Saturday, August 18, 2012

Catching Up...

Well it has been a long time since I posted on here.
I can't believe summer vacation is 
almost over,
one more week til the boys 
go back to school.
They got their teacher assignments
this week.
I think Gabe got a good teacher.
Caleb has lots of changes this year,
he has a schedule and a locker, 
which will be different for him.

It seems like we have been very busy this 
past month.
At the end of July we had
VBS at our church,
which was lots of fun.
This was the first time they have
had it there since we have been there.


the girls leading worship



playing games



these guys did skits every night, 
they did such a good job.
We were so proud of them.



big kids playing in the sand.



We had a lot of fun doing VBS,
the kids seemed to really enjoy it!



Last Friday night we had a picnic
for the youth group.
It was raining really hard
in the morning and we were afraid
it would rain that night,
so Sam cleaned out the barn floor.
It turned out to be a beautiful evening.
The kids had a fun time swimming in the pond.











Last weekend we went to the beach
for the weekend,
we left Saturday afternoon.
What a mistake.
We sat and sat in traffic.
It took us five hours to get there
when it should have taken three.
Needless to say we were glad to get there.
We had a fun time at the beach
and in the pool at the hotel.
Gabe was so sad to leave.



outside of where we stayed.
the boys liked watching the boats.
we also saw some jellyfish in this water.













Wednesday Gabe finally got
to get together with 
his friend from kindergarten.
They had so much fun together,
unfortunately they will not be 
together this year.






We have also gotten some calves 
over the past month,
I especially like this one.


Lucky




Saturday, July 21, 2012

Friends...

Yesterday Caleb's friend from school,
Seth, came over to play.
Caleb was so excited to see him.
Gabe tagged along with them
most of the time.
Gabe was so sad his friend 
wasn't able to come over.
Seth wanted to take a picture with
both of them.
He arranged how everyone
should stand.



Good News Club

Last week the boys went to a 
Good News Club 5 day camp.
They had such a good time.
They were sad when it was over.
The best part for them 
was when they got to get
the teachers wet for raising enough
money for the missionaries.







group shot




Gabe's turn to get the leaders wet.  He loved it!


Cape Henlopeon State Park....

On Monday the boys and I, 
went to the beach
with Mom & Dad
and Logan & Alyssa.
We went to Cape Henlopeon state park.
My aunt has a place down there,
so we spent the night and came home the next day.

We got to the beach around 3.
Which is a nice time to go
because people are starting to leave 
for the day.
It rained a little bit after we got there
and more people left.
It was nice not having many people around us.

The boys love going to the beach,
they were in the water the whole time.
This was only their second time at the beach,
it was Alyssa first time,
she seemed to enjoy it.


























































The park also had a nature center that we visited.

































Monday, July 16, 2012

An Answer to Prayer....

We have really been in need of rain lately.
We have been praying for it.
Our crops were
looking so good,
in the middle of June.
We were getting rain and
the corn was really green looking good.
Then it just stopped.
Friday the corn was looking bad!
It seems like the rain was going around us
on Friday which is really depressing.
Saturday morning I woke up and 
saw puddles.
I was so excited!!!
Over all this weekend we got 2.5 inches of rain.
That is AWESOME!!!!!

God surely does watch out for us.
We just need to trust in him
that he will provide for us!!

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Lego Night

Friday night we had lego night
at church.
We had about 60 kids there,
which is great!!
Everyone seemed to have fun
playing with there legos, 
eating snack and
visiting with each other.


Every kid got to take a lego home
with them, these are what they
could choose from.




There was lots of legos for the kids to 
build with.




Caleb getting his legos



Gabe having snack



snack table





























Sam and his buddy, Christopher





some of the finished products.



Monday, July 9, 2012

Summer Heat...

Our summer is going super fast.
We were on vacation the end of June,
had a wonderful vacation at the mountains.
We came home and it was so HOT.
The last ten days we have spent a lot
of time at the pond.
The boys have gotten sunburn.
Saturday was really bad
we made it to 100 degrees.
Sunday we had our church picnic at gap park.
The boys had a lot of fun there.
I haven't been there for years.
This week the boys are going 
to a Good News Club,
for an hour every afternoon.
Today was the first day and 
they enjoyed it.

We are praying for rain.
It is getting so dry.
We are hoping for a better crop year this year,
but we need some rain.  
 So we are hoping and praying for rain
and cooler weather!!