Continuing with JJ’s Fishing party and the fun we had watching JJ and Addy casting their fishing line to catch some treats.
Enjoying his ‘catch’.
This girl has form!
There was some fishing out of doors, too.
Fishing was fun and we still have more to share from this special day.
This week we have a forecast of temps that rise each day reaching a forecast of 77 degrees this Thursday! What’s happening in your corner of the world?
One of our two days in the kitchen is done and we are beat.
Very tired but satisfied that all went well today.
Tomorrow we’ll feel more like this when the day is over and our responsibilities in the kitchen are done till the next event.
Happy Friday everyone!
On Sunday night of our birthday weekend together our family walked down our kids driveway to catch the sunset after dinner.
Psalm 19:1-6
The heavens declare the glory of God,
    and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours out speech,
    and night to night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech, nor are there words,
    whose voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out through all the earth,
    and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun,
  which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
    and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
    and its circuit to the end of them,
    and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
A wonderful finale for us as we began our farewells to our ‘Coast’ kids.
We are all together again and enjoyed Dear’s famous Tomato Rice Soup with some fresh bread for dinner and then we watched the Seattle Sounders Soccer opener. JJ was a little shocked when we all cheered mightily at the first goal. By the third goal Addy and JJ joined in with the celebration clapping and cheering and were ready for the excitement of the fourth goal. We won’t apologize for soccer indoctrination at our house.
Today (Saturday) we are off to have a Fishing themed party for JJ and then later this evening we’ll enjoy a meal to celebrate Andrew.
And speaking of weather we are heading into the 70’s today! Happy day to you all.
We’ve had some sunny days with temps getting up to the low 60’s. The ‘Grands’ enjoyed some new bubble guns in the sunshine.
This little guy loves sticks.
This stick turned on him and smacked him in the face leaving a couple scratches. When I was over last week and we went on a little walk down the drive he pointed at that stick and touched his wounds filling me in on that accident. He is still in the process of forming words and learning to communicate more with words but we have to fill in the blanks and he’ll nod yes or no if we have it right.
All these photos were taken by their mommy.
No Wednesday Hodgepodge this week as Jo is taking the week off from coming up with questions.
It was a wonderful Easter Day because we were able to gather and worship our Risen Lord with our church family. We came home after a service filled with joy and a clear message of the Truth of the Gospel and God’s love for all.
When the rain ceased we went out to hide Easter eggs for the grands to hunt.
It was a very casual Easter table this year with paper plates for the first time in the history of our home.
Dear and I dressed up for Easter service and we had many in our church family taking a second look. We are generally very country casual.
The kids and grands arrived after naps and the first thing on the agenda was to let Addy and JJ hunt for the eggs we had hidden in the back area of our home.
Addy is a pro being 4 already and was off to the races. JJ found a good number, too. Next year he’ll give his big sister a lot more competition.
Finally JJ managed a slight smile for the camera.
Our kids on the ‘coast’ snapped this photo and sent it to us. They were able to gather at their church for Easter service, too.
It was a glorious day!
March is almost over and it’s going out like a Lion!
Auntie LoLo takes the best photos and then she is kind enough to share them.
Let’s dance Baba!
The photos were from Addy’s 4th Birthday party on March 20th.
On Sunday the 28th of March we enjoyed a Raclette meal with a family from church. After our meal their 3 elementary aged children enjoyed our Ninja Warrior Obstacle Course. Our grands will enjoy that for some years to come. Sunday night we had a wind event that lasted into Monday and most of our area lost power off and on through Monday. When we lose power here at our country bungalow we lose everything including the flow of water because we are on a well and the pump requires electricity. Thankfully we only lost power for a couple hours. During the outage I made some good progress on the Owl Puzzle. There is light at the end of that tunnel!
Happy Easter Week everyone. We are fortunate here in our neck of the woods to be able to have a Good Friday Service and a service on Easter Sunday. I’m so thankful that we can gather this Easter unlike last Easter.
Monday the 22nd of March we all gathered for Swedish Pancakes at Baba and Gramps.
After breakfast we had the littles test out the obstacle course.
JJ is at the fearless stage.
He found a stick again!
The guys managed to get some drywall up between eating and playing. They got 5 pieces up before it was time for lunch and for the kids to go home for naps.
JJ enjoyed feeding his uncle some homemade chicken noodle soup.
We had such a fun packed weekend together. Till next time!
After church on Sunday March 21st everyone came over for Pelemeni (Russian Dumplings) with Spinach and fresh bread. After lunch everyone went out to work on setting up our new ninja obstacle course.
Testing…
Boys and sticks…
Mush baba, mush!
It was time for the littles to go home for their naps so we put off testing the course until Monday after breakfast.
Hope your weekend is going well.
A week ago nine of us met up in Spokane for my birthday dinner.
Three vehicles made their way to Spokane for our dinner reservation. Two from Colville and one rental car from the Spokane airport. My dear friend Jeanie sent me the 70 and Fabulous tiara and sash and I wore it happily. When we were directed to our table for 9 this beautiful bouquet of flowers was on the table.
Reading the card I was so surprised to see that they were from Lovella all the way in Canada. She arranged with our daughter in law to have them delivered to the restaurant by a local florist. A very sweet and thoughtful surprise. Thank you, Lovella.
Addy looked carefully at my tiara and then proceeded to draw a likeness of me with the tiara while we were finishing up our dinner at Churchill’s. I love it!
Laura’s mother sent me this apron for my birthday. How very thoughtful was that!? Thank you, Pat!
From the restaurant we all traveled north 70 miles back to Colville. We met up at Dan and Jamie’s and they had me sit down and get comfortable on the couch to watch a video of greetings from the 9 Mennonite Girls Can Cook in Canada, my siblings, Dear’s brother’s family, my nieces and nephews and some life long friends. I was overwhelmed and grateful. Jamie had the idea and Laura was able to contact everyone and put it all together. Laura added songs that my family have sung and she had recorded them a few years ago. I told my kids afterward that it was a lot nicer to view a tribute like this now instead of having that kind of video at my funeral. So remember no video at my funeral instead Sing together in worship, share the Gospel and then go eat!
When you are 70 you need posts like these to help you remember all the good times!
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 