Elser Family Blog

We’re so Happy for them. God smiled on them as they had the perfect Day for their outdoor wedding at camp.. We hear it was a total success. It will be remembered, as far as weddings go, for a long time. I like the new tradition of cutting wedding cake with a leatherman… It is officially a tradition now, right?
God bless you two, We love you very much and miss you very much. H and I are going to take a trip up one of these weekends before the summer is over to visit you.
Love, E,K,H,M,R
(ps: It took me a bit to figure out where “Supa” came from.. I’m getting dense in my old age..)

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For some reason, people (mother inlaws come to mind) have made fun of our kids riding a trike instead of a bicycle (not teasing them, rather teasing US, K and I) It’s a good trike.. Made by “fun time”. And its big enough that you can get going pretty fast on it, meaning you have to lean into your turns otherwise you flip off.

What does this have to do with riding a bike? Well, H has been riding that trike for a while now. Two days ago, she hopped on her friends two wheeler and what do you know.. She can ride it. I never had to help her once. Actually, she ran into the house and said “Hey Dad, wanna’ see me ride a two wheeler?”
I was rather impressed.

The other day we went to the park, and a couple new Things were installed.. Like this teeter-totter.

Silly picture of H getting high on the swing.

R does not like the baby swing anymore.. He must be like his big sisters… Holding on for dear life, of course…

R inherited a cool toybox from his Uncle Paul… Remember R, you Gotta” give it back to Paul when he has kids…

R had the Chicken pox the WORST! Poor boy.

M had them pretty bad too, but took it in stride. H had a light case, but was miserable for a couple days.

I was playing with my camera the other day.. Anyone care to guess what this is?

HeY! Wedding pictures on the cell phone page!! Someoes cell phone is workin!!
🙂

Here are the girls (H and Sara) singing.. I have proof they are practicing their church music!

Everyone is miserable with the Chicken pox. news to come.
DAV, I hope I don’t miss ya.

M has the Chickenpox.
1)We don’t have to worry about that varicella vaccine anymore!
2)Do have to worry how we are going to attend DAV’s wedding this weekend.

Here is our weekly trek to the gas station for a snack.. Sara is going along this time. Sara and H are best friends.. And now Sara is moving to Florida. H is going to be sad.

Here are the girls skating on the greenway. It’s a old abandoned rail bed. Flat, through the woods, and good to skate on!

Well, we had success on our first nighttime “Catfish gigging” trip. This was a 9 pounder that tasted delicious. But you should have seen the one we missed. No joke, it must have been 40 pounds. It looked like a 747 gliding below the boat. My Friend Chris, who’s boat we were on, said he hesitated because it was so big! Sounds like a fish story, but its true!

Here is M doing her thing… You should see how well M takes care of R..

H has been taking Karate for a couple of weeks now. She is doing well. I know, its a lame picture, sorry.

{warning: parental boasting ahead:}
H has achieved over 30 points in her AR (accelerated reading) program. That is .5 points per book read and test taken. And you only get the points if you pass the test. In the 60+ tests she has taken, she averaged over 90% correct. Perspective? The next highest AR score in her class is ~12 points. Way to go H!

OK, so I was supposed to load this yesterday.. oops.

Reminds me of my childhood….

I’m short for words today… But tomorrow I’m going catfish spearing at night.. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Poor R, suffering the indignities of having two older sisters.

M and R having fun in a staticy moonbounce.

These flowers decided on their own to sprout in our yard…We don’t know what they are, as we have never seen them before.

Last weekend was the “Relay for life”. We brought the cotton candy machine again. Here is everyone taking a lap around the track at Nxxx Axxx High school, hence, NA.