A Little Bit of Everything

A couple weeks ago Caleb's parents came to visit. We had a lot of fun while they were here and did a little bit of something from about every category you can think of. We went to the Palmyra Pageant on Thursday evening, the dress rehearsal. It was great. Just like the "real" nights but with a lot less people and no hecklers.

Friday we did tasks around the house. Dale helped Caleb finally finish the base board and transition for the floor in the kitchen. Judy helped Camberly make new Roman shades for the kitchen. That night Dale and Caleb went to a Rochester Redwings game (Triple-A baseball). They said the entertainment between the games was great--Barak Ollama, Harry Canary, Bear Bonds, an octopus thing, etc. After deciding to leave before the fireworks, they got side swiped on the drive home. What a fun end to the night. Camberly and Judy went to JoAnns and got started on a project.
   

Saturday we headed down to Watkins Glenn State Park to see all the waterfalls. We took tons of pictures and got a little wet going under a few of the falls.

Then on the way home we stopped in Cananidagua to go to a Rochester Philharmonic outdoor concert at CMAC. It was a bunch of movie music from James Bond, Rocky, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars. It was a kid friendly concert and so they had characters from Star Wars there walking around and tons of kids had light sabers.

Sunday was for going to church, relaxing, and finishing the sewing project.

Monday we headed to the High Falls in Rochester and then Dinosaur BBQ before Dale and Judy had to head back home.

It was a fun and busy visit experiencing a lot that the area has to offer.

Reunion 2011

Over the 4th we took a quick trip out to the Jeppsen family reunion in Salt Lake.  It was a busy few days but we had a great time seeing everyone and hanging out. Fortunately everyone made it through without injury in the kiddie pool kickball, the relay races, and water balloon volleyball. Nights were rowdy with Wii dancing and raucous Uno games.

Curling was a challenge but lots of fun (I don't think we have any future Olympians in that sport).

 Some of us might be successful if we ever got on to Minute to Win It. And of course there was plenty of time to hang out, talk, swim, and hold any number of babies. 

Caleb ended up with an interesting sunburn and Camberly can't actually have a vacation without a sewing project. We had a lot of fun and look forward to the next one in a couple years.

Marshwiggles

In past years springtime makes our backyard very wet from the melting snow and rain. Usually for about a month it is too wet to let the dogs out to play. This year has been the worst by far. Saturday when I tried to mow, I wore galoshes. I only got about 3 feet from the house before the water and mud was too much. The part I did looks terrible. By this time we expected it to still be wet but not standing water.

We decided to let the dogs out to have fun in the mud. You couldn't really see how muddy Sadie was but it showed up really well on Sylvester. He definitely had fun. It took a really long time to get them clean (grass clippings and mud).

Caleb went and got a pump and hose to pump the water out to the street. It worked pretty well and now hopefully things will dry out. Caleb took the video below to better show just how wet it was back there.

Kirtland

A couple weeks ago we were both lucky to have a Friday off and so we decided to take a day trip down to Kirtland, OH. We had never been there before despite it only being about 3.5 hours away. On the advice of a friend we went to the old temple first, maintained by the Community of Christ. The building was pretty neat although the tour was kind of lackluster. It was raining so we didn't get many pictures outside. Next we headed to the LDS site just down the hill. It kind of reminded me of Nauvoo because there are several fixed up or replica buildings that are part of the tour--Whitney Store, Ashery, Mill, Whitney home, etc. On this tour we walked around outside from building to building, so fortunately it had stopped raining just as we arrived. As always the sister missionaries were very enthusiastic tour guides and we learned a lot of interesting new things.

Sunday Snooze

A nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon. (Okay this picture was actually from a few weeks ago while watching General Conference. But it is nice to have morning church so that there is a chance to have a nap sometimes. Especially for Caleb and his early before church meetings.)

Happy Easter

Every year my family always had strawberry shortcake on Easter. This year I decided to try something new and made my own angel food cake. It uses an ton of egg whites and I was a little worried that even though it looked pretty good that it would not taste right. But it was a delicious finish after a delicious meal (which was a great new food adventure itself).

Hakuna Matata

The first weekend in April, we went to see the Lion King. It was amazing. The way they do all the costumes makes all the different animals come to life. When all the "animals" come in at the beginning through the audience and up onto the stage, it is so neat. The woman who played Rafiki had a great voice and was very funny. If you have an opportunity to go, we highly recommend it. Afterwards the cast was fundraising for Broadway Cares and you could pay to have your picture taken with Rafiki. So Caleb went for a repeat performance of his picture with Rafiki from when we went to Disney World 2 years ago.