tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40401243529903674382024-03-14T01:56:59.174-05:00Everywhere an AdventureAdventures are everywhere...Just lookBeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849442488797453234noreply@blogger.comBlogger336125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040124352990367438.post-62947906138105343132020-01-21T19:59:00.000-06:002020-01-21T19:59:30.704-06:00A Spider-Man Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is this sweet guy's 33rd birthday. He's the best husband, daddy and friend. And I'm simply pleased as punch that he's mine.<br />
The other night we were talking and I asked him what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday. He wanted a chocolate and caramel cake with cookies and cream frosting. In the process of discussing birthdays and cake I said something to Buirlen about how maybe we could make a Spider-Man cake for his birthday coming up in March. He latched onto this idea, and so we decided to do it now. Don't worry, Luke got his choice last night at his birthday party with the Williams family. But tonight, we are celebrating with Spider-Man!<br />
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This boy is currently in a "Spider-Man is cool" phase. At Christmas, I found a Spider-Man action figure and that was a well spent $5. He sleeps with it most nights. His Ama has managed to find him quite a few shirts, Auntie Keren made him a mask, and Auntie Anna got him a sleeping bag. The boy is loved. </div>
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I've been enjoying watching the Great British Baking Show lately. So, making a Spider-Man cake was a good opportunity to practice my cake decorating skills. I decided on a lemon and orange cake and colored it blue. </div>
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It has a blueberry filling.</div>
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Blue frosting. </div>
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I decided to try my hand at making marshmallow fondant. I pretty much just tastes like sugar, but.....</div>
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it created a lovely smooth finish. </div>
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And this weeks new cookbook recipe. A tomato tart. That Pioneer Woman knows what's up. This was tasty!</div>
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My Sweet Beulah Bee. </div>
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Taking a snooze with Ama</div>
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"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower." ~Clara Lucas Balfour</div>
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<br />Beahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849442488797453234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040124352990367438.post-35996210315618891302020-01-18T15:42:00.001-06:002020-01-18T16:05:45.990-06:00Today...And the Beginning of the 20's, May They Be Roaring!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Today. Saturday. Legos. Muffins. Scrapbooking. Tea. Music. </div>
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This girl and her spectacular smile and beautiful eyes.</div>
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This girl, she has skills. She can go for days without pooping, but then she blows. I'm getting my poopsplosion clean up skills honed into a streamlined process. </div>
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My Grandpa Kinney loved cookbooks and over the years he gave me quite a few. For Christmas, my mom gave me a couple of his that she found, a sort of last gift from Grandpa. I've always been really bad at using my cookbooks. I've tended to just do stuff from my head, or go to the internet for a recipe. Well, I've decided that this year that is going to change. My goal for 2020 is to use my lovely cookbooks. So far so good, I've tried quite a few new recipes and it's been fun. </div>
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Don't forget that joy is found in Jesus, and He so wants you to choose it!</div>
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<br />Beahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849442488797453234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040124352990367438.post-5703162847993350692019-10-23T19:58:00.001-05:002019-10-23T19:58:34.126-05:00Hello Fall Summer 2019 is gone and we've slipped into fall. In fact, we've even had our first little taste of winter with the first snowfall a couple weekends ago. Buirlen was highly impressed and had to get out and play in it before we had breakfast, that "nose" as he called it was pretty neat. During that first snowy day, I went out and salvaged the last bouquet of flowers from my garden. I remember thinking what an interesting juxtaposition of seasons it was to be picking the last of summers flowers, while the trees were displaying fall's colors and there was a layer of winter's snow on the ground.<br />
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Earlier this summer I made a backyard discovery. The row of what I thought was crab apple trees turned out to actually be wild plums. I was pretty excited by this discovery. </div>
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My garden is done now, but we had a good run this summer. My beans didn't do as well as they did last year for some reason, but it was a record year as far as hot peppers were concerned. So. Many. Hot. Peppers. And they are HOT! I planted 3 varieties and at least one is no joke. I made the mistake of chopping up a whole bowl of them to put in the freezer without wearing gloves. I also had chapped hands. By the time I was done my hand was on fire and I kept it on an ice pack till about midnight that night. I certainly learned my lesson where peppers are concerned.<br />
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Eating his weight in corn at Grandpa and Grandma's.</div>
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Late this summer, we headed up to Williams, MN for a Jackpine work weekend. Jackpine is our church's yearly camping retreat which we love. Luke has only missed 2 in his entire life. This year a bunch of us went up several weeks before to get some work done on the grounds. It was a fun day, though the bugs were horrendous. I will confess that my help only went so far as providing supper and cookies. My good friend Polly came up with her husband and youngest so it was a fun time catching up with her. The work weekend had been planned for earlier in the summer, but then got moved due to weather. Luke had built a brand new outhouse to take up there and then the date got changed, so we had a classy set up with an outhouse sitting in our driveway for a month or so.<br />
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Installing the new outhouse.</div>
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Then in September, it was the actual Jackpine. I always love that weekend. So much fun camping, and spending time with good people. It rained the first day we were up there, but the rest of the weekend was pretty nice, though a bit cold. Buirlen had more fun than he could stand. Nothing like being outside all day with your best boy, Ephraim, and big cousins running around to play with. Life is good.<br />
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The Williams siblings. </div>
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And the impatient waiting game has begun as far as baby girl's arrival is concerned. I am now a little over 37 weeks and so ready for her to get here. The hospital bag is packed, people to watch Buirlen are lined up, baby clothes and such are cleaned and in the dresser, and my parents are on standby to come up when they get the call. Now we just wait. Buirlen loves babies and is going to be such a good big brother. We talk about the baby a lot, but honestly I don't think he has a clue as to what's coming.<br />
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This quilt is pretty special. My mom found the quilt top at my Grandpa and Grandma's house this summer. She is pretty sure that her grandma made it and for some reason it never got it finished. She sent it on to me and I realized it was the right size to finish it off into a quilt for the new baby. So that's what I did. This little girl will have a quilt that was possibly started for her years ago by her great great Grandma. That gets me right in my sentimental heart. </div>
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Twinning with Poppy</div>
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Nothing like a nap in your easy chair. </div>
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Luke played Shadrach at our summer VBS</div>
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Going for a walk.</div>
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Two very helpful dish washers.</div>
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My classy(and opinionated) dresser.</div>
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We had a giant bonfire with all the scraps and stuff that came off the house last summer when we re-sided. </div>
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Grocery shopping is exhausting. </div>
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Trips to Menards with Daddy are FUN! Grape pop and a new hammer. </div>
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Saturday ice cream outings. </div>
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Yesterday, Luke and I celebrated our 8th anniversary. It's kinda crazy that it's been that long. I pointed out to Luke that 8 years before we got married I was only 14 and he was 16 and then Luke mentioned that 8 years is 1/4 of his life. That's an interesting way of looking at it. I'm sure glad he asked me to be his. Luke is a good man and such a good match for me.<br />
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This past weekend was the Itasca Bluegrass Festival. It conveniently falls right around our anniversary every year and so that is how we celebrate. Buirlen had so much fun this year and got so dirty. Friday night, I put him in pajamas before we headed home and then he was just put straight to bed. However, by Saturday night he needed to be washed. Such fun. I didn't get many pictures but the music was good, we ate fun food, and it was hot!<br />
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Ready to go. He really wanted to carry his own chair even though the strap kept slipping. On our way out Friday night, he once again wanted to carry it, but we wanted to move a little quicker. So Luke picked Buirlen up and carried him, chair and all. </div>
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He finally crashed Saturday night during the last bit. </div>
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This gun has been Buirlen's favorite toy lately. He's been sleeping with it at night and it's been taken into the shower on more than one occasion.</div>
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These three goofballs.</div>
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My lemon tree is doing great I wonder if and when it will start producing.</div>
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I realized I have a few little sunflowers along the side of the house that were planted by the birds. </div>
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We had gyros for supper last week. Buirlen was all about the tzatziki sauce until he hit what I'm assuming was some spicy raw garlic.</div>
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Watch out flies we have a pretty cool new fly swatter from Poppy.</div>
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Making smoothies for breakfast. Buirlen's all about helping push the buttons. </div>
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At the beginning of the week, I had another ultrasound because they hadn't gotten all the pictures they wanted at our 20 week appointment. Sweet baby girl is doing good. We are now at 25 weeks with 15ish left to go!</div>
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Earlier this week, Buirlen and I were going to go work in the garden. I needed something from the barn, so we went there first. When I opened the door I heard some sort of critter rustling around, which startled me and I shut the door. Suddenly, a cat(we don't have a cat) came flying out from underneath the larger door, scaring both Buirlen and I good and proper. I still needed what I had come for, so I braved the main door once again only to find there was still something in there, then I realized it was kittens. I haven't managed to get a look at them since, but Luke has seen them a couple of times. Buirlen was sufficiently shook up(We both were) and wouldn't let me put him down until we got to the garden, which I managed to convince him was a safe place. </div>
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Exploring the sunflower forest in the garden. </div>
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So, I was convinced I'd planted beets. However, as the plants have come up, they don't look like what I thought beets looked like, they don't have any red on the leaves. My father-in-law said it might still be a beet just not a red one, or maybe I didn't pay close enough attention to the package. We shall see I guess. </div>
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Fresh basil from the garden for our pizza. </div>
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I mowed the law this weekend, I will say that is a summer job I quite enjoy. </div>
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There are several trees in our backyard. I had assumed they were crab apples, but with my mowing escapades this summer I've taken a closer look and i'm wondering if we have a plum tree. </div>
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Luke spent last summer working on <a href="https://everywhereanadventure.blogspot.com/2018/10/4-years-of-home.html" target="_blank">residing our house</a>. He got the entire house done before winter set in, but the garage had to be put on hold. So this summer he has been working on that. It's going to look SOOOOOO good once it's all completed. </div>
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Buirlen has recently taken an interest in what he wears and he has a few different shirts that are favorites. He has had days were the shirt he wants is dirty and that is stressful. The other day he brought me his car shirt and I told him it was dirty and needed to be washed. He promptly went to the sink to do just that...</div>
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Morning devotions. </div>
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Helping Daddy and Uncle Jordan work on the car. </div>
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I made naan this week. I do love the feeling of dough as it gets to the right consistency when kneaded. </div>
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"The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." ~Hellen Keller</div>
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So, I realize it has been a coon's age since I last did a blog post(5 months and 11 days to be more exact)...Ooops. So here you go, a Williams Family update.</div>
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In March our sweet Buirlen Elder turned 2. He thought having candles to blow out was the bees knees and we had to have candles for the leftover cake as well. Good times. He currently loves sharks and trains and babies, is trying hard to increase his vocabulary, thinks having a cup of cocoa/coffee in the morning is important, and makes life fun. </div>
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We also bought a new, double reclining couch(something I'd been wishing for for awhile)...Buirlen occasionally considers it to be an amusement park ride</div>
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Also in March we got the happy news that we were expecting Baby Williams #2, due to arrive November 9th. We have since found out that this sweet baby is a girl and we are excited to meet her in a few months. </div>
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This picture was taken today, I am currently 24 weeks. </div>
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In May, we had the opportunity to take a trip down to visit my parents for Memorial Day. We also got to stop in and visit Luke's sister Anna and her family as well as make a quick trip over to Jackson to see my grandparents. I am really glad we made that extra leg of the trip because we were able to see my Grandpa Kinney one last time before he died a couple weeks later. In the beginning of June, we were back in Jackson for the funeral. </div>
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A day at the zoo with Ama, Poppy and the aunts and uncles. </div>
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Summer at Ama and Poppy's house</div>
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Catching up with Grandpa and Grandma Shearer</div>
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One last visit with Grandpa Kinney. I am sad that he is gone, but I have been very aware of how blessed I am that this is the first grandparent I've lost. A lot of people can't say they made it to almost 30 years old with all of their grandparents still playing an important role in their lives. </div>
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I so wish Grandpa had held on a little longer so that I could tell him that this new baby is a girl. He had been hoping and praying for me to have a girl for a long time. He'd be so pleased. </div>
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Spending some time with both of my grandmas at the funeral. </div>
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So funny story, before the funeral started, I was standing with my aunt, dad, and I think Grandma Shearer in the sanctuary. The church had an open baptistry in the back that stands about 3 feet high and is open water with a ledge all around it. I felt the need to sit down and the edge of the baptistry was there and at the time seemed like a good option, unfortunately I sat too far back and sat in the baptistry, resulting in a wet and soggy situation. I was thankful I had chosen to wear the skirt I did rather than the dark blue one I had also packed, which would have made it a lot more obvious that I was sopping wet...Good times. </div>
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Dapper Fellows...This boy loves being like his Daddy</div>
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To use Ephraim's terminology, they are "Best Boys"</div>
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The 3 Musketeers. I love their little friendships.</div>
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Yesterday was my 30th birthday, wait what, I'm 30?!! It's true. We had a lovely day in Duluth with my Dad. </div>
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I finally got the chance to try Betty's Pies, a place apparently everyone and their uncle visits when they go to the North Shore. It was pretty good. </div>
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Hammering in the Golden Spike. We learned that this year is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. </div>
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<br />Beahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849442488797453234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040124352990367438.post-83356608195453828552019-02-10T17:09:00.000-06:002019-02-10T17:09:31.437-06:00Power Cord Cozies and Elephant Paws A couple weeks ago, we survived the frigid temperatures of the polar vortex and this past week we have been getting lots of snow. It's piling up quite impressively around here. In fact, there is snow coming down as I type this.<br />
I've written in the past about how I tend to have a <a href="https://everywhereanadventure.blogspot.com/2018/07/grandma-style.html" target="_blank">grandma style </a>when it comes to my tastes. Well, I'm at it again. I don't like the look of exposed cords and so today, I made a power cord cozy....like a tea cozy, but for a power cord strip.<br />
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This isn't the first appliance cozy I've made however. Awhile back, we got a new alarm clock that was far to bright. We had a piece of paper over it, but then I made a cozy for it. </div>
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And while not a cozy per say, a while back, I also found a way to hide the computer router which before had been just sitting on the shelf.</div>
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The other night, I was sitting beside Buirlen's crib as he was supposed to be falling asleep. I offer to hold his hand while he's falling asleep, but that particular night he let me hold the hand of his stuffed elephant, Egbert. It made me think of when I was a kid and had a doll that I made my mom kiss good night. </div>
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There is a new week a coming and I was going through the local grocery stores weekly ad and realized that there are some good sales to be had. So, yes, to top of my grandma-ishness, I'm also excited to go grocery shopping this week. Happy Sunday!</div>
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<br />Beahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849442488797453234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040124352990367438.post-89216562088483394752019-02-04T16:26:00.000-06:002019-07-21T09:34:17.479-05:00I Love My Job This weekend, I had the opportunity to spend the day at an EdCamp, which is a teacher's workshop. I got to go with my good friend Sarah who I taught at Heartland with. It was fun to spend the day together and I'm now a few credits closer to renewing my teaching license. I don't plan to return to full time teaching, but Luke and I agreed that keeping my license current was a wise idea should I ever want/need to sub.<br />
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Sarah and myself....A fun day together. </div>
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Being gone for an entire Saturday, meant that I left Buirlen home with Luke. That is the first time that I have been away from Buirlen for that long. We all survived, but I came home with these thoughts, "I like being a stay at home mom!"<br />
Every once and awhile, someone will ask me if I miss teaching. And honestly, I loved being a teacher. I loved going to school and having a classroom of kids. It was fun and energizing. I worked with a wonderful group of women and the community was just great. So yes, I look back at my time teaching with very fond memories, but I LOVE being a stay at home mama and have no desire to change my current vocation. I love being home and taking care of my kid and my house and my husband. And honestly, the thought of not being with my kid for the better part of every day doesn't sound fun to me at all.<br />
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Well, I hope this finds you having a most lovely Monday. A new week is here and It's February now, which means my heart is dreaming of Spring. </div>
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Due to the extreme temperatures the past couple of days Buirlen and I have canceled our errands and stayed home and cozy. This morning, Luke asked if I could run out and throw some more wood onto the stove. So I bundled up like Nanook of the North and braved the great outdoors. I will say, I am extremely grateful for Luke who is the regular stove stoker. I woke up early this morning to realize that Luke was just coming back to bed after getting up to go out in the dark to stoke up the fire. He's a good man. </div>
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Obviously, with temperatures like we've been having, playing outside hasn't happened, but last week we did venture out and Buirlen sure did enjoy himself. </div>
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I checked my last post's date and realized that I haven't written since back in October. That's almost 3 months, oops.<br />
We spent Thanksgiving here in town with the Williams crew. Then that weekend, we headed south for a quick visit with my Grandpa and Grandma Kinney. It was good to see them.<br />
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This year we decided to shake things up and instead of everyone heading to my parents house for Christmas, they all came up here New Years weekend and Luke and I hosted. Everyone but my brother Jesse was able to make it. It was fun. The week of Christmas my younger sisters came up for their school break so they spent Christmas with us. Buirlen sure does love having his aunties come and stay. Christmas Eve my oven decided to quite working. We knew it was struggling, but we just kept turning the temperature up in the hopes that it would work. We finally gave up and I pulled the pan of unbaked cupcakes out of the oven. I then went into panic mode because I had a turkey in the roaster, but needed an oven to make other things. We thought it through and got creative. Luke stoked up the grill and before you know it we had baked the cupcakes, dinner rolls, and frozen pizzas outside in the snow on the grill. The following morning I learned that I could bake cinnamon rolls in the electric turkey roaster. A couple days later, my sister and I decided to make peppernuts, a spiced cookie that I grew up eating. They are made by rolling out ropes of dough and cutting bite sized cookies...Lots of them. I got the dough all mixed up only to remember that I did not have a working oven. What to do! I pulled out the turkey roaster once again. We got them baked but it took quite awhile. </div>
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New Year's Eve, we headed over for a visit with Luke's sister Martha and her family. It was a lovely day. Buirlen has some pretty awesome cousins!</div>
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This guy has decided that a favorite pass time is sitting on the counter and playing in the sink. I've learned to just strip him down and pull the towels out before we start. </div>
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We went ice skating. Well, I went ice skating and Buirlen fussed about it. He'll come around. </div>
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Standing like Daddy, really doing everything like Daddy and Mama do it. He's growing so fast. </div>
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One of Luke's coworkers came by this awesome truck as well as some other fun toys. They needed a home, so Buirlen was the lucky recipient. Hopefully this summer Luke can get it working and it will actually drive. But for now, it's parked in the house. </div>
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Living on the wild side. </div>
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These two are just the best little friends. Ephraim calls Buirlen his "best boy." I love their little relationship. </div>
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I've let him play with a pan of dry flour a couple times. It keeps him quite entertained and turns him into a little snowman. </div>
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We are now on the countdown to one of my favorite weekends of the year, Winter Retreat. That means, every Sunday after Church we have potluck and then often we stick around so that the band can practice music or do whatever to prepare. This week, Buirlen had a go on Aunt Abbi's violin. </div>
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Recently he has discovered that he can drag the stool around to achieve his purposes. </div>
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Last weekend the siding was going up fast!</div>
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The fascia(What Luke is putting up today) is the white trim that sits right below the roof line. It is currently just painted board. </div>
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We aren't going to side the porch because the walls weren't built real well and so Luke would like to completely replace them someday. Why spend time and money to side them only to rip it off in the future? So, the plan had been that next summer we would just paint it to match. Well, last weekend as the siding got to the end we realized that we wanted it painted now! So I quick did one last painting project for the year.</div>
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October 2015(our <a href="https://everywhereanadventure.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-year-house-became-home.html" target="_blank">1 year Houseaversary</a>)</div>
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New roof(summer 2016's project) and new siding....Basically the outside is a whole different house. </div>
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My little handy man. </div>
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Working on his truck. My parents were up for a visit last weekend and they got him this little truck he can ride. I think lately he has spent more time "working" on it than he has riding it. </div>
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Cleaning up the garden. </div>
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He's been coloring and using stickers lately. Fun stuff. </div>
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Poppy and Ama</div>
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An afternoon on the town with Ama and Uncle Jordan....Major fun!</div>
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Happy Fall</div>
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Happy Winter</div>
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Stoking the stove with Daddy.</div>
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Adventures with your best buddy are pretty great.</div>
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We've had some pretty great help the past couple of weekends on The Great Siding Project of 2018.</div>
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My brother Mick came up at the end of September to give Luke a hand. It was fun having him around for a couple days.</div>
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Jordan and Mick</div>
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Falling asleep while Aunt Martha reads.</div>
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An unexpected side project...Isn't that just how house projects go!</div>
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While the guys worked on the siding, Martha, Molly and Heidi helped me clean up my garden.</div>
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And then this weekend, Luke finally got through the numerous, putsy, prep work and...drum roll please...started putting up the steel.</div>
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It. Looks. So. Awesome!</div>
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The first sheet.</div>
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This part moves a lot quicker.</div>
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This little boy has been into copying what we do, he's so much fun.</div>
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He requested his own private table at lunch the other day.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> Being a big boy is exhausting work, sometimes you just crash.</span></div>
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We didn't realize how often Luke sits like this after dinner until Buirlen started doing it to.</div>
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Had a bite now for a moment of relaxation....Ahhhh</div>
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<br />Beahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849442488797453234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040124352990367438.post-78082963631132632122018-09-18T11:58:00.001-05:002018-09-18T11:58:39.163-05:00September So Far Fall is sneaking into the air around here and I like it. It's harvest time as far as my garden goes. I got a lot of beans put away in the freezer and now my tomatoes are ripening and ready to go as well. Also, the sunflower forest finally bloomed.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Beautiful beets.</div>
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A round of green beans packaged and ready for the freezer.</div>
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Yesterday's harvest. So many beautiful colors.</div>
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Luke keeps trucking along with "The Great House Siding Project of 2018." First he dug a trench around the house down to the foundation so that he could add more insulation all the way down. He did this in segments: Trench a stretch, insulation, foam in the cracks, repeat. Then I helped him put up steel coil around the base and then fill in the trenches. That part is all done and he is currently working on putting up the soffit and fascia on the underside of the roof's overhang. He pointed out the other day that the actual siding itself is the very last step in the process. </div>
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Buirlen enjoyed "helping"</div>
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He was giving himself a dust bath...So dirty!!!!!</div>
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My younger sisters spent a week with us and my brother Mick came up to get them at the end of it. He and my brother Jordan helped Luke with putting the rest of the insulation up.</div>
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Hanging out with Uncle Mick</div>
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Luke's parents have also gotten in on the whole process. Steven helped Luke start the soffit and fascia. </div>
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Helping Grandma clean apples for applesauce while Daddy and Grandpa work.</div>
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This past weekend was Jackpine, our church's annual camping retreat. Luke has only missed 2 Jackpines his entire life. We went up early this year as did quite a few others. The weather was mostly beautiful with a couple torrential downpours and even hail. We had fun.</div>
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Our campsite. We had a LOT of tarps and were very thankful for them when the rain came. </div>
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My happy camper</div>
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Spool walking...a Jackpine tradition. </div>
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It was lovely catching up with my friend Polly. Her daughter Ruthie and Buirlen are such sweet buddies. </div>
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4th annual family picture in Williams Minnesota. (Photo credits to Martha Johnson)</div>
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This guy is officially 1 1/2! He Loves to work in the garage with Daddy, thinks tools are the best, get's excited about big machinery and airplanes, loves to watch Daddy fly his drone, and has started to like reading books more(His going favorite is "Jesse Bear What Will You Wear)</div>
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The porch turned into my work room, it really was convenient to be able to have a closed in place to set everything up and be able to just leave it until I was done. </div>
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It's rather amazing how much you can fit into just one section of cabinets....I like dishes. </div>
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After getting the first set of doors done and that one section of cabinets, my younger sisters came up to spend a week. They were a huge help. They helped remove the next set of doors and hardware, entertained Buirlen A LOT, and helped with some sanding and painting as well. </div>
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The old dry wood soaked up a lot of paint and I found that water stains just popped right through as the paint dried. As I went along, we decided to do multiple coats of primer before paint. </div>
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After the cabinets themselves were done, I got back to the doors and drawers...As I worked on this I became very grateful that the doors didn't have any decorative grooves in them, there was enough grooves and corners as it was and it felt pretty tedious at times.</div>
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They were fun to play in. </div>
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So I pulled furniture away, taped everything off and painted these as well. There is also a small section in the hallway towards the back door.</div>
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I forgot to take a before picture, but right behind Buirlen is a closet that had old accordion doors. I decided to take them off and replace them with a pretty curtain. </div>
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As I mentioned a while back, I ended up using<a href="http://everywhereanadventure.blogspot.com/2018/07/grandma-style.html" target="_blank"> contact paper</a>. I love the pop of color it gives. </div>
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The spice shelf above the stove.</div>
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All the drawers</div>
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And I decided to do the plant stand too. I had painted them blue last year and the tops were starting to scuff up, this was a good way to freshen them back up. </div>
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All of this originally started with me wanting new cabinet hardware. Well, I wanted something with blue flowers on them. I started looking and realized that It was easy enough to find what I was dreaming up in my head, but that it could be as much as $5 for one doorknob....I needed 18. So, I decided to paint my own. We were blessed to be given the doorknobs and new handles for $0 so all we ended up paying for was the paint. </div>
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After the flowers were on, Luke gave them a coat of clear gloss. Each one is different. A little garden right in my kitchen. </div>
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This week, My Love and I celebrated our 7th anniversary. I was thinking about it, when we got married, I was 22 and these 7 years have kinda flown by. In comparison, 7 years before we got married I was 15 and those years seemed to be much slower. Funny how that works. Regardless of how fast or slow time may move, I am so thankful that I get to do life with Luke. He's a wonderful husband and daddy, provider and friend.<br />
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As per usual, we celebrated our anniversary at the Itasca Family Bluegrass Festival. It was fun and Buirlen had a blast. He was quite the brave adventurer and tromped far and wide enjoying music, swings, tractors, and the great unknown...and he got nice and dirty. </div>
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My garden just keeps a growing and recently we've started eating things from it. Such fun. The other night we had collards, broccoli, green beans, and a beat fresh from the garden and I've already got a few packages of broccoli in the freezer. Yay!</div>
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Speaking of Grandma's, my Grandma and Grandpa Shearer just celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. They are awesome and I am so very blessed to have their wonderful example in my life.<br />
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Buirlen and Brody. Cute little buddies!</div>
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My garden is becoming quite the jungle in the most lovely way possible. The beans are above my head and the sunflowers are just about there, it is just crazy how fast they grow!<br />
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Luke keeps trucking along with the trenching and lower half of the insulation. He is just about around the house and then he will put the top half of insulation up and then then the siding...Whoo hooo. I"m dreaming of turning our backyard into a lovely and welcoming play and hang out area in the future when it's no longer a construction zone. </div>
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The Lovely Keren Ruth and I took a mini road trip today to visit Martha(Keren and Luke's sister) and her family. We had a lovely day</div>
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We've been keeping busy lately what with Luke working on the siding, me painting the kitchen cabinets, a nice little family vacation, it's been good.<br />
No siding has gone up yet, but Luke is plugging away at all the little(or not so little) pre-projects. He used a <a href="http://everywhereanadventure.blogspot.com/2018/06/summer-time-happenings.html" target="_blank">jackhammer</a> to get rid of one section of cement in the front of the house, and then he brought in the bobcat to remove the random section of sidewalk leading back to the laundry room.<br />
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The slabs of concrete just popped up with the bobcat's help!</div>
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Now Luke is working on digging a trench around the house in order to get insulation down to the foundation. We are hoping for a much better insulated house this winter!</div>
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(Photo credits to my sister Ema)</div>
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Last week we got to take a nice vacation. We first headed to my grandparents for a couple of days. Both sets of my grandparents live in the same small town, so we got to see them as well as several of my aunts and uncles. </div>
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Hanging out with Grandpa and Grandma Shearer</div>
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Buirlen quite enjoyed the booth around the kitchen table, nothing like relaxed dining!</div>
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After visiting grandparents, we headed over to the BPW(Blanshan, Petersen, Williamson) family reunion. Luke's grandparents were close friends with 2 other families and over the years a 3 family reunion formed. This is the 3rd one I've gotten to attend and it's a lot of fun. We are the P family (Luke's mom's maiden name) and the B family just happens to be the family of one of my dear friends, Polly...so that works out quite nicely!</div>
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Polly and I taking Buirlen and Ruthie for a swim...It was SO HOT!</div>
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He thought the pool was great!</div>
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Buirlen thought that Ruthie was a nice little buddy</div>
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Checking out Uncle Jesse's new puppy. </div>
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On our way home we stopped for giant donuts. Yum. </div>
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Ahhhhh! nothing like the sweet sleep of home. </div>
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And, my garden is growing nicely. My sunflower forest is going to be lovely!</div>
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zinnias, marigolds, and cosmos....Oh my!</div>
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My kitchen cabinets are still in progress. The cabinets themselves are done, but I've still got the doors and drawers to finish. As I was slapping on paint, certain spots took coat after coat to cover some of the water stains on the old wooden cabinets. As I was working on that, I thought about how great God's grace is. Because, unlike the paint, His grace needs only one application. He takes our sins and makes us white as snow and we don't have to keep layering on coats because one is enough. The stain of our sin is no match for His grace, when He covers something, it's completely taken care of. </div>
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...Anyway, may your day be filled with summery goodness, joy, and confidence in God's amazing grace!</div>
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"Every summer has it's own story."~Unknown</div>
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Summer time is under way here in the Northlands, we have been busy! Friends, house projects, and gardens.....Oh My! Life is good. </div>
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Over Memorial Day weekend, we got to catch up with our good friends, Andrew and Katy and their kids. Sadly for us, they got a wonderful job in Indiana at the end of last year and moved away. It was so fun to spend time catching up.</div>
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The Kiddos together again.</div>
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Buirlen, Ax, Nettie, and Brody.</div>
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Sharing ice cream. Yum!</div>
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Time for bubbles and hanging out in the porch. </div>
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A bicycle built for...3</div>
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The living room floor just vibrates when he's working at this.</div>
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Tilling in the rain. He's a good guy. </div>
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This afternoon, I added a touch of class and charm to my garden which I'm hoping will also deter deer. </div>
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Baby strawberries. </div>
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And then, I went and gave a moose a muffin and am knee deep in a house project of my own involving my kitchen cabinets. Sand, prime, paint, repeat. More on that later. </div>
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Mini road trips to see Poppy. </div>
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Sherif Buirlen is on duty. </div>
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My happy boy. </div>
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The enemy of our souls wants to destroy our faith, and he's pretty good at knowing our buttons. There are many different things that weed whack our faith, perhaps, it's fear or doubt, exhaustion, skepticism, anger, laziness, you name it, if it will weaken our faith, he will try it. But The One who calls our names, who desires to know our hearts, and gives us grace daily, wants to grow in us a persistent faith. Faith that gets back up when it's knocked down. Faith that says no to fear and pushes through when things seem foggy and disorienting. Faith that keeps seeking hope when all seems lost. Faith that won't give up. This is what I want. And so, I continue on the journey of growing in grace. <br />
And now, the sun is shining, the sky is blue, the wind is dancing, and the birds and crickets are making happy sounds. Oh, and this weekend is the 7 year anniversary of when My Love asked me to be his wife. I'm sure glad he did.<br />
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<br />Beahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849442488797453234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040124352990367438.post-91752929284421649232018-05-20T16:58:00.000-05:002018-05-20T16:59:42.994-05:00Crawfish and Flowers Last night, we had the chance to go to a crawfish boil. We had never been and it was a lot of fun...and tasty. It was at the fire station and Buirlen enjoyed making the rounds and exploring.<br />
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He thought this was fun...Luke mentioned that he probably thought it was a steering wheel. I think he was right because I caught him pressing the middle and making a honking noise at one point. </div>
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I have been enjoying puttering in my flower garden lately. When we moved here, I was pleasantly surprised to discover a whole row of peonie bushes. However, they weren't in a great location and with the upcoming siding project, were in the path of destruction, so I moved them and they seem to be doing just fine in their new location. I also moved the irises I had put in last spring. The past few years I've had sunflowers and zinnias in this spot, and I plan to continue with that but it is now home to my peonies and irises as well, plus a few different annuals. I do love flowers.</div>
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And as far as the latest installment in the Siding Saga goes, the steel and insulation is here and now it's just waiting for the time to get started. </div>
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Luke brought the big truck home with everything on it as couple weeks ago. Buirlen thought this was great. </div>
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And lastly, my baby is growing up so fast. These two pictures of Buirlen waiting for Daddy to come home are just about 1 year apart. Life is good. </div>
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This summer's project is residing our house. Though I love it's quirky charm and the fact that we've made it our home, our house does not have a logical layout. Luke thinks that over the years it was added on to here and there and the end results are kind of odd. For example, our living room is rather small and on the outside wall there were these glass doors....Not sure why a door was needed there since the front door is just a few feet away. Anyway, these doors left us with limited places to put furniture, so, since we've moved in they have been blocked by a couch. Plus, they were old and quite drafty and simply needed to go, and it needed to be done before the siding goes up. So, this past weekend out went the doors and in went a new window.<br />
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Buirlen was quite interested in all the action and tools. Tools, are SO FUN!</div>
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This air compressor makes lots of noise and that makes it extra cool. </div>
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Don't worry Mom, this will be fixed before you know it. </div>
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And just like that we have a new window. </div>
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Another quirky aspect of our house is that there was a random door of the laundry room. It didn't make sense as to it's location and we never used it. So it came off as well. </div>
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Last summer a family from church moved away and didn't want to take this 3 wheeled bike with them, so it ended up at our place. Buirlen and I took for a spin and thought it was rather fun. </div>
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The weather has been blissful and glorious today. This morning, Buirlen and I went out to get the mail and he promptly decided that he didn't want to go back in. So, we spent some time cleaning up flower beds and soaking up some vitamin D.</div>
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Yesterday's adventures in the great outdoors....Sunshine is good for the soul. </div>
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Happy Wednesday! So, I mentioned <a href="http://everywhereanadventure.blogspot.com/2018/04/springits-here-its-here-its-here.html" target="_blank">last time</a>, that this summer, Luke is going to be re-siding our house. Luke plans to add more insulation as well, making the house more heat efficient...Which it really isn't currently, what with the crazy layout and old siding. I'm excited to see the transformation start to happen.<br />
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We needed lumber as part of this process and were blessed with a few giant logs from our firewood guy. So, Luke and his dad spent last weekend out at the farm's sawmill turning logs into lumber. </div>
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We got all the lumber we should need out of just 2 of the logs, the 3rd is waiting for another day.</div>
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Getting ready. </div>
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Buirlen was a great foreman and oversaw the project. </div>
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Checking out the bobcat with Grandpa.</div>
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If it has a steering wheel it is good!</div>
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Visiting the goats. He's getting brave and wanted to feed them some hay by himself.</div>
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This past weekend, this little guy decided that maybe walking isn't that hard after all. He still mostly crawls, but has taken to walking if his destination isn't too far(say a few steps). He's growing up!</div>
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And he continues to climb....I guess unsupervised piano playing is a no go for now. </div>
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May your day be full of goodness and the joy of The One who saw that giant tree when it was but a sprout over a 100 years ago...He sees you and He loves you more than you can ever fathom. </div>
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Spring has finally arrived and it is simply GLORIOUS!!! And, this little cowboy thinks that the great outdoors are the best thing ever. </div>
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This past weekend my parents came up for a visit. We had a lovely time. Buirlen warmed up quickly, and who wouldn't when Poppy and Ama come armed with bubbles, whipped cream, and a willingness to take you outside if that is what your heart desires. </div>
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Luke was doing some measuring because the plan is to re-side the house this summer.</div>
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2 summers ago, Luke put a lovely <a href="http://everywhereanadventure.blogspot.com/2016/09/life-in-northwoods.html" target="_blank">blue roof</a> on our house. Last summer, we got a <a href="http://everywhereanadventure.blogspot.com/2017/07/a-door-garden-and-other-such-goodness.html" target="_blank">new door</a> to match. This summer the old red siding is going to be replaced with grey steel. I think that it will look smashing once it's done. </div>
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Poppy and Ama brought new books for Buirlen's birthday present.</div>
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Jordan took this awesome picture of my parents</div>
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The Mississippi Headwaters</div>
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First trip to the park was a hit. </div>
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This little boy loves helping Daddy....And driving. </div>
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<br />Beahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849442488797453234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040124352990367438.post-27536050405057446552018-04-15T19:58:00.000-05:002018-04-15T19:58:05.636-05:00Color Contest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The Lovely Keren Ruth and I created a game back when Luke and I were first married called "Color Contest." The rules were quite simple, see who could get the most color into one outfit. We came up with some glorious combinations. Well, it has been a couple years since we did one and last week we decided to dust off the tradition. This time our kiddos joined the competition. </div>
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We switched babies for this picture...And Ephraim didn't feel like being in it.</div>
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My spiffy little dude. </div>
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Ready to go.</div>
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Friendship is the best!</div>
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Spring 2011...Not actually a color contest, just good outfits built around new mud boots...Those mud boots were a very exciting purchase. </div>
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First official Color Contest....August 2011</div>
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Rematch....August 2011</div>
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Other colorful adventures. </div>
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"Color in a painting is like enthusiasm in life." ~Vincent Van Gogh</div>
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"Friends, they know how crazy you are and still choose to be seen with you in public." ~Unknown</div>
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