Our Trip to Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown VA

After Christmas our family took a trip to Virginia to see Colonial Williamsburg and other surrounding sites. While we were there we walked along a street that is a replica of how it looked back in the early 1770's. There are also actors dressed in period clothing as well. It was a neat experience!

While there we also saw Jamestown, the very first settlement, where the Pocahontas and John Smith story started. We also saw Yorktown, where the last battle in the Revolutionary War was fought (Where Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington).

We really enjoy visiting historical sites as a family, it really brings the history to life. We hope that our children will value these trips for a long time(even though swimming at the pool was the highlight for the children).


On our way home we took a longer route that Duaine and his dad had travelled after Duaine's high school graduation. The highway travels under the Atlantic Ocean, for about 20 miles. The older kids expecially enjoyed this stretch of the highway.

Happy New Years to everyone and we hope you all have a wonderful 2010.

Love,
The Horlachers

Christmas 2009

We had a wonderful Christmas this year, it all started a few days before when we found out that Duaine was getting his old boss back at work (which is a HUGE answer to our prayers). We also celebrated Michael's 11th birthday. He has grown up so fast, he is such good kid and we are so grateful to have him in our family. The children all had a great time opening presents and eating, eating, and eating some more.
After all of the morning fun and the birthday celebration we went to Pottstown, PA and had dinner with our cousin's and met up with some old friends (The Matheson's). We really enjoyed the company as well as the yummy food.
We hope you all had a great Christmas. We miss you all.
Love,
The Horlacher's

Amish Country

We had the opportunity to go to some friends home yesterday and see Santa Clause and visit their historical home in Gap, Pa. Their home was built in 1720, where they now give tours of their home. We spent some time in their renovated barn that is now a craft store, where they sell their home made candles etc. It was the first snow of the season and the kids had a ball playing in it(that is before they turned into ice cubes). We had a wonderful time together as a family and we wish that the week ends wouldn't go by so fast. We also really enjoyed seeing the Amish buggies drive buy, that is always a highlight of visiting Lancaster County.

Don'd blink or you'll miss it!

It is so hard to believe that Halloween and Thanksgiving are behind us and Christmas is only a few weeks away. This year has really flown by.

We had a nice Thanksgiving with our cousin's, the Hickman's and also Emily, Jenny's sister. It is so nice to have the Hickmans' so close to us.

We are getting ready to go to Michael's Christmas choir concert tonight. He has been working hard to prepare for this.

As always there is an excitement in the air and the kid's all seem to have more energy this time of year. They can't wait until Christmas, in fact, the 3 oldest ones started making their lists yesterday. I guess that means I better get shopping. I'm not really one for crowds, it's to bad I'm a procrastinator.

We hope you are all doing well. We miss you all.

Love,
The Horlachers