The Raber Reunion || Simon J Graber

We also had the Raber (Dan's Paternal Grandma Ida's family) this summer.

Our family was in charge of the reunion..and we are in the English minority in this family.

The majority of the family is still Amish so I tried to be respectful and keep pics to a minimum.

In case you were wondering, we did not go hungry.

This family can bring it || serious sweets at this event.

And the salads/appetizers - the grilled meat, mashed potatoes, noodles, corn and beans were on a whole other counter! It was a rather large group, nearly 200.

Grandma Ida was one of 8 and each of them had large families. 

Grandma has been gone since 2003 - but this family was something she was so proud of!

She would have dearly loved this gathering.

It was fun to hear the families tell childhood stories and how they cared for one another.

More 9 square!

It was a full afternoon of visiting and then clean up - made it home around 6.

We were blessed with some tasty leftovers! 

Little League at the Reds

Joe was able to go to a Cincinnati Reds game this summer with the

Loogootee Little League.

He loved it.

An organization sponsored the bus over and the tickets!

He spent the day with a best friend Pax and his mom.

I was sent these pictures of the fun, thankful for fun summers!

Captured Memories Summer 2017

This post is full of random phone pictures

that

may be some

of 

the best memories in the future years.

I LOVE summer visits from my boys.

It is tough to be away from them so many hours during my work weeks.

DH sees them a lot at Grandmas and they enjoy farm summer days..

but this mama treasures these summer visits.

And this day, silly was the theme,

they were on opposite sides of the swinging door entertaining each other...

And talk about crazy - after a farm water fight

in Grandpa Great's kitchen - towel drying!

And DH promised Sam ice cream after one of Joe's baseball tourneys and he forgot...

so it became the promise of a large blizzard any time say wanted to redeem it. He at the whole thing, never looked back - favorite flavor M&M

Love these daily reminders!!!

And a couple of my favorites at work - Menthol Kleenex (weird I know), my brown eyed susans

and smell good lotion!

And my very favorite - my niece Jaelyn spent a shift with me to see what pharmacy was like!

LOVED that.  I send to Blake and Morgan to see if we could make them jealous!

We added a new air fryer to our kitchen.

We've had fun trying new recipes in it...

chicken, pork, steak, burgers - it is quick and convenient and no oil needed!

We've discovered that suddenly the boys can play Yahtzee independently -when did that happen?

We have had some fierce evening competitions!

Some wedding prep...

And another night of Yahtzee and looks like ice cream, yum!

Many afternoon and evening swims, and this one is always by my side!

Joe won a library drawing and received a cool Lego Set.

We quickly took it apart and rebuilt it!

And a campfire in the basement?

Nope.

More wedding prep!

3 weeks out...