The Aunts are back in town!

It was SOOO exciting to have the Aunts in town again. We LOVE this time because we see the 3 dear Rhode sisters having a WONDERFUL time together.

Before the Aunts left for Watoga, we were able to have them over to celebrate Mom and Aunt Janice's Birthday (a little late but it's fun to celebrate together!)

George was able to come for the evening as well. A lovely table full!

Rob did half the meal on the grill: Beer can chicken, grilled bread, and grilled veggies. I did the other half in the kitchen: Tuscan beans, salad, and Hummingbird Cake.

The birthday girls!

I LOVE having Rob home to help with the meal. He is WONDERFUL!

Cousin George and Aunt Barbara

About 2 weeks later..... after Mom and the Aunts had gone to Watoga State Park. The girls asked us if we would want to go to Cacapon with them for a couple of days. What a treat that was. We really missed not going to Watoga this year, Rob had to go to Denver for some meetings and I was working.

So we all packed our bags and headed out!

Dinner with the girls!

The evening was rainy but we found some games!

Mother vs Son!

The Aunts!

Mom!

The next morning was bright & sunny.

This is the lodge where we stayed and ate our meals.

We packed lunches and headed out.

What a WONDERFUL day.

From here you can see 4 states: PA, MA, VA, WV

Aunt Janice & Rob

The girls!

Finding out spot on the map.

Aunt Barbara and I decided to step back =0)

me & my Love!

The ladies

My hiking partner.

Yea, that's me.

The lodge.

It was a beautiful time.

Again, it was a wonderful time with the Aunts. We were SOOO thankful they were able to come again this year and that Rob could be home for most of their visit. It was FUN sharing our home with them, spending time laughing and telling stories, as well as the days in the mountains. As in the words of our dear Drew, "those are memory makers."

Updated HOME pics!

Just a few updated pictures of our home!

This is the view standing in front of the house looking up onto the front porch.

Turn and look to your right (North) you will see this covered area where we have the grill. The house in the background is our neighbor, Mrs. Madigan's house.

When you walk in the front door you enter into our living room. That is the wood stove we use to heat the cabin with. The door with the wreath leads out to a back porch room, we keep wood there.

Look to the right while standing in the living room and you see through to the dining room, that's what we call it anyway. Behind the couch is where we lift up the floor door to go down into the basement. In the left corner of this picture you can see the stairs that go up to the bedrooms and full bath.

This is the "water closet" or half bath located in the corner of the dining room.

Another view of the water closet! It is quite literately a closet, but hey it works for the needs!

Walking through the dining room will bring you into this, our cabin kitchen! Dishwasher, gas stove, refrigerator, microwave what else could you need???

And the right side (North- where the pots are hanging) side of the kitchen. The wall with the sign, "Hen House," is the west side of the cabin. This table is where we eat most of our meals.

Now upstairs.......

This view is at the top of the stairs looking down when you get to the bottom you turn to the left to go into the living room.

Standing at the top of the stairs and looking right you will see this room. This view is to the west side of the room. You can see the stove pipe on the left side of this picture, that goes down to the wood stove below. This room is directly above the living room.

This is other side of the room, the east side.

When you are at the top of the stairs and turn to the left you walk into a bedroom. We used this as our room. (This is the bedspread my dear dear friends, Tom & Kathy, made for us.)

In this view we are standing in the door way looking to the North. The ceiling is quite high in our bedroom, there is no attic in our room like is over the other room.

Walking into our bedroom you will find the full bathroom.

This is looking into the water closet.
Straight in at the stink!
And then to the left is the claw foot tub/shower!

Well, thanks for going on a little tour with me.

Our favorite place is, for sure, the front porch.

Stop by anytime, we would LOVE to show you around!

Mom, Rob, & Carrie ROAD TRIP TO IDAHO!!!

Pack your bags we are going to......................

We had Thanksgiving on Sunday of our trip. How glad we were that the Klassen's would have an early Thanksgiving with us!!!

Here is Bentley, the Klassen's sweet golden, he was ready to taste anything- but of course was not allowed!!

The workers preparing our feast (sorry Jeff, this is the only picture I have of you)!

Rob was making music for us (Bentley was help too)!

The table!

Grandma & Drew

The table full of family!

Tuesday we watched the end of Carly's V-Ball practice!

Wednesday we were out & about to watch Drew's Senior pictures.

First a stop at (name??)

Mother & Daughter

As Drew was on the baseball field getting his pictures done, us on lookers watched a beautiful almost full moon rise!

I didn't take pictures of Drew during his pictures.....well because it must have been embarrassing enough having his Mom, Grandma, sister, uncle, and aunt watching!

Already it's Friday.....leaving day. =0(

Uncle Rob and his Charlie!

Uncle Rob and his dear ID niece & nephew!

Uncle Rob & his Drew!

I love this dear young lady.

She is soooooo sweet and has a beautiful spirit. I feel SOO blessed to be her Aunt now!!

Grandma & Carly!!

Beautiful! Sister, Brother, and Mom!

Mother & Daughter

Grandma was going to miss Bentley....

Finally goodbyes....they come so fast, goodbyes that is, but oh we were SOOO thankful for a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving with our dear Klassen's.

Rob, Mom, and me had safe travels as well as good flights on the way home. We thank the Lord for a WONDERFUL time. He brought everything together, keep us all feeling well, and gave us many "MEMORY MAKERS" along the way.

Dinner with the G's!

We had the LOVELY opportunity to have dinner with the Giesbrecht's in IDAHO while there. On Monday we took a little drive to Twin Falls for dinner. It just happened to be Miss Ella's 8th Birthday!

What a wonderful time is it was. Alan & Heather's family along with Jerry and Anita, we are truly blessed to have WONDERFUL friends!

Ella opening her presents!

And her birthday sundae!

Last time we had seen Mr. Levi he is was just 3 months old, that was at our wedding!

Beautiful! Heather, Teddy, Ella, Alan, and Levi Giesbrecht

Funny face time!

Teddy, Ella, and Levi