Fair week-sheep

This was Jensen's first year working with our new sheep. They area breed that is not easy to tame. They are Navajo Churro. He was able to show them in a couple different classes and did well in all of them. Although I think he will be using a different breed next year.


Jensen had to get some help from some of the other kids in our 4-H group because it's very hard to show a flock of 5 sheep by himself.

Hug Point

We went over to Hillsboro which is where we lived before WA to visit friend and had a lot of fun. I watched the weather and we had a change for a fairly nice day so I called by sister and we took a chance on going to the beach. It was one of the things the kids really wanted to do. So my sister skipped worked and we headed out. Lucky for us the rain stopped about the time we got to Hug Point and we had about 4 hours of nice weather. Just about when we were ready to go it started to rain. It poured that night and all of the way home but we had a great time.

Hug Point

Hanging around Aunt Melanie's

New way to paint toenails...with glitter!

Mackenzie thinking that Dora likes to be held like a baby.

My brother-in-law Jack and "D"

Trip to Portland

It's a heart!




We had planned to go the the beach but like WA weather it can change day to day and since the forecast was rain we headed up the gorge to Multnomah Falls instead. What a hike! We didn't make it too the top, I think the mile marker was wrong and how do you tell a 6 year old just a little farther when you don't even know what a little farther means....think about how the pioneers felt when they just kept seeing another hill or mountain!

Girls Camp

This was my favorite thing about girls camp this year. Every year they float down the river and the first year that I went down the river about half way through I wanted out of the water, it was way toooo cold and I said I'd never do that again. Well this year they came up with a much better option to the river and way more fun!

Kaden and his pig

Craig came running into the house one day needing the camera and I wasn't sure what could be going on because the only reason Craig uses the camera is to take pictures of the garden or the animals for our other blog. When I got out to the barn there was Kaden asleep on his pig that he was suppose to be working with.

Free Flower

On Guide Meridian on the way into Bellingham there's a flower shop that has a sign sitting outside that says the following: "Free rose is your name is -----". The name changes every week and this week it was Kate. We were driving to go to my sisters in Portland on Wednesday and one the girls read the sign out loud. When Kaden heard this this was his response. "What a flower? That's the dumbest thing that I've ever heard of! They should give them something better then a flower. They should at least give them chocolate!"


A true man after my own heart. He'll make a great husband someday!

Making Cards

This is my totally cute niece that learned to love making cards. One of the days that we were making cards the boys decided to go fishing and her dad wanted to take her. He tried so hard to convince her to go with him but a girl's gotta have priorities and she kept making her card. She did eventually go with her dad but not until she about ran out of stickers!

Mesa Falls

Upper Falls



Since moving to WA we now drive to Island Park via Spokane and through MT. But before when we lived in OR we would head south and through Boise and back up to Idaho Falls. Just before you get to Craig's parent cabin there's a sign for a place called Mesa Falls. In all the years we've gone to Idaho Mesa Falls is something we have not seen...although I'm sure there is lots of things we have not seen. So this year I really wanted to go. The only child that wanted to go with us was Kyla and Craig's mom came too. She saved us $5 buck because she has an annual pass so we were happy about that. The turn off is on what looks like a flat plain so you'd never know there was such a big water fall just 10 miles off the road.





Lower Mesa Falls

















This house was built to house a family that first came to the area when they wanted to use the falls to supply electricity to the area