Summer Recap

Anybody out there? We've been a tiny bit...make that ALOT absent in our bloggy home! With good excuse though :)
We relocated our real home from beautiful mountains to the sunny south. The dust still hasn't completely settled, but God has still been showing Himself faithful to us through this transition time!! Most of our things are still in the boxes waiting to be unpacked.....

We left our handprints and a chunk of our hearts behind......

Before leaving PA, we squeezed in as much family and friend time as possible! The cousins were in town so we made an attempt at a Grandparents/kids picture. Nana purchased all the matching outfits for the kiddos :)

Aunt Jess was a huge help packing up our house (THANKS!) and lovin' on three of her nieces....

I just love this picture of Jaron's grandparents with the girls!! They are sweet people. Grandpa calls the girls his "Dollies" and Grandma usually has a twinkle in her eye!

The church threw a surprise going away party for us...unfortunately I don't have any pictures of that. I need to get some emailed to me. We also went to Hardings for mini-golf and ice-cream with the youth group. It was fun and bittersweet and now I'm regretting not getting a group picture!!

I did get a picture with one of my best friends, Vonda :) We have laughed, cried, commiserated, schemed and planned...and boy do I miss her!!!

We also spent a week in NY at our church youth camp. One of the days Vonda and I took our girls to Otsiningo Park! We ate lunch first and then hit the playground. The girls had a blast! We wore them out good ;) while I tried not to think of how this wouldn't be happening for a long time....

It also happened to be Katrina's 6th birthday so we were celebrating that too. (Pictures to come from her party!)

Can you tell we were trying to fit in last minute fun things? HA One of those things was blueberry picking. Another good friend, Nellie joined my MIL, the girls and I for that!

When we got to Uncle Bud's farm, we found out that Pastor Byer, Jeffrey and Janessa were already there :) The kids enjoyed playing together, running in and out of the blueberry rows!
I tried to get a decent picture of the four of them, but you can see that I wasn't very successful :)

I did manage to get a good one of Jeffrey :)

After picking blueberries, we took our picnic lunch to Roadside Rest, filled our tummies

and dipped our toes in the cool, mountain water :)

A few days later my parents flew in to town and helped us move. Dad and Jaron drove a 26ft Penske Truck with a Uhaul trailer attached (yeah, we have a lot of stuff, apparently!) and Mom, the girls and I drove the Jeep. I should have taken pictures of our "caravan", but really just couldn't bring myself to do it. Our 'travels' went well and without mishap!

That pretty much wraps up our VERY eventful summer .... we'd love to have you stay tuned for this new chapter we have started :)