finally, a garden that yields!

We've tried to grow something in our garden for about four years now.
This year we gave up on our soil and built raised beds. It worked!

a september trip

Take a peek at a few pics from our September trip. We camped a circle... Wisconsin to Ohio to New York, across Ontario to Michigan and back home through Chi-town.

Alan, 10:00 @ night, drying out our sleeping bags... oh, for a tent that stays dry!

Kruglets @ Yoders' Amish Home

Who says a little rain can slow down this crew?!

Our family pic of the trip... Journey Behind the Falls, Niagara Falls, Ontario

Alyssa climbing the dunes... a much larger task than we can show in a photo!

Beautiful sun, an abandoned beach, and no time constraints... Nathanael was in heaven.

the Kruglets, outside our camp cabin @ Warren Dunes State Park in Michigan...






Eva, on the last day in the car... just get me home!

Alyssa and Nathanael, astronauts together@ Adler Planetarium

the experience of interviewing ~ from Alyssa

Hi! This is Alyssa.

This week I did a big Brownie Scout project. It was about women and their three most important issues. I did interviews by e-mail, telephone, and in person. I had to interview women that were teenagers to women over 70 years of age. Some of the issues are similar and some are different. Some are exactly the same! Here are some of the issues that women face today: family, work, faith, health, and making your own decisions.

This has been a wonderful experience to interview people who know about a lot of issues. It was fun. I'm very glad a lot of people helped with this project. I hope I can interview again soon. Sometimes being a Brownie is hard work. (If you've been in Brownie Scouts you know what I mean.) But after you're done you realize it was worth it!