Katie, the seamstress

Well, most of you have seen the sewing expertise of my sister in law Heather and her girls on the mission field in Colombia, South America. So I thought you might enjoy seeing my girl's sewing ability. I must say, first of all, that I did not know she was fixing her PE skirt, she didn't ask for my opinion, she just got the needle and thread out herself and started sewing. I'm so proud, and both of her grandmothers are going to hope that no one knows she is related to them. They are both excellent seamstresses. Yes, the skirt is grey and the thread is pink. Her stitches are "X's", on the outside of the skirt. And again, I say, I'm so proud. :)

Andrew's Uncle Dan and Aunt Carole came to visit and bring one of our school teachers' belongings up here. They were with us for about a week. We had such a nice visit, but they never stay long enough. They left this past Wednesday and should be getting close to home by now.... well, maybe not really close but a WHOLE lot closer. :)

Trampoline Fun

I thought this was such a cute video clip that I should post it. These little twins are such fun, we don't know what we would do without them. I'm so glad God surprised us with these two.

Flying home

The twins were playing at the side of the runway last Friday, waiting for Daddy to fly in. Drew and Grant were there as well. We have a piece of property right there on the runway that we are building a hangar and apartment on.

There he is... our first glimpse of him coming in, checking out the runway to make sure there wasn't any moose in the way. :)

Wow... you can hardly see the plane. It looks like a little mosquito at the far end of the runway, over the trees.

OK... this one is a little better. He just getting ready to touch down.

On the ground... I love to watch planes land and take off. When one is bringing my "babe" home it just adds a little icing.

Beautiful Sky

Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. This is the sky that greeted us one morning last week. It was so beautiful we had to take a picture. (or two)

Pictures of the twin's B-day party

Yes, these are a little late in coming. Tyler and Taylor's birthday was just a little under a month ago. But at the time, my camera was giving me problems and I couldn't upload any pictures off of it on to the computer. But now, for some unknown reason, they have uploaded and I decided, late or not, I will post them.

We had the party in Andrew's shop. We moved all the equipment and materials over to the sides of the shop and set up tables and chairs in the middle of the floor. Katie decorated, we got some Ratatouille decorations to use.

Here are some of the kids that were there with their chef's party hats on. They looked so cute but the hats were kind of big for them. This is the cutest little thing... her name is Riley, she is Max and Sherry's granddaughter. They are living in the other apartment this summer while her dad, Tom, is working for Andrew. Anyway, she is adorable.
We played musical chairs, limbo and water balloons. Drew's friends showed up earlier that day and then stayed. We had to ban them from playing after a while because they kept on winning. Poor little kids!! :(
The twin's wanted cupcakes so we just put 5 candles on one side of the plate and 5 candles on the other side of the plate. Then Tyler and Taylor sat opposite each other at the table so they could blow their candles out at the same time.

Here are a couple of pictures of them opening their gifts. They had so much fun!!

The most special thing was that Daddy got to be here.

This week at out house.

Here are a few happenings from around here this week -

Nick, Drew and his little fish friend, and Grant after their little fishing trip. That's a grayling Drew is holding. He was pretty excited about it. I wish I knew where that thing is right now.....

Heidi with her saxophone. Mrs. Cheri (Brownwood) Weed is starting a band for the kids this year at school. So after much consideration, Heidi chose an alto sax to play, and we rented one from a local music store. She is pretty excited about it. Katie has decided she would like to learn the clarinet and my Mom is letting us have her's. Katie won't be able to play in the band this semester or maybe even this year but she can practice and learn now and then maybe she can play next semester or next year.

And finally, we lit a very huge brush pile Friday. The kids and Andrew played frisbee while it was burning. Everything was all fun and games until the frisbee went in the fire. :) This picture was taken from off of our deck. The kids had so much fun.