Memorial Day Camping

The Boys are ready to go!


Sunday, we got the wild idea to take the kids fishing/camping out on the island at Swift Lake. Bob's dad drove us out to it with the boat, and we fished and ate! Luckily, Alexis, Ty, and Gabe all caught a fish by the end of the night.

Ty's big catch! He reeled it in all by himself. :)
Alexis' big catch! This was a second attempt at a fish. The first one got away...
Gabriel's night fish. He caught the biggest one! 14 inches long, but he wasn't very happy about getting the picture taken. :)
Ty, Alexis, Daddy, Gabe, and Grandpa with their catches.
Alexis and Addison goofing off Monday morning. Maybe the Fruit Loops make you "fruity?"
Grandpa, Gabriel, and Daddy fishing for more trout.
Our camp site on the island. Grandma is hanging out with Addie while we moved out by the logs for better luck.
Mommy and Addie...her trademark smile!
One last look at our island on the way back to the docks.

Zoo with Nana & Papa

Welcome to the Oregon Zoo!
Kids playing on all the animals
Friday the kids got to go to the Oregon Zoo with Nana & Papa! It was a beautiful day for a "field trip."
Bald Eagle
Gabriel, Ty, Nana, and Addie
New baby elephant that they got to watch feed with the mommy!

Job

Good Morning All!

We are asking everyone to be praying for Bob's job. Either that there will be enough work to keep him working, or that the Lord would provide a new stable job. We are doing fine as of now, but it seem to be declining at an extremely rapid pace. Pray for peace about this situation, and provision!

Ty's Party Pictures

Sorry, I can't get the picture to flip! Yes, it's a 5 and 1 candle...I forgot to get candles, whoops. I made him do the math. At least he knew it was 6, and I think he even liked it when I asked him what "5 plus 1 = what?" LOL

Our Baby Chicks!

So, we have adopted 15 baby chicks, in the last week:) Yes, we are nuts, but we want fresh eggs, and a project for Ty. He asked for them for his birthday, and Bob agreed to 5, and that turned into 15...whoops!

Ty is getting the chicks home ready.
Here are the first 9 we bought last Thursday. The stores sell out so fast from these little guys, that we didn't get the ones Ty really wanted. We found a feed store that had some that were good layers, and decided that we didn't want to wait, and got them now. We bought 3 Barred Rock pullets, 2 "mystery chicks" (The shipment they were expecting didn't come in, and this is what they got. It was buy one get one free, so we thought "why not"! Our luck, they will both end up being roosters...), and Ty wanted a White Silkie. They are the super cute ones that look like they have fur instead of feathers. When they get big you can only see their beaks, because their hair is in a big puff ball on top of their heads. Super cute! Might not lay eggs well, and could be a rooster, but at least it will be nice to look at:)
I think that is a picture of a "Mystery Chick", and the black one is a Black Australorp, that we lucked out with, and got 3 of them at Wilco. They had an extra bunch that they were selling over the ones that were ordered. It happened to be one of the breeds Ty actually had on his list!
The Barred Rocks, are the black ones with the gray spots on their heads...they don't seem to be very friendly...they are always pecking at us:(
We picked these up this morning. Nana bought Ty his supplies for this batch, and the chicks for his birthday present. We can't put them together until this gals get bigger, otherwise they could get pecked to death, and that wouldn't be good. So, we have to keep them in their own house until they reach about the same size.

Ty calls them his "pretty" ones. When we got them home he asked if he could take back the "others" to get more of these "pretty" ones! He's so funny. I didn't realize how perticular he is, until we started researching which different breeds of chickens to get, and he only wanted specific ones. I guess he takes after his Mom ;-)
These are two of our really attractive Ameracaunas. They lay the blue and green eggs! I can't wait. There is something to having a beautiful egg...they come in all shades from blue to green. It will always be neat to see what color they lay.
Ty got another Silkie...this time grey, 2 Buff Orpingtons...they are the yellow ones, and the 3 Ameracaunas. The other Ameracauna is yellowie, but has the puffy hair like the other two, so we'll just wait and see what she looks like when grown.

Ultrasound Update

My midwife said that everything looks great with the baby! Thank you for your prayers :-) We are good to go for now. Lets hope that the rest pregnancy goes well!

Ultrasound Pictures

Well, we got to see our little munchkin today! Stubborn little one for sure;-) I must have like the biggest pelvis know to women. Again, just like with Ty, they had to tip the bed fully down so my head was upside down. Hoping that "he" (we'll call it "he") would come out long enough to get good measurements and pics. Thankfully we didn't want to know what sex, because she said "he" wasn't going to show us! I even had to get up and touch my toes, jump up and down, swish around...all to see if it would move "him".

Yes, it worked, and "he" ended up upside down. I don't think I have ever seen an ultrasound where the baby is upside down. The baby is really active, and we got to see "him" stretch "his" super long legs fully out. Bob and I both said that we didn't think we could ever get tired of seeing a baby in an ultrasound. There is just something so miraculous about it! It was quite nice to know what everything was when she was telling us. We did get tripped up on the kidneys though :-) The kids were super excited to see the baby. Gabriel of all the kids, was going around the house all day saying "we get to see the baby today!" in his sing song voice. Very cute!

Little FeetHand
The upside down pic. Nice picture of the spine.
Facial picture. (A little creepy, I know)
The best profile picture that we have ever gotten! Photogenic already ;-)
I'm thinking it's like an apartment in New York in there. What do you think? High dollar real estate, super small studio apartment...everything is at your fingertips!

Bob "knows" it's a boy. I think that too. I guess we will see soon enough! Thanks for all your prayers. We won't find out the results until Tuesday at my regular check-up. I'll keep you posted.