The end of July

Where did July go? I mean, seriously. So here's some pics to demonstrate our past month. First. Food!!! Jered has decided to help me out more by preparing some meals during the week. When I often don't get home from work till 4:45 or 5 and we have small group or youth group at 6. . . let's just say I'm usually too grumpy and tired to cook. So about once or twice a week, he's been concocting some really interesting (and quite tasty!) meals for us. I have such a great husband. When he said he'd start making dinner, I figured mac & cheese and ravioli from a can, right? Instead, I get the below picture:

Chicken and peppers and pepperoni and broccoli and jalapenos and bow-tie pasta oh, my! And Oh so Good!

And because I take endless and random pictures of our beloved Jade, here's one now:

We took the camera to youth this morning. We played The Question Game which is a throwback to our old First-P days in Hannibal. The kids there LOVED the game and our youth were no different. Josiah was cracking everyone up with his great playing skills and gigantic sunglasses:

This was our first Lunch with Jami & Michael all July. We missed Sunday the 3rd because we were on our trip and then the 17th was just too hectic. So today we picked back up our every-other-Sunday lunches with this great couple from our Youth Group (even though they are older than Youth Age, we let them stick around...) They took a picture of us:

And I took a picture of them although they didn't really want their picture taken and Jami was playing with her cup and Michael was just smiling at Jered.

And then, just in case you didn't know (which I'm sure everyone who reads this does) we've temporarily adopted a white kitten that we named "Sprechen". This was Sprechen when she first came to us over two weeks ago.

And here she was this morning. She's grown quite a bit in just 2 1/2 weeks!

We wish we knew how old she was but then again there's no way we can keep her. After we move in with Aimee, that'd be one dog, two cats and a bird in a two-bedroom apartment. Can we say "zoo"? Plus she's a kitten with claws and Jade is an old fuddy-duddy who certainly does not like to play with kittens with claws. When the growling and hissing gets too bad, we lock Sprechen in the bathroom or Jade in our bedroom. Too bad. She's a really sweet kitty when she's not rough-housing.

So that's July so far. Lots of fun and hanging out with people and a couple weddings and photo-shoots. August is shaping up to be a great month as well so we'll keep you posted!

Missouri Get-away!!

For those who read our Artistic Imagery blog, you've already seen this post. Or at least one similar. For those who don't. . . here's a quick post about our Missouri Trip. We left the Friday before 4th of July and drove all over the Northern part of the state loosely following the Katy Trail. Knoxville followed by Rocheport followed by Hermann followed by Hannibal followed by Clarksville & finally Louisiana. Whew. We were home by Sunday night which was a full day earlier than planned simply because it was about 98 degrees all day every day and by Sunday, we were exhausted.

Robyn & Aimee

Us all in Knoxville

Portrait of Robyn at lunch. We ate at a fabulous bistro right on the Missouri river in Rocheport. Lovely.

 Us in front of the Missouri

The girls walking back up to the Bistro. Pretty cool n'est pas?

Nifty gallery where they sold pottery & photography. We checked out lots of galleries & antique-y places on our trip.

Cool coffee shop we found in down town Hermann. Reminded me of Java Jive. Oh Java Jive. ::sigh::

Jered's taking pretty pictures of me in the rock garden outside our B&B in Hermann. See, we were going to camp but I mentioned it was 90+ degrees outside, yes? We opted for air conditioning.

Aimee & Robyn outside our B&B on Saturday. You may notice Aimee & I are wearing the exact same green tank top from Old Navy (as seen in the above 2 pictures)

Sunday morning in Hannibal. That's me at our table in Java Jive. Yes. That is literally our old table. Jered even got the part of the table we signed in the picture. We donated it when we moved.

Vineyard in Clarksville. Vineyards are pretty and green. There's lots of them on the hills in this part of the state. With the hills in the background, I could imagine we were in Europe. Italy perhaps?

Yes. Definitely European in nature. At least I think so.

Jered is a stud and did all the driving.

Out the window

More out the window (obviously)



End!!!!