Reber Round-Up

We saw this sign on the side of the road and decided to give it a go.  We drove down a dirt road and it led us to the coolest tomato patch.  

 It took us all of 5 min. to fill our bucket.  And boy were they good!

 We left this place and I just felt so happy.  Picking tomato just made me feel good!

 We had BLT's the rest of the week!

 Last week we ventured out to a place my dad told me about.  He said he heard about it through a customer and I couldn't wait to check it out.  It is called Mepkin Abbey and it is home to a small group of Trappist Monks.  Here is a picture of us entering the road to the Abbey.  Can you believe this is one of only twelve Abbeys in the United States and it's just 45 min. down the road.

 We decided to take the tour and I'm glad we did because we got to observe them having their noon prayer service.  We learned about how Mepkin came to be and about how one becomes a monk.  We learned about their daily life and how the Abbey runs.  The monks grow mushrooms and sell them at local grocery stores.  

 Here we are in the Chapel getting ready to hear the monks pray.  They have prayer together 7 times a day. Their first prayer together is at the start of their day... 3AM.

 They have a huge library but we were not allowed to visit.

 The grounds are kept up by volunteers

 After hurricane Hugo they had a lot of tree debris so an artist came and carved these images into the wood.

 The Abbey sits on the Cooper River and long ago it was a rice plantation

 This guy was watching us.

 It was really a relaxing place to visit and and we found it very interesting. We had a PB&J picnic by the river.

We headed to Knoxville, TN over the weekend to meet up with Pascal.  We found a French Creperie and Pascal was in heaven.

 Pascal finish up school in the next 2 weeks and we are beyond thrilled to get him home.  It's been a long summer without him.

 We visited their local farmer's market on Saturday and enjoyed looking at all their home grown goods.

A very special visitor is coming this week!  We are driving 3.5 hours to pick him up.  Stay tuned to see who's coming to Charleston!!

We've had a busy week.  We headed to the mountains where Mimi and Pappy hosted cousins camp!  Mimi had all the kids work on learning about the armor of God.  Take a peek at all the fun we had!

What We've Been Up To

We head to the beach in the evenings and sometimes Owen and Meg just dig and play in the sand.

 We found this neat park with a little spray pad.  I am finding my kids are no longer excited about things like this.  It seems we are moving into a new age category.  Kinda makes me sad.... sniff... sniff

 They did get super excited about this package from Amy!! Big shout out to Amy and her family who spoiled us with some summer toys, reading and activities!!!

 Owen is in charge of trash and the recycling bin.  Sometimes I like to just see how much stuff I can get into it before he will notice it needs to be taken out.  Please note this example.  Here the bin is building but do you think he noticed it??   .......nope

 Also please note how Owen likes to cut the cheese............Literally Cut the cheese....I mean who does this?

 Still building....

 still digging

 Making Owen and Meg's infant crib into a coffee table.  It is really turning out well.  Almost done... stay tuned.

 Hooray Pascal came home for 3 days!!  This has been a tough summer with him being gone.  The days are super HOT and long and without dad just plain hard.  So ready to be a family again!!

 I feel like I have a toddler again... wherever we go Owen needs a snack.

 forever snacking and eating....

 I played a gig with the band downtown

 our pool has paddle boards.... how cool is that

 and this blow up slide

Meg's shoes and dress are some of our latest thrift store finds.  Meg and I started volunteering at the Thrift Store on Post.  Meg loves working there.  I'l have to post some pics.  

 We ride our bikes a lot and we are always on the look out for what is called:  A CURB ALERT.   A curb alert is stuff someone has put down at the end of their drive way on trash day that they don't want.  We scored this table and chairs a few weeks ago!!  Meg will sometimes come running in and inform us of where a curb alert is.  We have found shoes, a boogie board, and now this patio set!
FREE, FLEA or FIND three of our favorite words in the Reber household.