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SCHOOL!

September 4th, 2013 | Hazel | Raven | School

This has all been so exciting and overwhelming, but here we are! School has started!

These two have been so excited to get started! Not one tear was shed today…ok, maybe I shed a couple…but the girls were so brave and so grown up! I really can’t believe we are doing this! And…here I am sitting in a quiet house while Ryker naps! I hardly know what to do with myself.

Oh, my sweet Raven! She has been looking forward to Kindergarten all summer! In the last few months she has really come out of her shy shell and really shown how brave she can (and wants!) to be! We visited her school yesterday for the ‘Treasure Hunt Adventure’ finding all sorts of treasures…her teacher, her desk, her cubbie where she hangs her backpack, and putting away all of the treasures that she brought (school supplies). When I was talking with her about today I asked her if she would want me to walk her to her classroom for the first day to help her get settled and find her desk again. She said, “No, its ok Mom. You can just drop me off.” So I did. She just put her backpack on, hopped out of the car and off she went. I don’t think she knows what she is in for when it comes to full day Kindergarten, but I am so glad she is happy to go!

Then there is this little munchkie! She was a little nervous, but I think it helped that we sent Raven off to school first. She has been hearing all about Little Feats School from her big sister, so she knows a little bit about what to expect. As we were driving from Kings to Little Feats she seemed a little nervous about me dropping her off and asked if someone was going to come get her from the car (like Raven’s carpool). After assuring her that I would walk her in, she looked so relieved. Once we got there she was a bit timid, holding onto my leg and sticking close. As soon as we got her all checked in and washed her hands, we saw her teacher and she walked right into her room!

I am so proud of my big girls! The tears are such a happy feeling – watching them grow up to be independent. to make their own friends. to learn from their teachers. I am releasing them into the world, praying that the Lord with be with them to guide them and instruct them well. Praying for their teachers as they spend so much time with our kids. Man do I love these sweet little beauties!

Raven’s sweet little heart

June 7th, 2013 | dialogues | Raven

Raven ” not last night, but the night before last night…I asked Jesus into my heart”
Me ” did you say a prayer?”
R ” yep. A prayer and a song”

Remember

April 26th, 2013 | Raven

Raven ”Mom, do you know what’s exciting? Hazel and I just saw in the mirror that we’re getting freckles!”

Preschool

February 28th, 2013 | Raven

I still can’t believe we are in this school age with our kids. I just signed up Hazel for Preschool (she will be there for two years), and we are working on an application for Raven’s Kindergarten! I am probably way more nervous about this than she is. We decided on private school, which is further away from our house. She is also going to have to make all new friends there. We have been so blessed with wonderful friendships close by. Some of them will be going to the same school together, but as far as I know, none of them will be going to private school with her. We keep praying.
Kindergarten is also full day around here…I think I’m actually going to miss her! I really didn’t think I would feel that way, but I do. Its a long day for such a little girl to be away from home…even if she did stop napping when she was 2.
Anyways, too cute not to share…Raven’s preschool photo.

I guess I should have checked her hair before I dropped her off :)

Kids

January 16th, 2013 | Hazel | Raven | Ryker

I just figured out how to upload photos from my phone. It takes a while to do, but at least I can update with photos. Pictures are more fun anyways :)

Here we are again!

I know its been a looooong time since I have updated this little blog. I have actually been so busy that I forgot about it, but I am hoping to pop on here every once in a while…sometimes with stories, sometimes just pictures.

So, here is what we have been up to…

Matt and I went to LA for a getaway!

Yellowstone vacation with cousins!

Camping with friends!

Ross Lake camping

Riding on the new ferris wheel in Seattle!

A visit to the Space Needle

Soccer

just another day…

April 24th, 2012 | Hazel | music | Raven | video

We definitely have two little girls in this house! They are so busy and so fun! Here is a cute video of each of them singing their favorite song. They make me smile!

http://youtu.be/yW-1LMojToM

Disneyland!!

I can’t believe that this trip was weeks ago! Where does the time go?
The girls and I flew down early, and Matt flew down after work that night.

This is how ridiculous I looked walking through the airport with all of our stuff. Traveling with kids is a great workout!
Once we got to the hotel, we just relaxed by the pool! So fun!

We had a really great vacation! The girls did really well (thanks to everyone who was praying!), and we all had fun!

Our good camera broke, so our pictures aren’t the best…but they captured the memories just fine :) This was my first time to Disneyland too! I have been to Disneyworld, once. I want to do this every year! We’ll see if I can talk Matt into it!

I think we could probably twist his arm.

Micky Mouse's chair

First roller coaster

Mickey Mouse

Train

Sweet faces

Silly faces

We waited in line for over an hour to meet the princesses. Then we spent maybe 30 seconds with each one. Both girls said later that this was their favorite part of Disney.

I think Hazel won them all over! She first told Cinderella that her name is Princess, and by the time we made it to Princess Aurora her name had changed to Rapunzel. Her silliness has really been starting to come out! They were both so cute and star struck!

Its hard to believe all of this happened in one day!

After Disneyland, we took a day off to swim in the pool and hang out by the hotel. The next day we rented a car and drove to Phoenix, AZ! We have friends who recently moved there, so the girls were excited to see their little friend!

We went to this cool playground with a little train and a carousel. The girls had so much fun! We also went swimming late that day…also very fun! I liked the sunshine and the warmth!

Vacations are getting more and more fun as the girls get older…and I love vacations! Looking forward to the next…

marriage

February 10th, 2012 | dialogues | Lisa | Raven

the girls are constantly playing with babies and talking about babies in their bellies. this has brought up many many many conversations about the order of which God instructs us to live. meet a boy who loves Jesus, get married, then have babies.
yesterday raven and i were looking at a photography blog and there were wedding pictures on it. raven said to me, “awwww…did she find a good prince who loves Jesus?”
i’m smiling knowing that she has been listening to us this whole time.
did i mention we have been watching a lot of disney movies lately?

Lately.

September 23rd, 2011 | Home | Matt | Raven

I know I am incredibly behind with pics and happenings…but for now, its just easier to tell you what we have been up to lately. …or rather, what Matt has been up to lately!

This is the crazy chaos that we like to call the basement. We have had plans for a long time to make this space ~~more usable~~ ~~more organized~~ more kid friendly. Let’s face it, I like the sound of “Go play in the basement, girls!” It just has a nice ring to it.
So, project #1…Matt builds a murphy bed.

Daddy and his #1 helper. She is really into helping lately.
With a lot of thought, a lot of trips to the hardware store, lots of work and time…I would like to present…the murphy bed.

CLOSED

OPEN

…and now for the rest of the basement (the hole in the wall above the bed)….there is also some re-arranging that will occur. The piano will come upstairs. The bookshelf will come downstairs. The desk will be moved. The walls will be painted. There may or may not be a new tv in our future. Its going to be a lot of work, but totally worth it in the end…we hope.
Also, we have our first visitor coming this weekend! Aunty Grace will be here tomorrow for a few nights.

wow.

September 8th, 2011 | Hazel | music | Raven | video

I am so very behind on updating this… my computer freaked out and it is taking some time to fix.
Here are a couple videos from one of my favorite summer nights this year.

I promise to update more soon :)

VBS and saying goodbye.

It’s official. We have a big girl in our house. I honestly can not believe that Raven is old enough to have done this…but she went to her first vacation Bible school! I was hesitant because it was an evening VBS and evenings are so hard for us anyways, but it actually worked out really well! She absolutely loved it…and it probably helped that pretty much all of her friends were there too!

I’m really glad we ended up doing it! It was really a lot of fun for all of us!

On the sad note, though…after dropping Raven off one night…I came back to my car and saw this…

Shocked that this would happen across the street from the church while so many people were around dropping their kids off…I just couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought to myself, “ok, they took my purse. I’d better get on the phone and get this process started.” Then it hit me, my engagement ring was in my wallet. What ridiculous person leaves their engagement ring in their wallet…apparently I do. We had gone camping and I forgot to put it back on…and now I really miss it. I am very sad about it, stalking craigslist every day trying to find it. I think now, 2 weeks later, I have to say goodbye to it in order to keep my sanity.

Ultimately, God is good. He has been taking care of my family. He gave me great friends to comfort me when I walked up to this horrible sight. He has given me a fantastic husband…and there is no amount of sin in this world that can take away my love for him and my girls. I am loving God more now than I ever have before.

And after realizing what I had lost I got to go back inside the church and sing praises with my ~~little~~ big 3 year old. This song has become a favorite in our house!

http://youtu.be/lumwSIhrVy8

He’s wild, He’s wild, God is wild about us.
He’s wild, He’s wild, God is wild about us.
Its so amazing to think about God’s love,
The God of creation is looking out for us,
He knows us…
He hears us…
God is right here with us.
He’s wild, He’s wild, God is wild about us.
He’s wild, He’s wild, God is wild about us
God is great, He is awesome.
God is great, He is awesome.

I know that God is WILD about me…and He is looking out for me…and I am learning to trust Him and His plan for me (and for my ring) …and more importantly, His plan for my family.

This weekend will be our 5 year anniversary, and we are heading to Portland for a little R & R…

Time

Wow, I can’t believe how fast things have been happening around here. I’m thinking I’ll try to just do a quick re-cap of the last month and a half…we’ll see how it goes!
Ok, back in the beginning of June some friends and I took all of our kids on the ferry to Bainbridge Island to have lunch and ice cream! It was really fun and so worth the messed up nap schedule!

Then we had swim lessons.

And we have had 2 camping trips, 2 weekends in a row…one was sunny and one was rainy.

But we did get to celebrate our great friend Asher. His awesome Mama put together a scavenger hunt! When the kids all returned there were dirt cups with worms in them! This was so fun!

More to come….Raven’s first time to VBS! She loved it…pics are coming.
And on a sad note…my engagement ring was stolen. I had put it in my wallet when we went camping the first time and forgot to put it back on when we got home. Then, when I was dropping off Raven at VBS someone broke the window on my car and stole my purse (which had my wallet and my ring in it). I am still praying it gets recovered from a pawn shop or that some other miracle happens….and I swear, if I ever get it back…it will never leave my finger ever again!

PURPLE

There is a whole lot of purple around here. Raven’s current favorite color. …and since we are celebrating our big 3 year old this weekend, we are just going to roll with the purple thing!
She has really been loving her birthday this year! A lot of anticipation beforehand, and a lot of disappointment when the party was over.

(i just can’t get her to look at the camera)

On her actual birthday we did the traditional singing with cupcake in bed…only this year we had to tell her to go back in her bed so we could sing to her. (she was coloring downstairs at 6:20 am! ..and who knows what time she really came downstairs. 6:20 is the time that Matt thought he was sneaking down to get things ready. Our 3 year old does not like to sleep.)

Later that morning we had a visit from Grandma Virginia! They played and read Raven’s new book!

Then Raven’s friends came over! Pure excitement!

We played games and sang “Happy Birthday”

(she got a little close to the flames there…but she is fine, and she did blow them out)

My girls like cupcakes if you can’t tell by looking at their faces :)

The other kids like cupcakes too…see all the smiles?
Raven had so much fun! She was so excited to have her friends over…and the fact that they sang “happy birthday to raven” is something that has made her so happy, we have been talking about it all week! She has been growing up so fast! It is incredible to see her growing relationships with friends and with God (who apparently talks to her in a deep voice). She is so smart and loving and shy and sneaky and busy. She is a big girl now!

catch-up

Wow, I have a lot of catching up to do…and I have to try to remember everything that has happened…

Ok, first we had a visit from Papa John and Grandma Jan. I am just now realizing that we don’t have any pictures of their visit! How did this happen? I really have no idea, but we do have proof they were here. The yard looks amazing…now I just have to try to keep up with some things. Also, Matt built a sandbox while they were here, and Papa John filled it up with sand! This is a new favorite spot of Raven’s!

Raven in her giraffe costume loving the sandbox

Then we had a relaxing Mother’s day weekend…Matt sent me to the spa (my favorite place)…and I got a new toy, a fancy phone which sucks up quite a bit of my time. Not with calls, with the internet and picture/video taking!

Next we had a great visit from Uncle J and Auntie Trish!

We really didn’t do anything too out of the ordinary here…I made J come with me to costco, we went to the zoo, and out to eat, scrabble (where Trish and I got creamed by J), and went down to the beach we love…

Great times with Uncle J

Great times with Aunty Trish

Overall, it was a great visit, and we all agreed this needs to happen more regularly. Love you!

Now we are getting ready for a special girl’s birthday party! She has requested a purple party…we are looking forward to a purple bean bag toss, a purple tutu, purple balloons, and cupcakes with blueberry frosting! I’ll try to get picks up soon :)

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