Fall ramblings!

enjoy the following pictures showing just some of the joys of Fall in Virginia

smoking the bees

 extracting the comb

 harvesting the honey

 chopping wood

 dead oak has to come down before winter!

 enjoying the journey!

 he is enjoying it too!

 peanut harvest

 tractor rides!

 chillin' on the haybale

 jumping the bales!

 Ash's new car!

 cow staring

 climbing trees

dumping the hay out of the boots!

Hope everyone is enjoying their Fall!

Jerusalem? No, it's Goshen!

Our son-in-law, Bob, works for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in their movie department.  Because of this we were invited to visit the set where the New Testament videos are filmed(thanks again, Bob!)  The set is somewhere south of Provo, in the land of Goshen-not sure where as I was not driving, therefore not really paying much attention!  All I know is that there was quite a bit if dust blowing around.  We got to the set and were amazed!  how cool to have the city of Jerusalem, made out of styrofoam, fiberglass, and spray concrete!

 someone thinks they can push the pillars down

 Bob and Jen and our cute grandkids!

 Through this door is a court where the woman will donate her mite. 

 this is also part of the same courtyard as above.

 you may recognize this area where Mary was drawing water

 streets of Jerusalem

 here you can see the back of the set

 the Court of the Gentiles

 there is an olive press at the top of the picture

 the olive tree where Jesus offer the great Intercessory Prayer

We had such a wonderful time and could have spent all day there but kids(big kids) were getting tired.  Thanks again to Bob for letting us be part of his family!

Provo, Utah

We went to Provo, Utah for the 4th of July - well, we meant to be there on the 3rd but due to unforeseen weather issues in Atlanta, we didn't make it until the afternoon of the 4th.

Ok, so what do you do while waiting for your flight to board?  Well, we like to play with spoons!

We were there for the fireworks, our grandson's birthday, and 4th of July barbeque we were just too tired to take any pictures.

 July 5th was our daughters' birthday.  We knew she and her husband would be at a local restaurant having breakfast with friends so we went to go decorate their car for the occasion.  Unfortunately,  they were not there!  Searching the parking lot, we noticed a car similar to theirs (could it be?)  After investigation it was determined that there was a 75% chance of it being their car.

so we decorated it

It was determined that they were in the bookstore across the way, so we stalked them for awhile

They finally spied us on the way to the decorated car, SURPRISE!

 We went to a friends house in Alpine and had fun in the pool, hot tub, with the dog, and watching the ever-changing weather

 Laura and Jeffry

 Miss E. going off the slide!

 double rainbow after the storm

 Laura hitting her pinata

The next few day were spent at the pool,

 Sliding

and we went to Bear Lake.

Had a great vacation with family and friends!