Ready or not....

Here I come! Lilly has learned the fine points of Hide and Seek. She was at our house for dinner this week and discovered the small door to the ironing board closet. She positioned herself behind the door and started counting. Meg and Sheila hid in the living room and after counting to 10 and saying "Ready or not, here I come!" Lilly ran looking for them. It didn't take her long to unearth them. Wow! That's a little girl in action!

October Fun!

Big news! Our household has expanded. Liz has joined Dan, Sheila and I. She is full of energy and life so we are all enjoying her presence.

We got to go apple picking with Lilly and Peter and Meg on Saturday. It was a beautiful fall day! We picked lots of apples. As you can see Lilly was too busy to pose with us!

My cousin, Mary, came down from Dinkytown, Minnesota, for the weekend. She and her friend spent this morning with us. We took them up through the woods on our Holy Cross College walk. It was great to see Mary. We listened to Hawaiian music while having breakfast together and talked about our great 2002 visit to Hawaii.

Household Reunion

We had a very fun weekend with Jenny who came all the way from Portland to visit us! Friday night we had a big party. We spent the weekend in South Haven enjoying the beauty of Lake Michigan. Gretchen and Sean joined us for Lord's Day, and then we ended the evening with a fun trip to Sherman's for ice cream. Monday, Gloria gave Jenny and I a tour of downtown Goshen. The highlight was the chocolate soda at the Soda Shop!

It was very encouraging to hear of all the great things going on in the Portland/Vancouver branch. It was a refreshing weekend for all of us. We missed our dear friend, Madeleine. We enjoyed some goat cheese in her honor. She's at Harvard working hard on her qualifying paper.