FSY & Ruth's Motorcycle!

 Cal, Shanna and Haley went to their first For the Strength of Youth this summer!  It was a week long youth conference in Williamsburg at the university of William & Mary. They loved it!  I think Shanna and Cal's groups did a couple things together.  Haley was more so on her own.  Cal was with some guys that got in to the talent show.  They lip synced to the Back Street Boy's song, I Want It That Way.  Overall they had a great time. Though I think Haley liked it okay, a nice time.  Cal was really excited to be on his own and not do anything with anyone that he knew.  He wanted to meet all new people.  While that wasn't totally possible, he did meet a lot of new people and really loved it.  They rode with Bishop Peterson to the conference.  

I had grand plans of doing fun stuff with Elden....but that didn't happen. We drug him around to our different things that week. Elden finished a puzzle!  

One place we went was to look at stone for new office counters. We ended up not getting stone, but went ahead with some custom wood counters of dark walnut. 

The puzzle didn't last too long. 

The kids found these....things? at Smith Mountain Lake and brought them home. They had fun keeping them alive for a little while.  And we even saw them spit out water. 

We did go to a new bakery/coffee place in McGaheysville.  Of course no coffee for us!  Elden got a smoothie and a treat and Lee and I shared two pasteries I think. 

A purchase we made that week was a new motorcycle for me!  I got my license in 2020, but couldn't practice because Lee's bike is too tall for me.  I haven't been out on it practically at all since we are waiting for the license plates. 

We met the guy at the Turner Ashby High School parking lot. Lee drove it around and we bought it.  He drove it home with no plates.  Thankfully he didn't get pulled over! I stayed right behind him the whole time. 

We picked up the kids from FSY!  We had plans to go to a ropes course that morning after getting the kids.  We didn't plan well and needed leather gloves.  We drove to an ACE hardware and bought some.  Then we went online, looking at the time slots and the next availability was over an hour later.  We decided to go another time and head to Kings Dominion. 

Shanna wasn't feeling too hot so she stayed in the Chevy with me. Lee and the other kids went for a little while.  We didn't stay long as it started raining. 

We drove by the Richmond temple on the way home. So pretty!!!

It was fun hearing all the FSY stories and seeing who noticed the motorcyle. 

Cal and Shanna also showed off some swing dance moves. 

We are getting some progress done on the building!  The painting is wrapping up and we are making progress on the baseboards.  Still a long ways to go before we are ready to open.  

The kids took turns riding around in the office parking lot. 

Fun outside!

Best friends forever!

I guess it was pizza for lunch!

Look at that trim work!  Lee did such a great job!!!

And now maybe nap time on the trampoline?!

Also during this time, we found out Cal had COVID.  The Monday after FSY we were supposed to go camping at Watoga State Park with the Swinsons and the Mabundas.  Cal was feeling pretty lousy and we tested him Monday morning.  He was postive.  Most of us got COVID as well.  Thankfully it was pretty mild. It was so sad missing the camping trip! Hopefully next summer we can make it happen.  I have a credit for the campsites.