Church Picnic!

The Memorial Day Church Picnic is Ashley and Dylan's favorite church activity! This year was quite a crowd (about 100+ people!) It included a great devotional by Pastor, great food, games and fellowship!

Several volley ball games were played. But the very best was....

...when the teens played the grownups! The foolish against the wise! A very disgusted PC played on the teens side! Parents beat those young'ens 3 games out of 4! With the first game's score being 21 to 0! It was totally hillarious!

A couple games of horseshoes!

My husband who, sometimes, can be the total age of 5! (notice the lollypop hanging out of his mouth)

Great food prepared by many hands!

Kaitlin & Ashley, who is hiding her snowball blue lips!

The Three... Musketeers? Stooges? Blind mice? I don't know...you tell me!?!?

WHAT A WEEKEND!!!!

Taryn's Baby Shower!

Congratulations Chris and Taryn! Taryn's baby shower was Sunday afternoon. It's alway's a joy to get together with family and friends!

The shower was held at Taryn's mothers farm in Fallston. What a beautiful place!

Ashley visiting with one of Taryn's horses.

Lots and lots of gifts!

Shore Cookout!

We started Saturday morning with a 10 mile on/off road scenic bike ride on Kent Island. It was a lot of fun and a lot of exercise for someone who hadn't been on a bike for a few years! We rode along the seashore, through woods and marsh, stopped at overlooks for the Bay Bridge & Kent Narrow's bridge, and saw lots of wild life, (snakes, deer, birds). It was a beautiful ride! Ben & Tory I hope you got this one in while you were here!

Dylan and Ahsley. Notice the Kent Narrow's Lighthouse in the background!

Me and Shawn in front of the beach house, RESTING & RECOVERING!

My Dad with his very tired baby, Rocksy. (Aunt Rhonda in the background)

Mother / Daughter Banquet

Friday night was the Mother /Daughter Banquet! We had such a great time together! There was a hat parade, guest speaker, special music and great food catered by Boston Market. I won the prize for "most colorful," and Ashley won for "silliest!" Left to right - Debi (Audrey's Adopted Daughter) Audrey (my Mother-in-law), Irene (my Mom), Me, and Ashley (my daughter).

Cindy and Hannah, who won the hat prize for "ugliest!"

Our special music was sung by Anna and Mary.

Sarah, who won the hat prize for "most beautiful" and Laura.

Kay's "butterfly" hat.

Joellen's "ready for the beach" hat.

Kristin and Cleo's "Patriotic" hats.

A BIG Hello from Mrs. Margarett!

ANGEL'S IN THE AIR!

ON TUESDAY, 5/22/07 WE WATCHED THE BLUE ANGELS DEMONSTRATION RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE NAVAL ACADEMY'S SEA WALL!

"FAT ALBERT," BLUE ANGELS CARGO PLANE SHOWING ITS STUFF!

THESE INCREDIBLY GIFTED PIOLETS FLY WITHIN 18 INCHES FROM EACH OTHER!

GOING STRAIGHT DOWN! (MY STOMACH WENT UP!)

SHOWING OFF SOME LANDING GEAR!

SURPRISE ATTACK!

HEAD TO HEAD PASS!

THIS PICTURE IS NOT UPSIDE DOWN! THE PLANES ARE!

SOARING FLIGHT FORMATIONS IN A COMPLETE LOOP!

MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS OUR MILITARY, OUR LEADERS, AND OUR COUNTRY!

Maranatha Baptist Bible College

Our church offers 4 module Bible college classes each year from Maranatha Baptist Bible College from Watertown, Wisconsin. This week Ashley and I were blessed by sitting in on a class, History, Poetry, and Prophecy an Old Testament Survey.

Dr. Terry Price was fantastic! He challenged us in our Christian walk, as we learned more about our Lord and the Great Book he has given us!

An added blessing was the time spent with my daughter, talking about God's Word! Our rides home were always too short!

Carol and Tony. They lost their husband/father this past year to cancer. What a great encouragement and testimony they are to us!

Baseball Fun

The kids play baseball for Ryal in the spring with other Christian homeschoolers. Last Thursday they had a night game.
Ashley talking with some friends...check out the foul ball flying in front of them!

In position, ready...corner field!

Dylan talking with Josh.

The Home Run Boy! He's determined to get a homerun every time...don't think he even stops at any bases!

The Smith's puppy, Gideon...I'm totally in love! Those ears are so precious, they get wet every time he gets a drink of water! How cute is that!?!?

Yard Project

After 11 years, we finally know where our property boundary's are! We have more footage in the front than was marked, so we've been doing some serious work up there! Shawn's moved a ton of mulch and took some trees down. The plan is to plant grass and some privacy trees. Can't wait! It looks so different now with the trees gone, its hard to get used to the view!
Dylan riding the lawn mower.

Shawn on the Bobcat.

Shawn's new "work" truck! He needed some extra "power" to pull the trailers. Now, when he drives it, he does the Tim Allen laugh, and say's "I have the power!" Silly boy!

We had a great time babysitting the Coleman kids this week. It took our entire family to watch 3 little kids...funny how you forget how loud & fast it used to be!

Sooooo sweet!