Last Thursday evening was a bridal shower for Emeleen Detweiler up at Malta Park. Annette and I, with no prior planning, both wore red. We were planning to pick Krista up and Annette said, just watch, she'll have red on. Sure enough, she did. We thought that merited a picture!

And here are just a couple pictures from the shower itself. It was a lovely evening. That's Emeleen on the left.

Then on Friday evening we went camping with the youth group and Dale and Karyn, staying until Sunday afternoon. The campground is only about six miles from our house which makes it very convenient if you forget something! We really enjoyed the week-end. It was relaxing and a time of great fellowship with one another. The nights left a bit to be desired. Lets just say that a number of factors contributed to my few hours of sleep, especially on Friday evening. One thing I know, a deflated air mattress is not exactly a comfortable bed. The image of my nice cozy bed only six miles away kept floating through my mind!

On the way to the campground I had to record this momentous occasion in the life of our van.

Julie making the pancakes Saturday morning...

the guys making the sausage

and Jeff,  Mike and Julian cleaning up.

Then we played some volleyball.

The peasels sticks got alot of use. These were something new for most of them and they thought they needed a new name. Karyn thought maybe bisstick?! Not sure if the name will stick, (no pun intended.)

The corn hole game was also kept busy.

Tim and Kendall grilling the chicken on Sunday.

 We got home late Sunday afternoon. In the evening we went over to Krista and Gerald's to celebrate Tim's birthday which had been on Friday. She served us a yummy supper of touchdown taco dip and had a chocolate fountain with fruit. We topped it off with an icecream cake. We had a good evening together, a nice ending to our week-end. But probably the best ending was how good my bed felt last night!

Yesterday was such a beautiful day that we thought we should take advantage of it and have a cook-out. Our church group was rather small in the morning, so we decided just to invite everyone that was there for an evening of fellowship. Everyone helped with food, (I even got a nap in in the afternoon, after being at Gerald and Krista's for lunch!) and we had a blessed evening of food, fellowship and games.

the guys had the beanbag game going

some of them played croquet before supper

a lively game of yard blitz

and of course, roasting the hotdogs.

The food everyone brought was quite yummy and the evening was beautiful. We trust a good time was had by all!

Today a week ago Annette graduated from high school. It was on Memorial Day and it was a beautiful day. It was a very busy week-end for us, but everything buzzed along just fine and we survived!

Outside the gazebo at the tabernacle. She managed to make valedictorian, which made us quite happy!

Marching along to "Pomp and Circumstance." valedictorian and salutatorian

The valedictorian gives her speech.

Class song "Find Us Faithful."

We had her graduation party on Friday evening because of the previous week-end being so busy. We hoped and prayed it wouldn't rain, and the evening actually turned out very nice.

Now school's out, most of the outside work is done, and maybe we'll have time to do some fun things!