Lego Play!

Russell discovered some of Christopher's Legos and has been playing with them most of the weekend. I've posted some pictures of what he has been working on. He had a lot of fun working on these and spent a good portion of yesterday doing this. After completing these he donned his pirate costume and ventured outside headed to his next imaginary pirate adventure.


I tried to get them all in this picture but didn't! He had the floor full of them!


Close up of all of the characters!

A Pirate Boat (of course!)

A raft












Mike, Nett and Cal are headed back to the OBX. We'll see them again in a few weeks when they'll be back to Nelson! Cal is such a cutie. We all had a lot of fun with the family and it was sad to see them leave.

Chris mowed the lawn and used the weed eater. It looks so nice. It's probably been almost three months since we had to mow. All of this rain changed all of that and everything looks so pretty and green. Too late for my garden though - maybe better luck with one next year!

Next weekend we've been invited to a gathering in Faber. A friend of mine has had this gathering for many years and there are always a lot of people there. There is always a variety of food too. Some of the things we'll find are chicken feet (plain and barbecued, bear meat, pork, venison, beef and a variety of other dishes.) I hope we are able to make it to this one. It's been a few years since I was able to go. Mama went with me to the last one and we had a really good time.

Wedding Pictures

Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Bruce Ward


Groom's Family


We had a great time!



Bride and Groom exiting under Sparklers

Ward - Butler Wedding

Bruce and Lauren's wedding was wonderful. The weather co-operated and a good time was had by all.

I'll post pictures later on.

Bruce and Lauren's wedding on Friday

Lot's of excitement and happenings in the Ward household getting ready for Bruce and Lauren's wedding. Relatives arriving in town... prepping for rehearsal, etc.

Rehearsal tomorrow and wedding 9/5 in the afternoon.

I've taken off on Friday and Chris will leave work early.

Can't wait! Excited for them and hope the weather cooperates. Last time I checked the rain wasn't expected to come in until late Friday night (after football games end)

Hope to post pictures of the wedding over the weekend.

Birthday for Chris

Yesterday (2nd) was Chris' birthday.

We sorta celebrated off and on all weekend. We both were off Sunday and Monday. We had planned on riding the bikes on Sunday (heading where?) spending the night and coming back on Monday. The weather was iffy on Sunday so we drove the car to Staunton Sunday afternoon and ate at Applebee's. We also stopped by the Harley shop to pick up his gift. We got him a new studded seat cushion for his passenger seat.

Monday we rode the bikes to Waynesboro and had dinner at Pizza Hut! Wrong move to make! We won't go back to that Pizza Hut for some time to come. Our waitress came to our table with two of the items we ordered and asked "Did you guys order this?" We waited forever for the rest of our order, had to go ask for more tea and when she gave us our tab didn't even say thank you , come again, or anything. She also didn't get a very big tip. The waitress we had at Applebee's was sooooo good. We left an extra amount in her tip!

Yesterday we gave Chris his cards. I always end up getting bunches of cards because they all are so nice and I can't decide which one to buy so I get multiple ones.

I baked brownies when I got home from work and Russell and I put candles on four of the brownies and came in the living room with them so Chris could blow them out. Russell took a picture but I haven't loaded it onto the computer yet.

That's about it.