1. Eating dinner outside (Tuna noodle salad with olives, squash and green beans, cucumber tomato salad with a balsamic/rice wine vinegar, watermelon, homemade bread)
2. What else? Taking it easy after a whirlwind of a weekend and Future Woman's Camp.
written 7/29/2012
Future Woman's Camp - Day 3
Breakfast chat with Lisa P
Pack up
Hike (we hiked in a nearby forest down to a creek and spent time wading in the creek)
Lunch (with and impromptu tractor/trailer ride around the pasture)
Head Home (So sad to have it end so quickly!)
That afternoon I took a nice nap and then Mums, Julie & Scott, and I went out to dinner at the local golf course restaurant. Everyone else got home later that night...
written 7/29/2012
Future Woman's Camp 2012 - Day 2
Morning Exercises
Breakfast chat with Agata
Craft- thank you cards
2nd Talk with KerriAnn
Lunch
Prayer
Sports (Basketball, Croquet, Soccer, Badminton, Volleyball)
Water Balloons
Cupcake Decorating
Dinner
3rd talk with KerriAnn
Games
Campfire
Movie (we watched Robin Hood Errol Flynn)
Today was a lot more relaxing then yesterday. :) Some of us "older gals" joined in for the sports and water balloons. Dad also surprised Mom by sending her flowers!
written 7/29/2012
Future Woman's Camp 2012 -
About 10 girls (12-14yrs) and 10 moms spent three days here on the farm.
Arrive at the Cones and unpack
Ice breaker and Orientation
Craft-Gratitude Journals (top picture)
Lunch
Prayer
Singing
Archery & Target Practice (girls looking at their targets and searching for arrows)
Craft- T-shirts and bookmarks
Astronomy lesson
Dinner
Talk by KerriAnn
Project Runway
Astronomy Walk
I spent most of the morning running around getting things ready, and then enjoyed helping out with the target practice (we used pellet guns), giving a little astronomy talk on the zodiac and how to find the north star, watching Project Runway, talking with everyone who came, leading an almost-midnight walk in the middle of the cleared forest to gaze at the stars and watching some of Roman Holiday.
written 7/26/2012
1. Jacob's packed suitcase and his accompanying stuffed animals - the lion and the tiger
2. What else? Church and then home early to get ready for Future Woman's Camp, and to send off Tyler, Daniel, Jacob and Dad on a hybrid camping trip to Eastern Oregon.
written July 26, 2012
1. At Andy's rather small and informal Graduation Party ... the girls stood and the boys sat/laid down while playing volleyball over a badminton net
2. Watching the pigs eat is our latest form of entertainment
3. &4. Out to dinner with Scott & Julie, and Jason & Ellen. Very fun!
5. What else? Errands in Molalla, finding out that throwing a party for 40 people the day after a wedding = tired, driving Aunt Susan up to the airport with Mom (such a short visit!)
1. Scarlet runner beans in the vegetable garden
2. A wedding! Sara & Colin got married. It was pretty fun... they were excited!
3. At the party with Amanda and Hannah... oops, I didn't think to take pictures until it was dark...
4. & 5. Floating lanterns! One of the most amazing things to see in person. Really.
6. What else? Lap swimming early in the morning, cleaning up inside and outside today, enjoying the wonderful wedding reception, dancing :)
written July 26, 2012
1. Eating at Olive Garden after picking up Aunt Susan from the airport!
2. A cute baking store we visited that afternoon
3. A cute book :)
written July 26, 2012
1. Mom and I in front of a berry picker at OSU's North Wilamette Research and Extension Center's annual Open House
2. One in which I'm actually looking at the camera
3. Jacob (with Daniel riding along) got to drive a $350,000 tractor
4. At the berry station. There were four varieties of blueberries to try and many more of marionberry. There was one not even named yet! My favorite was black pearl. Yum.
1. The processing trailer all set up. We hosted/helped present a class on how to processing your own chickens today through OSU.
2. Laura from OSU talking about new regulations
3. Some table decorations
4. PIGS! (technically this should be old news as I got them on Saturday, but I haven't had a chance yet to blog about Saturday, so here they are!) Our new night time entertainment is watching them eat dinner.... and our morning one was watching them try and snooze in the sun. There's four of them, they all want to lie in a row, and no one wants to be on the end! So each one took turns realizing he was on the end, would get up walk around and then plop down on top of the middle two. Then a minute later, the next one would repeat the process. It was amusing.
5. What else? Spending the day getting ready for the class, giving a little farm tour, making ice cream with Rebekah F (oh yes, they were visiting!) for afterwards, making watermelon lemonade (yum!), saying goodbye to Rebekah, having dinner with the class and teachers, cleaning up, farm chores, Jason and Ellen arriving (yay!).
