Part #.......(DRUM ROLL, PLEASE!!!).......THREE!!!!!!!!!!

Well! You now know that we did in fact make it to Missouri. We (obviously, and it came to as no surprise) had a big family gathering, with fun, laughter, food, and jokes. We now pick up after that. (uh....duh) Benny and Rachel are staying with us, and we are just chilling out at the "farm" that...really.....isn't quite.....a farm.....just yet.....BUT! It is home base for Uncle Jay's business,  Wood Renew.

So, enjoy the (numerous) pictures. :)

~Kitty~

Rachel enjoying her new-found cousin

Swimming in the creek

Benny is clowning, as usual :)

It wasn't real, real deep, but it was fun!

(BTW-it flooded this past weekend, marooning U. Jay and A. Ashley in the property until it was good and ready to go down enough to let the vehicles pass.)

Grace and her rather excitable charges

Sweet little faces eating supper

Ben was just plain wore out.

(Markie looks like she's not far behind!)

Sweet

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We interrupt this program to...wake you up with some interesting facts.

September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year.

1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.

1779 – American Revolution: a squadron commanded by John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships.

1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.

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Little People playing. There is plenty of room!! :)

Ben the....Water-Wing Man??

Aunt Ashley took some of us kids to "a certain watery place of which I know"

(Yes, I know he said "muddy" and not "watery", but if Pooh knew I was quoting him, I'm sure he'd be much obliged.)

T'was a beautiful lake!

A. Ashley had a lot to do to keep Vannah from running down right away!

Lizzie with her leaning-sideways pose

Ahhhhhh! Now this is the life!

Mama and daughter, enjoying the cool water

"HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE MY PICTURE!!!!!!!!!! HI, KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!"

Just having fun

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One evening, we went to Jeremy and Danielle Niednagle's house for Bible Study. Unfortunately, we didn't get any pictures there. After a wonderful study of the Word, we moseyed on down to Jordan and Melissa's for a little while.

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Melissa showing us their beautiful house

Sarah and Little Willie Locksley

Mama and Melisssa

Old aquaintence or new, as long as you are with God's people, yo can have sweet fellowship

What a cutiepie!!!

One of those "Take a picture of someone taking a picture! that's so neat!!!" pictures....

Celebrities 1 and 2

Me with Celebrity #3

Discussion

The two wee-ones

Uncle Jay and Jordan talking about golfing (If I remember right...)

At last, it was time to say goodbye, but we (of course) had to have one more picture with our lovely hostess

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We're back! Are you still with us? Hmmm.....I'm not getting any responses....maybe they just went to get a snack.....I hope....ya'll aren't..*GULP*...asleep? Are you?....Well, just to make sure you don't go anywhere, check this out...

A duck walked into a hardware store. After waddling around, he walked up to the proprieter.

    "Got any grapes?" he quacked.

    "No grapes here, ducky. Sorry!" was the reply. The duck waddled out.

10 minutes later, he waddled back in.

    "Got any grapes?"

    "No!"

He waddled back out, only to waddle back in 10 minutes later.

     "Got any gra-"

      "NO!!!!!!!!!" shouted the poor proprieter. "If you come back in and ask for grapes one more time, I'm going to fasten your little webbed feet to my floor with tacks and use you as a decoration!"

A little bit upset, the duck waddled out. 10 minutes later, he came back in.

      "Got any tacks?"

       Relieved the duck wasn't wanting grapes again, the man shook his head. "Nope, sorry!"

      "Well then," the duck grinned, "got any grapes?"

There now! That's better! I knew ya'll would like that one. Now that you are all ears - - er.....eyes, enjoy the rest of the post!

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That night, us three girls, Uncle Jay, and Aunt Ashley stayed up late into the night. You can tell by the picture, that we were having fun. :)

See? Yep, we had some good laughs. :)

The next morning, guess who is at the stove? Uncle Jay. :)

Thanks for the wonderful breakfasts, Uncle Jason!! I love that bacon! :-D

Morning sluggishness and disussion

Vanna isn't having any trouble this morning!

Ahhh yes! The morning ritual. Cleaning up the hundreds of thousands of blankets used the previous night...

Sweet girl

Awww!!!

*Sigh!!!*

Well, folks, that's all for today! Ya'll come back, now!