Last week our cousins from PA visited us and one of our outings was to Blennerhassett Island. To get to the island we took a small boat. It was fun to explore the two decks and climb the spiral staircase! The Island was very beautiful. During a covered wagon ride around the island a deer ran across the path right in […]
Last week we had our cousin’s children come to visit us from North Carolina. It was a very busy week because they had two younger children and baby twins! Their oldest, Josh, loved the great outdoors. We appreciated his help and good example of sharing with his younger brothers. Caleb, the second oldest, enjoyed cars and riding scooters. He really liked pulling […]
One day David and I were riding our bikes and thought of somthing really fun we could make. We built a ramp for the bikes. We used old boards and nails. It is a lot of fun trying to jump farther then last time. I think our record for now is over 2 yards. You don’t always have to buy new equipment. You can use old materials that […]
Last week some friends from Virginia, the Wilkes, came. One of my favorite things was playing basketball knock out. Even though it was hard to win, everybody was a good sport and we all had a good time. The Wilkes’ are also getting bees! So Michael taught them all about bee keeping. God blessed us with […]
This has been a very snowy winter. David and I rolled up a big ball of snow and carved it into a throne. Then we got another medium ball and made a foot stool to put your legs on. We also have been shoveling all the snow off the front cement pad into one big […]
We had snow on the ground for over two weeks and the temperatures were in the teens for the last couple nights so are little pond froze over. We tested it out every day to see if we could go ice skating. On Sunday night the temperature dipped down almost to zero. So on Monday […]
For Christmas David and I got Scratch Art. Because of its details, it was more of a challenge than any other scratch art we have ever tried to do. That was the sea horse and the fish. David also had another kind of scratch art that he got for his birthday. You could make any picture you wanted. I did the […]
Today David and I decided that it would be really exciting to dress up like knights. So we got a lot of cardboard and made helmets, shields, a battleaxe and a spear. Then we went downstairs and pretended to fight a great big battle! In the fighting that ensued, David got wounded but I came […]
This year The Buckhannon Chamber Orchestra invited me to play with them. This is the most advanced group I have played with since Esther started teaching me in 2004. I really liked the songs that they picked. In the middle of the concert one of my strings got loose so I couldn’t play it, but at the end of the song […]
Harvest time is here! Esther and I went up to the garden and found a gigantic 5½ lb beet. It looked so good that we ate it today for dinner. 🙂 And this gigantic beet came from a seed the size of a pin head! That just shows you the wonder of our Creator!