Happy Birthday Hannah!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boy did we have a party for Hannah's birthday! All five of the Schatte girls(or is it four Schatte girls and one Benner girl?), and Mercy Robinson were here to process chickens. Talk about fun!!! 

Mercy wanted a picture of her and some guts.....

Faith, Liz, Esther and Mercy all went back to the back room and killed some chickens! I wish we could have gotten more pics of that! Way to go, girls!!!!! :D

In the evening, the Hinds girls came over and we played some volleyball

walking in after the game

what is a birthday without ice cream and fun toppings?

Mommy made some cake-pops for us as well! 

Sarah and Candace watching Hannah open her gifts

Faith, Bek, Liz and Rach

All 12 of us!!!

Sarah, Esther, Liz, Rachel

Hannah, Jennifer, Faith, Ashley, Bekah

Candace, Mercy and Esther 

Rach and Es looking at something on Mercy's phone

'They caught us!'

Playing the 'Ungame'

Esther

Bek

Hansi

Sarah

Liz

Rach

Mercy

Hope you had a wonderful birthday, Hannah!!!!!

Love you muchly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<3

July 4th!!!

On the 4th, the Hutchins had us and some other families over for some volleyball and fellowship!!! 

picking teams

playing

in the evening, we went over to my Aunt Linda's for our annual 4th of July swim....the summer just wouldn't be the same with out it!!! :)

Peter, Me, Addy and Daddy

haha, this is such an Uncle Roger look!!!

Parker and Sara.....they are sooo cute!!!

the progression of trying to get Addy to smile for the camera.....

finally with Matt's help, we got a somewhat good one! :)

Daniel and Andrew with Aunt Linda

Us girls with Aunt Linda :D

Thank you Hutchins and Aunt Linda for your hospitality!!!!!!!

CareGroups after church on Sunday

On Sunday after church, I went with the Schattes to their Caregroups at the Klaus' house for lunch, then he went with me to our Caregroups at the Davis'! 

we discovered that there were four Esther there, and we couldn't let that go without getting a picture!

Esther Grace, Esther Rose, Esther Marie, and Esther Alysse! :D

 

Playing base ball at the Davis'

Bethy

Mr. D even played! :)

Kathy

Sara and Juliana watching and visiting

Lincoln

with ice cream afterwards! :)

Steven and Rebekah's Pounding/Shower

Saturday, Hannah hosted(and all of us helped) a shower for Bekah and Steven!!!

It was a very relaxed, fun evening with Volleyball, Soccer, Kickball, a water balloon toss, fellowship, and just general fun!!! :D

The Schattes came early and helped get set up

Hannah had put me in charge of getting flowers for the tables....the Black-eyed-Susans were from one of our pastures, and theQueen Ann's Lace was from a neighbor's field :)

Faith taping the table cloths down

last min phone calls 

Faith and I put balloons and crepe paper up at the gate :)

Faith decided to write a message on the back of the van...and it stayed there through church on Sunday! 

the finished product

Andrew S. ran some balloons up to the corner

the yard decor

we started filling water balloons in the upstairs sink.....

...but decided that it would go faster down at the facility....

....and it did!!! :)

Volleyball......

visiting....isn't little Ella adorable?!?!

the Bethanys! :)

the second volleyball court

more visiting.....

Soccer

Joy

Joshua wanted to be in the picture.....

Time for the water balloon toss!!! 

if your balloon broke you sat down, so you could see how far everyone had gotten! :)

Andrew & Troy  and Dane & Samuel H. did really well both times!!!

My partner....we made it to the second to last round!!! :)

gathering for supper

Steven's speech :)

Awwwww!!!!!!!!! 

Some of my bestest friends in the whole world!!!!!!!!!!!

Hannah, Me, Samuel, Rachel, Faith and Liz

Mr. Davis heard 'water games' and brought these..... 

this picture is blurry, but this was almost my favorite parts of the whole day. We were sitting in a circle talking in the front yard, and someone said, 'Lets play Duck, Duck, Goose just for old times sake!!!' So we did. And had a glorious time.....and nearly died laughing!!!!!!!!!!! :D

My absolute favorite part of the evening was praying with Samuel on the porch......I am blessed beyond measure, and my cup overflows!!!!!