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why do people spell ketchup that way? weird. anyways, this is a backdated post to try to fill some gaps.

on the weekend of april 19, we drove to pikeville, ky to visit 'hillbilly days' with dad and his friend who grew up there. pikeville may be just miles from virginia and west virginia, but it feels like any other small town with all the normal big chains - wal-mart, lowe's, applebee's, etc. the drive was beautiful down a mountain parkway and at the actual festival there was great bluegrass music and all kinds of food everywhere (i had a greek gyro). the main attraction is the plethora of crafts and vendors selling things. i got a real leather belt with my name and some crosses leatherworked into it (that's really what delayed this post - i wanted a picture with a caption 'upping my hillbilly street cred').

the other big thing for over the past month has been t-ball games. with school wrapping up and t-ball, we haven't been able to go to the gym in a while (hopefully things will be back to normal after graduation). jake's team is pretty good! one of the big things in t-ball is a max of 4 runs per inning so any time you can hold your opponent to less than that in an inning, you're doing really good. jake doesn't care about fielding, but he can get his hits and runs fast enough that he always gets on base. sometimes he needs a little help getting to each base, but he's pretty much got that down pat too. his games are really fun and this has been an interesting and good way to get in better touch with our community around us!