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Friday, 16 October 2009

Indiana Trip, Part 1!

~ INDIANA ~

On September 12th -14th I was able to go to Indiana and visit our relatives for a couple days! I took lots of pictures, but here are the first few. . . all that it will let me upload, for now!

Kristen and I went later, we got there sometime on Saturday afternoon. These pictures are from Sunday afternoon. . . after church and lunch, we went over to the farm to look around. It was my great-grandparents' farm, but they're both gone now. It's just down the road from Grandma and Grandpa's house, where we were staying. . . so Kristen, Jessica and I rode in the back of Uncle Darrell's truck! Can't pass up an opporunity like that!

_Kristen_

Uncle Darrell and Aunt Stephanie's dog, Buckeye! Of course she rode in the back of the truck with us. . . or rather, we rode with her! She wants to give Kristen some kisses!

Jess and I. My hair is all over the place because we were driving really fast down the road

Here's the old farmhouse! I love this place, lots of memories!

The barnyard. . . well, a couple of the barns, anyway!

Jessica, Kristen, Mom, and Grandma Bonnie

The old bell cast iron bell they have outside the door

I'm not sure what it is with me and taking pictures of myself in the mirror! But this is inside the house

Upstairs in the bedrooms, this is looking out across the road

And the other side of the house. . .

The three of us on at the top of the stairs; a random picture, I guess!

This is in the living room downstairs, looking out

The kitchen. . .we always loved eating and playing cards here!

The porch swing! We played on this all the time. . .

The view from the backyard, this is back toward the road.

And a couple pictures out across the field

Gotta love the barbed wire!

Those are all the pictures that I was able to get on here for now! Hope you all have a great day!

~!~Stephanie~!~

Saturday, 10 October 2009

Happy Birthday, Stephen!!

Happy 8th Birthday to my favorite baby brother, Stephen!!
I can't believe you're 8 already! Love you!
~Stephanie

I wish that I could have used some different pictures of him, I have some really cute ones!! Sadly, I'm not allowed to upload any more pictures onto xanga until November....I did my limit already So, I'll have to just settle for a picture I've already done!

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I would also like to say Happy Birthday to my favorite football player ever today....who's turning 40!

Happy Birthday, Brett Favre!!

Hey Kevin....yes I did use pictures of him with Green Bay, so there!

Hope you all have a great day...and that's all for now!
~!~Stephanie~!~

Sunday, 04 October 2009

The Corn Maze!!!

~\~The Corn Maze~/~
Last Sunday I went with Kristen, Daniel and Josiah, and my cousins Jessica and Courtney, to the Jonamac Orchard, so we could get lost in their 10-acre corn maze!

On the way there...well..Jessica's driving, what else can I say?? Just kidding, it really wasn't that, I was just making funny faces for no particular reason!

~Kristen and I~

~Jess~

The Four Stooges....we had a carful!

Jessica's sweet little angel she has hanging in her car, which insisted on trying to attack me....I don't know how many times I hit my head on that thing!

The Adventurers are ready to begin!! We each got a map of the maze, and clues for the scavenger hunt! Of course, my map didn't do me much good....I was always hopelessly lost, because I was too busy taking pictures to pay attention to exactly where we were!

It's a good thing someone knows where we're going!

Whoa! Look what I found!! Corn!!

Jessica and I, we reached Point A of the Scavenger hunt! At each one, we had to punch a hole in our papers to prove we had been there.

Just me....

Me with my map....if you look close enough, you may be able to make out the design somewhat. It was a picture of Abraham Lincoln in the center, to celebrate his 200th birthday!

Here they all are!
~Josiah, Kristen, Stephen, Jessica, Daniel and Courtney~

Courtney got a little hungry along the way.... Don't worry, we stopped her before she ate the whole maze...

"This way!", Jessica says....

And off they go!!

There were these wooden platforms you could go up on, if you got too lost! We were lost...

~Kristen~

This is the view from the top...kinda cool!

I don't know who that one guy is, but he wouldn't move...so, guess he gets to be on my xanga!

Daniel took this picture for me!

They had several of these "Waypoints" to give you hints on where to go....they were pretty cool, but you probably can't read this!

A few kind of neat pictures I took....

Kristen and Jessica saying...."We have no idea where the kids went....but oh well!" They don't seem too sad about losing them....

And the kids are nowhere to be found! We did find them after a while though....it was hard to actually lose the kids, since they were loud enough that we could hear them half-way across the maze! What a shame...better luck next time, I say!

The sky changed a lot while we were there! It was all gray and cloudy, then it was blue, then it rained, then it was fine again....I don't know what was up with it!

No, I think we should go THIS way! I don't think so, we definitely have to go THAT way! Um, guys, I know I'm right here, we really should be heading this direction! Well, you get the idea...

We're lost!!!

Here we are on Point E, only one more to go! Looks like some people are getting a little tired of running all over the cornfield! The maze has 3 miles of trails, but I know we walked way more than that, what with getting lost and turned around!

Finally!! We made it out!! We actually spent 2 whole hours in the corn maze!! Of course, once we got out and realized that clue "F" was NOT at the exit like we had thought....we had to go ALLLL the way back into the maze, to the opposite end, so we could find it and get our papers punched!!

When we finally got out for real....THIS is what we got as a prize! Hmm....I'm thinking all that work for this?! Just kidding, it was a TON of fun!! We had a great time!!!

So then we went over to the store in the orchard, and bought apples to make caramel apples back at home! Then, everyone posed for a picture on this giant rocking chair!

And here's the sign for the orchard

Driving back! I'd never tried this kind of picture before, but I think it's really cool!

Of course, had to get a picture of the sunset over the cornfields! What else do you expect from Illinois??

That's all I have for today!

~!~Stephanie~!~

Saturday, 26 September 2009

Chicago Cubs vs. Milwaukee Brewers
Miller Park -- Milwaukee, WI

So on Monday night, I went to a Cubs/Brewers game with all of my family (except Mom) and some other people, too!

I drove up to Milwaukee with Kristen and my cousin Caleb, so here we are

~Kristen~

So Caleb occupied himself for a long time by trying to open the armrest...which I had never opened before and it was very stuck! It was so funny! It took him a long time, but he finally did get it open....after breaking several items doing so...

Even if it looks like my eyes are closed in this picture...don't worry, I don't think they are!

~Miller Park~

Walking in the concourse (I think that's what we call it...), Justin, Kristen and Grandma

Our car is parked somewhere down there...and it cost $25 to park there! What a rip-off! I told the lady that, too...but she didn't really care what I thought about it, I don't think...

Caleb and I

This is the view from our seats...we were kind of far up!

I guess you can figure out who this is...

Josiah, Stephen, Corbin, Elliott, and Daniel enjoying the game

Daniel...

Isn't Stephen so cute with his missing teeth??

~ Stephanie & Gloria ~

Some of the others...

...and that's all for now!

~!~Stephanie~!~

Edited To Add: Okay, I forgot to mention how the game actually went...the Cubs beat the Brewers 10-2! They got 7 of their runs in the first 2 innings! So yeah...

Saturday, 19 September 2009

More Pictures from SBR!

Hey everyone!
I know it's been forever and ever since I've posted anything, and it's seriously driving me crazy! I wanted to post pictures a long time ago, but I just haven't been able to get anything uploaded! I am hoping to post pictures soon from my trip to Indiana last weekend, so hopefully I'll get to that soon. I've decided it might be a good idea to go ahead and post some recent pictures now...and then I'll have to get caught up with all the tons of pictures I want to post from June, July, and August! Anyway, I realized I had a few pictures uploaded from Silver Birch Ranch that I hadn't posted yet....so here they are!

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Silver Birch Ranch

Looking up into the tree, a silver birch, of course!

Here's a shot of the Dining Hall

Not the best picture ever...but I think it's one of the only ones with all three of us in it! This is inside the chapel.

Kristen ~ Gloria ~ Stephanie

The Chapel!

I tend to do this a lot....just take pictures of myself, I don't really know why!

Kristen in the Dining Hall, during breakfast one day...

Cabin Line-Up! Every day before breakfast and before dinner, we had Cabin line up and Flag Rasing/Lowering at the basketball courts. So here are all the girls in my cabin....except Melanie! She was there, just hiding

This is my pet butterfly, Mayzie! She was sooo cute!! I actually took a ton of pictures of her, she kept flying around me and was landing on me! I had Gloria take this picture, the next one I took.

She liked my feet for some reason!

Hanging out on the playground...left to right, Anthony, Keirin, Erica, Theo, Melaine, and Gloria

Another picture of Gloria and I

So these are a couple more random pictures that I decided to post, too...they're not from camp, they're from last week!

And that's all for now! Have a great weekend!

~!~Stephanie~!~