Fourth of July

Wow...this is really late! Oh, well.

Fourth of July weekend we had invite a family weekend for the bible class in Sunday School. We invited John and Julie Grimm from Columbus, OH. Friday night, July 1st, we had dinner at the Luginbuhl pond (sorry no pictures that night:)

Saturday we went down to Keith & Mary's in Waterford, CT. We had lots of fun!

This game is kind of like tug of war, but you are standing on wooden boxes not even a foot square. If you fall off, then you lose.

They had horse shoes...

Marcy B. and I

 Evan and our company boy, Joshua

Our company, John and Julie

Mom and Julie

Carla and our company girl, Julia

Our family and the Grimm's

We all had fun that weekend. Hopefully we will do it again soon!

Illinois continued...

On Monday we went and visited U. Loren & A. Joan's house (they are actually my great uncle and aunt). U. Loren took David and Evan fishing and A. Joan took Mom, Carla, & I shopping (Yippee!!) On the way out to the car we saw these hibiscus. A. Joan said that U. Loren made the pots.

These pots are sweet huh??

On Tuesday, Mom, David, and I went to Champagne to see David's apartment.

To see pictures, see David's post about his apartment.

On Wednesday we just hung around Grandma's house. Around 3 pm we left for the train station. We got home on Friday around 6 or so.

And guess what??!!

Tomorrow is my birthday!!!!!!

The Farm, The Gerber Family, & The Works Bomb

Basically Illinois Part 2 :)

We visited my dad's second cousins farm on Saturday. They have red, white, and blue turkeys!!

And of course, they have cows...

They also had some weird looking chicken/bird things but I didn't get any pictures.

After we were done at the farm, we had dinner with my mom's side of the family that lives in the Fairbury/Forrest area. We had dinner at a park.

Carla and our second cousin, Jamie.

Deep in conversation :)

The little boy in the orange had to be the cutest little boy there! He was so cute!!

Our second cousin Ross (I think) and Evan after a hard game of baseball toss ;)

Sunday after church Evan filled up a bottle with Works toilet cleaner and Aluminum Foil. That makes quite the bomb!!

Starring Evan Beutel...

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"