Peach Picking

From the St. Louis Edition:

One lovely day, we drove out to the farm to pick peaches.

Taking a trailer ride out to the peach trees.

The kids loved picking.

They also loved eating.

After we had our fill of peaches, we moved on to the blackberries.

They were incredibly large, sweet, juicy berries. Danny did

a great job finding good ones and you can tell who enjoyed them the most.

After picking, we browsed the store. The kid karts were a huge hit.

We brought home peaches to eat over the next several days! Peaches are one of my favorites!

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:12

Brought to you by: Rebekah Benner

The Traveling Aunt Faifis 2

From the St. Louis Edition:

Faifis is the name the kids have concocted for Faith. It kinda stuck.

After a long hot day of swimming, the kids and I headed to the airport to pick up 

our special person! 

We stayed up super late every night.

We took Faith to our favorite park to go biking. Then we drove around looking

for deer. We were almost to the end of the scenic drive without having seen any.

As soon as I prayed, we spotted a mama deer with 2 fawns!

The last 3 times Faith has been up, we've tried to go see the Arch but for 

various reasons it never worked out. This time it did. It was 

a nice hot day for it.

Our shoes are almost exactly the same color. We picked a good color!

We made it to the top!

If you lean close enough to the windows, you can see the base of the Arch from the top.

It was a little freaky.

Sunday, we decided to spend the evening with just ourselves since we had had

so much company over the weekend. We ate at a BBQ place and then walked around

our favorite place. It was a lovely evening to be outside.

What cheesy grins.

We had to get a picture with this really cute white gate.

The kids dancing and singing.

One of my dearest friends! 

I'm so glad you come up and visit, Faifis!

Until we meet again...

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The Traveling Aunt Faifis 1

From the St. Louis Edition:

One day Steven walked in the front door after work and someone walked in behind him...

Surprise!!!

We always have so much fun with Faith! 

The kids bask in lots of attention,

stories and M&M's.

Making cookies was exciting. 

Park fun with friends.

Just hanging out...

Time for s'mores!

Jessica babysat the kids so that Steven, Faith and I could go out for a nice dinner.

Texas Road House was the place of choice and the steaks were so delicious...yummy!

Then we got ice cream and despite the funny faces, it was yummy too. haha

Faith and I were going to go biking, but every trail we went to was flooded.

So we walked and shopped at Old St Charles instead.

We finally got our bike ride in.

It was sad to say goodbye...but this time it wasn't so long before we got to see her again!

We love visits from the Aunt Hill!!!

Brought to you by: Rebekah Benner