Picnic, Painting, Prize and other things... :)

A few events have taken place recently that I thought I would post about. Greg has been busy with a painting job this summer. Grandpa wanted a new coat of paint on one side of his house, so Greg has been scraping paint for awhile, and finally he got to start painting. Dad got up on the roof to help Greg, and then after they got up, Hannah, Samuel and Rebekah went to join them.Painting - YAY!
More painting...

Hannah ~Sam the Man!

On Saturday evening, we went to a Christian Heritage picnic, where families get together, have a picnic (of course!), talk, play games, and fellowship. We met some very neat girls (which we were delighted to find out that we know about their blog!!), and had a wonderful, wonderful time of fellowship.
Talking to Lauren from One Bright CornerAn outer view

Oh - also, we practiced music with our bass player on Friday night. We got to play for a music festival in Newport, but we had to have two hours of gospel music to play. So, we had to pull out some old songs and work those up so that we would have enough to play!!

Apparently Peanut was bored of listening... :)
The 4 youngest sing "Do Lord" up on stage sometimes... here they are practicing.
And then there's the real thing!!! :)
A picture of ALMOST the whole band. Daddy usually runs the sound. :)
Skipping back a little, it was a 2 hour drive to get to the festival. Leah had fun though; she got to try on Greg's sunglasses. She is pretty funny. :)We had a nice time at the festival, and we got to see about 4 people that we know - three of which we haven't seen for a while.

After stopping for some lunch, we went to a Grandparent's Day celebration. We were "invited", because Hannah had entered a contest for writing the best essay about "Why Your Grandparent should be the Grandparent of the Year". :D The winner received $100. So, we went to the celebration, and Hannah was one of the winners!!! Congratulations, Hannah!! ♥ She went up and read her essay to the group. :)
As you can see, I think Hannah was a little nervous... :)




CONGRATULATIONS, Hannah!!!

After that, we received some unexpected entertainment....

A One Man Band!!!

I have never seen one before! Have any of you?

I'll end with this picture... :) Our grandma that had cancer rarely has places she wants to go, or things she wants to do, but she wanted to go to the fair this year. So a few of us, along with her caregiver went to the fair. So here's a picture of a few that went.

Blessings to you all.