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Sunday, April 29, 2012

A rainbow

One day, after I got home from school, I was in the process of unlocking the door when I looked out towards the back of the property. On the other side of the Christmas tree field, there was a really bright partial rainbow. 

I quickly unlocked the door, set my stuff inside, ran and got my camera. By the time I came back outside, the rainbow was hardly there anymore :( 

I still went out to the cornfield and tried to get some pictures but it never got as bright as it was before 

An amazingly good picture of our dog. She is a really cute dog, but is hard to get pictures of because she is scared of the camera (among lots of other things) :)

An updated picture of Evan's baby goat

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Two posts in a day!

WOW!

I just had to share that I only have 8 more days of school and that's including finals!! :) :) :) :) 

and I'm happy! :)

And since I'm here I might as well share pictures from my Dad's birthday which was April 3rd.

Evan was already in bed so it was just Mom, Carla, and I to sing...so Dad helped out by singing to himself :) You have to turn the volume up pretty high to hear him sing because I was too close to the camera.


His birthday present:

He also likes to say that he got a new birthday suit. Which he did...it is a suit that he got for his birthday, not a birthday suit ;)

Illinois Day 4 & 5

Almost 2 weeks later... ;)

On Monday, we just hung around Grandpa & Grandma's house because Dad was leaving that night. Mom, David, and I went to Big R (I think that's what's its called) and got a John Deere shirt for Evan. Other than that, we didn't do too much.

Dad left mid-afternoon from Grandma's and picked up his cousin that came out with us. After he left, David, Mom, and I left Tremont and headed to Champaign. We had dinner at the Magner's house and then slept over at his apartment. His roommate was gone so Mom and I changed the sheets and slept in his bed. 

Before we went oblivious to the world, we took a walk around the pond at the apartment complex. There is a water fountain in the pond. At night there are blue lights under the water that makes it look really cool. I tried for a picture but it didn't turn out...
This is the best I got

Don't know what happened to this one! :)

Then on Tuesday we got up, ate breakfast, and started cleaning some cupboards in the kitchen

This cupboard that I was cleaning here, was pretty nasty. It had a container of caro syrup and it somehow spilled a long time ago. There was lots of sticky stuff that was all stuck on. :) I had to scrape it out with a metal spatula.


Just an fyi....David stuck the towel in my back pocket not me :)

To see that Mom actually did some cleaning go here.

:) :)

I don't really have any more pictures from our trip so this is it!

See ya!

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Illinois Day 3

Sunday...In the morning Mom, Dad, David, Grandpa B, and I drove down to Champaign to go to church. We met Grandpa & Grandma G there. They came down from Chicago. U. Mark & A. Colleen and their family also came down (or up or over, whatever it is). :)

After we went to David's apartment and some people changed. Josh (David's roommate) showed Grandpa & Grandma G around the complex. Afterwards, David gave us a tour of the vet school. Then we went out to eat.

Here's some pictures from the afternoon.




Neil and I

David, Grandpa, and Grandma G


Dad & Noah


Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Illinois Day 2

Saturday morning, we ate breakfast at our cousins house. After that mom & dad headed to Tremont and David & I went to Jerry & Kathy's and saw their deer. Here's some pictures (I took a lot but will only post a few) :)





Can't even tell I was standing in a pen! ;)

Next we went to my U. Vernon & A. Ruth's house. They have lots of animals

Baby lambs...they are soo cute!


Peacock....they also had white ones!

After our "travels" we headed to Gram & Gramps. That night was the Beutel Spring Fling. All the Beutels that could make it, got together at Tremont Fellowship Hall and enjoyed dinner and an evening together.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Illinois Day 1

FINALLY!!!! :)

13 days later...here it is

We left home on March 16th. We flew out of Providence and into Midway in Chicago. Here's some pics from the plane


I tried getting a picture of Mom and Dad on the plane and this is how it went:


:)



The crew (not the airplane crew) ;)

After the above picture, Dad, Mom, Jay, and I got our rental car and headed to Eureka. We dropped Jay off at his parents place and then we went to my cousin's house and stayed the night there.

Here's our rental car:

It's a Mazda 2. Funny story...We had gotten our rental car (well not literally we just knew what it was) and then went over to where Grandpa & Grandma were finding out what they were gonna get. We told them we had a Mazda 2. Well, the lady behind the desk heard us say that, so she tells G & G that she can do better and give them a Mazda 3!

We should have traded because we were so squished in this tiny thing. There was four of us plus our luggage. As you can tell, the trunk is pretty tiny. Mom and I sat in the back seat with a piece of luggage because it wouldn't fit!

This is what a Mazda 3 looks like:
And there were TWO people in this!!! They had trunk room to spare ;)