Nebraska Wedding

For Thanksgiving, we road with Aaron's parents, brother and Granny to Sidney, Nebraska for little sister Adrienne's wedding to Kenny Schwarz. Here's a little snapshot of our fun times...

Left to right: a 12-13 hour car ride is actually not too bad when you have good company and lots of knitting to occupy your time...the boys after Thanksgiving meal (ever feel like that?)...the happy couple (no, Kenny's eyes aren't really crossed, although they always seem to be for pictures).

Thanksgiving evening we went to Kenny & Adrienne's house and watched them open their presents and LOTS of gift cards!!

The next morning we decorated the reception hall...

Four generations: Granny Carter, Janey Carter Hilburn, Stephanie Hilburn Willams, and Ashley Williams (mothers and daughters)


After eating lunch at Cabella's (it's like Bass Pro...Aaron really liked the Elk burger!), we went to the church for the wedding rehearsal.

The day of the wedding and pictures before the big event!

The wedding reception!
left to right:

Beautiful cake...you gotta love those chocolate fountain yummies...and there go Mr. & Mrs. Schwarz!!

Cleaning up (once a janitor, always a janitor).

What a fun trip and, oh the memories made!

Family

In October, Rheagan and the boys came to visit! We drove down to Arkansas for the weekend, and it was almost like Christmas! Every Gentry family member was able to come (except for 3 of the inlaw/outlaw men). As you can tell from the pics, it was a fun time.

Summer 2010

It's been a memorable summer for Aaron and me. We're having a lot fun, while learning hard lessons at the same time. Here's a look at what our summer was like...


I harvested more than 3 tomatoes from my garden and encountered some great photo opps...

In June, Jonas Alexander Vidal (my sister's 2nd child) was born! I was able to stay with her for 2 whole weeks. I was able to be in Florida before, during and after the birth. I had a great time with everyone (my parents were there, too).

Goings On

Lots of gardening (seed-starting, sowing, transplanting, building my dream compost-compiling center, etc) has kept me busy these past few months.

Thanks to all this rain, potatoes and onions are reaching for the sky, zucchini has sprouted and put on its true leaves, & marigold & nasturtium are on their way. Lettuce is doing so-so (transplanting error), & the tomatoes leave a bit to be desired, but there's time yet. Maybe I'll be able to harvest more than 3 vegetables TOTAL this year (all 3 puny tomatoes)! We shall see....

In addition to this, I painted the outside of the trailer in Mar/April. This will someday be the guest house (you lucky guests), so I didn't mind putting a bit of sweat into it.

Before...

After...

And last night, hubby brought home 3 (eight-week old) kittens: two brothers and one sister...

left to right: Priest, Pixie, Parson

(Priest has a small white patch on his throat; whereas, Parson has a white ring all the way around his. Pixie's face is shaped like a little nymph, and I can already tell she's mischievous as a sprite).

If they decide to stick around, I'll be very glad for the company, entertainment and, hopefully, less mice on the place (at their previous home, they were already catching mice and garter snakes).

When Aaron brought them home, I watched them for hours, climbing posts on the barn, catching moths, pouncing on each other and jumping around the yard like they had pogo-sticks for legs.

Those of you who've watched a kitten play know what I mean...