Vacation Bible School pics from NY!!!

We were so excited to make the last night of Vacation Bible school (our home Church in NY) The theme was Space, Operation Space from Answers in Genesis. http://www.answersvbs.com/ It was so much fun seeing our dear friends!! As you can see the kids had a great time too!!!

Sanctuary where all the teaching and music was held

Miss Clarissa and Miss Fey at the outdoor activities

Bug listens to Mr. Jonathan teach

all the grades come together for singing

Pastor Leo (Spaceman) at the closing ceremony

Our Trip to New York August 2009

We went on our annual vacation up North. Our hometown for 34 years!!! There are so many pictures, so this will have to come in several blogs updates!! hehe!! I love that new camera!!! We started our trip in KY with Daddy, for a business trip. (which made us 4 hours closer to NY). We had a great week with gorgeous weather, and no rain!! (something they had the whole month of June)
It was such a blessing to be able to do and see so many family members and friends during out week. Here is a list!!!
We had our annual Family Reunion, 59 years this year!!! A fun visit with our friends Ken and Clarissa and Pastor Leo and Martha for Breakfast at The Wagner, girls lunch with Julie's friends Candace, Clarissa, and Ann Marie and the children, VBS at, Keuka Lake State Park for a picnic and swimming with Julie's friends; Judy, Stacey, Gail, Lori, and Angie, and all our kiddos, Julie had breakfast with her friend Amanda at Angel's Restaurant (she saw Angel too, a friend Julie used to work with and Patrick graduated High school with!! (Gotta love small towns!!), day trip to see Irv and Darci and their sweet boys and new baby girl, Eden Grace, visiting with both Patrick's parents, and his brother, Mark and sister in law, Pam and neices and nephew, and Julie's parents, Gram and sister, Lisa and neice and nephews from Boston, Julie's Aunt Mary and Uncle Steve and cousins, and Grandma!!! Shew!!! That was a lot to list!!!
Patrick and I were blessed to attend our Family Church. Patrick preached the sermon that day! (I am trying to see how to get in on our blog for you all to listen to. :-))
The pictures below are of Julie's Uncle Steve, Aunt Mary, her cousin Caitlin, Nana, and our friends from PYBC,Pastor Leo and Martha with us and our friends (Rachel, Martha, and Clarissa) More pics to follow in more upcoming blogs!! You can say I am behind in blogging, with the start of school last week. :-)

(Background in picture is leftover from Vacation Bible school, space theme!!)

Circus night

The kids enjoy performing for Mommy and Daddy and call it "Circus night" Here are some of the highlights of our most recent Circus night (Bear was in bed). It is fun filled family time and something Patrick and I treasure. I am so thankful for our new camera (Patrick surprised me with it a couple weeks ago after our last one broke)
Our most recent fun times (just before bed) involves 6 laundry baskets (small ones for each family member), we call them "bongos" and we each drum a tune together. The kids have asked to do this each night since Patrick was fooling around one night!! I pray they each remember these special nights. Patrick and I have been praying for God to give us peace about family time. We have decided to leave our calendar open on weekends and not have the boys in Flag Football or AWANA this season, so we can concentrate on family time. This was so hard last couple of seasons with Soccer/Flag Football, Patrick traveling one night a week, AWANA and Patrick's Seminary Classes. We want to start planning activities for the weekend (camping, museums, bowling, laser tag, go-carts, hiking......)