We came home from the cabin to the crepe myrtle in bloom and a garden full of zucchini, cucumbers, peaches and green beans. Also, woke up to a new month! August is here and there's no more ignoring the school emails. I want to pretend school doesn't start soon but in reality, once it begins, I'm ready for it after all. But, it's the beginning of a new month and we still have lots of gatherings, summer events and things to do! The weather is lovely and I'm looking forwards to a few more weeks of summer vacation right here at home!
I get all gitty when I know that we get to watch this basketball team play another basketball game together! This has been the team that we watched so much last winter! We traveled with them to the Giant Center and to all their final games in States! Most of these boys are young men that were in Matthew's class and we have really loved to love them!!!! They are such a good bunch of guys and friends! They played in a summer league in Strasburg and made it to the finals! It was no surprise when we realized that they made it to the finals VS the Linville boys team. This team won it all!!!!!
Way to go guys!!!!!
My family got an invitation to bring us all together for a day at a pool that we are very familiar with!!!! I grew up with this pool in our back yard and when Mom and Dad moved off of this property and down to the farm, we said goodbye to the pool!! My siblings and I swam so much in this pool when we were kids and we have a ton of fun memories here!!! The owners of the property now, invited my family to come swim for the day!!! What a fun way to start this month!!!!
We ordered pizza for supper and made a full day of it!!!!
It's so fun watching the girls enjoy this pool!!!!
Thank you Happy and Linda Ann for letting us have this pool for the day!!!! We had the best time!
We also attended our church campout event. We didn't actually camp out but enjoyed the days spent with our church friends at the campground! There's a big water slide that the kids loved!!!!
It's wonderful to see so many families come out!
There were lots of things to do at the campground.
The best food was served on Saturday night and Sunday lunch!!!! Wow thanks food committee!!!!!
The men, dads and single guys, played Thumper with the younger boys on Saturday night.
Sunday service was at the campground too! Merv and Laurel Charles were recognized for the work and many hours of helping the congregation heal from past hurts, messages preached and much more and move on to being a thriving church!!!! Thank you so much Merv and Laurel!!!! God bless you!
Then another delicious meal was served!
We really enjoyed the extra time spent with our church friends this weekend. We made more new friends and the children really enjoyed it too!!!!
The very next day, Ashlyn and I drove almost three hours to meet friends at the beach!!!! I thought that I was crazy doing this but I quickly replied yes when we got invited before I talked myself out it! I said yes because I KNEW it would be a total blast!!!! I also knew to be out of the house and at the church campout all weekend would have me extra busy on Tuesday. I told Ashlyn on Sunday night our plans and she was all into it!!!!
We left early Monday morning and enjoyed our first beach trip for this summer and loved it!!!! It was a gorgeous day to sit on beach chairs, listen to the ocean waves and feel the ocean breeze! A highlight for Ashlyn and I was seeing the wild ponies on the way to and back from the beach!!!! So awesome!!!!!
We met Lorene and Dessy at their beach house and drove to Asssteague Island. That's where we spent a few hours on the beach and enjoyed the cloudless skies! After a quick shower back at their beach house, we went to Ocean City for the boardwalk, supper and some shopping. Thrasers Fries, a visit at Candy Kitchen and buying some ear rings for Ashlyn, we grabbed some coffee and headed home.
It was so good to see the ocean again!!!!!!
On the way home, we drove right into a storm. A bad storm with rains that had me driving only 30 miles per hour for a long while. We witnessed the most beautiful rainbow with extreme color on the way home!!! It was just gorgeous! It was good to be back home with the rains over and with sun kissed skin and hearts full to have friends to spent with on the beach!
I knew I would be welcomed the next day with lots of garden goodies!!!!! What a blessing!
