Hazel & Ron were baptized by immersion, in their pool. It was a very simple, very moving moment, especially Ron – he was a sweetheart.
As with most things “Meyer,” it involved a family gathering – of course, this time with members of their new church, the Light & Light Chapel (Free Methodist – going WAY back to our grandmother’s/great-grandmother’s roots.) Here are a few photos.
This is Great-Aunt Robin with our sweet Emily Eliza, who loves the water!
That little sweetie looks SO much like her momma!
And Rachel, Jennie & Zoe all got haircuts for the start of school. Here they are all together:
The amazing thing about this photo (and the ones to follow) is that the girls cooperated – even WANTED me to photograph them. As you can see, Rachel also got her hair colored. She wanted BLACK! but her parents wouldn’t have that – a bit too much. But I like this brown with blond highlights. Of course, she looks more like Robin than ever! They are three such lovely girls – 13, 14 & 15 (in two weeks, that is.)
Here’s Rachel’s solo pic, Rockin’ Out!
With her French cut t-shirt and that haircut, she looks like a rocker, eh? 
And Jennie, who was just being silly – she couldn’t think of a pose:
She has blossomed so much this past year – she’s so much fun to be around. Very silly and way more confident and chatty. She was telling me about her new school clothes and she said she got a pair of – “What are they called mom? Chinos! Yeah. Chinos. And they look GOOD! I make them look good!” I love it.
And our Zoe – a lovely young lady herself, much more mature this year and in love with her baby sister – I know it’s always hard for both her and Elias to go home after they’ve been here for a while – after spending all summer with the adorable Emery, I know they’ll really hate leaving. Zoe had her own pose – not sure what it was, but it’s cute!
Finally, I had my curtains open the other night to let the cool air come in – we’d turned off the A/C with all the cool weather, and it warmed up all of a sudden in here. This beautiful harvest moon was “shinin’ down on me.”
Sorry – it was taken through the screen – but you can see just how bright it was. So pretty!
Things are going well. Faron and I are getting excited about our first ever solo vacation – we’re off to Bar Harbor Maine and Mt Washington NH later this month. Just five or six days, but we’re looking forward to getting away together, to seeing such a beautiful part of the country and, to trying out traveling with me and my walker! I’ve emailed as many of our desired activities and destinations as possible to make sure they are all accessible with my walker and so far, everyone assures me it’ll work. Even a whale watching tour! And I called Dr Wallace for a dramamine prescription for Faron – he got so motion sick on the airplane last year going to Las Vegas, we are sure the boat rides will get him good without good drugs.
Tiana just got home from a few days in Duluth visiting old college friends. It was her birthday present, from us and Jason, that plane ticket – she got so homesick for them after her birthday wishes on facebook! Then she’s off to Las Vegas with a couple of girlfriends next month for a few days, and in November, she and Jason are going to Hawaii for 10 days. She’s a travel-maniac. A future possibility is a Clay Cruise next September at this time – she and I and perhaps a couple of others are planning to go. I am hoping things are a bit different than this year’s cruise, which is on the very same ship I’ve cruised on twice before, and which is ALSO going to the Bahamas again. But, Tiana’s never cruised or been to the Bahamas, and this trip is all about the clay for me. They get several “names” in polymer clay to give instruction on all of the “at sea” time, and then while the ship is in port, the instructors take turns “manning” the clay room, so anyone who wants to can clay with them in a more casual environment. Yowzers! I do hope that trip comes off. Tiana says, “I can just wheel her into the clay room and go and DO MY THING!”
Jason’s back seems to be healing well – he says the pain is much less now, after 3 weeks of wearing the brace. He never felt the broken rib so that wasn’t a biggie, except it bothered those of us who love him to wonder why/how he could break his back and a rib and have no idea when or how! He is taking calcium to help in the healing. I hope he continues to take it. He has never been much of a milk drinker, and he rarely eats ice cream even.
Faron’s been busy with the gardens. We put up 89 quarts of corn – in the freezer. And we’ve gotten lots of sliced and diced green peppers done. We thought about and rejected the idea of doing tomatoes – just way too much work! We’ve also gotten zucchini and carrots and one or two other things in the freezer in much smaller quantities, and of course, it’ll soon be time for potato digging. They put in even more than last year, when they got over 800 pounds of potatoes. Sheesh! He also just finished building two more new cabinets for the kitchen – he’s ordering glass doors for them today – a co-worker builds them. They look terrific – they make that smaller window make sense now.
And me? I’ve been claying, of course – today starts the voting on September’s challenge. I’ll post pics tomorrow, I promise. This particular post is plenty long enough! I’ve also spent a lot of time on the ‘Net searching for motels and activities for our trip, and swimming when I can.
Life is good!
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) Then on the Monday we went to Hazel’s for a picnic. It was such a cool day, after several down right cold nights – the pool was almost unbearable, but Joe and Amy toughed it out when the boys wanted to go in. 
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