Jun. 25, 2009 Happy Birthday Kay! Jun. 18, 2009 Happy Anniversary and the Rest of Our Trip
First of all, I'd like to wish my wonderful parents a Happy Anniversary (I am a little late, it was on the 2nd, but I do have an excuse which is that I have been really sick for the past two weeks or so).
Happy 25th Anniversary Mom and Dad!!!
Ok everyone, Amy gave me permission to use her post about our trip. The following is by Amy, so don't be surprised when a picture of Amy is entitled "Me". :-) (THANKS AMY!!!)
Me and Darby! :-)
Joy and Darby! :-)
The girls. :-)
That night me and Joy got to sleep in Darby's room, so we had a fun "sleep over", and stayed up late chatting! :-)
The next morning we hung around and got ready in the morning, and then headed off.
Visiting in the morning.
Mr. S. juggling!!! :-)
The two families. :-)
After that we headed on to TN!!! :-) After we checked into our hotel there, we decided to take a walk down the road, and try to find some place to eat, but it was too far, so Dad and Josiah ran back for the car, and while us ladies were waiting for them, who should pull off the road to say Hi but the W. family (who we stayed with out in CA!).!! :-) They were staying in the same hotel as us, (right next door in fact), so when we got back to the hotel, Mr. W. and Dad had to go to a meeting, so Mrs. W. and the boys came over to play some games, and I think we went for a walk! It was a lot of fun, and SO nice to see them all again! :-)
Two wonderful Moms sitting chatting! :-)
Casey!!
Corey and Josiah!
Casey, Joy, and Josiah
Playing a game.
Is that a "Hey! You took my picture!" look, Casey? ;-)
The next day the Dad's had more meetings, so the W.'s, us, and the D.'s (from the Church out in CA) headed up to Nashville to meet the H. family! :-)
We went to Andrew Jackson's house.
The D. girls. :-)
Becca D.
Joy.
Mallory D.
Casey trying to get away from my camera! :-P And Mr. H. in the back round.
Josiah.
Ben H., Mrs. W. and Corey.
Some of the H. kids! :-) Looks like Sara, Becky, Laura, and Jonathan! :-)
We didn't spend too much time there, and headed off the the TN capital with the D.'s. The W.'s met us there after a little while, and another family from the CA church was there as well. :-) (The H.'s didn't end up coming.).
My favorite room!!!
I want a library like this in MY house! :-P
After that we headed "home", and then went over to the lodge (the W.'s came as well later), where the H.'s where staying, and had supper, and sang some songs in harmony! (SO much fun! I LOVE singing! Sadly I pretty much had no voice from my cold! :-( ).
Us singing. :-)
Thursday Presbytery officially started, and we spend the day up and the camp, (the lodge and the main hall. :-)).
Here are just some random pictures from Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. :-)
Thursday night was the dance, which was a BLAST! I think it's the most fun dance I've been too yet!! :-)
Joy at the dance.
Josiah at the dance.
I THINK this is me at the dance! :-P (I mean, I KNOW it's me! ;-)).
Friday night was the ordination service where some elders were ordained.
Ok, now for some random pics. :-)
Mrs. H. and Mrs. B. :-)
Mrs. S. and Joe D.
People hanging around in the main hall. :-)
Me and Paige D. :-)
Dad. :-)
Mom. :-)
Me and Anna M. :-) (They were in the hotel room on the other side of us! :-)).
Ben. :-)
Joy. :-)
Jessica and Melissa.
Nic.
How about a picture Casey? :-P
Josiah, Casey, and Joe.
Kay.
Rachel and some little kids. :-)
After the Friday night service we took these pics. :-)
Laura H. :-)
Good friends. :-)
Then I believe it was Saturday when these pics were taken. :-)
I love these wonderful ladies!! :-)
Becky H. :-)
A bunch of us played "Signs" at the lodge -
Jessica and Becca. :-)
Me.
Joy.
Kay.
Kevin.
Jonathan E. and Tiffany.
I think these were taken a couple different days??? Or maybe just on Sunday! :-)
Eva!
Eva and Gabby - how sweet! :-)
Linds! :-)
Ben, Tiffany, Mr. S. and Lindsey. :-)
Mom and Dad sitting with Mr. H. :-)
Since for Presbytery the meals are provided by many wonderful people, there were lots of dishes to do, and we had lots of fun helping to wash and dry several of the days! (I just helped dry! ;-)). This pic is on Sunday right before we have to leave.
Casey, Anna, Corey, me, and Rachel. :-)
After attending the Heritage church (who hosted us all ) (which they had at the main hall because of all the people) on Sunday, we had lunch and then said our goodbyes. :-(
Happily, however, we didn't have to say goodbye to the W.'s quite yet, and headed with them up to a hotel in KY, where we had a nice evening, playing tag, and visiting. :-)
The next morning (which would now be Monday morning the 18th), we all (including the W.'s), headed up to the Creation Museum!!! It was SOOO neat!!! I really liked it!!! :-) It was so cool to be able to go to a museum that was Biblically based!! And we got to go to the Planetarium there!!! Oh my goodness! I LOVED that!!! I love stars, and everything, and it was so amazing to see how TINY the earth, and even the Sun is compared with what else is out there!!! And so neat how they talked about how God made it!!! :-)
And it was extra fun that we got to go with the W.'s!! :-)
Here are some pics from the day (5/18) -
Haha! This was on the back of a big white van!! I want one!!! :OD
Hide! It's Amy and the camera! :-P
Kay waiting for the Dad's to get the tickets all set. :-)
Casey and Joy. :-)
Corey. :-)
Josiah. :-)
Me and Kay walking towards the museum. :-)
The adventure begins!!!
Joy and a Dinosaur!!! Yes, Dinosaurs DID go on the Arc and DIDN'T die millions of years ago! How do we know? Death only came AFTER Adam sinned! Therefore, Dinosaurs couldn't have died off BEFORE everything else happened. :-)
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Josiah in a tent.
Two fake men digging for bones!! They looked pretty real, which was a little freaky! Some of the fake people in the museum moved and talked! O_O :-P
Kevin chatting with Paul. ;-)
Kay chats with Paul. ;-)
Dad and Corey looking at a display.
I don't remember who that was supposed to me... But the REAL person is Dad! ;-)
Marin Luther!!! :-)
The oldest man who ever lived! (Look it up in the Bible!! :-)). He died shortly before the flood.
They had the coolest display for Noah's Arc!!! :-) They had a big version and a small version - here are some of the small. :-)
Hehe! I thought this display was so cute! :-P
Another of the small display I think! :-)
Creation begins! :-)
Amazing displays or what??
After Creation, you go through sin O_O and then into the next part of life - when sin has entered the world, and killings begin.
This dino was "eating" a lamb or something! It was pretty gross looking!
"To Adam He (God) said; "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."". - Genesis 317-19 --- It was really neat how they showed how it went from before the fall, to after it, when sin entered the world.
We had to run through part of the museum to get to the planetarium on time, (and then had to leave after that), so we missed a bunch, but it was really cool!!! :-)
After saying goodbyes to the W.'s ( :-( ), we went for a little walk around the grounds, which were beautiful!!!
(Yes, there is a fake sea creature in that water! :-P ).
A dino. :-P
The museum!
A nice girl took our picture for us. :-)
After that we headed off for a lot of driving. Spent that night in another hotel, and then on Tuesday drove all day and got home! :-) We had a nice supper with Grandma and Grampa, and my Aunt and Uncle, and now we are home! :-)
Ooh, and here's some pictures of a house I saw! I totally want it! :-P
(The dog that was in the yard).
Isn't that BEAUTIFUL?? :-) |
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Jun. 4, 2009 Trip to TN Part One
As many of you know, we recently joined Dad for his trip to Presbytery in Tennessee. We left on Sunday May 10th after church.
We drove and drove and drove
And stopped to stretch our legs a few hours into the trip. ;-)
and then stopped for the night at a little Motel 6. We had to get two rooms because of the fire code.
 Here is a lovely blurry photo of me and Amy outside of the motel room used by us kids.
Boredom is the mother of silliness... er... invention, so Amy and Kay decided to pose with a coffee cup.
 (just for the record, we don't drink coffee... except on vacation when Grandpa and Uncle Mark give us sips of it)
 Josiah was not impressed with the commercial, and solemnly read his book while Amy and Kay were having fun with the coffee cup.
The next day saw us up bright and early and on the road before 6:00... Or not. I think we left before 8:00 though...
 Of course Kay and I had to pose with the "West Virginia" sign... we'd never been to West Virginia before.
Late afternoon we arrived at the S.'s house (no, not the same S.s as in CA). It was so great to meet them all! Of course, we'd met Pastor S. before, but even though I had e-mailed Darby before, we had never met. We all had supper and then the Dads left for a session meeting, Mrs. S. and Campbell left for a baseball game, Mom read a book and talked to someone who was visiting (I'm sorry, I can't remember his name), and the rest of us played kidnapped and....
 Duck Duck Goose! (This is getting to be a tradition...)
And I'll post more about our visit with the S. family next time. We've got a big day planned for today... not only are we getting ready for the E. family to come and stay with us for a few days, but 'our' cow at the neighbor's farm is about to give birth. |
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