A Week in Pictures: 13 March - 19 March

Trying to get motivated to blog!

The pictures are there...just not the words.

I thought I'd try this idea again...just a small bite of our daily/weekly lives.

3/13 - These two are still at it with their Sunday morning trip to Walgreens for the papers.  Rain, shine, snow or whatever!  Not much can stop them.

3/14 - Monday night we were honored to watch Hannah get inducted into the National Honor Society at Eisenhower.

3/15 - Spring is officially a few days away, but my daffodils always make an early appearance.  After a long grey winter the color is so wonderful!

3/16 - With her community college classes over for the quarter, I have someone to hang with in the afternoons for a week or two until the new quarter begins again.

3/17 - We don't do much for St. Patrick's Day, but this year I decided to make some fun food.  It was all "okay", except the Colcannon which was AMAZING!!  Will definitely eat potatoes this way again!

3/18 - Not sure anyone in this house loves to go on a trip more than Jenelle!  For an hour or a day or a week...doesn't matter!  She's packed and ready before anyone else!

3/19 - Renee and I took the kids to Great Wolf Lodge for a weekend.  Life is so busy for all of us so it was so wonderful to be all together again having fun together.
Where did the time go with these five??

A Week in Pictures: 20 July - 26 July

7/20 - Taking care of my neighbors plants for a week while she's in Hawaii visiting her newest grandson.  Its quite a backyard!

7/21 - Gorgeous hop fields surrounding an amazing brewery here in town called Bale Breakers.

7/22 - Someone got an interview for a hostess position at an amazing restaurant in town!

7/23 - Fun day at Silverwood Theme Park in Idaho with these two!

7/24 -We stopped in Spokane on the way home from Silverwood.  Very pretty city!  This is a portion of a really cool sculpture representing their famous Bloomsday Run.

7/25 - As a part of the Yakima Rotary, Donald was in charge of the installation of a new playground at a large park in town.  Very proud of this man!

7/26 - This is actually a Saturday leftover because I didn't get any pictures on Sunday.  This girl is a nut and wouldn't she haunt your dreams if you saw her coming at you like this??

A Week in Pictures: 13 July - 19 July

7/13 - He shaves.  This part is not a good look.

7/14 - I took Ivan & Jenelle bowling.  It was so much fun.  The girl was disheartened at first, when she was getting only gutter balls.  This game ended with a total of 10 points and she was thrilled!

7/15 - We've been trying to grow okra for a few years, but it never does anything.  Our weather has been really hot and I think we might actually get, oh, I don't know, 4 okra this year!

7/16 - Hannah was out of town with friends on her birthday, so when she returned I took her to get her license.  She dropped me off and the gym and drove away.  It was pretty surreal.

7/17 - Beautiful girl (and her new favorite shirt)!

7/18 - Got this old cookbook out and realized there are some really good recipes in here that I'd forgotten about!

7/19 - Checking out this year's farmer's market.  We decided that 10am wasn't too early to eat a hot dog.

A Week in Pictures: 22 June - 28 June

6/22 - American Eagle...in Brad Paisley's words..."I'm waiting on a woman!"

6/23 - Breakfast with blueberries from our garden.

6/24 - RED things on my kitchen counter

6/25 - Peach cobbler!!

6/26 - This kid!  He's been running with the cross country team at Ike.  A great way to start his freshman year.  And he's dedicated...it was 109 degrees today!

6/27 - She CANNOT resist the camera!!

6/28 - Hydrangeas from my neighbor Carole

A Week in Pictures: 31 May - 6 June

I know that I'm supposed to be getting our Thailand blog post together, but it's a bit overwhelming and I'm procrastinating just a bit.
I've got to collect pictures from a few different devices and get my thoughts together about what to blog.
In the meantime, I actually did manage to take a picture almost each day this week.
It wasn't too difficult since we had so many end of the year things going on!!

5/31 - Donald is back in the water (after many years) for a local Gap to Gap race with a team from his office.

6/1 - Hannah had a chance to play on Varsity this year in tennis and that means she lettered!  Very cool for a sophomore!

6/2 - The strings and band concert with Jenelle (on the viola) and her friend Emma (on the violin).

6/4 - Wednesday was a fail on getting a picture of anything, but here's Thursday and the middle school awards.  Ivan and Jenelle kicked butt this year in academics!

6/5 - Since I didn't get a picture for Wednesday...here's two from Friday.  Ivan graduated from 8th grade (see how tall he's getting?!)

 And giving his class speech...

6/6 - And Jenelle's annual dance recital with Comotion.  What a beauty!!

A Week in Pictures: 26 April - 2 May

4/26 - Ivan and his friend Riley are making a homemade lava lamp for their science fair project this year.  Every year that the kids participate in science fairs, I am grateful for a husband who knows what the heck is going on with this stuff!!

4/27 - Venison burgers for dinner!

4/28 - Waiting (and waiting) for Hannah to try some clothes on at Target.  Ivan trusted me to choose a new pair of swim trunks for him.  I choose well.

4/28 - Working on my selfie game while waiting for Hannah to get finished with tennis.

4/30 - Our dogwood finally did some really nice blooming this year.

5/1 - Ivan's last jog-a-thon!  I'll do a separate post on it soon.  I just can't believe we only have two more!  ***Thank you for your donations!***

5/2 - And a very exciting picture of the car wash.  Just barely got a photo in on Saturday so...

A Week in Pictures: 12 April - 18 April

4/12 - Nope!  Not dog poop!  Science fair experimenting.  Jenelle and her friend Emma are making "plastic" with milk and vinegar.  Trying it with chocolate and white milk.

4/13 - Monday morning post work out breakfast...a slice of the neighbor's birthday ice cream cake. Super healthy!!

4/14 - St. Joe's band concert.  One of the last.  Ivan (trombone player on far left) can't wait to get rid of that instrument! (poor picture - my camera phone doesn't like zoom!)

4/15 - Wednesday afternoon carpool peeps!

4/16 - My guy running hurdles!!

4/17 - For over a year now, I've been making a meal each month for a place in town called Rod's House.  Its a safe house for homeless teens. They can come and get warm, get a meal, clothes and food to take with them.  I was shocked the first time I went there.  It's in a horrible neighborhood.  These are the homes that are across the street.  Another burnt home right next door.  I thought about it later and realized that the house is located right where its needed most.  Maybe soon I'll post a picture of Rod's House.  It's sweet and yellow and clean and warm and I believe it provides a much needed respite for these kids who've lost their way.

4/18 - A weekend walk with this beauty!