A Busy Summer and a New Semester

(Elizabeth can't figure out the picture thing. Do you add the pictures before you write? Or is there a way to move them around to be in the order you want even after you write? At least there are some pictures so our blog won't be so boring.) :)
The Amish don't like their pictures taken, so one morning John took pictures of their shadows while they were working on our roof.

This is one picture of our room at the bed and breakfast we stayed at for our 3rd anniversary.

Another picture of the place we took our first picture together, while we were up at the cabin where we first met.

Making smore's at the cabin with the friends, Pete and Donna, who own the cabin while waiting for John's parents to arrive.

With John teaching 2 classes this summer and traveling on the weekends we had a very full and busy summer. Teaching summer semester was definitely more relaxing than teaching during the normal semester or a minimester, especially when you had morning classes and then could be home for the rest of the day. :)

Then our traveling began...

John took a couple of days off at the end of June so that we could go back to the place where we first met in person 4 years ago in Minnesota and took our first picture together.

We got home and John taught all week and then we went to a bed and breakfast to celebrate our 3rd anniversary a few days early over the 4th of July weekend.

Back home for 2 weeks and then off to Kansas for a family reunion with Elizabeth's relatives (grandma, great-aunt, 1st cousins twice removed, 2nd cousins twice removed, and a 4th cousin and another cousin somehow). John was able to scan things on the computer and send them to whoever wanted them and entertain everyone with his magic tricks.

Back home for another 2 weeks and to finish up the semester before heading to the Chicago area to spend time with Elizabeth's roommate from college and her husband.

Then to finish off the summer the Amish came to re shingle our roof and John went to a magic convention with a friend from magic club before coming home and jumping right into the new semester. (This was the first time Elizabeth had ever been left by herself since we have been married. Thankfully she had several quilting projects to work on and the library to check out some movies and phone calls from John to keep her from getting too lonely.)

After a week full of meetings and preparation John started teaching 4 classes today and on Mondays he has a night class. Keep praying for John's job because during the meetings last week there was talk of more possible cuts before this 2009-2010 school year is over.