Band camp

Levi leaves tomorrow for a band camp in Wichita all week. It's a marching band and they will be the halftime entertainment at the East Vs. West Allstar Football Game on Saturday night. Saturday morning there is a parade and they will march in it (it's a Mason's Parade and they are the ones who get the band kids together). Levi plays a trombone. Friday evening, before the parade and ballgame on Saturday, there is a banquet and they also play at the banquet. This is the third year Levi has done this. The first year was at Hays, the second at Emoporia, and now Wichita. We will go to Wichita Friday to the banquet and stay the night and watch the parade and ballgame and half-time show on Saturday. Levi will get home late Saturday night. Then he leaves for Youth For Christ camp near Colorado Springs the next day. He is one busy guy!

Joe

Joe and Levi

Joe with Levi and Den Joe and Bill

Joe and I

Joe on Mountain in Colorado

Joe loves to go hiking in the mountains of Colorado. He sent me this picture of himself a couple of days ago. I'm not sure which of the 13ers or 14ers it is. He has always been an outdoorsman! He enjoys nature and believes in relaxing at the end of the day!

Levi

Yeah! My boy comes home tonight! He's been gone for 3 weeks to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland. The Greensburg, Pa. Rotary Club has been so good to him! This was the 3rd year he got to go on this trip thanks to the Rotary Club in Greensburg, Ks. and Greensburg, Pa. He has met alot of wonderful good-hearted people, and seen alot of our USA. He has been to New York, West Virginia, and North Carolina plus the afore mentioned states! He is one very fortunate child!

I am glad he will be home tonight!

Summertime

Joe took this picture with his Blackberry phone today. It's a poodle! And I finally got my pool up and running but haven't been in it yet! I messed up- I didn't get it smoothed out very well plus when it filled I somehow didn't have the bottom all out far enough so the drains are on the floor of the pool! I thought about draining it all into the garden and starting over but I think I'll just leave it and stay away from the drain end of the pool.

Estes Park

Our Cabin

Dennis and I just got back from Estes Park, Colorado late Sunday night. Time goes by too quickly when you're in the mountains! Here are some pictures of the cabin we stayed in. We loved it there. Hummingbirds ate at our deck everyday and little chipmonks ran around on and under the rocks outside. We shopped in the stores downtown and came home with a few souviners. We spent one day with Perry and Becky and Perry drove us all up Trailridge Road to the Continental Divide, then we ate supper at "The Other Side" restaurant together. It was wonderful getting to be with my friend Becky and her wonderful husband Perry! As I said before, time goes by too quickly when you're in the mountains and we hope to return there soon!