Guess I better get you caught up with our weeks events. Last weekend we went to the Scottish Highland Games in Wellington, Ohio. Was a pleasant day weather wise. A slight breeze and not to hot. Was a fun day to enjoy the culture and activities of the Scottish people. Kilts were beautiful colors, bagpipes and drums being played in competitions and groups, dancers, singers, native Scottish foods (such as meat pies, shepherds pies, haggish, deep fried vegetables, etc.) genealogical booths to see if your heritage was of one of the clans and animals native to Scotland. There were also, Highland games like the Kbar toss, etc. That's really the only one we got to watch as the others were later than we planned on staying and a long ways off from each other. But we had an enjoyable day.
Then we went to an Amish bulk food store. They sell everything in plastic bags instead of boxes and at a very reasonably price. They have spices, flours of every kind, sweeteners, healthy cereals, pastas, mostly homemade, and just about anything you can think of for cooking. They also have non-electric lights, stoves, etc. Lots of these kind of stores out in the countryside of Ohio.
Got some more pictures of unique buildings and of coarse more clock towers. Every town has a clock tower it seems. One day we have to go and take pictures of the unique churches here in Cleveland. The Catholic churches are usually really ornate, especially the older ones.
Well, you are all getting together for the 4th and to celebrate Jaron's birthday. We will be thinking of all of you. Travis turned 16 this past week and Jaron will turn 1. What milestones in both of their lives and ours. This means that everyone is growing up. It is so awesome to see these young missionaries out her and to think that as few as three years Trav will be out here, hopefully, serving our Heavenly Father. The growth you see in these young men and women, spiritually, is something to behold. How important that it is to teach our children the gospel, of our Heavenly Father, and the practical side of living. That seems the thing we see that the missionaries need to know besides the gospel, is how to manage money, take care of a car, and just basic living skills. They have depended on their family or others to take care of these things and when they get out here they haven't a clue. They should have their own money once in awhile to know where it goes and how to budget it. The basics of taking care of a car. Like checking the oil and other fluids, changing a tire, how to contact emergency and insurance companies in case of an accident, etc.
Our Garden is growing!!! Our squash is just full of blossoms and about 8 squash, the one tomato plant has twelve tomatoes of various sizes and the other one lots of blossoms and no tomatoes. Our zucchini plant will be a week or so out as we planted it later. We also have some herbs, sage, oregano, rosemary and parsley. So we are al set to make spaghetti sauce.
Today, Friday, we are off at the archives as it's their holiday for the 4th. We are doing catch-up here. Doing some laundry, dad is making a display case for the Stake President's office to put a map and pictures of all the Stake missionaries in, going grocery shopping and then meeting some friends tonight for dinner. Going to go take some pictures of a couple of yards we really like for future reference when we get home. We are going to totally landscape our yard when we get home. There are such beautiful yards here. On Saturday we are going to Akron and having a BBQ at the Haights (who do the same mission we are only in Akron) and then going to go to Stan Hywet gardens and mansion. They are like Thanksgiving Point only bigger I guess. We will probably go over to the sisters apartment that night and watch the Boston Pops and the fireworks from Boston.
We love you all and miss you. You are always in our prayers and thoughts. Mom and Dad
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