Wednesday, August 27, 2008

July & August 2008---Family & Trip

The motorhome spent the month of July in the "Barn". We decided to do something different this summer and have the kids and grandkids for a differnt vacation. I went to Indianapolis July 1st and drove back to Virginia with Ally and her children. We spent a week here at our house along with Madie, Bry's youngest, and Julie's neice Lilly. Noah, Lilly and Madie attended Day Camp at our church everyday and had a great time. The other time was spent swimming at a neighbors pool, shopping and just letting the kids PLAY. The next week we all went to the beach at Virginia Beach. We rented a house big enough for all 11 of us and had a great time. They enjoyed going to the beach several time but enjoyed having a swimming pool in the backyard even more.We had a "cold" pool and a "hot" pool . Now you have to understand that Kate ( 3 yrs) thinks a hot tub is a hot pool and by the end of the week we were all calling it that. She went from one to the other. It was lots of fun watching all the kids interact with one another and try to keep everyone fed and happy.
I drove back to Indy with Ally on the 19th and 20th of July and then came home on the 25th. Larry had some surgery to repair a hermia on the 28th and then we both just rested for a long week. August 14th we finally let the bus out of the barn and went to Oak Grove Va. with our camping group for a long weekend. Madie went with us as she loves going in the motorhome and camping. She has spent a lot of time with us this summer. In fact she is here now as Julie went back to work at school this week and when we take her home tomorrow she will have spent 31 ni
ghts with us this summer.
Larry and I will be leaving on Tuesday Sept 2 with 3 other couples to travel to Branson Missouri.It is time to get on the road again so I will update this as we travel.
I am going to try and put a picture on here of the grandchildern.