A little Update

Hello!

Well, these past few days have been quite busy, and SO much fun. During these times, forgive us! We forgot to take pictures! But, I will try my best to explain what went on during the past few days without pictures!! :) Anyway!

Monday- ~Nothing really happened, but I made a mint milkshake for Greg and Dad, and only a FEW bites were taken, just to try it! :)

Tuesday- ~We had music lessons up in Spokane. That takes up a lot of time, from about 1:30 to 4:30. But we had a good time up there.

Wednesday- ~We clipped the chickens wings! Amanda, Mom and I did that. Anyway, Amanda and I were having a contest to see who could catch the most! The score came out: Me - 10, and Amanda - 8. It was all in all fun. But, we caught some chickens in-between then. So, we have 24 chickens, I think! :) It was quite the fun time though! :) Also, during the afternoon, I took some pictures of some butterflies that were just hanging out!! :) So, I WILL post some of those pictures!! :) I ended up taking 200+ pictures, that a BUNCH of them I deleted. Anyway, I also was taking pictures of the hummingbirds! That was fun. I will also post some of those. We went to the garden, and we planted some raspberries! Yeah! hopefully they work! They are wilting a bit, but hopefully they will spring back up again! :) We had piano lessons also. My lesson was very good. I had a lot of fun this lesson! :)

Thursday- ~We worked in the garden in the morning, it was still hot though! It was quite hot, actually! Mom, Amanda and Hannah went to town for the day, and dad was at work, so Greg, Dani, and I were in charge! :) Everything went smoothly, and I made another milkshake, just for Greg, Dani and I, since the little kids were in rest time! :) It was VERY good! That recipe is a keeper! :)

Friday- ~We worked in the garden some more! :) On a roll! :) We had some dear friends over, the Altmeyer family. But only Jenna (15), and Abby (13) and their mother came. It was a lot of fun. We went swimming with them in the afternoon til around 3:00. It was a LOT of fun! :) We went to the Rosalia pool, and we went on the two little slides, and Dani went off the diving board!! We just had a lot of fun, playing games, and stuff like that. It was a wonderful time. Later in the evening, our cousin, Stephanie came, and our other cousin Christa, and Aunt Ronda dropped her off. They ended up staying for dinner. We had made cookies also, so we had those for dessert!! :) That was a lot of fun. Pretty soon after dinner, Christa and Aunt Ronda left, and Stephi stayed the night! We watched an IBLP (Institute of Basic Life Principles) video, which was very good. The girls milked the goats, since they had already seen that video. Just Stephi and I watched it. It was VERY good! After we finished there, we went out and played croquet! I won! It was a VERY fun game though. Playing it with Stephi, and all!

Saturday- ~We canned peaches, and made apricot leather. It was very fun doing that with Stephi. I got a call from Irie, which very much made me happy! Then for lunch, we had - scones, and turkey sandwiches!! :) Doesn't sound very good, but it was VERY good! We made homemade strawberry jam with the scones, and that made them taste even better! It was VERY fun! Then , for a BIG part of the afternoon, we played Telephone Pictionary. It's a little hard to explain, but I will try! You start out with as many papers as you have players, and then on the first paper, you write a phrase: "Dani takes a picture of a bed". So then you pass that to the next person, and they try and draw that, then they pass THAT to the next person, and they write what they think the picture is, and so on. And during that, you get to draw and write, and it's just a whole lot of fun. We came up with some pretty interesting ones! They are VERY fun! We also had a delicious Tea Cake for a little snack! It was very delightful! We had some lemonade to go with that! It was a good time! We weren't hungry for dinner, so I just had peaches!! :) I did dishes, and then we watched a movie! It was a fun evening.

Sunday- ~We had a wonderful time with Stephi, our last day. :( We went to church, and we brought Shredder with us. Well, I had to sit in the back with Shredder, because if we didn't stay with him, then he would whine very loudly, and bark... so I stayed back with him, and I didn't hear the sermon very well. :( After church, we had fellowship, then we went to a friend's house for the day. Oh my! It was SO much fun. We talked with Jordan, their 18-year old daughter. It was very fun. We also played a big long game of croquet. I won that game. It was REALLY enjoyable!

Monday- ~Yesterday, we played for the elderly people at the nursing home for about a 1/2 an hour. It's a good way to serve them, and the LORD. When we came back home, we had a pretty normal day!! :) Dani, Amanda and I watched an IBLP video that we had missed. So, now we are all caught up on our books!

And today, we have lessons up in Spokane. I hope you have enjoyed this update!

Love,
~Emily