1. Bright crimson clover
2. Molly's smile (There's something about her smile that reminds me of me... must go look at old photos soon!)
3. The treehouse
4. What else? Homeschooling, Bible Study & Woodburn Outlet-ing, thankful for wonderful family and how fun it is to have fourteen people under one roof!
1. The wildest luggage I have ever seen (!)
2. The view at OHSU looking at downtown Portland. We were visiting OHSU to get a second opinion for Scott, which went really well. The doctor was great and really took time to understand what was going on. He also was very balanced and knowledgeable!
3. Looking across the Willamette. I never get tired of this view!
4. Walking around with mom through high rises looking for a coffee shop. Mom settled for a coke instead. Which was pretty lame considering this is Portland after all!
5. A very homemade looking strawberry shortcake
6. What else? Doctor appts for Mom - with the elbow surgeon & the functional neurologist, Le Petite Provence, Trader Joe's, Costco, JCPenneys, and the best pizza story ever. Emily & Tyler made pizza for dinner tonight... They couldn't figure out why the cheese on the pizza was browning and not melting. Tyler took a taste and the realized that they had used hash browns instead! We had quite a laugh!
1. Our newest addition - A Jersey Steer. So so so cute!
2. The first dinner outside.. the kids made it a picnic.
1. John holding a baby lamb
2. Anna holding a baby lamb
3. Happy Baby!
4. Dinner with the Fabryckys (their visiting for a week! yay!)
5. Tyler explaining a college lab, with some photos on the tv... and I have no idea what Scott is doing...
1. Driving over ancestral grounds near Albany... well, not quite, but it's where my great-something grandpappy homesteaded in the 1840's!
2. Waiting (see #4)
3. A strawberry smoothie to sustain the driver
4. What else? Today I drove down with Scott to Eugene. Poor Scott. I try not to talk about medical stuff on here a lot, else it would get boring quick... but Scott has basically had no life for the past 6-8 months as he's been dealing with major cervical disk pain. He's either on bed rest or standing up at work (he can't even sit comfortably). And to keep a really long story short.... it's been a two month process to work with the insurance company to get the surgery he needs paid for. Today he and I drove down to Eugene to appear before the insurance committee so Scott could present his case personally. The committee seemed really nice and concerned, so we are praying hard that they understand and are willing to rule in his favor.... It was the longest ride Scott's done since this all began, so I was there as moral support and to drive him back, because by the end of it he was on a full dose of all his pain drugs. We even stopped at Target to get him a heating pad to use on the way back since he forgot to bring his. Anyways, we are very thankful that it is all over with and for everyone's prayers! Hopefully we will know their decision by the end of this week...
1. At the Oregon Zoo with John! (And the rest of his family and the Ayers and the Dahlins, and my family... )
2. John and Anna in the petting zoo. Oh the irony of walking into a petting zoo when you live on a farm. I didn't tell them that our goat had died a month ago....
3. Anna is a pro at petting goats, Molly wasn't so sure...
4. Mom, Anna & Molly enjoying the wildlife; I think this was the baby duckies.
5. Me, Emily & Mom - Can you tell we're related? Mom just needed her "bug" glasses on!
6. A Lions, Tigers and Bears, oh my! The lions and bears were very fun to watch, the tigers were just sleeping...
7. An exhausted Matthew on the shuttle ride back to the car.
8. Hanging out while Andrew teaches gymnastics
9. What else? Mostly just enjoying the Fabryckys (Emily's my cousin) and enjoying the zoo, worrying for an hour that I had lost my wallet on the shuttle when all the time it was in the lunch knapsack, which is funny as neither Andrew who was holding the knapsack the whole time or I remember me putting it in there! Just thankful that it was there. :) The zoo people were really nice about looking for it though.
1. Moo-ser drinking some water
2. Outside the Airport Cafe
3. Jacob & ice cream at the Airport Cafe
4. What else? Rand installing a new stove top... which as these things always go, seems to be slightly defective so now we are waiting stove-less for a repair guy to come out tomorrow, thus dinner at the cafe tonight, homeschooling, working outside in the glorious sunshine (priming a flower box, weeding, organizing and of course, directing other people!), Mom selling/getting rid of a bantam hen & rooster, an impromptu farm meeting over dessert, and thanks to Rand - rediscovering the luxury of changing the water temperature in the shower with the flick of a finger instead of grappling around with two hands praying the whole thing didn't fall apart...
1. Playing croquet with way too many Sams. So confusing. But super fun!
2. Oohing and awing over Valerie's amazing handiwork. She has seriously cool embroidery skills.
3. What else? Church, of course. :) The Fabrycky's visiting! And a Deacon Dinner...
1. Beautiful blossoms. Walking through the apple orchard in the evening smells AMAZING. Nothing like the fresh scent of apple blossoms.
2. We are trying something new this year, and I don't know why it's taken us so long to do it. We're pasturing several of the ewes and their lambs in the orchard. This time of year it always seems like we are doing nothing but mowing, so the sheep are definitely saving us time, plus it's so much fun to see the babies from the back yard!
3. Jacob's birthday... we finally celebrated his birthday (April 25th) over a week late. I was out of town, and then people have been sick or gone in the evening. He has been amazingly patient for an 11 year old.
4. What else - I didn't blog yesterday, so the sad news first. Our poor sick calf died. Our vet thought it was going to be okay, but I guess not. Sniff. Sadness. Now we just have one poor lone cow. Hopefully we'll find a friend for him! Not much else for today, I've been on antibiotics all week and it's making me more and more tired. And they're making me sleep 10 hours a day, (argh!) so I'm pretty done by 10 o'clock, which is sad because that's my normal blogging time... so posts are kind of sporadic right now. My eyes are trying to close on me, so I better head to bed... g'nite!
Well! I kind of fell off the blogging wagon over the last week. I got deathly sick in Spokane, made it through the wedding and the drive home and now we've had a rocky start to this week. Hopefully I'm back to blog land and I have a few posts to catch up on... here's today.
1. Jacob waiting for me to go feed the calves.
2. The healthy calf
3. What else - Feed Mill, the vet (Sick cow should hopefully be okay...), catching up on being gone
