-Last trip to Ocean City-

I can't believe this summer is ending! It has been a great summer and we have had so much fun. This was our last trip to Ocean City for the summer and it was a blast. We got a good amount of sun, beach, and water. We went with all our family that is out here and it was great! I love my family and am so glad that we get to be so close and are able to do lots of fun things together!

**Ghost Hunting**

Gettysburg Adams car group planned a date for us! We went to Gettysburg, PA to go Ghost Hunting! It was actually really fun and not that scary. Gettysburg was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point. Now it is known as America's most haunted! We went on a "ghost hunt". We got all kinds of gadgets to find ghosts and went out to where a bunch of the soldiers were buried. It was pretty interesting. Mike, Aaron, Adam, and Michael
we are SO scared! haha
conferring with the spirit of a fallen soldier in Gettysburg

Talking to the soldier spirit.......with divinity rods- you can see all the gadgets to detect the ghosts with thermal enegry, temperature changes, voice recordings, night vison and the divinity rods.

This house is where some of the sharp shooters would shoot from! You can see all the bullet holes from the war.

Nate and Ashley

~Adams car group~

~Michael and Aubrey~

*Mike and Jess*

~Adam and I~

~Chesapeake Bay~

I heart these girls!

Trying to start the coals so we could start cooking!

Looking at a Jelly Fish
This last week we went to Chesapeake Bay with our friend Marla! We had so much fun just hanging out. Marla had made all kinds of great food and we cooked on the grill and soaked up the sun. It was a blast! One of my favorite things about the D.C area is when are you are driving back home on the 495 N and you drive around a bend you see the temple rising up in front of you! It is amazing! I love to see the Temple!

~Swimming with my lover~

Adam and I set out to find a swimming hole that was closer than 50 miles to us. This was as good as it got! We still had so much fun playing in the creek and enjoying nature.

I have been dog-sitting this puppy! She is the cutest puppy ever and we have had so much fun playing with her!

Then the week before we went to ~Great Falls~

At Great Falls there is ~NO SWIMMING~ but we couldn't help but get in. It was heaven! The water was perfect, the weather was perfect, and my husband is perfect!

Sunday is the only day off our husbands have off and so we try to go to some cool places! No matter what we are doing we always have fun! I can't wait to spend more time with my husband this fall!

~Happy Birthday to the greatest Mom~

The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.~William Goldsmith Brown

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

I can only work and pray my hardest that someday I may be a fraction of the woman my beautiful Mother is.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving

Happy Birthday Mom! You are the most beautiful person I know, inside and out! You have the biggest heart and you are the most loving person I know. You are such a great Mom, and my best friend! I love you so much and I hope that you have a great birthday.

Where flowers bloom so does hope

It is sad to see the summer winding down. I feel like there is so much more for me to do and see! This last week we went to D.C. and saw the Botanical Gardens. It was really cool to see all the flowers and plants, and after being there and enjoying the gardens I thought of this quote. "Where flowers bloom so does hope."- Lady Bird Johnson.

~Great Falls~

My cute friend *Sarah-wa*

Cute little boy fishing!

A few of the "wives" went to Great Falls! It is so beautiful there. We had fun getting together and just walking around and enjoying the amazing nature around us!