October 2019!

Oct. 10 - Kids pictures and Swiggy's first haircut

Oct. 12 - Boys go to truck and tractor day with Mama and Kivi's homecoming

Kivi also had a race at Richland and got 6th!

Oct. 14 - Swiggy's 2nd birthday a month early at the Children's Museum! and Eben's Senior Year photo shoot

Happy Birthday, Swiggy! You bring so much joy to our lives! You are so fun and cute and cuddly. You love to play with all your siblings and they love to have you around all the time. You love to follow your brothers, Tuff and Coal and do whatever they do. You love all cars and trucks and your boots. We can't wait to see how God uses your life for His good! We love you, so much, our baby boy!

Oct. 15 - Took the littles to a Hand's on Petting Zoo with Dodie

Oct. 16 - Kivi Cross Country - 2nd place!!, HS messy night, Mama and Dada watch a concert and spend the night at the Elk's Lodge in Tacoma.

Oct. 18 Kivi placed 5th at the Frosh/Soph run at Wright park and Ebby gets a cell phone for an early birthday present.

Oct. 19 - Free pumpkins and Eben and Brylea go to Steilacoom's homecoming

Oct. 20 - Eben teaches Jasper to shave and Eben's Spaghetti and Spy 16th Birthday!

Eben! You did it! You're 16! And we couldn't be more proud of you! You are starting your second year at Pierce College as a sophomore, which you bike to on Dada's electric bike every day, rain or shine. You are an amazing friend to so many, a great example to your younger siblings. You are learning to drive. You excel at all things computer. You quickly and happily obey whatever Dada and I ask of you. You love your God! We love you, Eben and we love the person you are becoming in Christ! Happy 16th Birthday, son!

Oct. 25- Panera and an Eben concert

Oct. 26 - Jasper spends every morning chopping wood for 1/2 an hour! Kivi's race at Fort Steilacoom ends in her crawling over the finish line and passing our for an hour. She ends up at the hospital because of not eating and high blood sugar. Expensive lesson learned - eat before a race!

Oct. 27 - the Wells and us host one of the stops for the Great Pumpkin Hunt. Kivi's team had to eat an onion.

Oct. 28 - Corn Maze day with the extended family!

Oct. 29 - For my 44th birthday I get scammed into spending $400 dollars on not great meat.

Oct. 31 - Harvest Carnival is on! We run the cakewalk and dress up as Mario and friends. 

Dada - Donkey Kong, Mama - Wario, Eben - Waluigi, Kivi - Rosalina, Jasper - King Boo, Opal - Princess Peach, Berg - Mario, Pella - Daisy, Tuff - Shy Guy, Coal - Koopa Troopa, Flint - Toad

 

Kivi's D.C. Trip with Nonnie!

Sept. 21-28th 

This past September, my amazing Nonnie took me on one of her D.C. tour trips!! I hadn't been to the east coast before, and I got to have some cool experiences. Everywhere we went was interesting, but I really loved the National Cathedral and Historic Triangle. We visited too many places for me to remember, but here are the highlights!

Danica and I at Monticello

Scraping hides in Jamestown

The Capital building!

In the Library of Congress

Museum of the Bible

The Reflection Pond at sunset

Lincoln's Memorial with Nonnie

Arlington National Cemetery 

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History with Kylee and Hailey

The tall stack of books about Abraham Lincoln

Iwo Jima Memorial

This might have been my favorite place, the National Cathedral!

National Air and Space Museum

September 2019!

Sept. 2nd - Eben really wanted to go to PAX with a couple friends for his 16th a month early.

Sept. 5th - Boys

Sept. 8th - Illi's Puppy Birthday

Sept. 9th - NW Trek

Sept. 10th - Zoo w/ Poppie and Nonnie

Jasper Photo Shoot for his Man Ceremony

Sept. 13th - Drive to Idaho, stop to see Karl

Sept. 14th - Silverwood!!!

Sept. 15th - The Hiawatha Bike Trail w/ all except O and T. Dinner date trying Rocky Mt. Oysters!

Sept. 16th - Coeur d'Alene  bike rides and gardens on the way home

Sept. 20th - Explosion Day at Co-op and Jasper's Actual Birthday

Sept. 21st - Grandpa time, pioneer girls and Kivi heads off to D.C. with Nonnie!!

Sept. 25th - Siblings! J helped O with her first big school project and designed a foldable bridge.

Sept. 28th - Dada makes seafoam!!

Sept. 29th - (Kivi and Nonnie get back from D.C. ) Jasper's Man Ceremony!!

One more swing dance

Sept. 30th - Swiggy gets his Build a Bear from Nonnie - JJ Bear