Welcome precious Baby Caitlyn!

        Praising the Lord for the newest little blessing He has given us!! 

Congratulations to Deborah and Daniel!

Caitlyn Ann Hale

 Arrived at 3:05 this morning (August 14th)

She weighs 9 pounds and is 21 inches long

Summertime

Here are some pictures of what we've been up to the last few months.

Drying herbs from our herb bed 

Dilly beans

Babysitting a sweet friend

Fresh berries - one of the best parts of summer!

Blackberry ice cream is a family favorite

Yum!

Our neighbors' granddaughters come down for a few weeks each summer.  They came over for the afternoon one day and we made necklaces.

A cute little visitor to our garden (cute until he starts sampling the plants...)

Beautiful sunrise

We found this interesting bug on a blueberry plant.  It's called a saddleback moth caterpillar.  I thought it looked like a character from a Dr. Suess book!

Bagging frozen blueberries with a little helper

A load of blueberries ready to dry

Blueberry bagels

 We were babysitting this little guy one evening and he put himself to sleep playing the lap harp.

Beautiful sky over the corn field

Each July we enjoy the local rodeo.

Our favorite rodeo contestant!

When I sliced this cucumber, I thought the inside looked like a face.  :) 

This one is for you, Deb.  Hasn't he grown up?! 

Mel and Ross came down several times this summer.

Katherine

Hugh

Sleepy little girl got her hair fixed after her nap

 Enjoying corn on the cob

Salsa

Parmesan zucchini 

Independence Day

We celebrated Independence Day with some of our family and friends at Pickwick Lake.

Half of the 20 (soon to be 21!) of us

We enjoyed having Amanda and Russell visit for the week.

Festive cookies

We have a tradition of playing Aerobie while we wait for it to get dark enough for the fireworks.

Amanda and Bethany had matching shirts

Jonathan and a group of friends from his church

Guess who  :)

Here they are with the flash