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I can't have any more kids, I don't have any more arms!

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Piano Lessons!


The kids all started piano lessons this summer! I was originally only planning to start Kellen & Annika, but Kaarin REALLY wanted to, so I figured, why not? :) The girls LOVE it. Kellen has to work at it a little more, so he resists. But he does great when he works at it. :) I started out teaching them all together, but have now found that actually doing it individually is better. So I do Kaarin's lesson in the morning, while Kellen & Annika are at school, Annika's in the afternoon, & Kellen's after school. Maybe one day soon they'll play a recital!

Annika is doing GREAT! 

Aaron can't resist. :)

The 'audience' :)

Even with small hands, Kaarin can do it!

Annika loves the accomplishment

Fishing!

Kellen & Daddy got to go fishing (why Kellen missed all the pumpkin fun!) with Mr. Harris & John!





Monday, November 4, 2013

New earrings!

Look what we did!!



Pumpkin fun!

We had several field trips to the Pumpkin Patch this year, though Kellen never got to go! The one time he would have been able to go, he was fishing with Erik. There's always next year!



Aaron & Kaarin at Terry's Berries, on the tractor ride.

Feeding the chickens!

It was a rainy day

Kaarin's class field trip! She has a small class. :)

Kaarin & her bestie, Katelynn 

Found her pumpkin!


Pre-K





Annika's class field trip (she really only has 21 in her class)

Carving & gutting our pumpkins -- Annika shared one of hers with Kellen. :)




Heads will roll....

Merida, Kitty, Batman

Silly pic!

Monday, October 21, 2013

Samaritan's part 3

If you are tired of reading about Samaritan's Ministries, you can skip this post. :) I've mentioned before that members send other members their 'premiums' instead of sending them in to the agency. You are also supposed to write a note of encouragement to go along with your check. We have been receiving checks this month to reimburse us for Kaarin's abscess incident (yes, it was back in April, & I was not so timely in turning in my receipts!! In my defense, I was waiting to have all the visits done with the surgeon--including surgery, if we ended up doing that--before submitting my receipts. You don't have to wait until every visit is complete, you can get a form to add-on receipts to a previous incident, I just did it this way instead) so I thought I would share a few of the notes that have come with the checks. :) Sorry about the first one being sideways, I can't figure out how to rotate it (I think I needed to rotate it before uploading it...) -- but it is always fun to have a bit of a challenge, don't you think? :) Getting the mail has been so much fun this week!

Also, I want to remind you all that SMI DOES count as insurance under the new Obamacare Law, so if you are searching for something, I encourage you to check it out! Again, feel free to ask me any questions!







Lopez Island

We were blessed to be able to make several trips to Lopez Island this summer, here are just a few photos. We had glorious weather & were able to spend time with good friends!



Checking out the sand with Matthias

Showing Sophie a beach treasure

A full boat!

Snake hunting with John

A fun group!

Almost all the kids...

Grandma & Grandpa joined us for a few days, Kellen & Grandpa went out to Big Rock

Agate Beach



Haircut by the Lopez Barber:)


Kellen & his good friend, Drew - they are trying to smoosh bees...

Heading out to check the crab pots

More campfire fun!

I learned how to do fun editing things on my camera. ;)