What a year!

It's been a long time since I have had the time to update. It's 2011 and the year is half over. It has been fill with many exciting events.
Lets start with Kim and James Pitts and their beautiful wedding in April. James is the only son of Jimmy Pitts SR., Don's cousin. Kim did a beautiful job of planning.
Next is the wedding of our Daughter Shasta to Jerod Decker. It was very beautiful and the reception was a blast. The DJ's were AJ Balser and Nathan Wainscott. They are awsome! We danced for over four hours. Jerods friends from college all made the wedding. His family is from Hartford City. Shasta is very lucky to have Jerod in her and the girls lives. He is great with the girls and they need a father figure. They have a little boy due in August.
Our next wedding was our nephew Matt to Brittney Sizelove. A very beautiful young lady and a very hard worker. Matt is the son of Steve and Cathy, Don's brother. Matt works as a police officer. The wedding was beautiful and she did a great job with her preperation. Everything was held at the Edgewood Country club, who also did the catering. They are spending their Honeymoon in Hawaii.

This year we will again be the Park Hosts for Brown County State Park. Last year was our first time to be here and it was an amazing summer. We meet families from all over the US and from other countries. We learned how much it takes to keep the park running and all the work involved keeping it nice for the visitors and campers.
Our time started on May 1st. and ends November 6th. Our first holiday weekend was Memorial Day. We had several of the grandchildren with us camping. They love the trails and visiting the Nature Center. They get Uncle Riley to take them out on all the trails and sometimes off the trails. June was filled with several storms and we ended up with a tree on our camper. The roof was patched until the season is over. We were very lucky it wasn't worse then it was. Some campers had trees go through the sides and bust out windows. We feel very fortunite!
Megan, Scot, Conner and Autumn come down every Thursday and we all go swimming and cook on the campfire. Sometimes we hit one of the great places to eat in Nashville.
Nashville has some awesome fireworks for the 4th. This year they were delayed one day because of a storm. Megan, Scot, Conner, Autumn, Riley, Akilah and Little Rylie were here for the 4th. We really enjoy having them here.
This year so far we have had two: Rylie and Autumn break bones riding scooters on the same hill, in the same spot. We had to off limit scooters for the rest of the summer.
Kevin and Shannon spent the week with us and we were constantly on the go. Swimming, panning for gems and fossils, riding bikes, hiking. It was a busy week. The heat didn't slow them down any until the last day and they decided it was even to hot to swim. We played cards and farkle and even got some PSP time in. I even have my own PSP. I love Toomb Rader! Grammy tries to stay with it!
This week we will have eight of them for five days. It is Smokey's Birthday and it is a fun filled time. MC and the Axes will be putting on a concert Saturday night. We will hit the pool every day and of course there is Smokey's Birthday Party.
Well, this is a quick catchup. Will try to do better in the future. Have a great summer, school is just around the corner.






























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