To celebrate Thomas's birthday, his family and I went to an apple orchard, and then the beach! The apple orchard is the one just down the mountain from my house, on Carter's Mountain. (think the Walton's - this is 'their' mountain.)
Thomas was really excited when we started finding big green apples. Mrs. Vance said something about apple dumplings, and he went ballistic. ;)
Yummy apples!
Victoria is the sweetest 10 year old I know. 
She got into the apple picking spirit too.
After we got 3 full bags of apples, we headed to the beach! It was too cold to go swimming, so everyone pitched in and built a sandcastle. (the other guy is Trevor, Thomas's 25yo brother)
I destroyed every sand brick I touched, so I stepped back and was allowed to draw the flag. 
Ta-da!
Thomas had a cheesecake for his birthday - and his family insisted on putting all 22 sparkler candles on the cake. It was quite spectacular. 
School has been going pretty well. I'm taking my first 400-level class with Bio, and it's hard! My ASL class is almost 400-level (but the school doesn't have the accreditation to make a 400-level ASL class) and it's really hard. History is fun - the teacher like me and knows my name, which is good! Math is math. :)I'm off to Bio lecture now, but I hope you'll forgive my lack of updates for the past few weeks. Hopefully I'll get better!!
