Busy Times!

July and August.....what busy months!  Jason and Lacey moved to California!  It was a very sad and emotional day when they pulled away!  After having them live near us for six years, it is taking time adjusting not seeing them.  We miss them tons!  Life seems to have a way to change things and give us opportunities for growth whether good, bad, sad or happy.  As we said goodbye to Jason and his family, we were blessed to welcome Stephanie and Brett and family here.  Changes both happy and sad in two short weeks.  Before Jason and Lacey left, we had some good times with them.  We went to the 4th of July home run derby and huge fireworks on the 3rd and then on the 4th went over to Jason and Lacey's for some good food and our own fireworks put on by Jason.  He does a great job every year and we all had a fantastic time.  The first weekend in August, we went to Matthew and Katie's to celebrate Keegan and Carter's 4th Birthdays and for Sawyer's blessing day.  It was the first birthday of Keegan and Carter's that we were able to celebrate with them so it was a very fun weekend for us.  We also went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with their family.  Matthew and Katie surprised Rick and I with tickets to Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian for our anniversary.  It was fantastic!  Thank you for the great time, Matthew and Katie! We also celebrated Noah's birthday with a trip to the Amazing pizza place.  Sorry for all the picture posts!  It was hard to decide what to pick!  Believe me there is alot more pictures....I take way too many and then don't want to delete them! 

The Fireworks and Home Run Derby

 

We had a row of thirteen seats ~ quite the span but so much fun!



 

The girls weren't too sure about wearing curlers to the game (they were having pictures the next day bright and early in the morning!)  I think they looked darling and fit right in with the celebration.

Fireworks at Jason and Lacey's home
Kids waiting patiently!

One more sad goodbye ~ Jason pulling out with the moving truck!

Having fun at the Museum!

Noah's birthday celebration

 

 

Carter and Keegan's birthday celebration

  We weren't there for their actual birthday but we able to be there for the big party!  Matthew made these cute "Cars" cars!

Sawyer's Blessing Day

Isn't he adorable!

Monterey Bay Aquarium

 Petting the stingrays!

Wonderful night at the Venetian!

 

May and June happenings!

So to finally catch up, I'm doing several months together and mainly pictures of the main events of those months. May and June were very, very busy....a trip to West Virginia, DC and Williamsburg with my sisters which included a trip to see Eric, Joy and kids, a grandson born in Vegas (see previous post), watching grandkids for a week here while Jason and Lacey went home hunting in California, a trip to Nevada to see Matthew,Katie, boys and see new little Sawyer, and then back for a while before going to Utah and helping Stephanie, Brett and family move here. What is interesting is that we had all four of our children and their families change addresses and zipcodes in the last three months. It sure is keeping us on our toes, to say the least....have to always think before calling them...what time zone do they live in~ and what time is it there!

 

Trip to West Virginia/DC/Williamsburg with Sisters

I met my sisters in Morgantown WV for the graduation of a great niece with her PhD from West Virginia University.  We then traveled to DC and Williamsburg and back to West Virginia via Eric's home in Lewisburg.



 

Tour of the capitol building.

 

I loved the artwork inside the capitol building.

 

 

Lincoln Memorial

 

 

Williamsburg ~ Love that place!

 We were there for their Salute to the Nation.

There was about ten or more Fife and Drum Units that

performed with a night grand review and fireworks!

 

 

Jamestown and Yorktown

 

We went to Yorktown and saw the graves of our ancestors that helped found Yorktown.  I was so excited because I had found out right before we left for DC/Williamsburg area that we had a connection with Yorktown and Williamsburg.  Coincentally, I recently found out that Rick's ancestors help establish Jamestown.  Cool Connections!

 



 

The Prestwich Manor ~ Agecroft Hall

This English tudor home was once the Prestwich Manor in

England.  It was bought, taken down piece by piece, shipped to

America and rebuilt in Richmond VA.  Very cool to walk the

ancient halls that my ancestors walked in England. 

 The Gardens at Agecroft Hall

 

We were only able to visit with Eric, Joy and family for one day so I was glad that I had been able to visit them earlier in March for a week (see March/April post).  I didn't get many pics in the short time we were there.

 

 

 

 Lewisburg Civil War Reenactment happened to be the afternoon we

were there. 

 

Visiting Matthew and Katie in Nevada. 

I was able to go see Baby Sawyer after I came back from DC/Williamsburg (see previous post).

While there we went on a picnic up the canyon for Memorial Day.  Boy was it

hot!!!  The boys sure loved all the rocks, though! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watching Jason and Lacey's children for a week kept us (me~ I should say~Rick worked

most of the time) pretty busy!  We had a lot of fun visiting places and doing things together.