What We've Been Up To

Two weeks ago today, our family spent two days at the coast celebrating Thing 1's 10th birthday.  We explored a lighthouse, saw whales spout and heard baby elephant seals cry.   We saw dozens of sand dollars and played in the sand and surf for hours!  God cleared away the rain and the weather could not have been more perfect!  It was an amazing little family vacation!  God is so kind!

After we returned to our trailer from our little beach adventure, we finished out our California tour with a very busy few days.  We ministered at a couple churches, moved our trailer twice, moved out of our trailer and got it settled in southern Oregon and then drove the rest of the way back to Seattle to spend a few days with my family.

T-2 helping set up the table at our ministry event!  He can do it all by himself now, including taking inventory of CDs in order to track sales!

T-1 is Josh's personal guitar tech in training!  He always helps with our stage sound equipment set-up and tear down!

Last year a new March tradition was formed!  In honor of T-1 and our nephew's birthdays, "Unkie" Josh takes the boys on a LEGO store adventure!

This year, my oldest niece and I rode along with the boys.  When we all arrived at the mall, we ditched the boys to go on our own "girly" adventure!  We shopped for earrings, head bands and fun glasses!  Then we decided that even girls think LEGOs are pretty cool (especially if they're in a purple and pink box)!


Ahhh!  I LOVE this girl!!!

Thursday evening we had a big March birthday party, celebrating the six March birthdays in our family.  Although, the main birthday dessert was ice cream, we did have a small cake for candles.  We decided to "live dangerously" so we put 169 (the total of all birthday candles necessary for the 6 birthdays) matches around the edge of this cake, lit one and watched the flaming dominoes effect!

Friday morning, we got up early and drove home to the ranch!  We were all sooo excited to be home and I think our Curly boy was pretty excited to have us back!  The boys didn't waste any time getting outside to play with him.

Now you know what we've been up to! :)  I'm so grateful for this beautiful place to come home to!  I look forward to the upcoming weeks!  Tomorrow, I'll give you a peek into our plans for the next few weeks while we're here at home!