hi, I guess school has started for every one but us. mom has started the little one into reading, but us older one haven't started. Vicki has been babysitting a little three year old named Taryn ( She is so cute!) and it is great fun for the rest of us. She is so agreeable and polite it's almost scary.
I got my garden completely cleaned up this week and am trying to fertilize it and finnish putting stones on it.
Music lessons and orchestra have started again and It still it takeing some getting used to. Other than that I don't remember anything remarkable that has happened since I last updated.

Hi, This weekend has been exciting. We went to NY to visit Steve and Essy and have church there. sadly i didn't get a chance to drive. However, it is not to sad, for Dad got stopped. (Dustin was sitting on Moms lap and Mom was sitting shotgun.) Dad only got a severe warning because we had not left the parking lot of the rest stop yet. But it was still scary; If I had been driving I might not have been able to drive till I was Eighteen.
       We stayed at Essy's brothers home over the nights. It was a lot of fun but due to the long week - which included Grandpa's visiting and a milk can supper at Phil's - I was very glad to come home. On the way home we stopped in at the Niagara falls. We went on the boat ride there and on the way out the girls and I stopped and bought ourselves pretty necklaces.All the way up and back again Daryn was annoying due to boredom. We are nearly recovered now though and I hope to lead a normal life for at least a month now.    

Today I went swimming in Cold, Dirty water. Yuk! But it was ok, (I guess). I sewed the rest of the day, wich was fun but rare. I don't sew very often. I rather buy my clothes. 
We have started running again, I like doing it because it makesme more energetic all the rest of the day. But it isn't enjoyable getting up earlyer than normal. 
Dad said last night that he wants to start putting little instumental intro's and inter-ludes and post-ludes into our music. That is exciting because I get to learn Celtic Jigs to play in-between parts of songs. I have this pet wish to learn to play violin like Mairade Nessbit from Celtic Women. She has such a joyful, spirit about her. Sarah Sommers, my violin teacher, is on a trip across the pond so I will not be haveing Violin lessons until Sept. However I shall be practicing very hard because I want to get ahead of myself. Ha, Ha, but it's true. I have this encredibal urge to get into my forth Suzuki book and my thirde Strings book. 
This is really wierd but I am suddanly looking forward to fall and school. I haven't looked forward to school for like, three years.        

Hi, As you know by now we just got back from some meetings up at Red Hill Farms with a speaker named Philip Fields. It was a lot of fun but thought provoking. Shelly, Daryn, Corky,Erica, and Tyler, became Christains, and were baptized along with Heather, and two of the Fields girls. As Daryn was being dunked Russel said, "I can swim by myfels."
Right before the baptism Shane was canoeing in the pond with Isaiah, the canoe tipped and they fell out. Shane can swim, but the life jacket Isaiah had on didn't keep his nose above water; though Shane tried to swim to shore with Isaiah, it was too far. He started shouting for help. Phil, and Philip ran for the pond, Phil, shedding shoes and cell-phone as he ran. He dived in with Philip right behind him. Phil got Isaiah and Philip got Shane as he started sinking. Shane said afterwards that he was finished, his strength was gone, by the time the guys got there. It was quite a scare and it took a while for the shock to wear off. 
As for what I got out of the weekend, I'm still digesting it all. It was a lot of the same that I had been hearing from God and trying to walk out. I guess I feel that what I have been trying hopelessly to conquer is actually conquerable now.I think there Is more to it than I am seeing right now though, so I guess I'll wait and see.