A Relaxing Day...

Today was a very relaxing day. Nothing to do (which was actually nice), but we still thought of a few things to do. We drove down to the lake (Lake Geneva, that is) to look around.

A look around. (This is the golf course on the way to the lake).

Here's the lake. We'll take some nice pictures of it tomorrow:

So after a bit of a drive around, we went back to the hotel and relaxed. The S. girls dropped by and decided to stay and teach us a little game. I have no idea what the name of the game is called.

Okay, quiz! What do you think we are watching? (This shouldn't be too hard)

No, Lindsey is not saying "Ommmmmmmmm..."
Very concentrated (or does that only refer to things like juice?), aren't we?

Mom makes some dinner.

Another "concentrated" person.

This is one of the fruits of our "labor".

And look what happened! The laughing-stock of the game! (Not really. All the papers were laughed at anyway. Especially mine, I'm a terrible artist.)

We ended with a swim in a warm pool.

That was pretty much our day. A very relaxing day.

The Wedding Etc.

Now we come to the highlight of the trip: Ben and Tiffany's wedding. Some of you probably watched the wedding on the computer, but for those who didn't, here are some pictures to inform y'all (I'm working on what I call the "Y'all accent")

Kevin and Corey, in addition to being ushers, were also candle-lighters. Here they are, waiting to perform their duties.

Mr. S. playing some welcome music.

Kev and Core lighting the candles.

The mothers.

The Groom as he watches the Bride walk down the aisle.

The Bride returns the Groom's gaze.

Bride and Groom while Dad smiles on.

Dr. Sproul giving the message.

"You may kiss the bride."

Mr. and Mrs. Hector.

After the very good wedding, we traveled to the reception hall. After eating a great meal, we started the dancing.

Corey and Amy pose for the camera.

The circle.

Hey look! I found my store! (taken on the way to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin)

So, to sum up our last few days:

After flying into Milwaukee, we traveled four hours south to Peoria. After the wedding and reception, we returned to our hotel in Peoria. We went to church this morning and fellowshipped with the Providence Church congregation (plus those left over from the wedding). After reluctantly saying goodbye, we headed back towards Wisconsin (specifically Lake Geneva, where we are staying currently). Now, we are comfortable in our hotel, where we will wait at until Presbytery.

On The Road Again....To San Francisco

Once again, we leave to the annual event of Presbytery. Well, that's not entirely true. If that were true, we would be leaving a little later than we are. The truth is, we are leaving to a once- in-a-lifetime, and long-anticipated event, the wedding of Ben and Tiffany. And so, without further ado, let me begin.

Preparation for any long trip takes time, and this trip was no exception. We began on Monday packing and preparing, Tuesday and Wednesday were spent packing and preparing, and finally, today, we got so sick of packing and preparing that we left altogether. Dad had a flight to Saint Louis at 2:20 today, so we dropped him off at San Jose Airport, then continued on to our hotel in San Francisco. After dropping our stuff off at the hotel, we headed for Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf, a must-do for San Francisco travelers. Of course, we've been there before, but it's still fun.


Corey gives a weird face. Little does he know what will soon happen...

On the way to Fisherman's Wharf, we went on a little detour (on accident) that made a 15 minute trip last an hour. Well, it wasn't the detour that added all that time, but the horrible rush hour traffic slowed us almost to a halt. Here's a view of the fog, which was, thankfully, not over us. It was actually an unusually beautiful S.F. day.


We passed the Bay Bridge. As long as we weren't going there (that's where all the cars were going) we were fine.

But after an hour, we finally made it.

Kevin welcomes all people to the pier.


Walking through the pier.


The three musketeers on a windy day.


The many resident musketeers. Also known as, "Sea Lions".

After viewing the sea lions for a bit, we were so hungry we got some dinner at Chowders. If you are ever at Pier 39, I would recommend getting their bread bowl clam chowder...my mouth is watering.

Mmmmmm.....four people eating arguably the best chowder anywhere.


After a great meal and great music provided by a talented musician we left the pier.


Since I don't have many pictures...


Mom pets a whale as we leave Pier 39...

After leaving Pier 39, we drove around looking for this street, which we found eventually: (okay, this isn't our picture, but we didn't have any)


And Corey says "Bye". "Bye". "Bye".

The Last Three Months....

As always, our days have been busy. I have decided to get some pictures up so you all know what happened.
First, in February, two birthdays were celebrated. Kevin's, and yours truly (Casey).

Here's a random picture of him from some other occasion.



What I want to know is, how did he get a bigger picture of himself and not me?
Next in line: the annual walk-in-the-orchard picture.


Compare that to the picture from 2008:

I notice two things. First, the grass was greener in 2008, and two, Corey and I are both a lot taller in the newer picture.
Next was Mr. Schroeder's birthday. It was a surprise, but it was hard to keep a car rally a secret. If you don't know what a car rally is, it's a LOT of fun.

You gotta love this picture of Ben.

Then Easter eggs. It is a tradition that we make a "face" egg and take pictures imitating them. Confused? Look below.

Me.

Mom.

Corey.

Kevin. It's pretty hard to imitate a guy with no mouth, but Kevin did his best. Ha!

Dad didn't like his picture, so here's his egg (the one on the right) with Mom's.

Next in line: Family picnic! Fun as always, and here is one picture to sum it up:

WOW! What a difference from the previous picture! This was *cough* SPRING homeschool camp, and it was snowing the whole time. I can't believe it snowed in late April for so long and hard!

GAME TIME WITH TED! Mr. Jones had a fun game for the audience, where a father/daughter duo fought each other to near death with noodle swords. It was supposed to be a blindfolded fight, but when they had the blindfolds on, Mr. Jones took hers off. You can guess how it ended up...

Another abrupt change in weather, as we move down the mountains to celebrate my grandpa's birthday. Notice that the below pictures were only a couple days after the two above pictures.

The end.