Swimming at Our Hotel

After fun filled days and two great nights at Auntie Sarah and cousin Milah’s house, we went to a hotel to stay the night. Which meant … Swimming!!! The girls love the water, as usual! It was a bit cold for me, so I mostly videoed and helped now and then. 🙂 It was so […]

The Enchanted Forest

On Friday, September 2, 2011, the girls visited their first theme park: Enchanted Forest in Salem, Oregon. What a fun day! We went with Auntie Sarah, cousin Milah, Oma, Granddad, Nana, and Papa. We made quite a train with the single stroller, double stroller, wheel chair, and walking people in our group. 🙂 The park […]

Visiting Salem Family Just Got Better

Visiting Salem family got even better on Thursday afternoon when Oma, Granddad, Nana, and Papa arrived to join the fun. Oma and I brought the four cousins to the park again. The big girls spent a long time playing like they were making food for all of us. The little ones played on the structure […]

Playing at the Park

When we arrived at Sarah, Jon, and Milah’s house on Wednesday, the first thing we did was get the cousins reacquainted. First, they played in Milah’s room, and then, we went to their neighborhood park. There are some unique toys there! Trevor, our girls, and I visited the park on Thursday while Milah napped as […]

Singing in the Car: A Favorite Passtime

The girls love singing in the car to the songs they learned in Vacation Bible School. They sing and do hand motions. This trip, the VBS songs kept us sane as it would keep the girls enjoying the drive and generally getting along. 🙂 Your browser does not support the video tag Your browser does […]

All Packed Up and Ready to Go

The girls got to pull their suitcases all by themselves today as we left Circus Circus to go to Klamath Falls. They looked pretty cute. 🙂

Napping in the Car to Reno

Just a nap in the car.

Packing for Our Trip to Oregon

We packed this morning for our trip. Avalina loved it. 🙂

Transforming Our Playroom

Here are pictures of some of the transformation of our playroom as well as the girls playing together in it. (more to come) How to order drugs online at cheapest prices? With the market flooded with varied online drugstores selling different medicaments, purchasing medicines from th WEB is no longer a trouble for most of […]

Thoughts on Training my Children

Over the past few weeks, I’ve put much time, thought, and prayer into what to do about preschool for Amabella (age 3 1/2). Both of her grandmas are strongly encouraging I put her in preschool. However, I just wasn’t sure what I wanted to do about that for many reasons. Trevor and I have spoken […]

Practicing Their First Memory Verse

Here are my oldest cuties practicing their memory verse last night before bed. “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105 Your browser does not support the video tag Your browser does not support the video tag

Cloth Diapering

Here is information about cloth diapering: use and tips, changing diapers, and my washing and drying routine.  I know it’s long, but I hope you find it useful.  🙂 Diaper Use/Tips: If applicable, stuff diaper inserts into diaper covers and smooth insert flat.  (Fold top flap down in BumGenius diapers.) Put on baby the way […]

Starting Our Garden

Well, we started our garden today. Realizing it’s super late to start, we still had a great time tilling up our ground, mixing soil in, and planting a few vegetable starts and seeds. What a great day! Last night, Trevor and I had a date night.  We went to dinner and talked about a lot […]

Having and Being Friends

Today our Pastor continued teaching from Proverbs and spoke on friendships. The sermon felt very timely for me in a few ways, so I thought I’d post it. He started and ended with a few questions: What are the friendships we have? What kind of friends do we have? What kind of friend are we? […]

Avalina’s Ladybug 1st Birthday Party

Today was the day! We had a fabulous afternoon party celebrating our baby girl’s first year. I had so much fun with the ladybug theme. I made a cake and cupcakes. We got a ladybug baby pool (as well as a larger kid’s pool) for the kids to play in. I found an adorable ladybug […]

Avalina’s Ladybug 1st Birthday Cake

Our baby bug is turning 1!!! Here are some pictures of the ladybug cake (on “grass”) and cupcakes I made for the party tomorrow (Friday). Thank you, mom, for helping. 🙂

Avenue of the Giants

Friday we headed through the redwoods taking the Avenue of the Giants through the giant redwood trees. Of course I loved it because I have fond childhood memories of it. We stopped at two drive thru trees. The first was in Myers Flat at the Shrine Drive Thru tree. The entire place was rather small, […]

Swimming!!

The girls have absolutely loved swimming on this trip and have really excelled in their abilities. We stayed Wednesday night at a hotel in Fortuna. We immediately went swimming in their heated indoor pool. Not only were both girls more confident swimming independently with their arm floaties, but both loved jumping into the water with […]

Ocean World

Thursday morning we loaded up and drove a short distance over the border into Crescent City, CA. We stopped at their Ocean World. We had a tour guide lead us through their aquarium. First we went to their tide pools with sea stars and sea anemones. I learned that if you happen to touch a […]

A Few Misc. Snippets From Our Journey

The big girls slept together each night. Most nights, in the hotels, it would take quite some time to settle. However, once asleep, they usually were touching in some way. The car rides were filled with adventure in themselves. Adi loved when we had the windows opened and the air blowing in her face. She […]