When the river is a bit cold

I wanted to spend a fun day with the boys playing in the creek but when we got there we found the creek to be a bit cold. This far into August I was surprised. We still jumped in and trekked up and down the rocks for a while.


After jumping out we dried off and headed over to Mr. Eds for some candy and swinging on the elephant tire swings.

Me and my beloved

"I am my beloveds and my Beloved is mine." Song of Solomon 6:3




Oh I love that we are each others brought together by God to form our family. Our chances of meeting were so slim. I grew up on the East coast he lived his life on the West Coast. When I was entering kindergarten he was graduating from high school. He set off to explore the world while I was learning to tie my shoes.

I grew up and went off myself to explore, for an adventure, to college. I chose a private Christian college, Pacific Lutheran University, nearly as far from home as I could get at the time. I was living in Washington D.C. this college was just outside of Seattle Washington.

I took a job at a very small Indian casino where he happened to work. From there it was meant to be. We were brought together by chance built a relationship by trial and error, friendship, and LOVE and built a family upon GOD.

For he is great and we can't see the beautiful tapestry he is weaving but I can appreciate and give thanks to Him for tying two knots together and stitching together a family for us.

Sunflower Garden

The sunflowers are growing. It has been a month now since we planted our sunflowers late in the Summer. I dug out a small area on the side of the house that gets a lot of sunlight. I tilled the soil and not knowing what I was doing I sprinkled sunflower mix over it and then watered. My husband walked out and I heard that saying "what are you doing?" Well I want a sunflower garden dear. "Okay well you have toplant the seeds you can't just sprinkle them on top." Humm...so I started pushing the seeds in with my finger. Then a neighbor stopped by and again "what are you doing?" Again I replied I want a sunflower garden. So she told me "you are going to have to protect them rabbits love to eat them." We have rabbits all which are referred to by the kids as Rodger. So I built a cage around them to protect them. I was pretty proud of it.
Later I went to work and was telling someone there about it when he said "you know they have to be planted deep and its too late in the season for this. Everyone is so encouraging. But I stuck with it. And in 1 month I went from this to this!!!

B I N G O

They love the game. All of them DH, my 2 kiddos, My brother, SIL, and niece. Concentrating, looking searching for the numbers and just as you are about to win, not really but I will pretend that we have one at least once in our life :)you hear that familiar 6 words every toddler use to ruin anything "Mommy I have to go potty!" Oh well, at least they are all out of diapers.

Psalm 133:1-3

Psalm 133:1-3
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious oil upon the head, Coming down upon the beard, Even Aaron’s beard, Coming down upon the edge of his robes.
3 It is like the dew of Hermon Coming down upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD commanded the blessing—life forever.



I am so thankful for them. For the love and strength they have between each other. For the joy and happiness they have brought in to everyone's life. For watching them play together and seeing their smiles each day.

Singing at church

I forgot it was costume night! But I think it is adorable that Gregory is there singing with Spider man, Batman, a princess, and it is to hard to see but there is a pair of chickens behind him. How fun and how great our church is. So inviting to everyone even superheroes. Even Jesus our true super hero.

Life is better at the beach

It has been a while since I blogged but for good reason... we were at the beach! My family loves the beach. My husband and I have been going every year but have only took the children a few times. However once we took the they have come since. We all would choose to be there any day, together.

They are not scared of the water and for as little as we go Gregory is now our amazing little surfer.


Much time is spent playing in the sand, making angles, burring kids, and well just being silly.



It is hard to be such a cute big boy on the beach. You just need to relax.