5th grade announcements

each week, two 5th graders get to do the school morning announcements. we just got the DVD of when owen did it. i'm not going to put the whole week on here but this is just one of the days. it is about 6 minutes long but you can fast foward through some parts.

Glamping

This weekend we went back to Slattery Vintage Estates in Nebraska City and camped out in their tents with our friends Brian and Kari.  

We stopped by Soaring Wings Vineyard first, where they had a grape stomping contest.  Unfortunately it was extremely cold and windy and we were not wearing the proper attire for grape stomping...

Here are our tents, fully equipped with full size beds, dressers and space heaters.

Nebraska Farms

This weekend Heath and I visited two local farms...you have to find things to do in Nebraska or else you get pretty bored!

The first an apple farm for the AppleJack festival.  I was seriously disappointed in their apple treats, only apple pie and caramel apples.  The Johnny Appleseed festival in Lisbon has apple ice cream, apple fritters, apple dumplings, along with apple pie and caramel apples.  Plus, the apple cider was really just apple juice.....SO disappointing!

Downtown for the festival, they had a car show.  Look at the car on the right....are they kidding?!?!?!?

Then we went to a choke berry farm.  We brought home choke berry jam and choke berry wine.  The jam was just OK, Heath has not tried the wine yet...

And speaking of farms, finally, we got a ripe watermelon from our garden.  It is delicious!!!

water boy and johnny appleseed

watching the cheerleaders...

johnny appleseed in the parade in lisbon

waiting patiently for the parade to start...

mark coaching 8th grade football and owen as the water boy

he's good at his job!

look what i found! (http://www.life.com/image/50514119)

Do you want to bet ?

Julie is now 8 months , will you bet when she walk ?
the winner get a free photo of me

Get Low

Heath and I saw this movie last night...it was incredible.  If you can find it near you, go see it!

amazing video!!!

Vintage Photobook

Guess who...

grey to green festival

chris, a friend, performing.

it's a beautiful park, downtown Youngstown.

Andi setting up, we had " yellow watermelon gazpacho, grilled cheese on ciabatta with yellow tomato, savory scone with tempeh bacon, cheddar and fig, cookies and pear -blacberry crumcake.

On a barge

And finally, I had the chance to go to a party on a barge, for free ! Sorry for the quality, taken with my phone by night...

More tourist

On top of Louis Vuitton's building on the Champs Elysées !

Tourist again !

An american place where they serve real lemonade, and delicious cakes !
Oh and they make these crazy tiered cakes !

Last weekend of summer

Enjoying our last day at the pool...

In York visiting Heath's family - yes, this is a commercial hot dog warmer.

At dinner for McKenzie's 15th birthday with his girlfriend Haley

A beautiful polka dotted butterfly

Our niece Courtney is a cheerleader and they cheered at a minor league baseball game Saturday night.

Journée au Grau-du-Roi