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Cole Picnic

She and I headed to Crawford County, OH with my parents for the Cole picnic at a park in Shelby. This is my grandmother's side of the family. There were 6 brothers and sisters. My grandma, Miriam, and her brother Forrest have passed away. This year only Clarence and Marlin from that generation where there. My mom and all of her siblings were in attendance + quite a few of their cousins. As for my generation - just my cousins John and Kim + me. We drove past my grandparent's farm land on the way - my cousin Brad and his family bought their house. My uncle's both still farm along with my cousin Todd. After the picnic we made a stop at the Crawford County fair. Several of my cousins' kids had animals or projects in the fair. My parents both grew up there and graduated together - although didn't start dating until a summer during college. They ran into people they knew. Growing up my dad was in the National Guard and based out of Bucyrus so we always went up at least one weekend a month. My sister, mom, and I would also spend a week in the summer there too. The rest of our cousins grew up on farms, but Tracy + I were the city girls. We got a kick out of tractor rides and baby animals.

Oh and mom + dad had just gotten back from California where mom attended an Apple conference through the digital academy she is on the board for. Well as part of it she got an ipod touch and MacBook! So on the way there and the way home we played with the new toys. They are WAY cool!