I sooooooooooooo win!

The battle between our PC and myself is over. I officially won!

Ever since my hubbie, bless him, set up our router on the PC, our internet connection has been pathetic! Today the router is gone, yeah me (!), and I am posting before anything wild and crazy can happen again!

Our summer has been so full and fun, I wanted to give you a taste of what it's been like over a series of posts.

Post #1...

One unusually cool June night, my great uncle Perry and great aunt Gail, invited my entire extended family over to their home for swimming, conversation with generations of family, and best of all....MILKSHAKES!

Not only did they make us milkshakes to order, they made them using my great-grandma's milk shake maker from eons ago!

This was such a fun evening of catching up with most of my great aunts and uncles that I don't see too often, and having my kids get to know their great great aunts and uncles!

Perry is my grandma's youngest brother. I think there were seven kids in their family. My grandma is the 5th girl, and then they have two younger brothers, Wilbur and Perry.

My grandma was also having a birthday a few days later, which she also shares with her son, Derald. So we celebrated that as well, giving them cards, a few gifts, and a cake. Just what we needed, more sugar!

The cute little lady in the pink sweater, is my Grandma Bertha's sister Edna. We always see her leaving breakfast at the Essenhaus at our Thursday morning breakfasts when we are usually just arriving.

Jadyn got to see my cousin Jasmine. I am the oldest grandchild and Jasmine is the youngest grandchild. Jadyn & Jasmine are only three months different in age. So they enjoy playing together when we get together.

I don't know how it happens, but Addison has a special power over my family. She can get them to do anything she wants. This scares me a bit for the future! :) They just love her!

Abbi especially loves her! I think it's great because Abbi is the youngest in her family, so she spoils Addison like she would a much younger sister!

My cousin Austin and his beautiful girlfriend Jana... We really like her!

Addison was loving running around Perry & Gail's yard, and they have some beautiful flowers, so we took a few pics!

This is Great Uncle Perry with Alli and her boyfriend Kyle. We like him a lot too! Ethan especially! They took him to dinner one night when we were at convention and he literally sat on top of Kyle while eating. Kyle's so tall though, and has such long arms, he just ate over him. Love that!

And then there is Kevin. Don't know why, but Addison got him to just come over and talk to her. It was so cute!

And did you notice, my pictures? No red line anymore.

It's called....

A new camera!

And I love it. Right now for my purposes, I need a point and shoot kind of camera. So I found a Canon PowerShot A2100. It has a great zoom and is incredibly easy to use. LOVE IT!