Bluegrass Baby

Early indoctrination is the best! Addie is always amused at the various bluegrass instruments.

The Roaring Lion!

Addie was a Roaring(crying)Lion for her first Halloween! Her parents...I mean...Addie really loaded up with candy!

Our Little Pumpkin!

The Virginia Fall is beautiful and we're trying to soak it up. Addie, our little pumpkin, is smiling all the time these days and is working up a great squel sound, kind of like a laugh. She is still a handful and Renee is doing a fine job taking care of her. Renee would like a few more arms and I would like a few more hours in the day, but life just keeps getting better!

Shark Party!

Last week we visited my Mom and Dad in Floyd for the themed Shark Birthday party for my Mom and Matthew Lee! Matthew turned 5 and my Mom is holding steady at 39. The party was great - tons of relatives and games for the kids. The highlights of weekend were the rope swing that we hung down by the creek (Addie is in the picture soaring through the air) and picking apples from the small orchard on the land and then crushing them to make cider in the old cider press.

A Visit to the Old Boone Homeplace

Last Saturday, while visiting my folks in Floyd, VA, my Dad and I decided to find the old Boone homeplace. Renee and I have been especially interested in doing family history on the Boone line on my Dad's side since aquiring a book entitled, "Descendants of Johann Diel Bohn". Our research showed that the Boone homestead was in Floyd, only 3 miles from my Mom and Dad's home! My great great great grandfather Andrew William Boone built the two room home with his sons Robert, Steve and John (through whom I am descended) during the Civil War era. It was very exciting to see the house and it felt so welcoming and peaceful to walk around the land. Mary Elizabeth Boone, great grandaughter to Andrew William Boone, is who I had read currently lives in the home, but no one was in the house when we visited so we took it upon our selves to walk the land. We found a grave site in the back yard with Andrew and his second wife, Margarete Clementine, along with some other family. This was such a rich experience to walk where my family had lived for nearly 150 years.