Busy June 2010

My sister's children and I planned a surprise 60th birthday party for my sister, Jill.


There were about 24 of us. Lots of good food and time with good friends we had not seen in a long time.

This is a picture of Morgan and I, a sweet young lady from our church, whom I have watched grow from an infant to a lovely young lady. She's very special.

My sister doing her best with the candles.

My sister and her very special group of girlfriends.

Jill and her husband, Barry.

From left to right: my daughter, Michelle, me, Lee,Jill,Nigel, Jill's son, in front of Nigel is Brooke, Jill's daughter, next we have Ashley, Jill's daughter and behind her Barry, Jill's husband and on the end my brother, Graham.

For 12 years we have had a red Cabrio convertible. We really wanted to find something a little more versatile since this is our only car. We can actually haul some stuff around in this vehicle. If you've ever seen these hard tops you know the two front panels pop out easily or you can remove the entire top. It's a 2008 and it only had 15,000 miles on it. It's a 6 speed manual transmission and lots of fun to drive.

Jim and Tracy Tull and their grandson, Alex, have been at the Hershey TT campground for the last 3 weeks so we have all spend some time together. Alex loved playing with Nicky.

Jim and Tracy were at the Hershey campground on June 2o, when the tornado touched down in the campground. They along with many others lost their awning. Check out Tracy's pictures of the storm on facebook.

Jim and Tracy will be spending the week of July 2 and the week of July 24 at our place. As a matter of fact they will stay here and dog sit for us the last week of July while our family has a reunion at Myrtle Beach.

Tracy and Alex enjoyed fishing in our pond.

We all went to Gettysburg one day and toured the battle field with an audio self-guided tour.

We had a lovely lunch in the town of Gettysburg. We had battlefield fries and they were awesome. They are cooked in peanut oil and fresh cut. I don't normally care much about French fries but these were delicious.

A few shots taken on the battlefield.

The next big happening in the month of June was my 50th high school reunion. In the collage below are pictures taken at a brunch at the home of Carol Brightbill on the Sunday following the reunion dinner.
My very good friend, Nancy Helms is in the picture at the bottom left hand corner. Nancy just lost her husband in May and did not feel up to the big event but was able to join us at the smaller gathering on Sunday. We were so glad to see her.

What is unique about our class is that the majority of us grew up together. Many of us were together from 1st thru 12th grades.Our class was under 100 and we all knew each other. I loved my high school years and had some really good times to remember.

These pictures were taken the night of the dinner. For those of you who live locally, we had this event at the Sheridan off of Union Deposit Rd. and they did an excellent job. The food was tremendous and they were very helpful.

Two of our high school teachers are featured above. How special that they could join us for the reunion. I'm standing next to my Biology teacher. Above and center is my English teacher. I want to be like them when I grow up!!!

This is a picture of all the class members who were able to attend that night.

Marsha Gerber and I

The week prior to the reunion Lee and I were busy replacing the carpet in this room with tile. It turned out really well. We call this Judy's room. It is loaded with family pictures, all the porcelain dolls I have made and every thing else in the room is beach. I love the ocean. In the far corner sits the elliptical machine which I absolutely love. I have been working out on one of these since they first came out. I started saving to buy one for home about a year ago and Costco had a really good deal on one when we returned from Florida. I hop on that in the morning and it gets everything moving.

We have also been busy helping our eldest son and his family move to Pittsburg, PA. They now live 4 1/2 hours away instead of 40 minutes. I will miss the spontaneous get to gethers we could have when they lived closer. On the bright side---Pittsburg is a fun place to visit.

We have 2 more floors to lay before we are done with our inside projects and then I'd like to do some day trips from here.