This weekend, our church held our annual 10-mile Walkathon to support Hope Pregnancy Center in Cheshire. It was a lovely day for the walk, and we enjoyed our time!Part of the group Jonathan and our friend, Michael The weather was beautiful! After we got home from the Walkathon, some of us went apple picking at…
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Independence Day!
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…
Mission Accomplished!
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…
Refreshing Time in Florida
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…
Memorial Day Weekend
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…
Fun at Kent Falls!
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…
Happy Mothers Day!
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…
250 Years – in Gingerbread
The house we live in was built in 1768, so this year we are celebrating its 250th anniversary. Our celebration so far has consisted of eating foods from our Colonial cookbook, and designing our New Year’s gingerbread village in the style of Cheshire, 1768. According to our Cheshire history book, our house was built by…
Merry Christmas!!
Christmas Eve after church in the morning we set out the candles for the evening service. We line the entire driveway and the whole effect is quite pretty. Elizabeth, Kathryn and Julianna lit all the candles while the rest of us prepared for the evening service. These four did so well with their spontaneous…
O Canada!
We enjoyed our visit to the beautiful province of Quebec to spend time with Grandmaman and also minister at L’Eglise Baptiste de la Beauce. Unfortunately we forgot to take any pictures of our concert, but we did get lots of other pictures through the week. 🙂 It has become a tradition to get a picture…