Saturday, November 7, 2009


The Birthday girl, Marlene turns 11 and we eat cake for breakfast!

Allan with our new friend "Bambi". We had some red apples we feed her, I bet they might like the Hedge Apples too!

We found those big hedge apples on the side of the road and dad had to go back and get some. Birthday girl Marlene was the only one who would get out and pick them up.
Alex surfing in the wave pool at the water park!

Massanutten Mini Vacation



The fruit of the Osage Orange - the so-called "hedge apple" - stands out vividly in an autumn treeline.
It is a large, dense, green wrinkled ball up to 6" in diameter that often persists on the tree after the leaves have fallen off. In good years, the branches will bend low with the combined weight of these heavy fruit. They have a sticky, white juice within them.

Friday, October 23, 2009

hello fam! :)

hello fam!
miss you erica and irene!
alex did not get king :( but he still got elected!
me and mom walked him! dad and allan drived the car!
alex you rock! i found out that a lot of people know you!
i hope a lot of people know me when i am in high school!
i might get a facebook. mabe!(proble not)! i love alllll
of you so much! cant what to see erica and irene soon!!!!!!!!!!!!


love your little sis, big sis, and daughter!
MARLENE :)

Friday, October 2, 2009

ERICA'S PLACEMENT!!



holy cow! our beautiful, amazing sister/daughter has received her peace corps placement! and will be sworn in as an office volunteer in only a few short weeks!! (2 i think)

for those of you who haven't heard, erica will be moving to Punta Gorda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (aka PG) She will depart her beloved Belmopan at 1pm on Sunday. And she said her new host family for the next two weeks is a married couple with one daughter.

Anyways, I'm just really excited for her so I was googling PG to see it and thought I'd share two pictures I found.

::Downtown Punta Gorda::

::Some nice looking people in front of the lovely Punta Gorda sign::
(hopefully someday we'll have a picture just like this, but with us in it :]


I also tried looking for the women's group she will be working with, but couldn't find anything about it online. I guess erica can make them a website or something :] just kiddding. but anywho, i'm so excited for her!!!! and proud. I still am amazed but just how selfless and huge her heart is.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Photo


I thought all of you might like to see some of my photography work! Miss you all!