February 13 - The Strain of Moving is Starting to Show

 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.

Zach and History, one of the pups!

Another pup hiding in his Pocket!

 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! 

 In the new school room they hung a homemade pull up bar.

 Gabe volunteered to be in charge of the fireplace, he told me it looked so pretty that he wanted to take a picture. 

May 28 - Memorial Day Weekend Part 1 - The Half Marathon and Parade

If you somehow end up in Spray Oregon on Memorial day weekend, you will find a little town with a population of 200 or so filled with over 5,000 people all gathered together for the Half Marathon and Pro Rodeo, hosted every year. We had the amazing opportunity to be apart of it this year. We started off the day bright and early, the house was buzzing with excitement. We divided up when we got to Spray along the route of the Marathon to give out water to the runners.

My extremely handsome little brother all duded up for the day waiting for the runners to come.

 Several months earlier, in a moment of insanity, I told a variety of friends, cousins, and siblings that I would make them costumes for the parade. We had 3 floats, if you will, in the parade between all of them.
 Shea on his brand new stilts he bought for working in the orchard with a PVC pipe as a blow gun, Garrett and a little friend, Joel, handing him balloons to blow at people. Shea made his own pants, though with a slight measurement problem, so we literally had to glue him into the pants after he had the stilts on. Even though his pants gaped a little bit around the feet of the stilts, it was a big hit.
Gabriel dressed in buckskins and a head band leading a friend, Hannah, on her pony. Hannah was dressed in a plain grey dress with an apron over it and a plaid bonnet. Were representing pioneers from the Oregon trail.
A friend, Jaelle, and Cousin, Dawna, were leading and riding the ever patient horse, Taffy. Both dressed as elegant ladies.
Everyone had a blast and started planning what next years parade will look like as soon as the parade was over. Following are several pictures of the parade, enjoy.

July 22 - Thrice the Fun

Jocy, Cami, and Kasy came over today while their mamma had a doctor appointment. She is doing really well, but she would appreciate any and all prayers for an easy pregnancy and a good delivery. The boys have learned a new sport...Jousting. Dad has a couple of furniture movers so the boys put handles on them, got dressed up in trash can lid, motorcycle helmet or bike helmet, and a PVC pipe lance. One of the bigger kids would push them into one another.    

Sir Garrett of the Green.

Sir Gabriel of the Blue.

Later that day the boys received a Lego set they had ordered from ebay. It was a retired lego product that they have wanted for a long time, the lego space ship.

Here it comes

Garrett and Shea seem to like it...Gabe wants the bubbles.

Yep I think they like it...at least they didn't send it back.

Shea, Garrett, Gabe, and Jocy all got busy building it...Cami got busy with the bubbles.

Showing her mamma the bubbles.

Showing "Mrs. Pogues" them too.

It didn't take long for everyone to get in on it.

Garrett has the launch pad done, Shea is almost done with the rocket...

...And Gabe has his control center done.

June Creations

This month has been really busy...if you couldn't tell. I'm sure there was more creations for this month, but I don't have any pictures.

The boys' balloon stand. Which one is your favorite?

The hammer and bell for a carnival. It really works too...and it is almost as hard to get that little hammer to swing hard enough to hit the bell on the top. 

Coconuts came on sale at the store, so we got one to try. It is hard to get into!!!!! We tried had a drill, and knife, and a saw,by the time this picture was taken. We thought this was pretty funny. I promise this was not  planned. 

Even though these are not from the Pogue family, they were on our porch after the homeopathic weekend. 

Gabriel made a scientific post in the antarctic this month. The directors of 8 Below would have been proud.

The overhead picture of it.

The snowmobile garage.

The science lab.

Rare rock samples.

Weather tower.

And of course snowmobiles.