"Explorer Spirit…Servant Heart…"
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 29th, 2012
Scott and Liann had us to dinner. The Potoshnik clan joined us. It was such a sweet night of pizza, wrestling, and baby chicks! They had the living room and dining room cleared out for some remodeling. This created an ideal wrestling arena for Jordan and the boys! The Smiths purchased a bunch of baby […]
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 26th, 2012
New umbrellas 🙂 Our favorite pizza place. We ate here twice. Me and mama… Freshly shorn. Note the red highlights 🙂 Cheesecake Factory with Ama and KK ‘R’ decided to try calamari again… …still doesn’t like it…
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 26th, 2012
My good friend friend, Lacey, is stepmother to one teen, one college student, and one twenty-something out of the house. She and her husband, Rob, are also parents to 4 year old quadruplets. whom we always refer to as “the Babies”. Well, we paid them a visit and I can say they are babies no […]
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 19th, 2012
Winter cold and rain did not dampen our spirits and enthusiasm for visiting friends and family. Our main intention for this visit was to celebrate my grandfather’s 90th birthday. We decided to come a little early to catch up with family and friends. On our first day, we had lunch at the downtown Seattle Blue […]
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 6th, 2012
My lovely cousin, Katy, just had her first baby! She lives about two hours from me, so I took the boys and paid her a visit while they were still in the hospital. Mom and baby are both beautiful, perfect, and recovering well. It was wonderful to watch the boys lovingly and tenderly hold the […]
Posted in FAMILY on Feb 17th, 2012
Well, we did it! 30 days on the Daniel Fast! We decided to break it with a celebration at Red Robin. The boys each had an oreo shake , ‘A’ had ribs, and ‘R’ had pizza. David and I each had a veggie burger in a lettuce wrap; I had cheese on mine, David stayed […]
Posted in FAMILY on Feb 17th, 2012
We had a few hours to kill before church one Saturday, so we decided to take a country drive. We ended up in Auburn and had an early dinner at the vegan restaurant we had discovered. The boys begged to have the ‘nachos’ again. After, we drove through one of the neighborhoods and came across […]
Posted in FAMILY on Jan 8th, 2012
Well, even though the slopes have had to make snow due to the fact that there is absolutely NONE, we were able to get up to Sugarbowl for a fun morning of skiing and snowboarding! We purchased season passes at Sugarbowl, because they give all season pass holders unlimited free lessons. I was day five […]
Posted in FAMILY on Dec 28th, 2011
Our second Christmas in our new home. It has been a blessing to be able to create traditions and memories in this home… One of our traditions is to follow Santa on the NORAD website. The boys watch Santa fly over the world during the day and learn about different cities all over. They decided […]
Posted in FAMILY on Dec 28th, 2011
Our friends, Reb and Beverly, live on a lovely property that they rent out for weddings and other special occasions. They have a beautiful stone barn, and named their property Stone Barn Ranch. They had a Christmas Eve celebration, with a potluck, hot chocolate and cider, popcorn stringing, hayrides, horsehoes, and Christmas carols… Reb and […]