The other week, we took Reids and went to Tennessee to visit Richard's aunt and cousin and extended family.  We had a great time in Parsons.  When you go visiting like we did, instead of just catching up with people at a reunion, you really get to spend quaility time with them.  We had a wonderful time with Aunt Inez and Uncle Larry where Reid and Kathryn stayed.  We stayed at a motel in town and enjoyed hanging out with Richard's cousin Carmen and her family.  We spent time in their pool, went to a minor league ballgame, had a picnic and just chilled.  We came home on Monday, the 13th and had a wonderful visit from Wendy, Justin and Brian.  Heather was in Lynchburg all week at soccer camp so they came over and had dinner.  This past week was kinda crazy with Aunt Anna being in the hospital.  She could not put any weight on her right foot, it just gave out.  She had a lot of pain and couldn't even lay completely flat without severe pain.  We took her to the ER on Tuesday morning and they did xrays, MRI and couldn't find anything.  They went ahead and admitted her and ran more tests on Wed.  They did a CT scan and nothing showed  up.  She came home Thursday afternoon.  We gave her a walker and she seems to be doing ok getting around.  At this point, a pinched nerve is the best idea they can come up with.  She does have an appointment with the  Neurolgist Tuesday.  This next week, Richard, Isaac and I will take my dad and head for Holmes County.  We have some buying for the store on Friday and Saturday we have a family reunion.  We will leave there on Saturday afternoon and go to Grantsville, MD for a Broadwater reunion on Sunday.  Dad will stay in Ohio and ride back on the truck Tuesday that brings our load of furniture.
Here are a few pictures from Tennessee
 

Sunday night, we had a birthday party for Reid and Kathryn at their house.  Reid's birthday was Saturday and Kathryn's is this Friday.  Here is a picture of the birthday couple...

Last night, Richard, Isaac and Reid went fishing.  I received a phone call to come back to the pond, "Quick, with a camera and scale".  Richard had caught this 6 1/2 lb Bass that was 23" long.  Lots of excitement for a short evening of fishing!

Last night, the phone rang at 1am...at that time, it scares you as you are awakened.  It was to let us know that one of the buildings in the 200 block of Main Street was on fire.  I jumped up, woke Richard and quickly dressed and we headed into town.  We found out the exact address was 3 buildings down but still too close for comfort.  We got here and we quickly unloaded all the stuff from the safe into containers and loaded them into my vehicle.  Thankfully, there was no wind and it was completely contained to the building and the one to the right of it.  We walked around giving drinks and snacks to the firefighters and any other equipment that they  needed.  We got home around 4:30 and slept for about 2 hours.  Just feeling very blessed today for God's protection not only for the rest of the businesses downtown (the store was vacant that caught fire)but for all of the volunteers who stayed up all night and then went on to their real jobs today.  Here are a few photos of the night.