Four Corners, Day 4 July 28th 2012

Today we went to 4 corners. This is a place where you can actually stand in 4 states at 1 time. Colorado is 1 of them.. Denver Colorado is where we flew in to from Maryland on Wednesday and are driving to California from to see my sister and her family. Utah and New Mexico are 2 of the four states and then there is Arizona. We got a few pictures of all of us in 4 different states at 1 time which was pretty neat. I posted them below. Now We are going to drive through Arizona and stop at the grand Canyon on our travels.

Our group in all 4 states

My mom and dad

Tanner in all 4 states

Me in all 4 states

Colorado day 3 July 27th 2012

Well today we basically did a lot of driving but the scenery along the way was just spectacular.. I thought I would share a few pictures of what we saw on our drive.

Colorado day 2 July 26th 2012

Today before we started to head farther west we made a couple stops first. We went to Manitou cliff dwellings. It was really gorgeous.. as well as a place called Garden of the gods that we stopped at after that.

Catching up!!

Hello everyone, I know it's been quite a long time since I have been on here. There has been so much going on the last couple months.  March held the Woman's retreat for our Church. It was held in OC MD. Myself and a couple other girls led the worship music. There was some prep work for that in getting together whenever we could to practice. It was truly an awesome and blessed time.  

The view from our room at the retreat

On the 5th of April, I had Sinus Surgery. It was pretty much the worst recovery from anything I have ever had. It took a lot longer than I thought it would to recover. I still have some tenderness from it.

 On the 28th of April we celebrated my parents 50th wedding anniversary.  They went all out and renewed their vows and everything.

My Mom and Dad

 They had asked me to sing for this so thankfully I had recovered enough from my surgery to to do it.  My sister and her whole family ( 8 of them all together ) were able to fly in from California for it. It was really great to have the whole family together.

The Whole Family

This brings us to May. We actually had a yard Sale Friday and Saturday to raise money for the Relay that we are doing in June for the American Cancer Society . Friday was a rough day for me. One, I woke up that morning feeling really miserable. I  was able to go to the DR. after the yard sale and get an antibiotic so that helped a lot . I was feeling much better by Saturday. Two, Someone took my ipod when I had it outside during the yard sale. It was on the table where we were sitting with the cash box and in one quick minute, it disappeared. Saturday went well though, even though we never got my ipod back. We did end up making $289. 10 for our team RAVEN MAD FOR A CURE...  YAYY!!!

On to today... Today is my 42nd birthday.  I was greeted with a Happy Birthday from my husband and boys this morning and given a new Pandora charm for my bracelet 

Pandora Flowers for you,  Red

Then we were off to Church, After a great sermon with some fantastic Worship Music( I just love our Worship Team) my mom and dad took Ken, the boys and myself to Willow Valley to eat. The food was really good and some servers brought me a cake and sang Happy Birthday to me. After we ate we took a walk outside around the pond and enjoyed the scenery.

It was a great day and the night is not over yet, No one has to get up early tomorrow so who knows, Ken and I may just go see a late movie.. 

 on a closing note ,Earlier in the week My Sister in law Debbie and Brother in law Doug were blessed with a second Grandaughter. Their Daughter Starr and her husband Lucas had their first child. I would like to say congratulations to them all.

 

An unexpected addition.

Last Saturday we had gone to see my mother in law for her birthday which was last Sunday the 11th. While we were there, her neighbors came over and brought her a dog. He is a cute little guy and they really set her up. They gave her food treats, toys food dishes leashes collars a crate and all his updated papers from the vet showing his shots. Now I thought they had just given it to her not knowing if she'd want one but she said she had mentioned that she thought about getting one. Not sure where they got him from. This dog according to the papers is about 7 months so being a puppy still he is very active and playful and he loves to find things to chew on. The boys played fetch with him and he just loved all the attention. Well to make a long story short We now have him... This little guy was just a little to active for my mother in law. As often as he needed to go out, was a little difficult for her being that she had to go down a flight of stairs to do it and her Knees hurt her. That and other things. So we said we would give him a try. That way she would still get to see him and she knows he is well loved. He has been fantastic. Now of course for us 4 it is much easier to share the responsibilities than 1 person. We all feed him and take him out,  it makes a big difference. We hadn't planned on getting a dog but I will say that he is the most well behaved dog that we have ever owned .

Family Vacation

We don't get to take take a family vacation that often. We have taken day trips here and there but as far as a family vacation away for a few days, the last time we did that was a few years ago when we went to Williamsburg VA over the fourth of July. We had an opportunity to go away for a few days again this summer so being the history buffs that we are, we took another trip to Williamsburg. This time though we took a day and did Busch Gardens while we were there. Our first full day there was when we did Busch Gardens. We had a really great time. The boys loved the roller coasters. We stayed until closing, They had fireworks and stuff, called it Illuminights. The second full day there we did the Colonial part of Williamsburg. A few things that we did there were the same as a few years ago but for the most part, we did different things. We spent the whole day here too. Did the shops here before we left about 7: 30 or so then we went back to the Hotel and swam until the pool there closed. Unfortunately the next day we had to head home. We decided to make the most of it though and stopped at Mount Vernon on our way home. It was beautiful there. George really had some view from his back porch. Mount Vernon was George Washington's home . I would have liked to have been able to take pictures in his home but there was a no pictures rule. So we are home now... School will be resuming shortly and I will be going back to work : ( . But I am very thankful that we were able to get away. I think Next year, we are going to try for a a few days at the BEACH somewhere...

Jordan and Tanner front and center on the Griffon, over 200 feet in the air.

Jordan on the left, Tanner on the right.

Part of Little Italy in BG lit up for the Illuminights

Part of Little Italy again

Looking down from the bridge at the riverboats , the Lochness Monster and the Griffon to the right in the back ground

Illuminights Sign on the bridge at BG

A local Colonial girl showing Tanner one of their " Games"

Jordan getting his feet dirty in the clay to make bricks

In front of Mount Vernon

On the Back Porch

What A View !!!!