Happy Blogoversary!

I just realized yesterday was my 1st Blogoversary! Now if I could just teach Cami to post... Happy blogging y'all!

Nauvoo

The majority of the family met in Nauvoo for a week of fun, fellowship and church history. Kim, Derek, and Justin stayed in SC to care for the critters and make some $. Here are a few highlight pictures.The Whole Gang

The Werner Family The Iowa HarropsHarrop Grandchildren The Happy Grandparents

Farm Happenings

Catching the rooster!

Catching Carol!

Doesn't this cow look frightened? Guess he heard the 3 C's were in town!

First Casualty

The first day @ the Farm while Mommy and Grammy were still there, Claire took nasty tumble from her bike. OUCH!! A hard part of growing up....

elbow

hip

Life on the Farm

Cami and Tookie drove Cooper, Carol, and Claire to New York to spend 3 weeks with Grandma & Grandpa Brayton @ the Farm. The kids are having a great time and learning "farm chores". Zipping up. Don't be too jealous, but it's still cool in upstate NY. Beautiful pasture Mama Chick and her biddies. The girls are really enjoying watching the biddies hatch and grow and helping to care for them. Ellie Mae getting water for her critters!Fixing the hay trailer in anticipation of the harvest. Cooper says he getting muscles from his farm chores!

We Made It To The Farm!

After 2 days in the car, a little silliness was called for!

Harrop Cousins

To break up the 15 hour drive to NY, Cami and Company spent the night with cousin Jenny and her husband Pete and family in their home just outside of D.C. Nice to catch up and get some much needed rest. Thanks Vogls!

Nathan, Michael, Cooper, Claire, Carol, Ashley and Olivia.

Off to the Farm

Cami and Grammy (Tookie) left after church today to take the 3 C's to Grandma and Grandpa @ the Farm in NY. The children will stay for 3 weeks. We're hoping Grandpa teaches Cooper some good work skills planting hay on the farm! The girls are looking forward to hatching biddies and guineas and watching them grow. I'm sure they'll all have names soon! Pictures will be coming, Carol packed her camera. What a good summer time activity to spend time on the farm with family. Wish they were closer so we could see them more often! Derek and Beau will drive up @ the end of the month to retrieve them. G&G should be tired by then! Swimmin' Hole Lane will sure be quiet....

Super Sugar!

Super Dog!!!

A Week of Parties!

The last day of school was Thursday 6/4. Cami and Derek hosted 4 consecutive nights of pool parties! Hamburgers and hot dogs for 4 nights!!! By Friday pizza never looked so good! The dogs were excited with any dropped food! Monday - Girl Scouts Tuesday - Claire's 1st grade class Wednesday - Carol's 3rd grade class Thursday - Cooper's 7th grade class Friday - Rain ...priceless Here's a few photos from the week.

tired hosts

talk to the hand!

drinking in the fun!

Carol & boys

Cooper & girls in a chicken fight!

Carol's Award Day

Carol finished 3rd grade by receiving awards for "A/B Honor Roll" for the year and "A Honor Roll" for the last 9 weeks. We are so proud of Carol!

Brownie Bridging Ceremony

Claire is now officially a Brownie and will go to Girl Scout camp for 3 days in July. The entire family present but she was so excited that her teacher, Ms. McNeil was there!

Summertime Hairdo!

Buddy got his summertime hairdo on Tuesday. Below is a picture of Sugar (on left) and Buddy (on right) from December. Notice the difference.

Before

After...

Buddy's saying ahhh this is much cooler!

Thanks Mammasetta!!

Charles Towne Landing

Beau, Cami, Cooper, Carol and Claire spent a beautiful Good Friday @ Charles Towne Landing. It is a SC state park on the original landing location for Charleston. It includes an animal forest complete with animals and birds that would have been here more than 300 years ago, many bike and walking trails, and a recreation of what life was like in 1670. As you can see we had a great time...even had all the kids in the stockade! We took our bikes and had a picnic and enjoyed the sunny day.

Imitating the shore birds!

Manning the rudder on the ship!

My New Dentist!

I made a visit to the dental clinic @ MUSC today. Here is the photographic proof of Justin torturing me...The funny thing is I actually paid for this!

Graduation!

Sugar and Beau are now a registered Therapy Dog team!! Therapy anyone???

Toothless

Even with the recession the "Tooth Fairy" paid $5 for this!!!

Claire finally loses a tooth!!!

Claire's First Grade Program

Dancing to the Farmer in the Dell

Girl Scout Cookie Time!

Once again it's Girl Scout Cookie time! The economy has taken a bite out of cookie sales...only 600 boxes this year compared to 1300 last year. We might be looking for a "bail-out" too!!

I killed Barney...

For those of you that don't know Beau has been driving a little purple Metro for about 16 months that she bought for a few hundred dollars. She loved this car for the tremendous gas savings having put 45k miles since owning it. She affectionately called it "Barney". Yesterday while driving in rush hour traffic, everyone came to a sudden stop and Barney was not sudden enough! Fortunately Beau did not sustain permanent injury, just air bag burns and contusions. As you can see Barney was not as lucky...as usual, Derek came to the rescue! He was just a few miles behind in the traffic and was his usual calming force amid the chaos!

We're grateful that no one was seriously injured but Barney will be missed!!!

Crazy Make-Up

Carol and Claire had fun with Lolly one afternoon getting a "wacky" make-over!