The Final Countdown

We have exactly one month to go before Chuck comes home from his mission!!! To say we are excited would be a HUGE understatement!

 Chuck (the dad) flies to Hamburg, Germany on August 20 to pick him up. They will tour the mission for several

 days before flying home on August 25.  

We sure love you Elder Richards!

Blast From the Past

 So, Rick Springfield was performing a concert at Bush Gardens. I thought it would be fun to take the family and expose the kids to a little 80's culture. 

   A bit blurry. My camera's battery was dying. That's ok. this is probably as close as you want to get to watching a 60 year old man bouncing around on stage. The highlight for the kids was when he accidentally dropped his guitar. Mine was listening to "I've done everything for you"... and watching Chuck dancing to the music!

In Her Shoes

MaryBeth started basketball camp this week.  She is following in her sister's footsteps, literally. After the first day of camp she complained her shoes were uncomfortable. Instead of buying new shoes, she pulled out Afton's old James Wood HS Colonels basketball shoes from freshman year.  Quite "fitting" since MaryBeth grew up watching Afton's ball games and was always her biggest fan.......and still is.

Just Chillin'

I thought it would be fun to have some of MaryBeth's friends over to hang out and work on some crafts. We spent the day before driving around to different stores collecting the various materials we would need.  They spent about fifteen minutes on the projects and played 

around with Photo Booth on the computer the rest of the afternoon. It used to be pots and pans and empty boxes that trumped the latest toys. Now, I guess it's the computer. Lesson learned...again! 

I Love New York!!!

Tourists....

The movie Night At the Museum really made this Easter Island  exhibit a star. There was a line to snap a photo and even foreigners were pointing and exclaiming "Dum Dum!!"

  How much do you weigh on Mars?

 NYC street fairs, gotta love them!

Yummy RAY'S pizza!

Chuck took the weekend off and we headed north for our NYC "fix". We had a good excuse. Michael just moved into a new apartment in Brooklyn and we had to check it out. We visited Liberty Island, the Natural History Museum, saw The Little Mermaid on Broadway, and ate way too much good food.

Must Be Cub Scout Day Camp!!!

bird houses......

BB guns......

archery.........

marbles.....

               

and velcro walls......

OH MY!

First Things First

 

On April 26th , before summer even began, we had a wedding. Andrew and Afton Huntley ( I don't know how long until I will get used to that!) were sealed in the Washington D.C. temple. Thank you to all of our family and friends who traveled from near and far to share this very special time with us.