Youth Group Goodbye Party

 On Saturday evening, the youth group had a surprise good bye party for Benjamin.

They played some games and had a devotional.

A good bye gift from the group...

A t shirt with a pictures of the youth group that went to the recent retreat. Very cool idea!

 On the back are the names of the youth group members.

The group and a few others..

Good bye, Ben!

Abigail's Quinceañero

Now we are back to June 17 when we celebrated Abigail's 15th birthday. It was a beautiful evening celebrating a beautiful daugher.She decided to have a more informal party than her sister had 2 years ago. Enjoy the pictures by clicking the link. https://picasaweb.google.com/perumom/20110618AbigailQuinceanero?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCP232eqT2prw4QE&feat=directlink

Ben's Graduation

Now I am going back in time. In the past month and a half we have had 26 guests in our home. I am just now updating my blog with varios activities. This post is of Ben's graduation. Click on the link below to see several of the pictures. Our thanks to Barb Boyer for taking over 200 pictures at graduation.https://picasaweb.google.com/perumom/20110702BenSGraduation?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCN_gjdXyt9Qv&feat=directlink

Youth Retreat

Yes, I know I haven't posted in a VERY long time. I will make up for that, I promise. We have been blessed with many weeks of company and a great group of young people who just left this morning. We spent 3 wonderful days at camp for the winter youth retreat. We had 171 campers and prepared food for 180! I had the privilege of helping in the kitchen. Wow, talk about exhausting. Yet...I would do it again in a heartbeat. I am sending some pictures your way. Click on the link below to view all the pictures that we took at the retreat.
https://picasaweb.google.com/perumom/CongresoDeJovenes?authkey=Gv1sRgCIfVsPPZoMPW5QE

While the Cat's Away

While David has been in Lima this week we have been doing some painting in the kitchen, living room, dining room, laundry room and hallway of the house. It is looking great! It is nice to have bigger children to help out.

I did all of the cutting in at the ceiling level.



Abigail and mom working in the laundry room.

This is the ugly green that was on the walls in the kitchen. Now it looks like this...

Clean bright walls, I love it!!

Yeah, this is how we all felt at the end of the day.

This girl inhaled too many paint fumes!

Family Work Time at Camp

On Tuesday, we went to camp for the afternoon. We enjoyed being able to do a bit of physical labor. It was a nice time together.

David, Steve, their dad and the camp caretaker all worked on putting up the beams to hold the roofing for the bathroom/shower area at the pool.

The girls worked on laying bricks for a sidewalk outside the dining room. It is harder than you might think to get the bricks level.

The finished product... it still needs to be extended down further, but this was the goal for today.

Benjamin is 18!

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5 years

10 years

Graduation Picture

Two of his favorite things: the beach and his french horn