The Hill Family

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Monday, November 12, 2007

Somewhere along the way, I think when Abbey was in TX, Wendy and Daniel went out to visit the Crist's and the Fogle's (Aubrey and Jeff). Daniel was able to help Jeff out some with their plumbing and Wendy and Tessa were able to hang out. They also got to visit the Crist household. Above picture Brittany, Aubrey, Tessa, Wendy. Also, this past week Brittany and Tessa (along with Wendy) came out to help Abbey shop for a wedding dress.
Below picture, Daniel and Jeff: After a long day working and I'm just not sure what the two of them are thinking or doing. :)

Friday, November 9, 2007

Visiting at Granny's farm, Nov., 2007

We packed up the van and headed to WV to celebrate Granny's 90Th birthday. All the original 6 cousins were together, the first time since about 40 years ago. All my aunts and uncles on my dad's side and several of the great-grand children. It was really good to be together. The weather was pleasant and the visiting was great. Although Granny was having some trouble with her hip she seemed to enjoy having everyone in to celebrate her birthday. We took so many pictures (as always), so I'll put some collages together so we can share more of them. About the above collage: our family drove all night Thursday and arrived at Granny's Friday morning. The picture in the left corner is of Justin taking a break after the long trip, while traveling he began to sing about 2:00 AM (while in the van), so he didn't get much sleep, but neither did anyone else. He never complained and was a good traveler. Other pics. with various relatives: my dad, uncle Mike, James and Gordan, Elena etc. On Saturday morning Daniel was at Midway Airport waiting for his plane, when they informed him he would not make the connecting flight because the first flight was delayed. When flying into to such small airports, we didn't have any other options, so he was unable to come to WV with us. (we were all very disappointed.) Later on Saturday, the rest of us were able to take a short walk over my grandmother's farm, see the cliffs and do some exploring.

Again, click directly on the collage and it will increase in size.

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.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

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.

Friday, October 26, 2007

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.