…and green is greening.
We are beginning to see green areas springing up around the yard. The grass has totally greened up.
These little blooms put a smile on my face.
Speaking of green and smiles…
Did I mention he’s turning 2 on Friday?
Hope I made you smile. Happy Day to you.
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.
At the party some outdoor activities required safety goggles and safety ear muffs.
Peek a boo fun and someone has mastered the pouty lips!
Presents!
Time to try out a birthday gift before cake!
Another Happy Birthday for the books!
Our deer/dear Addy, we are so happy to be close enough to watch you grow. You are learning so many important things and we pray the things that are true will stay with you your whole life. We love you and Jesus loves you!
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
It’s been a whirlwind 4 days here in the country. Our ‘Coast’ kids are back home. We got a lot of quality time in and we look forward to the next time we can be together. The dishwasher has been working overtime.
I have had very few minutes online and hope to catch up with you all in a day or two!
On Saturday we arrived to watch our grands at 8:00am and said goodbye to their mommy and daddy at 8:30. After playing for awhile boredom set in and since it was still drizzly outside we pulled out the Play Dough for some creative endeavors.
The sun broke through so after cleaning up the dough we bundled up for some outdoor time.
Our son rigged up a way to add a second swing so JJ and Addy could swing at the same time. It’s ingenious and we enjoyed singing lots of songs like Old MacDonald, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Jesus Loves the Little Children, 6 Little Ducks, The Wiseman Built His House Upon the Rock, The B-I-B-L-E, The Muffin Man, This Little Light of Mine.
Off the swings and into the sand.
Sand is nice but mud is muddy.
We played until it was time for lunch so we kicked off as much mud as we could, washed up our hands and got lunch ready.
Hide and Seek, A non Easter Egg Hunt, pretend play in Addy’s room and then it was time for a relaxing time watching Pippa the Pig until Mommy and Daddy arrived just before nap time. We said our goodbyes and headed home with our trailer.
We decided to have an early dinner at our non-favorite Mexican Restaurant in Colville. It was fun to see a couple of our friends there and my cousin with her family. It was good to catch up with them.
Later in the day our Daughter-in-law on the Coast sent these beautiful images with the snow geese congregating in Mount Vernon, Washington State.
Thank you Laura for sharing these amazing captures with me and letting me share them.
Our Sunday was quiet. We had a guest speaker at church and then we bumped into a couple from church and had lunch with them in Kettle Falls. Home again for more quiet looking out the window at hail, snow, hail and rain. Very undecided weather. Looks like we’ll have a lot more mud to deal with for a while.
Hope your weekend was good.
We are in that time of year where our world is predominately brown and green with a little white here and there. We live in the evergreen state so we expect to see green all year round.
We call it our muddy season.
Our grands are blessed to have parents that aren’t afraid of a little mud.
Soon enough lots of pretty color will be added to our world.
Adieu to February. Looking forward to March.
We had a sunny day on Wednesday. It was a good day to venture out and enjoy some vitamin D! Temperatures were going to reach 40 degrees on this day which was a treat from the below freezing temps we’ve been experiencing. Our daughter in law sent us the photo above via text on Wednesday.
After working in the shop and running some errands we decided to drive to Chewelah which is 27.5 miles south of us. A beautiful day for the drive and worth the gas and time to get to our favorite Mexican Restaurant this side of the Cascade mountain range. It’s been three and a half months since we were able to sit down and enjoy a meal here. Some restrictions were lifted as of Monday and they could open at 25% capacity. We gave our favorite server a hug and had our own mini celebration.
Do you have a favorite restaurant that you miss being able to enjoy a meal in?
We are supposed to get another inch or two of snow Thursday evening into Friday morning here.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 