Facepainting at the Picnic

Rita Pardun and Holly Godshall artistically "made up" many of the kids faces. Some had flags and patriotic hearts, and others were puppy dogs or tigers. They were ALL SO CUTE! Haydn and Jill - cousins and friends AND puppies
Someone wanted me to do Greta. She had a hard time sitting still, but Rita manged to put some festive art on her too!
...And Ava - Michael and Stacey Moorehead's little one...what a doll!
I thinkg the babies thought the other one looked funny, not realizing they looked the same. :)

Our Church's Patriotic Picnic!

Sunday afternoon we had our second annual (4th of July) picnic. This years had added "events" including: apple pie baking contest, and pie-eating contest, sack races, face painting, Pinata, basketball, seed-spitting and lots of food and fellowship, of course. We have such a wonderful church family - We are so grateful to the Lord! (Wanda setting up/taking down/everywhere/anytime...she is fabulous!)
Aaron Lewis won the pie-eating by a landslide!
I think some participants were just enjoying the apple pie. :)
The Pinata...definitely took several swings, esp. from the little ones.

Pooltime

Vencia Williamson graciously and annually offers her lovely pool and beautiful landscape to us! Val and I enjoyed an afternoon with the girls and they all "swam" very well. Carly gets the prize for bravery as she jumps in the pool over and over and doesn't even care if anyone catches her. (with her life-jacket on) Hopefully we'll get in more pool-times this summer!!

The Rest of the Day at Deanna Rose

The girls got to "milk a cow" It was a demonstration cow, but really did squirt out "some" type of liquid. :) ...And there was fishing. McKenzie and her dad rented the pole and tackle, but gave our girls a turn. Wow! What a "big fish"!!!
Dairy Days at the Farm that day...that meant....free ice-cream from Bluebell! We ALL enjoyed that!
McKenzie, Brooke, and Carly (in the cool shades)