Church picnic!

I just wanted to make a quick post to show you what we've been up to.

Mom took me to several different stores to look for graduation announcement cards to put my senior pictures in to mail to people...but we were a bit late, of course. The stores were all sold out, so I made my own instead. 

First came the designing..

And after I figured out which way to put the card paper in to get it to print in the correct area...

Came the fun part: folding. :)

People from my Aunt Doina's church wanted everyone from ours to go there for their church picnic. Everyone from our church backed out at the last minute, but Laurisa decided to go along with Esther and myself anyway. We're so glad we went!

Minutes before we hit the road, Dad caught this interesting lizard with a forked tail. Our guess was that his first tail had been part-way broken and that his new one grew off of the broken part even though he still had it attached.

 We had been invited to go swimming with my cousins at Aunt Doina's as well as spend the night, so we arrived Saturday about lunch time.

They had moved approximately a year ago to their new house, but this was our first time getting to see it. (Note: this is just the side view by the garage where we pulled in. ;))

There was a beautiful lake right off their back yard.

After a fun time of swimming in their in-ground, 10 ft. pool, we played some balderdash together, then ate pizza, and after helping our aunt prepare some food for the church picnic the next day, finished the evening with a movie.

Directly after service the next day, everyone headed over to the fellowship hall for the picnic.

We had a wonderful time!

There were several young children who immediately hit the playgrounds.

After talking and letting our food digest, we played many great volleyball games! (No pictures of that since I was obviously playing.)

A sister who had recently visited our church had her baby nine days before we got there, and when she told her husband she was fine with us coming over to see the blessing, we definitely took up the invitation!

My cousin Katie holding Lilian.

She's kind of making a face in this picture, but she's a very pretty little baby..There was hardly any acne at all on her face, just a few tiny bumps on her nose. 

With the 4th right around the corner, and visitors soon to come in town I'm sure there'll be plenty for me to post, so thanks for stopping by and do check back again!

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