Friendship-normal & crazy

Clockwise from right: Kerri, Lindsay, Evangelyn

Kerri enjoyed an afternoon & evening with two of her buds: Evangelyn & Lindsay. It is heartwarming to a parent when their child finds good friends, even if they might be a bit crazy. :) It brings back memories of some of the crazy things that I did with some of my friends growing up & yes, even now!

20 years!!!

July 8, 1989

Our wedding party: Rob Roberts, Melody (Soules) Roberts, David Pouzar, Michelle (Roberts) Langevin, Me, Jeff, Marietta Lyons, Artie Lyons, Sheri (Teed) Sherman, Jon Sherman, Lori Benarick, Rod Brown (sorry it's blurry- we took a picture of a picture).

My mom & dad were married on the same day as Jeff & I, only 22 years earlier! :)

This week Jeff & I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. It is hard to believe that we have been married this long! Where does time go? Flying by, that is for sure! We have had a good/great/wonderful, adventurous journey together & I wouldn't want it to be with anyone else.

Visit with Mom & Dad

I love this picture!! :)

We took a family shot for mom & dad's digital frame.

Another pic with grandma & grandpa.

Mom playing solitaire on the computer, so she is "computer savy" now. She & dad really liked playing it, though dad was on it alot more than mom. :)

Even Zeus "smiled" & posed (with the help of a dog treat) for grandma's digital frame. :)

Well, I just saw mom & dad off about 15 minutes ago and thought I'd share some of the pictures taken this week. Some of the pictures taken didn't format right or stay on mom's memory card, so we lost a few pictures. Mom went with us to the Farmer's Market each Saturday, we went to Alexandria, IN, to the Gaither Family Resource Center (mom & dad had their picture taken with Gloria Gaither & this was one of the nice photos that was lost-sniff, sniff), we went shopping together a few days, & spent lots of time just chatting/vegging. Of course, it went by too fast, but we had a wonderful 11 days + 1 evening together! :)

Happy Birthday, Sharree!

Sharree-4mths. old

Now, at 16yrs. :)

It is hard to believe that it has been sixteen years since Sharree became a part of our family. Time has truly flown by!!! Jeff & I get in a reminiscing mood every now & then and enjoy thinking about "Sharree moments/memories". We are proud of the young lady she has become and are looking forward to seeing what God has planned for her life! We love you, Sharree! Happy Sweet 16! :)

Fathers

Just want everyone to know what a great dad, my hubby is to our girls. He & the girls enjoy doing many things together, even though they are teenagers now. The teenage years can be times when parents & children drift apart, but I am thankful that this hasn't happened in our house (& hopefully won't). The only thing I can think of that the girls don't do with Jeff anymore is visit the toy department. It has something to do with the way their dad acts, if you could imagine!! :) He doesn't think of himself as being overly sucessful, but as I tell him, he takes GOOD care of us in providing for our needs & wants. :)
Then, there is my dad. I am thankful for a dad who loves his family, loves God, & cares for the people around him: extended family & his church family. He & mom will be coming out Wednesday & staying for 10 days. I am so looking forward to it since I haven't seen them since last summer!!!
Then, last but not least, there is my father-in-law. He is an awesome father-in-law, too, and that should spell it out! I know I have mentioned it before, but when you hear about some of the horror stories of in-laws, it makes me doubly thankful for mine! We have a great relationship & enjoy our times together. In fact, I received a set of handmade, outdoor, wooden chairs from my dad-in-law painted my favorite color-blue! :)
So, Happy Father's Day to my three favorite dads: Jeff, my dad, & Jeff's dad!!
(Please note, I/we did already tell them this, I am just late posting my blog. Just want the blog world to know how much we love them!)

Our week

Monday Kerri & I picked strawberries with our good friends, Wendy, Lindsay, & Joseph. They picked 7 buckets & we picked 4. :)

We made freezer jam.....

and hulled & sliced LOTS of strawberries! We bagged cut strawberries to use for shortcake later on and left some whole for strawberry pie for when we get a craving in the middle of winter. :)

On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday, Kerri & I did some cleaning & straightening of some closets, mixed up cookie dough & coffee cake, and BAKED. We did a total of 10 coffee cakes, 4 coffee cake loaves, & 22 dozen cookies.

Sharree is not being mentioned in all this because she was at our church conference's youth camp. There were a lot more campers than they anticipated (around 150 last year & 214 registered for this year) so the girls from our church had to stay in a basement. The called themselves the "Dungeon Girls" and the camp staff started calling them the same. :) As basements are it was a bit damp, but cool. Sharree really enjoyed herself and made first place in the Bible Bowl (questions are asked from a book in the Bible & study papers are available to help you prepare) and received a $40 Walmart gift card.

On Saturday, you guessed it! We had Farmer's Market. It was another nice day & we sold all but 1 dozen cookies. The above picture is our "booth". As you can see, we only set up one table, but it is in a nice park near the river w/trees around us & we have lots of fun!!! We have so enjoyed visiting with our fellow vendors & our customers. We are already noticing repeat customers, too, and they sure do like the samples! :) But, don't we all! :)

Farmer's Market-wk. 2

Well, this week at the Farmer's Market we sold ALL of our products!! Yah!!! Yippee!!!! :)
I didn't take a picture (again) of our tent, but will try to remember next week. We did get there 45 min. earlier than last week, had a different location (thanks to some friends saving us a spot) and passed out samples. All of which, I believe helped us sell our stuff. We ran out of our coffee cakes in an hour but still passed out samples and had many people tell us that they would be back next week for some. We also gave out samples of two of our cookies-Banana Oatmeal Chocolate-Chip & No-Bakes. We only baked a bit more than last week because we were afraid of a lot of left-overs. So, this week we sold 4 out of 4 coffee cakes, 2 out of 2 pies, & 17 dozen of cookies!