Summer 2009

We've had a very busy summer. Starting Memorial day weekend, when we met 21 other Yoder's (Darrin's brother, wife and their daughters; his sister, husband and their 4 children; Darrin's dad and his fiance; Darrin's cousin, his wife and one of his daughters and Darrin's daughter and her sister-in-law) in Gatlinburg, at a beautiful cabin in the mountains. We saw the Dixie Stampede and spent a day at Dollywood, kids went to race cars and others went to the shooting range. Other than that we visited, hung out and ate great food. We drove there and back and between the travel and activities it took a week before I even began to get over it and then I caught a cold that I still have a cough from! Darrin's dad Ray and Nancy came back to spend the week with us and ended up finding things to do. I couldn't recover and slept most of the week. Not the way you want to spend time with family. They were a big help and Deke enjoyed having his Pap and Nana Nancy to play with.

This was the last post that Ami was working on, thought I would put it out there for everyone.




In June we went to DC, where Brad, Stella and Delyssia met us. We spent the week sight seeing and catching up. I was able to do most everything we had planned to do, even though I was still dealing with the cold and started having problems with my blood pressure and sugar. Deke was in awe of everything, Chase enjoyed spending time with Delyssia and Darrin and I enjoyed spending time together and creating more memories. Chase went back to VA with Delyssia for a week and then came home, only to head out to camp for a week.