For our first weekend in Ohio, Gayle’s family all came together. On the Saturday morning, a lot of us drove to Dayton to the 2nd Street Market to have a look at it. When we parked, this colorful grain elevator caught my eye.
The first booth we came to was one of the most interesting, with a woman from Kenya selling baskets and other woven products from all over Africa.
Our nephew has a stall, where he sells grassfed meat.
The children enjoyed swimming in a neighbor’s pond several times.
One of those afternoons, the girls were at one pond while a sister-in-law and I took the boys to another pond.
Mr. Imagination was in his element!
That same day, the men worked on power-washing two houses.
One evening we took pictures. Our family felt pretty little!
On a very hot afternoon, Miss Joy spent a long time wetting the feet of one of her aunts, who loved the feel of cold water on her feet.
There was a beautiful sunset that night.
The girls got to wear their new pink dresses for the first time.
Because of the heat, all the children ended up moving into our bedroom and sleeping on the floor–we had an air conditioner!
A few times I walked with the children from my sister-in-law’s house, where we gathered, to my father-in-law’s house. I took this picture on of those times, of the house where Gayle grew up. It’s somewhat obscured by the trees, just past the barns.
We were walking across the lawn one day, on our way to visit someone, when we noticed this wasp dragging a katydid to a hole. How fun to see something like that! When we came back a couple of hours later, the hole was so well hidden we couldn’t figure out where it was.
The children’s aunt organized a campout one evening for Mr. Imagination and two of his cousins. We all joined them for a cookout by the creek.
One of the children found this butterfly on a nearby tree.
The two cousins brought their guns, and the boys all went hunting that evening. They got a few birds, but no raccoons. Here they are sighting the guns in.
Miss Joy loved playing on her aunt’s stairs. The fun thing about that is that the house used to belong to Gayle’s grandmother, and all her grandchildren and great-grandchildren did the same thing! Miss Joy made up quite the games with the stairs and bannister.
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