A special glimpse...

Tonight Nathan and I spent a few hours with an Asbury student and his fiance` to take some engagement photos at a very special horse farm about 30 minutes from where we live. It's closed to the public, but was available to us tonight through their special connections. I'm afraid our mouths were agape much of the time, in awe of our surroundings and the opportunity to explore this amazing place. The two barns above are breeding stables, the cupolas above featuring stain glass images of the farm's jockey silks.

Enjoy your holiday weekend!

Beauty Secrets

It was eerily quiet, so I had to see what Ellie was up to...

"Eyes!" is the first thing she said.
Righto. Thankfully she didn't try putting it on her own eyes.

Then it was, "Bye, Bye!"
Sorry, I wasn't about to leave you to your devices, Els.

Then, when she became aware that I was more interested in a an entertaining blog post than taking away her new found 'toys', she was happy to smile for the camera.

Time for nap!

Thank you, Gigi, Gyshe & Aunt Hannah

Waggoner Family Update

You know those times when you have so much to do, you don't know where to begin and then begin to hope that by procrastinating the list will shrink or get done on its own? Maybe that's just me. So right now, instead of packing, I'm posting an update to the blog.

Anyway, another school year came to an end today with Asbury's graduation. The center has been hopping with graduation parties as well as served as a place for families (and some student workers lingering to service the extra campus visitors) to hang out and congregate in between events this weekend.

In preparation for that, we spent some time a few days ago weeding out the flower beds, putting out some annuals, etc. Of course, Ellie could have been a challenge to keep an eye on while working so when she wandered into the sand volleyball court to play, I didn't discourage her. Of course, it had been raining the previous days so the sand was actually pretty soupy. By the time I took her out, her glasses were impossible to see through and her hair was even caked where she had tried to brush it out of her eyes. For fear of injuring my camera (and risking my reputation as a careful parent), I refrained from photographing her condition and instead settled for this image of her clothes.

Tomorrow is going to come quite soon -- I have to take Nathan and the team of media students to the airport at 5AM (they're flying to St. Croix)! Then Els and I hit the road to drive north (I for some meetings at WGM's hq in Marion and Ellie to enjoy a couple of nights with Gyshe and Gigi and Aunt Hannah). We're going to miss Nathan! Again, he'll be posting to the center blog which is http://asburywgm.blogspot.com/

Happy Mother's Day to our moms!

mugging for the camera

modeling today's church ensemble




Yes, those are new frames. On Thursday the babysitter recounts that they were reading a book when Ellie snatched her glasses off of her face... but the temple piece stayed. The drs office didn't have her same pink frame in stock and since there was no need to buy new lenses since her prescription hadn't changed, we opted for what was in stock in the same frame where we could re-use the same lenses.