The Hill Family

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Readying for the battle.

A trial run for the big battle coming up...music from "The Right Stuff" should be playing in the background.

Getting everything situated.

Green vs. red, through trees, corn fields, "an island", man-made obstacles and naturally made obstacles. The cute one on the far right, still looked good after running through all the above. The paint balls did leave a few marks and bruises, but all determined it was so much fun.

It is hard to pick the teams out.

More back yard practice, minus all the gear.

Keep a watchful eye on this one, 6 foot tall, wearing Chile pants and flip flops.

Be careful of this one also, about 3 foot tall and 30 lbs.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Jamestown 400, day 3, June 12, 2007

Day 3: Scotchtown and Monticello
This was the view as we arrived at Scotchtown.
Scotchtown was one of the homes of Patrick Henry.

Aunt Jessica with Wintston

We broke into 3 groups as we toured the grounds of Scotchtown.

Another view of the house

Carriage steps, we had seen these in SC so we knew what this was.

Justin on Mom's back for the indoor tour. Anna, Susan and Mr. Von Holten

Our group of vans making the mad dash to Monticello

Justin and Maggie, Corrine in the back.

Moticello, the home and grounds of Thomas Jefferson.
We took back roads from
Scotchtown to Monticello, we kept asking Abbey does this look familiar (her doing the same trip last year), but she was in a large bus, at that time and didn't get to see out much or the scenery looks much different from that view.

The front of Thomas Jefferson's home.

Justin, Stephanie and Michaela, waiting for our turn.

The back view of Thomas Jefferson's home. The home and grounds are beautiful and innovative.

Again, a good portion of our group.

Mom, Justin, Joanna and Megan

Corrine

Corrine and Winston

We took the next few pictures for Daniel's benefit, just in case he needed to brush up on plumbing history.

Unfortunately, at times, Daniel's job is not much different than it was 200+ years ago.

Dawn

Vegetable gardens

The grave of Thomas Jefferson, the grave is in a family cemetery that is still being used.

Is she looking out or in? :)

The gate to the cemetery with the crest

Lauren, Erik, Justin, Evin
Heather, Wendy and Stephanie in back

Strand family

One of my favorite pictures of the trip.
Big sister Wendy with little brother Justin.
Big sister Lauren with little brother Erik.
Truly what a blessing each one of them are.

Two sweet boys born thousands of miles from each other and from the United States, studying US history with their families. Justin was born in Seoul and Erik born in Liberia. Truly a miracle and a testimony of God's soverign grace.

We were walking down the back way from the house.

We saw a lot of this (or some other vehicle that was in our group) as we traveled around together.
Justin calls this one Joanna's VA van.

Check out new pictures on day 2

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Watching his big brother play ball

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Jamestown 400, day 2

Day two: Reenactment of the landing of the first Jamestown settlers with Rev Hunt and Event Kick off; Mini tour at Williamsburg with Dan Ford and Michael Billings; trip to Yorktown; Opening Ceremonies at the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

(Our pictures are not in order) After the Williamsburg mini tour and before the convention center in the evening, some of our group went to the Yorktown battle field. Abbey and Dee moved all our stuff to a different room in the hotel, so that we could be by the rest of the group. There were also two meals in there and a lot of scurring from place to place. Whew.

A few pictures of our group, I'm noticing there are no older boys...they were all working (very hard) for RV the entire week, so pictures of the older boys in our group are limited.