tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38751274574958015932024-03-12T18:43:43.817-07:008 Servants For ChristA homeschooling family of eight serving Christ in West TexasAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.comBlogger294125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-84744071286824369012018-04-29T22:48:00.000-07:002018-04-29T22:48:13.710-07:00April 5 - Dad's Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well when you are three hours from the nearest Walmart, and more to the main shopping town, you tend to bundle a whole bunch of stuff into one day, so then you go long periods of time collection activities, lists, and needs until the much awaited day when you go to town. You leave very early in the morning and are lucking if you make it home very early in the morning of the next day. Today was such a day!<br />
Now while these days tend to be strenuous, but they always include lots of laughs and memories!<br />
For today's agenda we are hauling some steers for the Ranch that dad works at, delivering the last pup from the litter, and best of all, celebrating my wonderful Daddy!<br />
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Dad, when asking for a day off, told his boss that we wanted to take him someplace special for his birthday. His boss paid for our trip by having us drop off the cows and as a birthday gift for dad, he bought our lunch! <br />
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Lunch was at a family favorite, Olive Garden.<br />
But before we went in, Dad got his gift.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">He actually came home and broke it in by running his new weed-eater all afternoon. The pasture looks amazing now! </span></td></tr>
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Dad's boss made the joke that we needed to take dad to a Mexican restaurant so he could wear the sombrero. Well we went to an Italian Restaurant, so this was the best he could do. <br />
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We ended the day with some shopping and the opportunity to meet some wonderful people who were excited to get their puppy!<br />
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We are daily blessed with the Daddy that God saw fit to design for our family! I am so proud of him and all he does, it is so wonderful to have a day set aside like this for such a special man!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-82463631668683114242018-04-10T21:58:00.000-07:002018-04-10T21:58:11.060-07:00March 10-12 - Puppy Deliver Trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Early on the morning of the 10th, Shea, 9 pups, and I headed out to Portland. Most of the buyers for this litter live nearer to Portland than they do to us, so it made sense to meet there... or so I thought. This trip really taught Shea and I about how to work together as a team better, and to handle emergencies far from Mom and Dad's ready help. A huge thank you to a family friend who were just amazing through all of it! But I'm getting ahead of myself.<br />
If you've ever driven through East Oregon, you will know that cell service is questionable to say the least. Heading from Kimberly to Portland, the windmill farm is always a mile marker, one of the first reliable places to contact home and let them know how we are doing. Zach answered when we called, and in a goofy conversation with Shea, he requested that we "take a picture of a windmill for him..pwease." So we took a picture of every type of windmill we saw just for him.<br />
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We arrived without issue in the park where we planned to drop pups off. One pup went off the 10th and the others would go the 11th. Both humans and dogs were desperate to stretch their legs after a 5 hour drive that we played in the park for a bit.<br />
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So now the fun starts! The reason Shea went along is because he bought a part car on craigslist to fix up the one he already has. After we left the park we headed over the U-Haul place to pick up the car dolly. We arrived at a very run down gas station manned by two very...um...how shall I put this...unprofessional young men. They hadn't rented out a U-Haul vehicle in a while, and when we saw the dolly, chagrin set in. The lighting cable was nonexistent, the wheel guards were in bad need of something, like duct tape, lots of it. The gas station attendant told us where to go and walked off. I asked him after we hooked up if there was some sort of checking out we needed to do. And he said that not only did he not know how to check us out if needed, they didn't even have the computer facilities to do it.<br />
So, probably foolishly, we headed out on the road. We were headed toward a part store to fix the wheel guard, and lights, when another U-Haul driver drove up next to us on the busiest highway we had been on all day. And he started yelling something at us. We were pretty freaked out as you can guess. For a while we tried not to look at him, until Shea saw that he was pointing toward the trailer. Thinking something was wrong with it, we started trying to read his lips. Or I did, Shea firmly kept his eyes on traffic, finally after he repeated it several times, I realized what he was saying. "Your trailer is stolen!" Immediately I knew what he was talking about. We found a place to pull over with him following us. It turned out that he was a manager of U-Haul, had seen the state of the trailer, and called in to see what was going on. He was super nice about it all, and sent us to a new place to swap out the trailer. We still made it to the place to pick up the car on time too. We kind of figured that this was going to be our challenge for the trip, little did we know.<br />
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We planned on staying at a friend's house that night. They have a farm out in the country, so we could have a place for all the pups to stay. It was a 2.5-3 hour drive to their place, and we didn't get started until about 6pm (we were way over on the other side of Portland at this point picking up the car). We stopped to get supper on the way, and by the time we got to the town they live near, we were exhausted. That's when it happened. We were coming up to a sharp corner on the dirt road leading to their house. Shea forgot about the corner (as it really is no issue in the daylight) and I was pretty drowsy. By the time he saw it, it was too late. With the added weight of the car on the back and the bad breaks of the truck, we slid through the corner and totaled 3 mail boxes nailed to a post!<br />
There is a huge bumper on the truck, so when we started coming out of the stupid shock that this caused Shea said, "Well, the front is okay at least." Ha, the cooler for the transmission had been sliced by a piece of metal...you've got it, on the bumper. Praise God, other than the damage to the cooler and the mail boxes, we were okay. The pups, in a kennel in the back, didn't even wake up.<br />
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We walked to our friend's house as we couldn't move the truck. The dad and two of his sons came down to help get us out. By then it was nearly midnight, and I had a early appointment for one of the pups, so we went to bed.<br />
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After the meeting, and a very fruitless search for the right part, our friend called and offered to let us use the car to deliver the rest of the pups. They truly went above and beyond the call of duty in all of this! We are so honored to have people like this to help us out!<br />
So off the Portland again we went. The rest of the day went off well, and everyone was thrilled with their new babies. Though I was having a hard time letting them go. Shea said that all the stress may be God's way of keeping me from crying in public...I guess that could be so....<br />
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We had planned on shipping one of the pups by air on the 10th, but due to a mistake on the paperwork, it didn't work out. As bad as I felt for his new family that was waiting for him, it sure was nice to have him around all day!<br />
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Back to the parts store to get the parts we ordered to fix the truck we went. By this time we both were pretty much whipped out. We got back to our friend's house at about dark, and Shea, being the mechanical genius fixed the truck that night. It meant another "past midnight" day, but the truck was running, and we were ecstatic!<br />
The morning of the 12th we were up long before light to take care of those mail boxes, and we were nearly done by the time the sun came up. After a thankful Good Bye to our friends, we headed home at last! We made it home to the loving arms of the rest of our crew at last at about 2 o' clock that afternoon.<br />
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It truly was a magnificent experience, where we had to continue to move forward even with the mistakes we made along the way. I tell you what, our God blessed Shea and I immensely through the whole trip. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-71979375596765743772018-04-04T08:35:00.000-07:002018-04-04T08:35:29.057-07:00February 28 - Another Birthday Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Janessa was invited to make a birthday cake for a little friend, by the same little friend, multiple time, nearly a year ago. We have been looking forward to this day for some time. One of the few homeschool families in the area is a beautiful family is lots of kids, and tonight we went over to celebrate the birthday of the oldest son, with a tank cake in tow...oh and our entire arsenal of nerf guns. What a wonderful, exciting evening! </div>
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Happy birthday big guy! We had a fantastic evening! God bless this coming year for you as you grow into a wonderful young man!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-30093590335905113622018-04-03T11:47:00.000-07:002018-04-03T11:47:12.463-07:00February 16, 17, 18, AND 19 - Gabe's 12th birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So we asked Gabe what he wanted to do, Bowling like last <a href="http://8servantsforchrist.blogspot.com/2017/04/gabes-week-long-birthday.html" target="_blank">year</a> was on the top of the list until Zach found a trampoline house in Bend. Needless to say, the entertainment agenda changed completely. We had a couple of appointments for the 17th, so very early on that morning we headed off in the mini bus to go to Bend. Nearly at the top of one of the passes the bus just died suddenly. The alternator belt broke. We moved the bus off the road and a wonderful couple headed to Bend took dad to the nearest part store. We were still quite a ways out of town so that meant a good long wait. </div>
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Gabe and Zach went out for a hike for a bit, I got these pictures when they were coming back. They slid down this hill several times.<br />
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On a couple of the tablets we had the same game, so we organized a double elimination tournament.<br />
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Dad, with the wonderful couple who took time out of their day to bring dad back, arrived back only to find that it was a deeper problem with the bus and it would need to be towed in. They were willing to take dad to the tow truck place, and off they went again.<br />
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We had missed every appointment, but the most important one. And that was well worth the wait! Dad, Mom, and Janessa went shopping, while the boys and I bounced for an hour and a half! Can I possibly describe how hard it is to take pictures of 4 active boys in a trampoline filled room?!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the middle of a huge tag game, these two are the best of rivals!</span></td></tr>
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Dodge ball games were going on, again Zach and Shea were constant rivals.<br />
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After we were exhausted...and hungry we had dinner at one of Gabe's favorite restaurants, Sherries. <br />
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We skipped the 18th day to give him his presents as we (as in us four older kids) had a birthday morning surprise planned for him. While we were in town we bought nearly 300 balloons, and the night of the 18th (and the morning of the 19th) Zach, Shea, and I stayed up and blew them all up. We listened to Hank the Cowdog, in hopes that laughing would keep us awake...it did.<br />
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Before moving all these balloons 2 doors down into Gabe's room Zach had to bury himself in them. If you have never been buried in balloon you ought to try it, it is really neat!<br />
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Now the most tense part of the plan went into action. Filling Gabe's room with balloons without waking him up. This was done 4-7 balloons at a time with me in the room stopping traffic when ever he stirred. And when a the most dreaded actually happened, a balloon popped, I nearly had a heart attack. Thank goodness he was tired!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Garrett gave his present after church the morning of the 19th, that is when we finally pulled Gabe out of his new room decor (which by the way lasted until the end of March)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We ended the evening with an elaborate treasure hunt that Zach organized! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It ended up being a wonderful weekend that we all were badly in need of! Happy birthday sweet boy! We all love you more than words can say!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-48564709029475026702018-03-03T15:19:00.001-08:002018-03-03T15:19:45.996-08:00February 13 - The Strain of Moving is Starting to Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the midst of all the packing, unpacking, sorting and setting up our new home, we have days like today...meaning...not much but giggling gets accomplished.<br />
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In our new dining room there is a loft which is open on one side and a entrance hatch on the other...perfect opportunity for the boys! <br />
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In a move there are always things that we dread somewhat in getting into place, our outdoor food cooler was one of those things. In a lot of ways it is one of those milestones that helps you feel settled, and it sure is nice to have it here finally!<br />
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Going from never seeing a basketball game all the way though before leaving Texas to going to as many home games as possible here in Oregon. One of the main social functions in the winter are the local basketball games. And today many of the families that we associate with regularly have children playing the the year end tournament, so Gabe, Garrett, and I spent the afternoon watching kids either play ball or in the park. It was a wonderful sibling/fellowship time! It always astounds me how many people we've met in this little community and especially children!</div>
There is a mixture of pictures below as I went in and out from the games and to the park. Our main team that we came to watch was Spray's where several of the kids from church and friends played in.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Continuous basketball games throughout the day involving all ages, I love watching a game where every age group is allowed to be included!</span> </td></tr>
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The boys took some time off from the endless unpacking of boxes to chop some fire wood. Dad's chainsaw is hiding somewhere in the move, along with everything else we actually need. So the boy, using double bladed axes went logging. They had a blast! And with several hours work we got enough wood to last the next day. Needless to say, finding </div>
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Right in the middle of all the ciaos of moving, we had a litter of pups (our timing is still right on track.) Which means I have spent a ton of time tending them, but this blog is about the family, not my pups, so I won't go into that. </div>
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One day when the pups were about 3 weeks old, Garrett, Gabe, and I were left at home for the afternoon. We all needed some outside time so bad, and so decided to take a walk down our road to see where it led. What a great afternoon! We took 3 of the pups with us and the big dogs as well. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back in June we lost Garrett's dog, Xavier to an auto accident. In September we had another litter out of Xavier's parents, and kept a pup from it. Roland, Garrett's new shadow, and boy do they love each other! </span> </td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-87879819727802957582018-02-17T21:41:00.001-08:002018-02-17T21:41:22.251-08:00New Changes!God once again is moving our family in a whole new direction!<br />
Right before Thanksgiving, we got laid off from the orchard. Such a sad change! We have been in the process of moving into a new house since then. We are mostly moved in and settled down. An amazing couple from our church is renting us an apartment that they built in the attic of their barn, and it is nearly home! So much has happened since I posted last, and there really is no way to get back on track, so I am going to go forward from here. I am excited to get back to posting!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-60729640084263965182017-07-18T07:56:00.001-07:002017-07-18T07:56:39.612-07:00May 4 - Gabe's Basket Ball TournamentWith a sad, excited heart, we come to the last day of peewee basket ball for Gabe. He has improved so much over the last year, and did fantastic! Ever kid on the court played their hardest and did an amazing job, this was easily the best game any of them had played.<br />
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The climax of the day started in the 2nd half of the last game. Blue (Gabe's team) was nearly 20 points behind purple, the kids were so tied and there was lots of emotional stress on the court. Gabe asked his coach if it would be alright if they prayed over the game, his amazing coach went ahead and called a timeout so Gabe could pray over the rest of the game. His prayer wasn't for the Blues to win, but for everyone who was in the gym would go away knowing that this was the best game they had played and that this would be a memorial in the hearts of all the kids. He prayed that God would protect them and give them the drive to do better than they had done all day and for Him to do the same thing for the other team. </div>
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He made it, nothing but net! Easily the best shot I had ever seen. Purple won! And just like Gabe prayed, it was a memorable game! What an amazing way to end peewee basketball!</div>
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If you have never watched or participated in the Missoula Children's theater, you are missing out. We watched it when it came to Spray, OR last October, and it was so much fun! Garrett especially was intrigued by it all, and when we found out it was coming to Monument, Garrett decided to join it. He tried out and was hoping for at least a medium part and got handed one of the biggest parts. The play was a very big spin off of Gulliver's Travels, only in space...and including the force...and stranded with only a computer to help...and teleporters to other planets. It was a lot of fun, Garrett got to play the role of the Computer JCN (pronounced Jason), he did an excellent job. JCN basically was a computer system that broke down at every important moment.<br />
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The evening we arrived our host took us for a beautiful walk in the wood by their house. At the head of the trail there is a huge stump of a fallen tree that had been logged off. It had holes carved into it for the loggers to stand on. It must have been absolutely magnificent when those trees were standing, and I can't even imagine how much wood came off the tree.<br />
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Along the path there was lots of rope course obstacles hanging from the trees, Shea had lots of fun with some of them.<br />
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Our hosts very generously played tour guide and took us to go see some daffodil fields which were in full bloom, and Janessa got some amazing pictures!\<br />
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The next morning, so April Fools day, they took us up to Seattle and we spent all day playing the tourist. Just about everything you can do for free in Seattle we did. It's absolutely amazing how much you can see of one of the most historical cities in the West United Sates for practically nothing! We had an awesome time! The first stop was Seattle Center, and the Mo Pop museum, which we didn't actually go in, but we had a great time walking around the Center. The first things we saw were theses weird poles that had absolutely no rime or reason to them, but they made a great Photo prop.<br />
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In the center is this huge rope made playground, we had just had a couple of long drives under our belt, so we all jumped in and played in and around the playground for well over an hour. For a couple of us, this was the best part of the trip and for all of us it was in the top 5 best things we did.<br />
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And of course, towering over the entire center was the Seattle Needle tower. WARNING! This made a great photo prop, so you'll see it a lot.</div>
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We rode the Monorail next, for us country hicks, we all got quite a kick out of it. Gabriel was fascinated with how it drove and asked the driver a million questions.</div>
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We had a nice, long walk down town to the library, and Janessa took lots of pictures of the ornamental work on the outside of the buildings.</div>
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Janessa took lots of picture of the inside, but I'm only going to use a couple, for two reasons. One this blog post will probably be putting you to sleep by now as long as it is, and two ya'll will just have to come see for yourselves. In one of the many rooms of the library is a map room with the cool globe. We spent quite some time looking at the geography of the history we've been studying in school. It is so neat when you get to see how the shape of the rocks can effect history and often do.</div>
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The colors in this place are absolutely amazing, and the many escalators to get up to the top floor were painted in this poison green color.<br />
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At the base of the tower is a museum and the 4 corner posts of the museum are the legs of the tower. Shea made a really nice effort to unscrew the 12 inch bolt of the tower, but even with all the leverage that he has, it didn't do any good, made for a funny photo though.<br />
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On the way out, this man waylayed us with his constant banter and balloon creations. He had us all mesmerized for quite some time.<br />
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This hard winter has really been a mixed blessing for us, we have really hit school hard, but let me tell you, we were ready to get out and about on a nice day! Today we all headed down to the orchard and worked on the south pump and multiple other projects that have needed attention (like Conrad proofing his pen :).</div>
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Daddy had hired a skid steer to do some digging today, almost all of us got to learn how to drive it.</div>
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This is what our river screen looks like out of water. We will probably put it in the river in a month or so.<br />
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Azure spoiled us this year, and now we have a new forklift, since both of our old ones went down last spring. We are so pleased to have it!!<br />
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Gabe's new purchase is a Go-Cart from his cousin, Royal. It needs a little work, but he learned a bunch getting it fixed, and it will be such an amazing tool this summer for him.<br />
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Janessa surprised him with a new game that he has been wanting for a long time, so we ended the day with everyone playing Bonanza, and learning his birth story again. Super fun day and 11 years went by far too fast!!<br />
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In the bowling alley there was an arcade! So we all had to try everything.<br />
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It lasted for about an hour, the river rose to an amazing height. Under the bridge, which usually is ankle deep in the summer, the water had raised to the height of over 7' high. </div>
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Many of the chunks were massive, some as big as cars. When the water receded it left a wall of ice chunks high up in both banks of the river.<br />
It was amazing to get to watch the power of this river in action!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-44154052175899161722017-03-14T16:26:00.000-07:002017-03-14T16:26:15.342-07:00August 22 -24 - Puget SoundSeveral years ago, while our family still lived in Colorado, our music teacher and her family moved up to Washington state. We haven't kept in touch very much since they moved other than once or twice a year.<br />
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Well now that we live in Oregon we all have wanted to go and visit them, this weekend we all headed up to Puget Sound, which, by the way, is almost literally right out their back yard. We had a blast with these wonderful people. They were so great about taking us to so many of the landmarks of Puget Sound.<br />
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Janessa brought her camera along and got some really beautiful pictures of our trip.<br />
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Our first stop on the tour was Deception Pass, which had the magnificent bridge spanning the inlet! The monument to the history of this pass reads as follows: " Named by Captain George Vancouver 10 June, 1792. Felling that he had been " deceived" as to the nature of the inner waterway. Port Gardner (now Saratoga Passage) he wrote on his chart "Deception Pass". He honored Master Joseph Whidbey who found the passage while commanding a small - boat crew of explorers, by naming the island Whidby." <div>
While we were walking on the bridge, Garrett yelled, "Hey guys, I think I see an otter!" and sure enough, we got to watch a couple otters playing and eating about 4 stories beneath our feet.</div>
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Quirk #7948 of living in an orchard is having apples running out of your ears. We spent quite a few afternoons pressing apple juice.<br />
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Summer in the orchard doesn't leave much time for huge events, but we sure do love the small ones. We are so busy during the summer with harvest. By June we literally have peaches running out of our ears. The trees produced so many peaces and nectarines this year. We were shipping fruit up about every 3 days. Our fork lift broke down permanently somewhere during the peach harvest, so the guys built a dock to load the fruit in the semi using the tractor, or we would hand load it in using the baskets that we use to pick the fruit into. </div>
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Peach harvest is a bunch of physical work, and a blast! Most of the harvest it takes a couple people to bring in fruit, and working with my siblings in the orchard is the funnest thing about the job.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-25756883373671955692017-01-14T12:06:00.005-08:002017-01-14T12:06:27.372-08:00July 29 - Wild Choke Cherries and Basket wash Factory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of our favorite kinds of syrup is made from wild choke cherries. When we lived in Texas, we couldn't find any, as they like to be near water. We were thrilled to find that they grew all up and down the John Day river. Early this morning Momma, Gabriel, and I all headed out to pick. We found one tree and from that tree picked more than enough for what we needed this year.<br />
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We had a fantastic weekend with some of the younger cousins! The beauty of it all was our family doubled in size for a weekend and half of them were all the same age. We had a picnic by the river, swam ourselves into exhaustion, made a cheesy movie, and just made a million memories!</div>
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For lunch on the 24th we all went down to the river and had a bon fire and roasted hot dogs with daddy.<br />
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Both of our families stay very busy so getting play days are pretty rare and cherished1Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-29943233769276132832016-12-09T10:17:00.000-08:002016-12-09T10:17:44.363-08:00July 22 - Fiddle Camp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Janessa and Zach had the amazing opportunity to go to a fiddle camp this weekend. They both came away with so much information and talent improved immensely.</div>
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They were close to one of the most amazing places in Oregon, Crater lake. Even with Janessa's good camera there is no way to describe the beauty of this place. Here are a couple of pictures that Janessa took, enjoy!</div>
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Today is the big day! Shea finally gets to get the pins out of his arm! We are beyond excited that this part of our summer is almost over! Before he went to the hospital we got these pictures of his cast. We, of course, all wanted to draw on it, but when we started with a silver marker, Shea thought he would draw his x-ray on it. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567562229140488454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875127457495801593.post-7031505131942129292016-11-15T13:24:00.002-08:002016-11-15T13:24:53.915-08:00July 4 - Happy Independence day!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The day of memorial for the greatest time in the history of our country is one of celebration all over. Way out here in the boonies is no exception. Both years we have been here, we seem to pack as much into this day as we possible can. These little towns around here sure know how to celebrate! There even was a huge bluegrass festival in Fossil, OR that we went to last year. </div>
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This year we went over to Monument, OR where they host a community day, with a parade, lots of fun games, booths, contests, and in the evening an amazing firework display. Janessa took so many fun pictures with her camera of the day.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our astronomer wore this around all day, and had it stained on his face for 3 more. </td></tr>
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Later in the day we went to Spray, Oregon to have a pot luck down at the river with our friends from church!<br />
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Then back to Monument for fireworks, Janessa got some amazing pictures!<br />
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