the whalen sisters...

...in tennessee

Trip to South Carolina

This picture was taken on the way back home

Beautiful scenery

Going through a tunnel

There is a light at the end of every tunnel
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We traveled through many states

North Carolina

Virginia

West Virginia

Ohio

and South Carolina
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We had the oppurtunity to attend Music Camp at BJU and were glad that Sarah and Becca Bright could join us!

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Stratton Hall

Eric Rea

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The counselors did a magnificant job of entertaining us

pickin n' grinnin

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Wednesday night they did a skit for the campers

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practicing

tuning

and playing

p.s. Thank you Sarah Bright for letting us use your pictures

Odds and Ends

My dear sisters have run off to be apprentices to a midwife

for a week so I am to do my duty and "blog". Ha!

Sarah and Naomi do soooo much around here, cooking,

cleaning, sewing, washing, brushing, weeding, and

the millions of others things it takes to run a household

so I am missing them muchos!!! (and their blogging abilities)

Abigail Drost's Baby Shower was last evening:

Abigail was Sarah and Naomi's former piano teacher and is

due August 15, 2009!!!!

Look at those eyes!


My dear friend Mrs. Shofstahl and her sisters


Abigail holding Chloe

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Saturday evening we were off to a concert

in Salem!

The Keeling Family sang and WOW was their harmony good!

No, my life does not consist of
texting, people just think it does.


A common "Sarah" look

The most recent Whalen family picture

Happy 48th Anniversary Grandpa and Grandma!!!!

Catch Up

We put in plastic for a little over 500 sweet potatoes. (These pictures are from early June.)

the tractor driver

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We sang in a church up in Erie, PA. Here is the Pastor's 2nd daughter.

and 3rd daughter

Nathan and Baby

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The boys have been working on a chicken house.

The Astilbe is beautiful this year. Mum wanted some pictures before they faded.

Then last but certainly NOT least. Jared's next project arrived last night. A wrecked Mercedes Benz. (1994?)

P.S. These are the before pictures.