I learned something new.  Today, August 30, is Emily's "golden birthday."

I mean, I KNOW today is Emily's birthday since I clearly remember giving birth to her 30 years ago today.  But I'd never heard the term "golden birthday"...which apparently is when your age is the same as the date you were born.  Emily is 30 on the 30th...that makes it her "golden birthday."

I'm probably the only person who didn't already know this...but now I do!

This, by the way, is one of the cutest photo-bombs ever!

Kim got up last Saturday morning at 3:00 am. and started baking chickens.

Every year our church sponsors the Community Days chicken and noodle lunch, and for umpteen years Kim has been in charge of the lunch.

The day before Community Days, the skies opened and 6" of much-needed rain fell.  Add in the 90+ degrees and it was pretty much a muddy sauna for the whole weekend.

But the show must go on...so the car show, traditionally held in the now-squishy grassy lot by the community building, was held instead in our church parking lot.  The cars were just starting to pull in as the race began.

The exclamation point to a great summer here in our little Indiana community of Sulphur Springs, the annual Community Days, happened last weekend.

Kicking off the Saturday shindig was the morning parade.

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is quite the Facebook phenomenon.  Our family was touched very personally and tragically when my mother-in-law Peggy was diagnosed with ALS in 2005 and passed away after suffering terribly in 2007.  So when my niece Tiffany challenged us all to either be drenched in ice water or donate $100 to the ALS Association, Kim and I opted to stay dry and donated $100.

Happy 5 months old to our sweet little grandson Abram!

Karter (6) and Kaden (4) came over to the cabin for a beach craft.

We made some memory jars with sand, a photo, and some favorite shells from our beach vacation. 

Making memories...

Trying to find an old photo this week, I came across some gems from my childhood days on the County Line Road. 

My three siblings and me with our pets.

Our old house, circa 1995.

Wonderful, fond memories attached to that old house.  It's the first home Kim and I bought and we brought all four of our newborn babies home from the hospital to live most of their childhood years in that house.

Yesterday as I was making my bed, I looked out the window to see the sunrise and discovered a big old spider had taken up residence across the outside of my bedroom window.