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| These are the shirts Martin brought home for the kids. This picture was taken the same night we picked him up at the Weyers Cave airport....SO GLAD to have him back home! The next several days Annaliese kept saying, "I missed you Daddy when you were in Albania." All of our sentiments expressed through this one dear sentence. |
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| About a month ago, I went along with Vincent's kindergarten class to Showalter's Orchard in Timberville for a field trip. Here Vincent is with his teacher, Mr. Dayton, filling a basket full of apples, like the workers do. |
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| Remainder of apples after pressing for cider. These are fed to pigs. |
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| Pressing apples for juice/cider. |
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| Pig slop...! |
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| Scavenging for pumpkins. |
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| 'Twas a fun experience, albeit freezing cold. Yes, we even saw snow flurries, which unfortunately meant that it was too cold for a picnic lunch outside at the orchard, as had been planned. So I kissed Vincent goodbye, and he returned to school to eat lunch with his class, and I went home to bid Martin good-bye for his 12 day trip to Albania and Kosovo. |
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| Family Picture. |
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| Playing in the waves. Annaliese really enjoyed getting in the middle of the waves and testing her ability to stand up as they crashed around and over her. |
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| Sand castle building project orchestrated by Todd and Rachel. |
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| Soren playing in the sand. We enjoyed getting to know his fun amusing personality this week! |
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| Sand play continued... |
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| Soren loves the water too! Lots of squeals of glee and laughter from him! |
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| Elliot learned how to boogie board like a pro this year. He went far out in the waves and could ride them to the shore. |
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| Digging holes. |
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| Friends. |
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| Deb and Peter, Petra and Paradise. |
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| Brothers enjoying the ocean waves together. |
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| Us! |
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| Vincent. |
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| Handsome. |
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| Elliot's art work at the Mad Crabber restaurant. |
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| Vincent creating roads, pools, and other designs for his truck. |
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| Puffer fish. CRAZY! This fish washed ashore and we had fun seeing it all puffed up, then deflate to normal, then just about die. So we let the fish go back to the ocean to rest in peace. |
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| Todd and Rachel. |
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| Wonderful happy people and faces! |
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| Celebrating Candice's birthday...happy times and good people to be with! |
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| This handsome little guy on a bike...you're a sweet person Atticus! |
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| This pretty girl on a trike....love you Annaliese! |
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| Cousins together - a rare treat! |
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| Granddaddy and granddaughter. And delicious food! |
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| Rockin' away...Love those big dark eyes! |
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| Siblings - minus Dietrich and Carmen. |
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| Feeling that little baby inside Aunt Rebekah's uterus! |
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| Lots of good times on the trampoline with Claire and Eliza. Our kids had great fun with these girls and are very much looking forward to more time with more cousins in August! |
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| Loving Grandmom! |
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| PARTY! |
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| Brothers. |
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| Celebrating the first day of summer with the Haddad's. |
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| These two had great fun playing baseball together. Later Philip and Martin joined in for a rousing game! |
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| He loves watermelon - he gets it honest from his Grandpa and Mom! |
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| Sweet Paradise! |
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| Friends. |
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| Sporting the mohawk...??!! |
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| Onyx loves watermelon too! |
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| Philip joined us a bit later on this ride. The kids enjoyed/LOVED getting motorcycle rides, thanks to Martin! |
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| Friends playing together. |
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| Chris Geil joined us for supper one night and introduced the kids to his trumpet. They all 3 got the hang of how to play - position of lips and blowing! |
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| He's a natural! |
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| Cleaning out all the spit! |
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| Beauty! |
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| Handsome. |
