Books, Wedding.....

I was so excited to get the mail today! I ordered 2 books from Amazon on Saturday, and they actually came today!! ~~For me this is amazing since anytime I order anything from Amazon, it takes WEEKS to get here!! So I ordered my 'Radical Homemakers' book and also 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'. ~~Because I totally needed another cookbook!! LOL Well the Pioneer woman book is sooo beautiful! Have you seen your website? My friend and sis-in-law both told me about her! Great website! I found someone who takes more pictures than I do!! Yummy Yummy book--I'm probably putting on weight as I write!
Wedding plans are coming along very well. Veronica called this am and her and her dad met with Twelve Baskets and got everything taken care of!! YEA!!! We have received many RSVPs and are looking forward to seeing family and friends that we haven't seen in a long time! I really really need a dress! Marnie~~ when you get here, we maybe shopping!! :)
My next move now is to get apples and jars and make apple butter! Veronica wants to have jars of the tasty stuff out for 'wedding favors'.
Farm life is good. It's almost the calm before the storm. Jeremy is almost done with fencing. He is working in Bellevue all next week and ending the week with going to the men's retreat. Then we have the wedding. After that----gardening; goats; tear down 2 old barns. Oh, and get the playset and trampoline set up too!! If anything else, I'll have a great tan!! :) My gardening (for what it's worth!) will be done in spurts since I can only be working in the sun for short amouts of time. But I'm sure it will get done if I just keep working on it!! Food for this year includes: lettuce; cabbage (red and green); carrots; cilantro; tomatos; potatoes; zucchini; yellow squash; spinach; strawberries; raspberries.....YUM!
Jack loves to run around in the fields. He is getting so brave! LOVES to run around outside (finally by himself!!) and we have started rock painting season! We are going to be coloring eggs later this week. Can you believe that it's almost Easter????

Enjoy your celebration on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ!! HE IS RISEN!!!

The Fire Pit

As I sit at the computer waiting for dinner to finish cooking (turkey/stuffing casserole!), I notice that Jeremy is adding more wood next to our little fire pit! It is just a little cinder block ring, but it is so wonderful to sit outside in the evening by a little fire and talk and look at the stars.
Yes, I think it will be quite pleasant to do that tonight! ~~I actually bought stuff for making smores at the store the other day too!! :)

Springtime Saturday!

I love these quite spring days. For the last week or so, we have had 80-100 ducks on our pond. They swim around in little 'family' groups. When the wind is not blowing you can hear them quacking and splashing. Our resident blue jay has not appeared in a few weeks. Hopefully he'll be back (even though he does eat A LOT of bird seed!).
Jeremy has been working on fence lines to enclose the pasture we are going to use for our goats. I think that we are going to wait until after Veronica's wedding to bring them home, since Dora is due to give birth the first week of May. We just really feel it's better not to move her so close to birthing time. We are actually feeling a bit better about it--not quite the rush to get everything ready! :)
I just read about a new book that I think I'm going to buy, and with just the review I read in Hobby Farm Homes, I would recommend it. It's called: 'Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Comsumer Culture' by Shannon Hayes www.radicalhomemakers.com
~~"redifining what 'wealth' means and moving away from the images media and society feed us that more and bigger is better"~~ Check it out--interesting!!
Enjoy the day!!!

Home Again

Well, I'm finally home AND the computer is working!! I have been wedding shower hopping and also had the opportunity to go on Calvary Chapel Eastside's women's retreat. Veronica's first bridal shower was the end of February and was simply beautiful! Many women from church attended and she ended up with lots of fun kitchen stuff and cute personal items! The 2nd weekned in March I went on the CCE women's retreat. It was really small-maybe 28 women. It was so awesome having a small group-you actually get a chance to talk to others! I was up VERY early on Friday and picked up Veronica and Melissa in Kirkland and we headed up north to Sumas. On the way home we went to the outlet mall--and ended up really needing to boogie since I forgot to set the clock in my car ahead. Thank goodness Melissa noticed--Oh, on Friday night, Veronica, Melissa, Martha and I managed to get lost in the darkness of farmland after picking up snacks!
My dad ended up in the hospital the Saturday that we were at the retreat, but did get out on Tuesday. After only 3 days home, I headed out with Jack this last Thursday to Tenino (20 mi. south of Olympia). We stayed one night with my parents and then headed to Bill and Leanne's house. Cooked some yummy desserts on Friday to ready us for Veronica's family bridal shower on Saturday. Another beautiful party!! Saw ladies there that I have know anywhere from 20-24 years, many of which I haven't seen in probably 10 years! A couple of ladies brought their daughters--wow, they are ALL grown up. Which we all decided was really strange since none of us had aged at all! LOL!!
Got home about 2pm yesterday (Sunday). Jeremy left again for the other side of the mountains to work this am. Hopefully he will be home Wednesday pm or early on Thursday.

Oh, we are getting goats in a couple of weeks!!!!!! They are already named Dora and Boots. Dora is due to have a baby sometime in May! The farm is growing and I'm continuing to educated myself on farm life--my current reading: the FFA manuel on raising goats!! :)

Have a great night!!

The sun has arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Praise the Lord!! We have had so much gray, drizzly weather the last couple of weeks!! Spring weather had defintely arrived here--early this year!! The snow is almost gone and the mud is drying up! But now that it's sunny and warming up we are having our signature hurricane winds! Oh, well.
We got The Wizard of Oz from Netflix yesterday. Trevor is LOVING it! Bouncing everywhere and dancing to all the music. This is the first time that Jack is seeing it and thinks its really cool. Unlike Tristan at this age, Jack liked the flying monkeys! :)
Next weekend, I'm heading to the other side of the mountains for Veronica's first bridal shower! It will be fun to hang out with her and talk 'wedding' and see all the ladies who are able to come to her shower! I'm only staying one night and heading home after the shower since Jeremy and I teach sunday school that Sunday and Tristan and Nikole are coming for a visit for the weekend on Saturday. We are doing her family shower on March 20 at Bill and Leanne's. Lots of little commitments the next couple of months--Jeremy and I actually have to coordinate our calendars!
Jeremy is in the process of getting his general contractors license back. He has several opportunities for jobs on both sides of the mountains--lots of bathroom and kitchen remodels! He will be traveling a lot, but we are so thankful that the Lord has given us clear direction as to what he is to do for work. I'm going to be doing the books, so I'll be doing the Quick Books training and getting other training to be a certified bookkeeper. I never thought I'd have a 'desk' job, but thanks goodness I live on a farm so that I'm not stuck indoors all the time--plus, my boss is a SWEETIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

More later......

Don't you just love the smell of bread baking?? I do! I just finished baking 2 loaves--the house smells soooo good!! Such a simple thing, yet so satisfying.
The snow is melting quickly. It snowed yesterday morning, but today is sunny and blue skies! There is more snow in the forecast for tomorrow though. I've never really have been interested in the gardening aspect of spring, but after we did a garden last year, I'm actually looking forward to it! We also have a play set to put together for the boys once we can dig in the ground and have plans of getting a trampoline and a basketball hoop!
Can you believe it's Valentines Day on Sunday???? Jack worked on making Valentines today for the majority of schooltime today. He is really excited to get a valentine! Of course he is leaning towards the idea that this maybe a great opportunity for a new toy.

Off for now--getting a haircut today!!!

February 1, 2010

Well, I LOVE the idea of having a blog, but I didn't realize what an effort it would be to remember to write, let alone hope that I have something interesting to say!! Well, it was one of those foggy, drizzly days today. Jack and I have been simply relaxing today since yesterday was such a long and busy day. Jeremy is out of town for the week for work. I don't have any major household projects to work on now. Usually when he is gone, I rearrange the furniture or find some cubboard or drawer to empty and organize.
Tomorrow we will head out to go to the bank and then to the feed store. Maybe I'll grab something fun and interesting for dinner!