Thursday, June 21, 2007

Happy Birthday, West Virginia!

Maria asked me about the lush greenness in my pictures. We live in West Virginia, right across the rivers from Ohio and Kentucky. Our town is in the foothills of The Appalachian Mountains, in the Ohio River Valley. On June 20th, 1863, during the height of The Civil War, West Virginia became a state.

Being a state employee has it's advantages.... Dh had a holiday yesterday to celebrate the inception of our great state. And what better way to celebrate WV's birthday than to, um... drive to Kentucky. I tried to talk dh into a West Virginia state park (hoping for a birthday celebration and maybe some free cake ;)). But he was in a spelunking mood so we drove about an hour to Carter Caves State Park. But Kentucky is lush and green too! LOL

Here's my five favorite guys. Click pics to make them bigger.

Matthew actually fell asleep while riding on my shoulders! Ryan and Evan inside a cave.


Exploring caves is dirty works. Check out the seats of their pants!

3 comments:

Paper Dali said...

Ohhhhhhh. See, I'm battling green envy again. So perty, perty. =D

And, OK, so now when I read your blog, I have to imagine a West Virginian accent. ;-)

BTW, when I was a child, we visited Virginia. Which was beautiful. And, well, it's not West Virginia, but, uhm, it's close enough for me to make a comment and attempt small talk on your Comments section. LOL

Perty, perty.

Jenny said...

Beautiful! All that green - I can almost smell the clean air. Mmmmm

You know, that's the first picture I remember seeing of you. For some reason, I was picturing you with darker, shorter hair. Maybe I was just picturing a female version of your boys, lol.

Stephanie Appleton said...

Oh that looks like fun! I can't believe he fell asleep like that!

And you really don't have much of an accent. ;)