Our Dogs

Someone asked me to post some pictures of our dogs :), so here are a collection of our two dogs, Randy (Ben's dog) and Fritz (Becky's dog). Both dogs we got at the pound and they are mixes. Randy, I think has some Australian shepherd in him and Fritz has some Great Pyrenees in him.



Randy is a good farm dog. He loves to be with people and to ride on the wagons and the back of the truck. He is a very dainty, dignified dog too (compared to Fritz).







We like to dress Randy up sometimes (poor dog).

"What big eyes you have."

"All the better to see you with, my dear."

Peekaboo!

Fritz on the other hand is a very happy-go-lucky dog. He adores Becky, his servant/master.

His nickname is "Pooh Dog". A "dog of very little brains". :)

In the summer, he loves to lay right in front of the fan hogging all the breeze. In the spring, he loves to gallop right through the mud puddles.

One of the dogs favorite places to lay, at the top of the stairs.

See the treat?

This is a teacher talking to his Sunday School class.

Teacher: If you wanted a toy that Johnny had what commandment would you be breaking?

Sammy: The tenth one -- Thou shalt not covet.

Teacher: Very good. Now if you took a piece of candy from your little brother without asking, what commandment would you be breaking?

Sammy: The eighth one -- Thou shalt not steal.

Teacher: What about if you pulled your dog's tail?

Sammy: Umm. I don't remember what number it was but something like, "What God hath joined together, let no man pull asunder."

Mr. Timothy Dart and his wife, Mrs. Jessica Dart

Hello, everyone! This is Abby. Here are a few pictures of Tim and Jessica's wedding, June 8th. These pictures were taken by Becky and Jonathan. I took hundreds of pictures on Tim's Canon 30D camera but they took his camera with them on their honeymoon so I won't get to see my pictures for two whole weeks!!!

THE BRIDE, JESSICA!!!




Mom Hill, Jessica, and Mom Dart.




Becky was able to make it to the wedding despite the Chronic fatigue!! Thank you to all those who prayed for her. Praise the Lord!!


The new sisters: Becky, Jessica, and Abby.







"Dad, can you help me tie my tie?"




The matron of honor, Laura Herlan and the bride, Jessica.




Peter and Laura Herlan were the ones who got Tim and Jess together.

These beautiful flower bouquets were made by Amy Liptak.

The best man, Peter Herlan, and the groom, Timothy
anxiously awaiting at the front of the church!!




The bride and groom with Pastor Nuijens in prayer.




There are no pictures of the big kiss right now because the memory stick on the camera was full!
You'll have to wait till I get Tim's camera back.

The RINGS!!

Picture Time!!

The beaming, new Mr. and Mrs. Dart.

Dana Reynolds, Jessica, Tim, and Peter.
Dana and Peter were the ushers.




The bride, Jessica, spending a special moment with her mother.




The bride and her father share a hug.




The weather forecast was a slight chance of severe thunderstorms, possibly a little hail, lots of rain, and high winds up to 70 mph, and very hot. At 5:00 pm, it started to sprinkle and thunder out. During the service, it got really windy and started to rain. When everyone was dismissed and went outside for the reception it had cleared up and was comfortable out. The sun actually started to shine and there was a pretty sunset.


The enlarged Dart family!
L to R: Abby, Amy Liptak (Peter's bride-to-be on July 7th),
Peter, Becky, Mom Dart, Jessica, Timothy, Dad Dart,
Jonathan, Mike, and Ben.




The Hill family!
L to R: Josh and his fiancee Lisa, Mom Hill, Jessica, Tim,
Dad Hill, Falon (John's girlfriend), and John.




Amy, Peter, Mike, and Jonathan with big smiles!




Mom's brother Bruce, Karen, with their two sons
Kevin and Brian. We were so glad they could be here.

Tim and Jess went to the Adirondack Mountains for their honeymoon. There will be more pictures when they get back.......

Jonathan's Graduation

Hello! This is Jonathan, and I will be posting here once in awhile. Starting now! These pictures are of my graduation June 2nd, 2007. I don't particularly like my picture taken but I survived. The first is me taken after the ceremony.

The second is while I was receiving the diploma. Looking at it closer, I was giving Mom the rose.

Third is with a very good friend, also named Jonathan. He and I had to goof off to have a good picture.

Just teasing. :-)

I had two friends in the class as well. The first is Simeon. He plans on pursuing electrical engineering and business management.

The second is Stephen. He is not exactly sure what he is going to do. He enjoys music. He learned "The Maple Leaf Rag" off of a player piano.

I almost forgot, I have one more that Becky wanted me to put on here. It is of me sitting with the rest of the class. I am in the middle. The one with the shining face. :-)

There were 106 graduates in the '07 class.

They read our life verse and goals while we were on stage. I picked 1 Kings 2:3. I really like the passage where King David charged his son Solomon. Starting at verse 2 of 1 Kings chapter 2,

" I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; and keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgements, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself."

My goal is to be a patriarchal leader in my own family and flexible to the Lord's calling.

That is all for now, and until next time this is Jonathan Dart, Lord bless.

Pictures of Our Farm

Here are a few pictures of our farm as I am trying to expirement on posting. :) These pictures are not all up-to-date. This first one was taken down by the road.

This next one was taken this spring when we had so many geese flying over.

Some spring flowers.

Well, that's all for now. I'll try more later. :)

What am I doing?!

It has taken us a little bit to figure out how to work this blog and put pictures on it.