Summer is coming to a close

A favorite picture form our trip to Canada summer of 2006

We returned last night from what I consider our last adventure of the summer. Corben had a training @ the conference center in Cranberry on Tuesday and a meeting on Thursday in Bethal Park. So we all headed to Beaver County. We stayed with my Mom and Dad while there. On Tuesday after Corben was done with is training my sister, Pearl and I met him at Quacker Steak and Lube for lunch. Than upon our return to my parent's house Pearl and Corben went swimming which I figured would be the last time for the summer. Latter that evening we went to John's house and Pearl went four wheeling and we stacked fire wood. Pearl also helped Aunt Dottie make cupcakes. On Wednesday I went to the dentist, and got a pedicure. Aunt Dottie and Pearl made cookies, and Pearl and her Dad went swimming again. The remains of Tropical Storm Fay moved in so our trip to the Big Knob Fair was wet and short, but the gyros, french frys, and the famous Concord UMC funnel cakes still tasted great. Pearl's highlight was of course seeing the animals. Fay also resulted in my time with my sister picking black berries to be a wet experience, but we still had fun and got enough berries to make a cobbler. So on Thursday while Corben was at his meeting all day we went to my Grandma Aegan's and she taught us how to make a black berry cobbler. Pearl had a blast helping roll dough, but she never did try the end product. She says black berries are disgusting. After dinner Pearl and her Pap Pap went to the garden to pick green beans and tomatoes and Pearl picked the littlest watermellon I have ever seen but she is so proud of it. Pearl than decided to dig for treasue, so bath time happened before we left. We than headed for home listening to the football game and than finished watching the game at home. Pre-season is over. Come on regular season. Here we go Steelers. Fall is here. Today I will freeze our greenbeans so we can have fresh greenbeans this winter.

Almost Home

Our last stop of our two week journy was to Corben's parent's house for our nieces birthday. Pearl enjoyed playing with her cousin Jared. Enjoy a few pics from the party.

Family Vacation and School Continued

We spent a day driving in the smokie mountains, stopped by the aquarium again it was too hot for anything else. Than it was off to Kentucky for school. We spent one evening at the local YMCA Pool. On our way home we stopped by and visited family. Pearl picked pumpkins with Pap Pap Richard, and went 4 wheeling with Aunt Dottie and John.

Family Vacation and School

In August Corben had to return to Kentucky for a one week class so Pearl and I joined him. However before school we spent a week on vacation. We started off at our the Price family reunion, then went to visit Corben's parents, than headed to Tennessee again. We love this place.

Family Vacation

We spent just about a week this year the end of May begining of June in Pegion Forge Tennesse with my parents, sister, and her boyfriend. This was his first family vacation. The hotel ended up being under construction so we didn't get the rooms we had planned, but it all worked out in the end and we had a great time. We spent one day at Dollywood, one day at Spash Country, one day at the Aguarium, and lots of time shopping and seeing the sights. We can not wait for family vacation next year Pearl's says go to the beach. We will see. Enjoy a few of the thousands of pictures we took.

Pearl's First Beach Trip

Pearl had been asking to see the ocean. So in May when Corben's cousin Jeremy got married in Richmond Virginia we took a week's vacation and went on to Virgina Beach for some fun before all of our excitment over the next month and a half. We had received the call about Corben's move a few days before we left for the wedding. Here are few pictures from the trip. Pearl loved it and can not wait to return to the ocean and beach. We can not either.