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Sorry for the interruption in posts - our browser is not playing well right now with BlogSpot. Will is going to look and see if we can fix it. We are all well and enjoying the warmer weather right now! Sorry for our family up north! Looks like our week is going to be in the low 70's! We are excited and feel like we have been inside "forever"! Will get pictures up as soon as we figure things out :)

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Smallest Church in the U.S.

On our way to Floresville we usually drive past this little church. I say usually because 9 times out of 10 I get lost on the way to or from Floresville so it is kind of hit or miss.. but I digress.

It has a sign outside of it that says "Smallest Church in the World". Since I am really unsure of that, I just call it the smallest church in the United States to try and be safe about being truthful. I don't really know if that is the case either but it is super small! Below are pictures with me standing inside - I turned one way and then the other to take these - there is a small isle down the center and then these sets of benches. I know I have pictures of the outside also but I cannot find them right now!

Check out the man's headstone - WWI and WWII!

 

 

Kings Blooming Rose Giveaway!

Kings Blooming Rose is one of our favorite magazines for Katie and Bella - full of all kinds of good stuff! See the info about the giveaway and the link below:

This set includes a copy of The Family Daughter, One Thing I Desire, The Maiden’s Menu Cookbook, our NEW 2014 Proverbs 31 Woman Calendar, AND a one-year subscription to KBR magazine!

http://book.kingsbloomingrose.com/index.html 

September 2013

Bella in her super cute dress the Allison girls made for her birthday

my little superman :)  

There is a special relationship between these two - it is so sweet!

 

I did tell Jack that I did not think this a good idea with the recent broken arm and all....

Bella and some of our crop of blueberries 

Jack and his first corn on the cob

 Katie can stand out here with the hummingbird feeder and they literally land on her hand to drink.

August 2013

 

I am glad Katie took some pictures in the month of August because I must have missed the month somehow. Seems like the months are indeed flying by..

This is a little photo shoot Katie did with Card in August.

 

 

 

and this is the one photo I took...Maybe it is just that she is young and has more time but I think she is getting better than me behind the camera! 

July 2013

It has been such a long time since posting. I thought I would catch everyone up on the going on's around here since Bethany's wedding in June. We will start with July.

 

 

We started off with 4th of July fireworks, which everyone enjoyed

 

except maybe Bell 

 

she got into it though

then we celebrated all the May and June birthdays with Nanny and Mimi

Thomas and his tractor. He really loved this gift

Jack and his tractors

Jack with the doghouse he made Mimi

I post this picture of lights because there is a story that goes with it. This is the view on my grand-pas farm in Floresville. This is the view I could see out of the guest bedroom window each summer. I don't know how long I thought this but I thought that those little shinning lights were Indian fires and I just knew the Indians would be coming over the hill to scalp us at any moment... I know, I know - the overactive imagination of children right...

Thomas drinking his green smoothie making the "Aunt Linda" face. Thomas loves green smoothie but since he saw Aunt Linda make this face while drinking it, he thinks it is funny

Bella being her sweet self

our kids and the Rauschber kids at their place

Jack

Um.. I hope her future husband can afford a really big bed..

 

Ok - onto August...

Pennsylvania take 2

Our little Bella

Bella and Bethany

 

Bethany and her brothers John and Chris

 

Bethany and Emily

 

 Bethany and John

Pa and his boys - William "Bill", John and Brad

the photographer taking a picture of Card

 Pa, his kids and his grandkids (all except Merritt)

Front row L-R - Bill, Pa and Chris

Second Row - Will, John, Bethany, Brad and Johnathon

Back Row - Edward and John hanging around back there

 



Katie, Bella and Bethany 

our sweet little girl

Sarah and Muffin

Almost all of Bill and Colleens grandkids...

Pa and Florence

the Virginia countryside (told ya this was random)

one incredibly cute husband...