Train Ride & Grandpa's 80th Birthday Party

I am the worst blogger ever. I am so far behind. Oh well!

We took the train out to Illinois this time. David had flown out before for provings and baptisms of our second cousins. We left the train station in Springfield, MA Thursday June 23rd at 2:45 PM. We got in to Chicago around 12:00 PM on Friday June 24th. We were two hours late, not bad considering it was a train!

Some pics of us on the train

On the way out we wanted to get 5 seats that were together. I didn't notice until after we were settled that we didn't have windows to look out of. On all the cars, the first row of seats have no windows. Bummer!!! I guess that's what music is for :)

Evan was the lucky one who had to sit with other people.

He didn't seem to mind :)

That night at Tremont Fellowship Hall, we had a birthday party for my Grandpa. He turned 80 on June 17th. They waited to have the party because we were coming and my U. Richard & Mariah we coming out too.

The grandkids

David & Caleb Larson (one of our second cousins)

Andrea, Heidi, Heather, Grandma, & Grandpa

The granddaughters

U. Gene & A. Marg. U. Gene is my Grandma Beutel's brother and A. Marg is my Grandpa Gerber's sister. Double relation!

Grandpa & Grandma with U. David & A. Eunice (Grandpa's brother)

Dad & David

U. Dan (Dad's brother) & Dad

Heather, U. Dan, & Andrea

Grandpa & Grandma with their kids.

From left to right: U. Dan, A. Colleen, Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, & U. Richard

Heather, me, & Andrea

They served cookies and punch. A fun evening was had by all!

A New Blog to Follow

Since my brother is moving to Illinois for school, he thought he would set up a blog to keep everyone that will be left behind, up to date.

He posted what his apartment complex looks like.

Here's a sneak peak:

Pretty sweet huh??

Go check out Journey To A DVM!

Sunday School Picnic

June 18th was the Sunday School Picnic at East Windsor Park (almost a month ago...tells you how on top of things I am:)

Heidi sitting by the water + her camera = random pictures

So here they are!!

Evan G

David V

Sam G

Lena M

The "gathering" place for the teens

Landon L

And the cutest little girl ever...Lexy R

Love her hair!!!

All the parents "life-guarding"

FFA Video & Sneak Peak

I heard that some people had problems viewing the video from the FFA Banquet post. I just re-uploaded it so try again!

FFA Banquet Video

Here's a sneak peak of what is coming...

Soon...

-I will upload those pictures I was talking about in the last post

-I will go through and pick which pictures to post

-I will write a post (or two or three) about what has been going on around here!

So do you know what that means?!?!?!?!

I got my computer back!!! (but not a bill yet :)

And a random picture to finish the post:

Flowers I got from a friend for graduation

Catch up

Well, we're home from Illinois, our company has come and gone and so has the fourth of July, and I have LOTS of pictures.

But unfortunately I don't have my computer (right now I'm using my brother's computer), because it is at the "computer shop". Something was very wrong with it and hopefully I will get it back, working and not too large a bill :)

So, once my computer is fixed, I will post about our trip to Illinois and our fourth of July weekend.

Hope everyone had a good fourth of July!!

Race for the Cure

On June 4th, I walked the 4k walk in Hartford for the Race for the Cure.

There was quite a group of us that did it...A. Mare, me, Lydia, Rebekah, Rudy, Susan, Rachel, Rob, Sarah, Seth, Lenny, Deb, Kayla, Ed, Cindy, Brian, Ronnie, Bonnie, Dorothy V., and Brenda Rady. 

We walked for Brenda and Bonnie.

This picture was during the walk...there was so many people. I think I heard the lady say that a total of 12,000 people showed up to do either the walk, the race, or a kids race.

The tribute wall

The new police cars that all towns should definitely have :)

After the walk we rode the carousel...A. Mare riding side saddle :)

We got to ride for free because we walked.

Rebekah

Our team had matching t-shirts. I don't have a picture but they said:

Brenda's Bosom Buddies

Walk for the Cure

(you can kind of see them in the picture above)

Our group raised a total of $1750. The walk was a lot of fun!