Abbey and Joshua at Granny's farm.

Just a couple cute pictures of Joshua and Abbey, I think right now we are taking more pictures of the two of them than of Justin (which that is hard to imagine!!), so Wendy gets even fewer pictures and Daniel wasn't even there.

Dad in the woods at Granny's, Nov., 2007

When my dad was a young boy he spent many hours running, hiding, pretending within all these rocks, caves, trees, hills and hollers. It is always so much fun to go back and see it all again and see the thrill in his face and he shares with us.

Allen family picutres, Nov., 2007

The entire clan, that was there for the party.


Granny and her four children, Uncle Harold, Dad, Aunt Judy and Uncle Mike.

Granny with the six original cousins. We're in age order, just like we had stood for the last picture we had posed for, nearly 40 years ago. Dean (Harold's), Diana (Dick's), Dale (Harold's), Gordan (Judy's), Richard (Dick's) and James (Judy's).

Granny with her great-grand children (the ones that were able to make it.) Danny (Harold's), Whitney (Harold's), Wendy, Abbey and Justin (Dick's).

Aunt Judy and Uncle Don with Gordan and James.

Granny with Aunt Sue and Uncle Mike along with their special friend John.

We didn't manage to get posed pic of Uncle Harold and his family. He had a house-full with Dean, MaryBeth and Whitney, plus Dale and Danny and Aunt Brenda's brother Jack.

Party pictures

Our family with Granny

Granny's 90th at the party

Saturday evening we all gathered for a very nice dinner in honor of Granny. All the relatives, plus some of Granny's friends, neighbors and cousins. Also Granny's boss, the principle from the school where Granny works.

Dick Allen family at Pipestem, Nov. 2007

Dad, Mom, Rich, Elena and our family were able to stay at Pipestem for the couple days we were visiting with Granny. We were able to spend the day at Granny's and visit the other family and then spend our evenings and early mornings at Pipestem with our family. It was so good to be together, since we don't get to be all-together that much. We were missing Rich's boys, Sean, Ryan and Jacob and then Julie and Freddie, who are in Utah at an airforce base. Plus Daniel was unable to get to WV, because of flight trouble, though we were missing some, we so enjoyed the time together.



It was fun to have all the animals right outside our balcony. There was a fox that would come and sit, but every time we got a camera out he left.


Rich and Elena, with Dad, Abbey, Joshua and Mom.




Abbey made cheesecake and hid it from Joshua till we were able to celebrate his birthday, Friday evening. We're all laughing, for Justin was blowing out the candles before we could finish singing.




Playing dominos.

Granny's 90th, after church and Monday at the Creation Museum

Sunday we went to church with Granny and then left after that. Dropped Rich and Elena at the airport and then headed to Cincinnati. As you can see some of the trip was "not very exciting". :) The museum was very good and the pictures of the dinosaurs are great. The picture with the waterfalls is what Joshua thought that Roger, Jonathan and Joseph helped build.

Raeanne's birthday

We had a few people over and it just happened to be Raeanne's birthday; Anna VH brought ice cream cakes to share with everyone. Bob is holding Winston Del. I think I have other pics that I was trying to pull together, but these were just sitting in the draft section of our blog, so I thought I'd just go ahead and post them.

Fun pictures of Justin this summer

We've been kind of "bogged down" with birthday posts and engagement posts, so we've been quiet with posting. Since the engagement comments have really slowed down, I thought I could now post something different. Also, we really appreciate everyone's well wishes, prayers, encouragement and comments. This is a very exciting time in our family. Thank you!

Just a few pic of Justin through the summer.

Summer visits..

This summer we visited with several friends.
Our girls met Brittany and Tessa for lunch, we are so thankful that our two families are close enough in distance, that we are able to do that.
Abbey and Brittany above.


This past July we got to visit with the James', Speziale's, Baumgarten's and the Zbinden's to celebrate Luke Z.'s birthday. It was good to see everyone. Above picture staring with Daniel and move to the right and around, Michelle Sp., Sherah B., Alicen B., Luke B. and the back of Erin's head and think Anna B.'s also.

Luke B., Anna B., Stacy J., Daniel, Michelle Sp., Rob James back right. Luke and Christina
Z. back left.

Daneil and Tom DeL. doing marshmellows.

Hill's and Erber kids killing time.

Tessa and Wendy.

Abbey and Joshua

Abbey and Joshua's Engagement

Yes, it has happened...our Abbey is engaged. We are very happy for them and very pleased with Joshua and Abbey as a couple. Thank you everyone for your comments and encouragement. The entire process has been a lot of fun and a blessing as we watched the two of them grow to
know and love each other.