First Day of School

Eden and Miriam wanted in on the action too!

 My school kids are growing up!  Joseph is in 2nd, Peter in 4th, Hannah in 6th!  And yes I cut Peter's hair....yes it is a mohawk....yes it will be cut before church on Sunday!

 Taking our secret gate!!  Thanks Alan for installing it....so much time has been saved by having it!

 This year Hannah is old enough to be a crossing guard and she couldn't be more thrilled!  She takes her job very seriously!

Home again....home again...jiggity jig!!

Firsts / Lasts

Truly I am getting sentimental in my old age! Knowing that Miriam is my last baby I have started having those moments where it is a first for her but a last for me. I am split. I am happy, happier than I should be. But there is the tiniest part of me that is sad that wants to hold on to my little babies. You know the babies that are hard to hold because they don't fit on your lap anymore! The sadness isn't enough for me to want to have another one. I would rather be sad then crazy! Oh wait, I already am!!
Any who back to the latest news......

My baby girl had her first Sunday in Nursery!!

She loved it and had Zero problems and no tears!! Hooray for Nursery!!

Hooray for Mee-um!!

It feels good to go to church to attend my classes instead of just walking around!!

Blown away

Nothing like a good book!

It started with one......
Then 3......

Then 5......

One can't resist a time to just lay around reading!!

REEEEACH...

A day of clamming

My visiting teacher invited our family to go clamming with them. I had to buy a clamming licence.....never thought that I would get one of those! We went when the tide was the lowest all year and had a great time! Miriam just wanted to jump in our wholes to swim. She finally made it and had a blast! Eden was far more particular.....didn't want to get her hands dirty! The older three just ran around and played and discovered......crabs, clams, starfish, hermit crabs, sand dollars, shells of all kinds, sea anemia, barnacles, and little fish. We stayed until the tide came in......What a great day!! So fun!

Temple Trip

What a beautiful experience this was, to take our family to a temple open house. We live about 3.5 hours from BC temple and it is a rare occasion to get to tour a temple and we wanted the kids to be able to go inside a temple so we took them out of school and crossed the border and went!
It is a beautiful Temple with so many intricate details. All the decorating and woodwork was done around the Dogwood tree. The Celestral room was breath taking.....we gathered our children around us and told them that we would be together forever and that the feeling they were feeling was the Holy Ghost confirming that this was true. It was an experience of a lifetime!

I think the best part for me was to share it with my kids. I remember as a kid going to the Portland, OR temple open house with my family. I was around Hannah's age.....I will never forget how I felt there and I knew that this is where I wanted to be married. It was an amazing experience. I feel so blessed that we were able to go and share this with our children.

Families are Forever!

Tulip Festival

My neighbor and I went to the Tulip Festival with the kids that were home today! We had a picinic lunch. It turned out to be a hot day.

Have you ever seen anything so gorgeous!! We decided that we needed to plant my yard like this!!
Joseph wasn't supposed to go between the rows, but before I told him to get out I snapped the shot!!

My blonde beauty was just as pretty as the tulips!

I loved that you could see the mountains surrounding the valley.

They had kites that were being flown by themselves. They were just stuck in the ground with a stake. It just added to the feeling!!

These were my favorite......the color just stood out. They were so striking.

This photo was my favorite with the old barns in the background. It looked like we were there all by ourselves. It was so pretty!!

I had Miriam in a backpack most of the time. When I got her out to look at them she was thrilled and loved to feel them!!

The size of the heads of these tulips were huge and gorgeous!! Of course, Yellow being my favorite color, I had to have a picture of these!!