Florida recap

Rough day in Destin, Florida for the Prentice girls! Al and I had a great time in Destin with Ninha, Ashley, Kristy and their kids. Here's Kristy with Ava, me, Ninha with Kate, Ashley and Anna. I'm sure Poppa had the boys somewhere in the surf!

Someday, it would be great for all of us to go! What a beautiful beach!

Celebrating Connor's birthday tonight! Hard to believe he's 22. Just talked with Taylor and all is well. She will finish rafting on the Arkansas mid to late August then travel with friends to the Gauley (sp?) River in West Virginia. She'll be employed there until the first of October. She'll then travel cross country to take her Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) in Yosemite, California for six weeks. She'll live in Yosemite until the class is over mid November then plans to use her certification to serve as a search and rescue WEMT in the Four Corners area (Durango is the choice). She and three other friends will find a place there to settle down for a while, we hope!

Happy Birthday, Connor!!

harvest time

okay - I jumped the gun in my assessment in the last e-mail, I think. Marnelle at KE just came by to look at the grapes and advised us to pick the Zinfandel now. The rains have stressed the grapes causing them to start bursting, and thus, start spoiling "botritis" -( that earthy smell relished in European reds, but not so much here in the US) Anyway, we will be picking the Zin only on Wednesday. That makes me think, though, that with more rain in the forecast this week, the others may experience the same difficulty and that perhaps this weekend they, too, will be ready to pick! The BRIX level today is only at 16-17 unfortunately. I will also probably pick the Cab early as the birds are gaining too much weight in juices! So you might get ready for harvesting the syrah and sangiovese this weekend and I'll let you know more after Wednesday.
Love BriarCreek Vineyards

Hello from D.C. & The Cassady's

Hi, guys!
Jason was traveling with work this week, so I went with him to D.C.
This place has changed so much since the last time I visited.
We did a whirlwind tour of the Smithsonian's (Air & Space, Natural History, and American History). We viewed the monuments.
The best thing we saw, however, was Mt. Vernon, home of George and Martha Washington.
The whole trip was a blast for a weekend away!

Hello from FL!!! This is such a fun way for us to keep up with our beloved in TX! Wanted to mention that I will actually be in Dallas Friday night August 14th, NOT Sat! My flight leaves out Sat night right after my conference....so I hope I still get to see some of you Friday night, but if not....soon enough! Eric and I are counting down until Christmas with you all this year! 21 1/2 weeks till Griffiths family Christmas!!! :) Love you all! Laura and Eric

Save the dates

I looked at my calendar and I'm on board with the 15th. I'll check with Connor to see if he can join us. Unfortunately, I won't be able to be at the Sept. 12 celebration at Keipersol. We had to move our Friday night game to Saturday night. I will make sure I make it to Sunday's celebration at the church, though. Sorry about that.

Sad I couldn't make it to Sue's celebration lunch yesterday. The mediation lasted until 8 pm. Ugh. Sounds like the new house is awesome. Can't wait to see it!

We had a great time in Florida! The grandkids all loved the beach even though the schedules for naps were often interrupted. I think everyone took at least one nap on the beach--including Pappa and B! Weather was great and the beaches were beautiful. Hard to come back to reality.

Thanks for the blog, Sue. It will be a great way to keep up with everyone!
Becky

Mom and Dad's anniversary ideas

Thanks for organizing the lunch yesterday for Sue. It was good to visit everyone again, see the new house which is absolutely gorgeous, and talk about upcoming agendas. Mom and Dad would rather post an invitation of sorts on the church bulletin a couple of Sundays prior to the "tea" and send invitations out to those not in church so as not to offend anyone. They would encourage those they really want to come and we can guess on the others. I'll check with Marnelle this week on locale, etc. Rained really hard last night, so I'm checking on the grapes!
Will inform all about status as the week progresses.

Good job Sue! Also, everyone put down the date of August 15th at 6:00pm for dinner at Fernando's - it is on Northwest Hwy and Midway - Laura will be there and we will also be celebrating Donna's birthday, Jim's birthday and Connor's birthday. See you there! XOXOXLibby

Mom and Dad's 60th Anniversary Celebration!

Everyone mark your calendar for the weekend of September 12-13 to join Mom and Dad for dinner at Kiepersol's on Sat. night and a light lunch at Donna and Don's on Sunday after church with some invited friends. More details to follow.

Shaw 7-20-09

This is part assignment, part experiment, so I hope some of you will want to help me out with it!

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