Our break doesn't begin until next week! I am happy for your earlier summer break.

see you in 20 days! :)

sure enjoyed the visit last week!

Yeah for summer break! Double yeah for spending time with family and friends (and grandkids....) :D

They are sure looking forward to being there...wish I could be!!

I can't wait to meet her.

Isn't that great! Good pic of you and #4! I think she looks like Tim! Josh enjoyed his hour holding her and sure bragged to Anita!!!

Isn't she a sweetie pie?!? I know they are glad to have had your company and all of your wonderful help! I can make sure Ashlyn gets plenty of cuddles :-) See you in a few weeks! Oh- and Fred totally feels your pain as far as subs are concerned :-)

I'm so glad you had that time with them, too! I know they've appreciated all your help tremendously and I know Ashlyn is all the better for having those Granmaw cuddles!

The holidays make teaching a lot of fun, don't they?!

careful with how much you talk about grandkids...she'll get a little righteously jealous :)

Great to see you and Ashlyn too!

Congratulations, Grandma! There is NOTHING like a new baby to smell, touch, taste, and put eye prints on.

I'M SO JEALOUS!!! Ha! I wish I could have come out to see you, but it was too far to run up there quickly. Glad you had such a good time! Have fun on Polar Day!

I'm so happy for you and yours! I love your Polar Express idea, too. :)

Isn't it wonderful...grand parenting, that is!!!

I can hardly wait 'til the end of Feb.-'NOT wishing my life away, but AM looking forward to our retreat AND to meeting my new lil' great-niece! XXOO

I'm excited for both of you to be there!!^

I received 3 B&W photos from Tim & Amanda today! :) 'LOVE 'em! XXOO

Hi! Hope school is going well for you. I finally got some pictures of Troy and Meg on here! Yippee. Thanks to my cousin! It was easier than I thought. Hope all the family is doing well. We are thinking that when we go to Texas later this year we will go through Lubbock first...we really would love to see y'all. Hope you are liking it there. We really loved it. Love it here too :) Take care! Love ya!

I'm glad school is starting off well. We can't wait to meet Ashlyn either!!! :-)

I'm anxious to meet this little one, too! And, Kacey's son will be just after that in Dec.!

I know- I can't wait for Ashlyn to arrive! Have a great year!

We are so excited about all your babies!! Miss you so much. I know I don't keep in touch like I should. Have a wonderful school year. Love you!

I know you must be a tremendous blessing to all those children! Have a wonderful year, and I'll be praying for a happy, healthy delivery of your newest granddaughter. :)

You win the prize for best answer on my entry... okay so there is no prize but that is priceless. Enjoy your sweet babies. Hope things are going well for you all.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support! We love you!

Amen on the granchildren as a blessing! I am glad that you are off to a good start on the school year! I am still busier than ever and enjoying every moment of it! I hope that you and Kevan are both well. Your family is really growing! I hate that we missed you guys this summer. Could you please email me so that I can make sure that I have your address? Mine is alli1414@gmail. Have a great rest of the week! Love you! Allison

hope your school year is going well.

ditto on Jamie's post - hope it's going well! What are your plans for the holidays?

congrats. we are so excited for them.

What do you teach? Music? I can't remember if I told you, or if you've read through enough of my blogs to know I teach in a pull-out MTA dyslexia program and I love it. It is so rewarding and those kids are extremely sharp. Glad you could be with all the family.

Ross's version of the story is probably the most accurate, so I'll paste it here for you. Enjoy! :-)

There was onr night in particular. We were sitting down talking down, when we heard the door shut. Some guys in the back of the cabin said, "I saw a man come in the cabin!" That got most everone riled up, thinking a man was in our cabin trying to get us. This was at aroung twelve thirty. At about one, me and two of my friends decided to go tell Luke Perkins (one of the JC's) what was going on so we could sleep. We went in thier room, and looked around, but Luke wasnt there. We then decided to ask Josh Kirby. My friends and I walked to Josh's bunk, and I was at the bed post, one of my friends stood in the middle of Josh's bed and another councelor named Bruce Scott's bed, and my otheer friend sat gently on Josh's bed and tapped him, and was three feet from Josh's face, and said, "Josh." Josh had apparently heard the guys saying "There's a man in the cabin," and was alert. When my friend woke him up, Josh leaped out of bed, hollering at the top of hi lungs, going, "AHHHH WAAAAAA RAAAA AHH!!!!!" He was flailing his arms around, and started to beat up my two friends, hitting them in the back of thier heads, and kicking them, and everything else. I jumped back ten feet, in terror. This then woke up Bruce, and he got my friend who woke up Josh in a head lock, now screaming. All the while, my friend was trying to say it was him, but everytime, he'd get hit. He finally, spluttered out, "its Austin!" Bruce then released him, and Josh calmed down. They both thought Austin was the man. After a minute or two, we started cracking up uncontrollably. It was insane. At the awards ceremony, Josh got a fake wrestling belt as a joke.

What a precious picture, Graw! :) I like that image of sharpening a saw. Summer band starts August 4th at the high school, so I don't have much time left for sharpening. Yikes!

Hey Ms. Lori. It's Emily Vernon. Glad to see you on Pleo. Last time I talked to Evan Woods, he said you guys had left Wylie and have been working with a congregation in Lubbock for a while. I hope you all are doing well and enjoying it. Congrats on the new grand-baby!

Hey Lori! Great to see you ... especially in such a precious picture with such a sweet bundle!

btw, this is Jackie Vernon

Hi, great to hear from you. Yes, Emily's surgery went fine and she's on the road to recovery. Thanks! Hope you are having a wonderful summer.

What a honey in that pic! Hope you enjoy your last few weeks! Can't believe it is over! I will have a 4th grader and an 8th grader! Where has the time gone? I need to stop , slow down and smell the roses! Hope all is well with you!!

Hi Lori! We are doing great! Just saw Tim & Amanda last weekend at the wedding. So cute! Yes - my brother does write bible class material called "Get Them Talking".

Just came across you on another blog and figured out who you are. We lived in FW last year and met T and A there, and my parents recently moved to Philly so now we know P and Sh too. My Sophia LOVED spending time with your granddaughter Carynne. We're living in Guatemala and love it (most of the time). Congrats on more grandbabies! We still haven't seen a photo of Phil's #3. Have to get onto my parents about that!!

okay, here's the key...pick a color and look UNDER all those of that color. They all have something in common except one color. Good luck tomorrow!!

Hey Anita told me about your new house. Did you guys find the right lot? I think I know the young man who was showing you the property. Nita mentioned his last name was Dulin?

your post prompted me to get busy. On Thursday we are having a teacher/school workers luncheon for all the great Castleberry ladies who are about to "go back" to school . Pat Underwood is doing a little devotional for them. Thanks for the inspiration.

Yes just love the family! Please tell all hello!

thats so funny that you say that about the dishes...dave usually loads the first load of dishes when we have a big sunday lunch with lots of guests and lots of dishes. it makes it easy to want to have company.

minds are interesting, huh?!!

Are you ready for school to start? :)

H e l l o F r i e n d !!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a holiday, and it couldn't get here any sooner. Have a good one. Hope your class is good this year.

Hope your year is off to a good start.

Yay! Tim did a really great job today leading singing!

How exciting! Keith worshipped in Arlington a few months back (or longer, I forget) and said he was very impressed with Tim. :)

Thanks. He's been impressing us for 26 years now! :)

Yes, I was so excited about Heather! And I'm so glad Landon and Hailey got to be there too!

Aw, shucks! And you didn't bring the tarantula home with you?? ;)

Welcome to Pleo! And congratulations on the coming little one. We enjoyed being in the meeting at Wylie in March.

Congrat's! I can hardly wait to cuddle my new lil' great-neice! :) XXOO

p.s I KNOW you're tryin' to figure out how to add a pic of baby Eli up there with Carynn & Mya! :)

I forgot to say that I noticed the color on your blog! :)

It's good to hear from you. I'll pass along your greetings to Josh and Lisa next week...Jimmy's nephew from Kansas is marrying a girl from Centerville, so we'll see them there. With our grandchildren so far away, I sometimes resort to borrowing some from members here. This morning there were two here, playing inside for a while, then snacking outside and playing on The Mountain (a huge pile of dirt in our backyard from excavating for a driveway).

It is so neat to see you on Pleo! Another girl?!! What fun! They will all enjoy one another's company when gathered at Graw's house. I am sure that you have been terribly busy getting ready for the fall semester. I hope that we will both have a few minutes to visit this weekend. I'll call you when we are in town Saturday. Hopefully it won't take long to do what we have to do.

You're sweet to say that, but I do look a lot older than I did before all the upheaval. At 36 I was mistaken for a high school student! I tell my flute students that I still feel 17 on the inside. :)

Thats Great!

Now you have colored names??? You have really spiced up your pleo! We are back from camp, little tired, but had a great week! So excited about the baby!

Lainy has a very different personality from Lindy...I believe Lisa's dad calls her a "lap baby," because she is content to just sit in people's lap for long periods of time. She's army crawling now. I "talked to her" on the phone today. Lindy is one busy little girl!

I have a CD of the first 12 years songs, hope to add last years and this years. Not for sale in stores!!

Thanks! I sure will :-)

When are you leaving for San Antonio? Amanda got home today from camp. Connie and Rebecca are still here. Mom is doing a little better, this was a little rougher than the last one.