Trying to Finish Well!

Big happenings this week, Kelli lost her two bottom teeth. One yesterday during school then the other one today. Daniel is having a good time at his school, still needs his listening ears at home though. Dakota were working on potty training she's getting better about giving us lead time to find a bathroom. And I trimmed about 1" off her hair. Seth is a crawling maniac,sitting up all by his self, and only has his bottom two teeth. Looking so grown up at seven months. Shane is writing his final paper for his Degree Completion class that wrapped up this week. And I'm trying to finish up my homework for Western Civilization class tomorrow.

Sorry no pictures yet, I did take some last week when we had a our last free Friday for sometime. We ventured out of the city to Multnomah Falls which for those who don't know are about 30 min. East of Portland. It was a beautiful day, had fun taking the kids up to the bridge which parallel the middle of the falls. We then (since kids were napping)decided to continue west and go back to the u-pick farm we had found the Sunday before last. This time picking up tomatoes and peaches, not so many ears of corn. Sunday we went to church at the "Mosaic" then had Scott & Kathy (fellow Seminary couple) 1st year, over to dinner. When they left Shane started peeling peaches so he could justify watching the baseball game and not do homework. So I sliced & froze a bunch of peaches. On Monday we had a low key day, I started working on Tomatoes, making salsa & plain tomatoes. By the evening I finally got them all water bathed and cleaned up. Tuesday was Kelli's first day...

This past weekend showed us some new adventures in getting to know the area in which we are now submerged for the next three years. Last week the neighbor who likes to Bow hunt, he was looking for a hunting partner for opening weekend here in Western Oregon. Very serious in his searching for game, Shane left me early Sat. Morning and came home Sat. night with a pulled muscle and telling me he is not quite as young as he once was. Sunday we went to one of our three finalist churches, then I told Shane he owed me an outing. We chose to go to Sauvtic Island where there are many U-Pick farms with ripe Peaches and lots of other produce to chose from. We had lots of fun and came home with quite the bounty which I'm now canning with my new pressure cooker & water canner which I've had since Kelli was a baby. Today was Shane's first classes as a Seminary student. Kelli starts school next Tuesday, not sure what to do with Daniel, Dakota is acting like a three year old, &...