POOL PARTY!

Wow, last week was great! Clarissa got to come with me to my Grandpa and Grandma's in PA. We left wednesday around 10am, stopped in Hagerstown (I got Maddie and Lexie very cute backpacks at Gap), stopped twice in a very short time to go to the bathroom, and got there around 4:30pm. Had a great visit with my grandparents. Then we spent the next 3 days doing nothing but visiting with family at my aunt and uncle's pool!!! It was awesome! My cousins Cheryl and Angie were both visiting with their kids and we got to just sit there and watch the kids swim. The weather couldn't have been better!
Saturday was a yummy breakfast of pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream at the Heritage. Then we were back at the pool with the whole family. Dad, Mom, Sonny, Alissa, and Brayden arrived Fri afternoon. Unfortunately we (me, Clarissa, and the girls) had to leave Sat night.

I do have a rather humorous story from the drive home. I'm there cruising down the 78 going 70-75 mph when all of the sudden there is a little rabbit right in my way. Unfortunately I hit the poor thing. What I didn't expect though was to see it fly over the car! I'm not kidding it went up and over, not under. It was rather funny seeing a rabbit flying through the air! Not only that when we stopped at McDonald's I looked at the front of the car and the thing broke my licence plate holder thing (the licence plate wasn't on).

So we got home around 10pm and my wonderful husband had the whole house clean! He even cleaned off my messy, cluttered, unorganized counter and closet. He bought shelves to put in the closet and cleaned the whole thing out!

Well, then Dan preached Sunday morning and did a great job! I'm so proud of him! Then we took Maddie to Mini camp at Laurelville! She was nervous all morning and even wanted us to ask the church to pray for her. But she was fine once she got there!

Wow, I finally got these pictures to work! Here are a couple of pictures of our group in CA. The first one is in Santa Cruz. We went there with 3500 other Mennonites from the convention! We were at the boardwalk amusement park and boy were the lines long! It was also very chilly. Dan got to ride his first real rollercoaster! He was literally shaking standing in line out of fear! Let me tell ya this was a side of him that I have never seen before!!! It was so funny! He ended up loving it after the first drop.

The second picture is obviously outside the Monterey Bay Aquarium. We were so stinkin exhausted that night. We had left Pittsburgh at 7:15am arrived at San Jose at 12:15pm and then went to the aquarium that night. It was a very long day.

I have to go to work now, I just wanted to see if I could get some pictures on here and what do you know it worked after about 1 hour!

Pastor Dan

Well we had our congregational business meeting tonight and the covenant between Dan and the church was approved. So Dan is officially the part-time interm Pastor at Glade. There is some stuff that will take time that needs to be done for the conference so he can be licenced, and then they will have a commissioning service for him. Everyone in church was so supportive tonight and were worried about the expectations on him that they wouldn't be to much that it takes away from his family, since he's still working at Rigidply full time. It's exciting though. I am looking forward to when we can be in ministry full time.

Me, Clarissa and my girls are leaving Wed morning to go to my grandparents in south eastern PA for a visit. Dan's working and can't come, plus he's preaching Sun. morning. Dad, Mom, Sonny, Alissa, and Brayden will all be coming up sometime Friday. I have to leave Sat night though already. I want to hear Dan preach, plus we have to take Madisyn up to Laurelville for Mini camp Sunday afternoon. I'm really looking forward to spending time with Grandma and Grandpa, I'm glad it works to go up early!

It's been quite the Summer!

Wow, what a summer it's been already! Dan and I along with Kevin and Carolina Dodge took our youth group to San Jose, CA for the Mennonite USA convention. What a blast! There were 12 of us total that went. We left Sat. June 30 and returned Sat July 7. The convention didn't start until Mon. night so we had some extra time on our hands. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Saturday night.


Sunday we got to spend in San Francisco! I got to drive one of the vans, I was following Kevin and in order to keep up with him ended up going through only... about ...ummm... 9 stop lights!!

Then Monday we went to the Winchester Mystery Mansion and the Henry C Cowell state park to see the Redwoods! Both were a lot of fun and rather spectacular!

The convention was awesome! Great speakers! Great Music! Just so much fun all around! I slept in the most comfortable bed with feather pillows! We also just happen to have a great group of kids in our youth group who are a blast to hang out with!

My girls went to Indiana to stay with Dan's Uncle Blake and Aunt Marianne. Who took such good care of our girls. They had so much fun swimming, riding horses, feeding goats, singing and more. Madisyn even told Miranda (Dan's cousin) at the beginning of the week "I thought I would miss my Mommy, but I don't". Don't worry, my feelings weren't hurt. I'm just glad they had such a good time!

I tried to upload some pictures on here, but we back woods folk can't get high speed internet yet and are stuck with dial up. So maybe I'll post some pictures later when I have an hour :P

New Blogger

Well I've been reading others, but never did this for myself. Should be interesting to see what comes out here!