My little sister got married on September 24th! She was sealed in the Oakland, CA Temple.
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| I was her matron of honor. This is me giving a toast at the reception. |
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| Fentons! Best Ice cream and hot fudge EVER!!! |
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| Don't mess with me, I have a green ring! |
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| Siblings! |
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| GG and Pops were a big help with the girls on the wedding day. |
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| cutest kid ever! |
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| Rachel and Cordell at their first day of school |
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| Rachel's preschool teacher, Miss Konni |
Wow, it sure did take me a long time to get our two week vacation blogged! Its finally done now so enjoy! The first reason for going to Pennsylvania was to go back to where Will's grandmother lived. She just passed away in Feb. at age 89. Will and his grandma were very close. As a family we had gone to visit her two winters in a row and this past winter we were not able to. I felt very strongly that we needed to see her asap. I felt like her time was soon. I thought that going out in July instead of December might still be soon enough. I am so sad that we missed seeing her again before she got sick. Will was able to be with her for two weeks right before she passed. I am grateful for that at least.
Grandma's good friend Denise was so kind to let us stay with her this visit since we were not able to stay in Grandma's house. Grandma's step-daughter, Sandy, lives there now. It was nice of Sandy to let us go by and see in the house again at least. She also gave us most of grandma's photo albums and the American Flag that was presented to grandma in honor of her first husband (Will's grandfather) who passed in WWII.
We had lots of fun with Denise and her family. We got to go to the Lewistown fourth of July festival and fireworks. We went to a drive-in movie and saw Cars 2 and I think Rachel's favorite activity was swimming!
We visited family graves and left flowers.
This was Grandma's favorite restaurant, Red's Diner.
Rachel and Denise
Daddy and his girls!
Mama and Bailey
Denise was so sweet to take family photos for us.
Love this one!
Bailey at 5 weeks old
Her smiles were so quick, it was hard to catch one!
Rachel had a blast posing for Denise. She is a natural Ham!
Rachel kept saying "how bout this one" and then posing in all different cute ways.
Sisters!
She is such a light sleeper, I am surprised that she let me manipulate her for as long as she did.
Rachel is helping Sarah wash our rental car.
Rachel won lots of little prizes at the festival playing games.
Denise's fam at the drive in. Ned, Sarah, and Hannah.
at the drive in.
Waiting for the movie to start.
Denise gave Bailey a bath for us. I was surprised she fit in that little sink. So cute!
Bailey chilling by the pool.
Rachel going off the diving board for the first time.
Silly Billy!
Rachel's first jump in.
She is a little fish now!
Gettysburg! From McClure we drove down to a town near Gettysburg to visit some of Will's friends. He has known The Rodriguez family since his teenage days and they recently moved to this area from Germany. It had been about 5 years since he saw them last. So we stayed with them in Shippensburg and drove over to Gettysburg a couple times. 
Yummy Italian ice!
Silly daddy
One of the memorials near part of the battlefield
The sign they are under says "dirty billy's hats"
It was a hot day of course so I poured water all over Rachel in the bathroom. I guess she didn't like it.
Part of the cemetery
on the trolley bus that gave us rides all over town.
There was a kids museum there too. Its basically all kinds of fun, hands on things for kids to do. Rachel is in a giant bubble.
Riding the bus again. This is Rachel Rodriguez, Will's known her since she was just a wee little one. She is all grown up now and engaged too.
Rachel is standing at Spangler's spring. This was a natural spring out in a field and both the union and confederate armies used this area for fresh water to drink. There was even part of the battle taking place here back in 1863.
