26 years today....

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.

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

Watching his big brother play ball