{week 24}

Seattle Take 2

I went back to Seattle on Wednesday with Leslie, Emily and Grace to pick up Breanna from Seatac.

 We went through the library before picking up Bre.  The picture above is of the fourth floor (there are eleven floors).  It is painted bright red and the walls are all rounded. It feels like you're inside a human heart.

We bought Yeeros again from Pikes market.  

And here's Lester looking stunning--as usual.

So Seattle twice in one month.  That must be a record for me!  

But I still love waking up to this as opposed to sky scrapers and car horns ;)

{week 23}

Okay, so really gross picture.  One of the baby goats cut themselves while jumping out of its pen (or at least thats what we figured).  I was home alone when I found her outside her pen with this three inch cut.  But Leslie was house-sitting a few minutes away and she came to my rescue.  Actually the goat's rescue. 

And she stitched this baby up.  Didn't she do a good job?

And the goatie was no worse for the wear.  So this week I am thankful for healthy goats and multipurpose sewing needles!

{week 22}

Ski to Sea 2012!!!

The river was a bit higher then other years and it was windy but everything went pretty well.

Their time wasn't as good as last year's which Dad was disappointed about. But, hey, there's always next year right?

{week 21}

Remembering

{week 20}

Flowers at Pike Street Market

A day in Seattle with Mom and Dad

Planting the Garden

A successful day of shopping at the mall!!!

{week 19}

Spring weather and blossoms

{week 18}

Leslie had her Sunday school girls over for the afternoon and they each got to make their own pizza and eat homemade ice cream.

{week 17}

WCC entrance test that went really well!!! Almost done with being  homeschooled :/

Fernando Ortega concert (!!!). Sorry for the bad photo.

Half way completed projects:

Our daffodils are finally out! I think they are my favorite part of spring :)  What is yours?

{week 16}

It's that time of year . . .

. . . the goat are on pasture!  Which means it is officially Spring.

That also means there are lots of dandelions . . .

 . . . and flies :/ 

It also means that it is hockey playoff time!!!

{week 15}

Picnic supper and a beautiful sunset at Semiahmoo

Looking ahead to Easter Sunday . . .

{week 14}

Had a great spring break full of beautiful weather . . .

. . Hunger Games with Leslie,  Volleyball with the family . . .

 . . . time with visiting cousins . . .

 . . . more goat care!

 "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.  Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part,  but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.  Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror;then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.  And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

{week 12}

Hittin  the slopes with Mom, Dad and Leslie

"When I consider your heavens,
   the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
   which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
   human beings that you care for them?"

old letters and cards

Found this idea on pinterest (where else?) as a solution to my card storage problems.  I have saved pretty much every card that I was given and I love looking through them, but its hard to enjoy them when they are in a cardboard box in the attic.  

So this was the perfect solution (I think).

Here are some cards from my opa and oma that I found while looking through the attic.  Oma would usually write the letter and opa would use his art skills to draw these at the end of the letter.

Oma didn't think this one was accurate though . . .

He may not have been much of a artist but I love these drawings so much!!

{week 11}

Volleyball on Tuesdays with Leslie

Playing with the baby goats

Andes chocolates during math

Babysitting jobs

Homemade wonton soup

Learning more about who God is

{week 10}

So March really does come in like a lion . . . 

It was the perfect amount of snow to make everything look like wintertime again!  But then it melted and it felt like spring.

And speaking of lions and lambs . . . 

Here are some more photos of our new baby goats.

It has been such a busy week and I feel like I have been covered in goat hair, goat saliva and goat milk all week--but it has been so much fun having baby goats to take care of again!