Jordan and Nanny blowing bubbles!

Jeffrey, Tina, and Jordan came over on Tuesday evening. Jordan wanted to blow bubbles, so he and Nanny had some fun. Enjoy the pictures.

Youth Rally, Saturday, September 11, 2010

We had our first youth rally of the season at Whalen Park along the St. Lawrence River. The pictures loaded backwards, so the first is our speaker, Rev. Joe Krohn, from our Kingston, Ontario church, the next three pictures are of the group as we gathered for lunch, and the last is the ship that was passing by when we got there. It was the only ship we saw while we were there. It was a beautiful sunny day. The little kids had fun rolling down the hill by the pavillion.

Just a visit to Jeffrey and Tina's house.

Thursday evening we went over to Jeffrey and Tina's house. Jordan was showing us how he can blow this little horn.

Here he and Nanny are spending some time together.

Jeffrey bought some bagpipes and he was trying to get them to work right. Sometimes the reeds are not real cooperative. He thinks that we were making fun of him, but I really think that it is going to be cool when he can play them. I like the sound of bagpipes.

Jordan sitting on his bed. It took much persuasion to get him to do this.

These are some "Thomas and Friends" plaques that Tina got for Jordan's room. He knows them all by name.

Labor Day weekend

These first three pictures are from Monday, Labor Day. Esther, Marilyn and Randy, Grandpa Steve, Donnie, Jeffrey, Tina, Jordan, Tandy and Andrew all were here for our pizza, subs, and chip party. This first picture here was of Nanny and Aunt Esther doing a puzzle.

Jordan and Aunt Esther were playing ball.

These next few were taken on Sunday night after church. Jeffrey and Tina and Jordan came over to the house. Aunt Chris was here for the weekend, but left Monday during the day. I was working.

Tina just loves to have her picture taken, can't you tell.

The rest of the pictures were taken Friday night. Jordan got a puzzle and a "Thomas" trainset with a few blocks to build with. He and Aunt Chris played with that a lot and also played ball a lot.

Duplicate picture, but I don't want to take the risk of losing all of the pictures and starting this all over again.

Here he is playing with the Thomas set.

He really loves Chris.

Has poor Aunt Chris worn right out.

Mathias Joseph Straight

Yesterday, Rachel and I went to Burlington, VT, to see little Mathias. He was born on August 9th and weighted 3 lbs, 9 oz. He was born 10 weeks early. He is out of the NICU and into a transitional unit now. Donnie and Wendy are just so happy and proud of their little guy.

While we were there, he got a little fussy so they got him out for them to hold and calm him down. I think the whole time he was just starting to get hungry.

During the month of July, we have our zone church campmeeting. We usually are there all day on both Sundays and sometimes during the week. It gets tiresome especially for little ones. Jordan and Papa took a walk up the side of the hill to what is known as the "prayer rock". It is a very large rock where people have been known to gather and pray. It is also an attraction for the kids. Above Jordan's head you can see the kids that are standing on top of the rock. I set Jordan up on the side of the rock and snapped this picture with my cell phone. Not the greatest quality but still a nice picture.

Our trip to Wichita Falls, Texas

We flew out of Harrisburg, PA on Thursday the 19th of August with Justin's girlfriend Stacy. Landed in Charlotte, NC for a 40 minute layover which lasted longer than that. We finally boarded the plane and were number 15 in line for takeoff. We arrived at Dallas-Fort Worth airport about an hour later than we planned. Got our rental car, a Dodge Calibur, and drove the 124 miles to Wichita Falls. Met Justin at the visitor's center on base and got our passes for the weekend. Got to meet a few of his buddies. Went and had supper together at Cracker Barrel. Went to the motel, checked in and hung out for a while. I took Justin back to the base and he showed me where a few things were. Told me where to meet him the next day for lunch. The motel provided a nice breakfast for us. Stacy just loves Texas shaped waffles. She just loves making them. When we were here in Texas before she just thought that they were the greatest thing. We had a lazy morning Friday, went to the base to meet Justin for lunch, parked in what I thought was the parking lot he told me to park in, but it was the wrong one. We only got to see him for a few minutes before he had to be back at class. Spent the afternoon buzzing around the city and that is when we found the "Falls". There really isn't much else to do there other than the falls except shop. After we picked Justin up, we visited the "Falls" again, so he could see them and we took some pictures, then went out to eat at Olive Garden. It was busy and we waited quite a while before we got our dinner. Saturday we were going to go check out a mini golf place, but it was already so hot, 100+ at 11 am, we decided just to go visit air conditioned stores. We went to Hobby Lobby, what a neat place. After that we went to the Mall and ate lunch and shopped. Rachel really liked the roaches. They have a real nice mall. Thinking of something different to do, we decided to go check out Oklahoma. Well, it is more desolate than the part of Texas we were in. It was too far to really go to any of the cities, so we went back to Wichita Falls. We then tried to find some souvenirs. The tourist center didn't have any, nor had we found any in the mall. We could find ones that said Texas on them, but we wanted Wichita Falls. We asked and they sent us to the "Pecan Shed" and we were able to get some things there and also some really good fudge. We then went to Logan's Roadhouse to have supper. It is one of those places that has the peanuts and you throw the shells on the floor. It was a delicious meal. Then we went back to the motel to hang out and then to bed. Sunday morning we did Hobe Sound Bible Church on the computer. Ate with Justin, and hung out at the "Falls". We took Justin back to the base about 5:30 and headed back to Dallas-Fort Worth area to get our early morning flight to Harrisburg by way of Cincinnati. It was 101 degrees in DFW at 8:30 at night. Left DFW at 7am and were back in Harrisburg at 12:30pm. Got Stacy home and we stopped and bought some sausage and chips and Tastycakes to bring home with us. We arrived home at 11:15 pm Monday night. Went back to work to rest up on Tuesday!