A lovely home on Lake Gaston was the location for our 2017 Perry-deMena-Zimmerman-Perry-Ballantyne Summer Vacation. We were blessed with perfect weather for the week, and many new memories…
First Day of School – 2016
First Day of School 2016: Schuylkill Valley – Perry Boys Morgan in 11th grade, just turning 17 this past Friday. He’s saving his “Luigi” dollars for a different vehicle, but in the meantime he’s using the truck we purchased shortly
Morgans 17th Birthday
Really? 17? But only yesterday you took your first breaths! Then what seemed like only a few minutes later, you were walking! Then…starting school…and then, driving already? Oh my goodness… Think you’ve always got tomorrow? Nothing like a little reality
Family Vacation – Frontier Town, OCMD and Assateague Island
Summer Vacation at the beach… for me, it doesn’t get much better than that. We were fortunate to enjoy this third year with my parents and siblings again. It was a hot week, but thankful for the reprieve of great
What Better Way to Start 2014-2015 School Year!
Just as you’re about to swipe your brow in thankfulness for making it through the summer without any major injuries (we pretty much do that at the end of every summer since Christian broke his leg back in 2011), one
Summer days and nights winding down…
After coming back from our cross country trip, we were excited to get back to our community pool. In hindsight, I’m not sure why we bothered paying for the membership because we hardly got there, and that certainly didn’t make
…and Play Ball!
And so the 2014 SVYB season begins for Gabriel! He was very excited for this day and to be on the purple team. This is actually his 3rd year of Instructional Level I (formerly known as T-Ball). Generally,
The days are sweet but alas too short…
Gabriel, our youngest, just turned 6 years old yesterday. Seems like we are out of the baby stage for good. You know whenever you fill out the ages of your kids in questionnaires? It’s always “0-5, 6-10, etc.”. Time marches
“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path”. –Psalm 119:105
This afternoon I visited with Christian’s 3rd grade teacher and Gabriel’s Kindergarten teacher for the first quarter conferences. Christian’s teacher also had Morgan as a student, and so did Gabriel’s teacher. Both of
The good Lord taketh away, and the Good Lord giveth.
Three years ago at the Hershey Campground, Morgan saw a leopard Gecko and liked it enough to put it on his Christmas list. I pretty much like all creatures – except spiders, so I
The leaves are fallin’
Who can look around lately at the hills and the sky and the changing leaves around us and not see God in all that splendor and magnificence? Every season owns something that makes it unique, but I believe Autumn is a
Being a strong man…
I just read this in an article today and would like to share it here so that I can make a frame for it and hang it in the boys’ rooms. A strong man looks to God, not within himself, for
Full circle…
Monday was “Kindergarten Bus Ride Night” at SVES for Gabriel. I snapped this photo in the van while driving to the Elementary School. I don’t think he was nervous, but in the photo he shows different to me. Sure, maybe
Just before summer is over…
Corolla, Outer Banks, North Carolina. Blessed enough to stay at a very well decorated and comfortable house right on the beach, with some close friends. The first two days there the water was perfect, as was the weather too. The
Days of Summer
Sure would be nice to have our own pool, but going to Bern Pool is always fun too. I suppose I could try to match the snack bar there, but something tells me that nothing would taste as good as
Oliver & Dottie Perrys 50th Anniversary Jubilee Celebration
We were just really thankful to be able to celebrate Steve’s parents “Golden Jubilee Celebration”. It’s actually their 51st wedding anniversary this year, but they wanted to have the celebration when their daughter Cheryl and her family were here in