Derrick and Kara's Wedding Pictures

Kristen Leigh's blog was just posted with pictures from the wedding!!!

See them here: http://www.imkristensblog.com/

Graduation Flowers

I think that these pictures are winners. This last one is my favorite. The one from looking underneath is also a great one! It looks like it is outside..but nope. I took that one in the dining room.

What's been going on in my life

I haven't posted for a while, so here are some pictures from the past weeks. Enjoy!

This picture is from Easter weekend. We got to go to Deep Creek for the first time. :D It was such a beautiful weekend with temperatures in the 80's!! We opened up the cottage, and did a lot of raking. I swear there were over a billion leaves in our yard and in the flower beds. All day friday and all day saturday we raked..and went for canoe rides, had a great Good Friday service at PVBC and then a wonderful Resurrection Sunday! Then we had to head on home saturday night for dinner with the rest of the family.

Then it just gets better. We went on a field trip to Johnstown with our Tapestry of Grace Co-op. There we rode..well look at the picture.

It was such a beautiful day and not many people were there.

The view from the top

Another view

Then due to some unforseen circumstances, we were able to go to deep creek again this past weekend.

It wasn't nearly as warm, but still beautiful as ever. Here is my doggie, Susie.

I don't remember this from before, but there were bushes on the edge of our property with these yellow flowers. They were so cool looking I had to take a picture. And look what I cought..(this was not intentional)

They were in the perfect spot, so full of color. And you know how much I love to photograph flowers.

Then Steve decided he had to put the swings up. So he got the wheel barrel and did it. Such a boy.

And then last night, we had a bachelorette/going away party for Kara at Naomi's house. We all had a fun time. Here is all of the bridesmaids and of course the beautiful bride to be.

Geese and one lonely duck.

Spring is here

Even though I know that the Robins got confused during "The Big Storm" several weeks ago (they were building nests in the snow in the shrubs in front of our house), they are still alive and well. And they obviously don't mind the snow. But thankfully it is nearly gone now. (these pictures were taken a week ago)

The kids couldn't wait to set up their houses and play in the green grass.

Even the trees look beautiful after this horrid winter.

This is a "Find the hidden object" picture. So find the hidden object

OH MY GOODNESS!! IT'S A TURKEY!!

And a huge one at that. Sorry I couldn't get a better picture of it. It hopped away as soon as I got outside.

ROME: A visit to that old ancient place of the apostle Paul

My family was able to go to "Rome Week" at New Life Presbyterian Church. It was really neat at how much work they must have put into this. They had divided every family into "teams." We were the light blue team as you can probably see in the pictures from our light blue sashes. The church seemed to go all out with the Rome theme as they had a Market Place the size of a basketball court, a Colosseum, an underground church, a jail and much more. It was fascinating how each person acted as if they really were a Roman citizen. They certainly acted as if none of them knew each other also.

Here is Ruby riding a "chariot" as part of a Colosseum game.

Stephen's turn, as you see he's extremely enjoying it.

Oh..did I mention I hate dust? Yes, that is what those white circles are in the picture. I looked it up because it kept happening whenever I would use the flash in a gym or some place with concrete walls or flooring. And dust is the answer. There isn't anything you can do about it either apparently.

Here is Emily enjoying her chariot ride.

The Colosseum dude managing the line for chariot rides.

Then Elizabeth and I headed over to the marketplace to dress up as Roman Emperors.

And what usually happens when someone else uses my camera, it goes funky on them. *sigh*

We shall be friends forever.

Pardon the grainyness.

Can you tell Elizabeth just LOVES making leather bracelets?

Ruby playing some sort of a stacking game. I really didn't understand it.

As I promised..

Here are more pictures from the casting crowns concert. All edited with my measly editing software that comes with every computer. :) Enjoy!

Ok..I'll start off with a bad one. (but it really looks a ton better than the original)

I just loved this picture. Mark Hall, looking at Melodee singing (next pic) and making this face.