Our anniversary trip, Part 1
In case you haven’t noticed by our silence, we were out of town this week! (We had hoped to schedule a few posts for while we were gone, you can see how that worked)…. 🙂 Grant & I enjoyed a few days away this week …
Author: Martha
4H Sewing 2019
Today was the judging for 4H sewing. Keira & Lizzy both made pillowcases. This is our first year of 4H & it has been such a learning curve with SOO much to learn. We look forward to starting sooner for next year & planning some …
Working on 4H projects
We are busy around here working on our 4H projects…sewing, baking, painting, writing. Chickens & rabbits & eggs, oh my!
Incubating & hatching chickens
We have had chickens for over 2 years, but this has been our first year to incubate eggs & hatch our own instead of purchasing them. It has been such a neat experience for our family & everyone is always excited by the new chickens. …
Sunday games
Yesterday afternoon we took a much needed day of REST! We played games, laughed a lot & were so thankful for the time. Instead of playing a game all together, we spent the afternoon playing games with 1 or 2 kids at a time. Often …
Sweet times with baby
Xanna took some fun pictures of Ellie with Grant & I as we were getting her ready for bed. She just kept going back & forth between us…
Finding ways to help…
Over the years there have been many, many times that families have blessed us by bringing a meal to our family – whether it was following an illness, birth, death, when I was in the hospital or out of town for my grandparents’ funerals. As …
4H Air Rifle
This is our first year in 4H. It has been a good experience & we are busy gearing up for the fair. As a part of 4H, we have had the opportunity to do some shooting sports. We did recurve & compound archery & air …
Thank you notes
Grant & I were both raised to write thank you notes. It’s a lost & dying art, though, we have come to realize. Still, we feel it is very important & meaningful and we are teaching our kids the importance of writing letters. There is …