only regret, I didn't bring the book I was reading.  We watched the staff rushing up an down the hall, watched our new favorite videos- a mime from Seaworld.  The staff peeked in more than once because we were laughing so much.  A good thing!  We have come to know the staff and joked with them as they each came into do their thing. 

Jacob and I talk about what is next in our day, find out we have to come back in 2 months (August-hot, hot), and talk about hardware removal in the fall.  We were looking for another souvenir shop, talking about a place to grab breakfast/lunch, and our plans to visit our friends for dinner.  After such a long appointment, we ended up going through the drive thru at Chickfila to grab salads and head back to Molly's.  We were tired and Jacob craved the sun.  We ate on the back porch, spread out in the sun and enjoyed the warmth after so many hours in the cold air conditioning. 

We then headed to the shop in Jensen beach.  It sure was unique with many Florida trinkets but it didn't have what we were looking for.  We then stopped and picked up some things to share with our friends at dinner and headed over to their place.  Their entire family was there and we enjoyed a lovely dinner along with the kids all playing games.  It was a fun evening.