"The truth is, Mitch," he said, "once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

August 31, 2009

Summer Fun


David and I have had a full summer! The pictures tell of the highlights.

July 26-30
Suckut Family Reunion at Northern Lights Camp, ND

The lovebirds that started it all:

The Randi Suckut Family:

The Whole Bunch:

Ladder Golf:

Bocci Ball:

Camp Fires:

Live Music:

Biking:

Wedding Celebrations (it's helpful to have a pastor in the family):

We also had fun with water sports, bubble blowing, musical hats, round robin ping pong, softball, a scavenger hunt, and some wonderful German food! There is nothing like knephla and kuchen!

July 16-20
Shin Family Visit

David's parents visited us for a long weekend and it was so wonderful!
Of course, we had to take them to the same place we take all of our visitors. :)
Do these pictures look a little familiar?

Appa, Umma, Ellen White, David & Me:

The Adventist Heritage Village, Battle Creek, MI
Now, just for fun.
The spoiled one:
Lilly is the baby of the family, can you tell?
The naughty one:

George likes to break out of his "area" when we're not looking.
He acts likes nothing is wrong.
Daily alpha-dogging helps curve the behaviors pictured here.


And lastly, here is my little modest garden!

Ruhbarb, cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes, zucchini and not pictured are lima beans, beef-steak tomatoes, pees, and yellow tomatoes. (Do you think we like tomatoes?)


My first fruits!

Because we live in a condo, we don't have much room for a garden, though I'm happy for this small area around our house. We tore up some dead bushes to plant this, later learning that we were supposed to run that by our condo association. Oops. Good thing we're friends with our neighbor who is also the association treasurer!

In reality, we have WAY too many tomatoes to know what to do with. But it has given me the opportunity to try new things. I've made bruschetta, spaghetti sauce and fresh tomato soup!

Also thrown into our summer was two weeks of Camp Pitch/Meeting, 4th of July drama from losing Lilly in another Michigan city (we found her two days later), two weeks of VBS, and a Ministerial Retreat.

A nice summer, but I'm glad for things to slow down a little bit... :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

you should try making salsa:)

Tennille said...

That's next on my list! :)