Summer Days

Well Summer has started out well. These pictures are from a couple of weeks ago so I can’t tell you much about them.

The morning walk with the ladies

Judy had to show off the nice CLEAN barn.

I was trying a setting on my camera for this one. It takes out one color and makes everything else Black and White. I thought it was a cool effect on Jessica’s hair.

We decided to do a Cousin’s Walk after the ladies in the mornings. They have usually been ending with a visit to the horses.

After the Walk I decided I have to clean my room!

Before:

After:…not bad eh?

And, we had the first slumber party of the season at Janelle’s house that Friday after all going to sing at the Washington Christian Village together.

Of course we’ve done some swimming since summer started

Michelle asked if we would come out and do some cleaning for her…so we made a party of it!

We then proceeded to award our hard work by taking ourselves out to Avantis for a late lunch

Bethany is just so stinking cute!!!!

oh my.

And these were taken one lovely morning as I sat outside to read my Bible, drink my coffee, and bask in God’s glorious creation.

That bench right there, is officially my favorite spot on the whole earth to do my devotions. That is my secret place where I can go, “close the door behind me” and meet God and tell Him all about my life and learn more about Him.

And below is the view from that bench.

As you can see, Steve is growing quite nicely. Actually I’ve found a home for him. A friend from Roanoke just lost the Deer he had raised from last year and said he would love to take Steve. It sounds like he has a better place for him and will have more time to give to him so I’m excited about the idea. Plus, I’ll still be able to visit him if he goes there.

So that is sort of a run down of my first few weeks of summer.

Coming soon!!!! JAMAICA DEAF VILLAGE 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Goofball

Our family is extra special in that we all live so close to eachother. Six families (Sauders, Grandma, Honnegers, Meisters, Sceggels, and the Rienhards) all live around the Lake and we only live a mile from there. This makes carpooling a wonderful option for getting to places that we are all headed to anyway like church. So, last night we filled our van to the brim with Grandma, Diane, Mark and Judy, and myself and all went to church together.

Nothing much happened on the way there, just the normal visiting. But on the way back everybody was suddenly pretty hyper…maybe from the ice cream we stopped for, but, oh my, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time. Judy and Diane, being the sisters that they are, had quite the “argument” over paying for the ice cream, which was only $6.62 (not enough to make a fuss about in my opinion which made it all just that much more entertaining), and of course Grandma, being the mom that she is, threatened to have the car pulled over if they don’t quite. The “Be kind to one another” song was, of course, inevitable. My do I love my aunts. They are just so goofy sometimes!

Speaking of Goofs….So, ever since I was little my parents have called me “The Goof” or “Goofball”. It doesn’t even phase me that they do, I always just answer to it without thinking twice about it. So, anyway, today I went with Mom to observe her work (I’m hoping that her boss sees my initiative to learn on my free time and increases my chances of possibly landing a job in the school system when I graduate, Lord willing). She works closely with the teachers and we passed by one coming through the door. “Hi!” mom said. Then turning to me she goes, “This is my daughter, Goofball. She’s going to be a PTA and came to observe me.” She corrected herself quick enough, but the teacher definitely gave me quite the look and we chuckled about that all the rest of the day.

Oh! Good news! I got a new camera (the old one is not functioning). So I will make the effort to take pictures to make this blog more interesting!