We’re Patriots. No, we’re not part of the NFL team, the Patriots. We’re not even die-hard Patriots fans. This week we recognized Patriot Day on September 11th. In our family, we individually took time that day to remember the tragedy that occurred against our country in 2001. We did a patriotic concert on Wednesday. Webster’s
August has been a busy month – from singing at revival services as a family, to a few of the girls helping at a local church’s VBS, to Lydia’s week as camp photographer in MA, planning ahead to upcoming concerts and the Christmas season… the list goes on and on. We kept ourselves pretty busy!
One of the delights of summer is home-grown vegetables. Carolyn is our valiant gardener now that Kathryn has a garden of her own. A tiny garden yields tiny vegetables, though, so thanks to our friends the Stovers, we got to pick several bags of green beans this year. It was our first time blanching green
We presented our annual Tribute to America concert at Elim Park in Cheshire on July 8th – there was a great turnout, and we enjoyed sharing with the folks that came! A friend of ours took pictures for us. 🙂 Presentation of the American Flag, the Christian Flag, and the Bible at the beginning of
On July 4th, we kicked off our celebration with the annual Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence on the green in the center of town, an event that our family has put together over the past few years. Even though extremely hot weather was predicted, and there is little to no shade on the
This week, we received our new Christmas CD project in the mail – it is now officially ready for distribution! It was a long process to put it together, and we’re grateful for Matthew and his friend Bobby McKeever who spent hours mixing and mastering. And now, finally, we have the hard copies in our
We just returned from a fun, refreshing, relaxing and encouraging time in Florida! It was a relatively quick trip, but we made the most out of it. We were sad that Kathryn and Joel weren’t able to come with us, but were so glad that Matthew and N’gella were able to fly down and meet
This year’s Memorial Day weekend was filled with sweet celebrations of life and family and country…kicking it off, a birthday party for our cousin Rachel’s little girl Emily (now 5!). They live in Texas and it was so nice to see them. On Saturday we went to MA for our cousin Nicole’s wedding rehearsal, hot
A few weeks ago, Joel & Kathryn, Carolyn and Lydia went to a Photography Field Day at Kent Falls with James Staddon from Lenspiration, and his brother Jonathan. The weather was absolutely beautiful and we had a blast! We learned about the basics of photography: what is Aperture? ISO? Shutterspeed? (and much more), and got
We had a wonderful Mothers Day – all of our family was able to have lunch and spend the afternoon together! We enjoyed lunch together Then we took the opportunity to take family photos in the yard. It was starting to rain, but thankfully not too hard, so we didn’t get soaked and even were