Summer!

Hello Everyone! I am so sorry its been so long since I have posted anything. The past three months have been a blur.. like usual though. We are doing fine, and school was out on Friday! YIPEE!!! Not that we don't like school, but we are in desperate need of a break. The past month was crazzzzyyyy... We attended Joel Abberger's funeral in Indiana in March. It was good to see all of his family again. The service was a BIG blessing, and God was honored in every part. He will surely be missed, but its a blessing knowing that he is in Heaven, happy and pain free. God never makes a mistake, so we rejoice in His promises.

in April our school has competitions with Bible and Fine Arts. We did great this year again.. and the kids learned alot. The end of April we traveled down to TN to see the kids a few days, then Mike's family had their annual get together in Gatlinburg. We had a great time and although we had to come back early, it was good to see everyone. I will post a few pics from that trip. We had one week inbetween that and the Senior trip. We go with the principal and his wife to California every year to take the Srs. This year we had 18 kids. The Kosa's were already out in Lancaster for their daughter's graduation from West Coast Baptist College. We had to take the group to the airport and and on the plane. Sunday night, we got the worst rains we have had in years here in VA. Around 11:30, Mike said, we have to go NOW.. or we will not get out of our drive way in 4 am!!! The rain was already a foot on the road down from us, and the creek had risen out of the banks to the road in 3 hours!! We packedup, suitcases, blankets and pillows and headed for the church. We had to turn around a few times due to road closures and finally made it to church at 1:00 am. We chose the pews to sleep on since the auditorium is the darkest room. At 4 am, we got up, and started to pack the bus for the trip to the airport. We even left a little early because all the kids were on time!! amazing! Our trip was pretty good, and as soon as we landed at LAX we were on the run. First stop is Santa Monica Pier, so the kids can see the Pacific Ocean. We eat lunch, the kids buy souvineers, and we are off to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. Its one of my favorite places to go, so interesting and the setting is just gorgeous. From there we go to the Anaheim Angeles baseball game.. which was actually alot of fun to watch this year.. lots of action and even fireworks! We go to the hotel around 12:00 which 3 am VA time.. so we were zonked after the 24 hours of being awake. We ARE getting too old for all of this stuff!!
Tuesday we drove to the Sierra Mountains.. and this is one of my favorite drives. We were unable to get to the Trail of 1000 Giants.. they were opening the road the very next day, but we did snoop around and found some other places we have not been to and found someone who told us about a few of single trees.. so it was not a wasted trip.. it was beautiful, and there was still snow so the kids had a blast with snowball fights, and hiking. We did not get back down the mtns..and done with eating till after 11:00 that night. Whew.. Wednesday is white water rafting, in the Kern River.. and it was FUN!!! There was lots of snow melt and the rapids were flowing good. It was not even that cold! There was a group before us who had canceled, so the kind people fed us lunch also.. it was so nice of them. We got back down to the valley and went to Lancaster where we atteneded church at Lancaster Baptist Church. The kids got a tour of the college after the service, we ate at Marie Callendars, and back to the hotel.. again 11:30. Thursday is amusemant park day, we to to Six Flags in Valencia. Its really nice this time of y ear and the kids ride over and over because the lines are not long. We left the park a bit early so we can eat at Claim Jumpers before heading to the airport. Its everyone's favorite restaurant, and if you ever get a chance to go to one on the West coast DO IT.. you will not be disappointed. Our plane left at 10:00, and were back in DC and at the school b 8:00 am.. dragging a little I must admit. All in all it was a good trip. We missed the big flood that had 4 feet of water at the end of our drive, and closed our road for two days! Some of you might have seen the national news where there was a sink hole in Dale City created by the water, that closed 4 lanes of one of our major roads for three weeks. I think the final total was 10 inches of rain in three days.
The next week was graduation week, so that means we had to be out every day and night. We also kept two of the grandkids for four days. Yesterday was our church's 27 anniversary, and we had Heritage Institute of Ministry graduation last night. We had one graduate this year.
The summer should slow a little. Next week there is a Father/Son campout, Mike goes to camp the end of July with the Jrs.. and I go with the girls in August to Hilton Head. There is a possibility that my brother will come for a visit in July, and I will go siteseeing with him if he does.. it will be fun. He has never been to alot of places around here, so it will be fun for him too. I hope it works out. There is much to be done on our house, so I am planning to do some of that. And of course.. the garden!! We are eating broccoli already, but then again still need to plant some also. I don't think the time will last as long as I want it to this summer.. but we are both thankful for a break in the norm.
I will try to do more on here.. I think some of you probably have given up on me! Have a great summer!