March 2024

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Over the years, we've always compared our family life to a wagon train heading west. Just as everyone had to do his part to get to Oregon years ago, so everyone in our family must do his/her part to make our journey through life successful. If somebody climbs in the wagon and lets the others do the work, we just don't make any progress. We all have to pull our weight and work together. Along the trail we find lots of pebbles that make for a smooth ride and some bigger rocks that jar us a little; we hit the occasional pothole that can slow us down. But if we purpose to search diligently, there are countless gold nuggets and precious gemstones along the way as well. This journal is an attempt to preserve some of those precious moments for our children, and our children's children, as together we travel this trail called life.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11


Saturday, September 16, 2017

Half Over

Well life has been busy lately but that’s no surprise right? We had a wonderfully relaxing (kind of) summer, and now in the month since school’s started we’ve seen a little faster pace. We’ve switched a few curriculi already and started a couple new things that seem to be working well; so school is finally settling into a nice routine. But blogging - - - not so much! So - - - time for a little catchup. Hard to believe September is half over. Where in the world did it go?

Back to sometime a while ago when Levi & Echo went with us to DQ. We ended up at a new park in Morton; I think it’s called Memorial Park. I’m pretty sure it’s the only park in the world with a pumpkin slide and a pile of (painted rock) pumpkins to climb on.

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Last Sunday evening these two were trying to cut low-hanging branches so we could play cornhole under the ash tree. Quite the pair.

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Last Monday - - Labor Day - - water was a mite chilly but with hot temps, we all ended up at the lake awhile. Little Miss Smiley loved it!

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Labor Day afteroon brought us this awesome sun on a super windy day. Later reports said that smoke from the western wildfires caused it.

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The lighting was really odd all afternoon. A crowd of Kaisers admired the sun before we had supper.

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More Kaisers after supper.

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Early mornings make for comfy afternoon naps.

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I haven’t taken many pictures lately. I’m not sure why except that life has been busy and I haven’t thought of it. So - - - fast forward to last Sunday evening when we had a crowd of friends over for a cookout on a beautiful evening. Good singing, good talks, good times around the fireburner.

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Tired sweetheart!

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Homeschool at its finest: studying with an armload of precious Baer cub.

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Looks like a future pianist to me . . . . .

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Remember this project? It got shelved for the summer due to lack of motivation. Summer’s over (well, kind of. With a high of 88 today it sure felt like summer.), so it’s time to finish it up.

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And that’s all I have this time around, so without further ado I’ll say

adieu.

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