Tina asked tonight if she could look at my blog and I had to tell her there wasn't much to see on my blog. I guess this is writer's block? But I told her I'd write something.

John caught this feisty little snake while he was mowing the lawn. It would coil up and then try to strike. David told us the snake was saying "Do you want a piece of me?"


David hog-tied Skeeter and then this happened.



Loving summer with all its deliciousness. We've had salad with fresh garden veggies, cantaloupe, watermelon, corn-on-the-cob, peaches, blueberries. It's so easy to pass on the dessert when you've already had it for dinner in the form of fresh fruits and vegetables.

We've been to the beach, the lake, a friend's pool, another friend's water slide. Tina and Rebekah have been to a sign and dance camp. So have the little boys. Taryn has started a karate class. The girls have been to sewing lessons. We went to the science presentation at the library last week and one about snakes, reptiles, and bugs this week. We celebrated a special 5 year old. I thought that once summer arrived we would slow down and not be so busy. I have never been more wrong.

Kids are funny


Ditto


Hope you are enjoying your summer too!

Post-Vacation Analysis

Don't worry, I'm not going to make you look at all 387 pictures that I took.

Day 1: Travel and swimming at the hotel upon arrival


Day 2: Leave the camera in the car not once, but twice while visiting Fort McHenry and the Maryland zoo. Go swimming again at the hotel.

Day 3: Visit the Constellation, an historic ship in the Baltimore harbor, walk the Inner Harbor, celebrate Andrew's graduation, walk to the park to play, walk to Fell's Point and get lost on the way back to Andrew's, swim at the hotel

Day 4: Swim at the hotel in the morning before packing up and heading north to Grandma Munn's, attend a concert at her small country church

Day 5: Enjoy the country, dig worms, go fishing, eat outside, sleep outside, help Grandma Munn with yard work

Day 6: Watkins Glen State Park in New York

Day 7: Repeat Day 5

Day 8: Leave Grandma's heading south toward Hershey Park, Chocolate World first, then the park, meet Deannie, my first childhood friend, and her husband, drive until we can't hold our eyes open and sleep so soundly that 7/8 of us slept through a fire alarm in the hotel around 1 in the morning.

Day 9: Drive the rest of the way to Luray Caverns in VA. Spend the day exploring and dragging the kids out of 3(!) different gift shops. Decide we've done enough, find a hotel in Charlottesville with a pool and you guessed it, went swimming. Also ate Mexican for dinner.

Day 10: Tour Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, then head the rest of the way to Home, Sweet, Home. Last stop and still smiling!

Joseph's Prayer: Thank you Lord that we didn't crash even once.

I might have worded it a little differently, but we are all so thankful to the Lord for every detail of this trip.