Some summer activities in a nutshell

Instead of going back and writing a million different entries for all the things we did this summer, I'm just going to compile them here.

Cherry picking

Blueberry picking

Making a blueberry pie

While Gram and Pap took Hayden and Connor to Dutch Wonderland...

(they watched a Thomas show and a castle show)

Mike, Serena and I went to Harper's Ferry.

"HARPERS FERRY NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in the states of West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, John Brown, "Stonewall" Jackson, and Frederick Douglass are just a few of the prominent individuals who left their mark on this place.

Harpers Ferry witnessed the first successful application of interchangeable manufacture, the arrival of the first successful American railroad, John Brown's attack on slavery, the largest surrender of Federal troops during the Civil War, and the education of former slaves in one of the earliest integrated schools in the United States."

John Brown

To read more about Harper's Ferry, visit http://www.nps.gov/archive/hafe/history.htm

This is the shop I would have worked in had I lived in those days.

Some artsy pics:

Some other summer activities:

Golf w/Gram and Pap

Roller skating

Swimming -most of the time we went to the Y pool, but we also visited friends' and family pools.

after swimming:

Playing in creeks

Finding letterboxes:

This was a program the library sponsored this summer in connection with the reading program, "Catch the Reading Bug." They had 30 different bugs listed (1 on each page) from parks all over York County. You go to a certain park and follow the directions on the hunt to find the bug stamp. Some were short, some were long hikes. But we always enjoyed going to find them and enjoyed nature and being together along the way. We also discovered several new parks this summer because of the program.

Summer park program-Hayden went to Loman park this year with some of his friends. They did a lot, including a parade. It's a great program run by one of the teachers from Mike's school.

Visiting with Grandpa Brandt and celebrating an unbirthday (his birthday is Dec. 27th).

Harvesting the garden

Going to baseball games

Cute pics: