Showing posts with label Saturday Sunshine Happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saturday Sunshine Happiness. Show all posts

Saturday, January 18, 2020

Today...And the Beginning of the 20's, May They Be Roaring!

Today. Saturday. Legos. Muffins. Scrapbooking. Tea. Music. 






This girl and her spectacular smile and beautiful eyes.








This boy. He loves his sister, Spider Man, scrambled eggs, his cousins, and making messes. 




When your love of cousins combines with your love of making messes....Amazing things happen. 


Where or where could that boy be. 


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. 


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. 



When I was a kid my family lived in Kenya for a couple years. While we were there, my Grandpa would send us audio letters. He kept a tape recorder in his car and when he was out driving, he would talk to us. I remember listening to these as a kid. Well, my dad recently was able to convert them to digital so we could hear them again. I opened them up a few weeks ago and started to cry. It's been so fun to hear Granda's voice again and all the little quirks and mannerisms of how he spoke that might be easy to forget one day. It's been a neat gift. 





Don't forget that joy is found in Jesus, and He so wants you to choose it!

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." 
~Henri J.M. Nouwen


Saturday, June 9, 2018

Summer Time Happenings


  Summer time is under way here in the Northlands, we have been busy! Friends, house projects, and gardens.....Oh My! Life is good. 
      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.

The Kiddos together again.
Buirlen, Ax, Nettie, and Brody.


Sharing ice cream. Yum!

Time for bubbles and hanging out in the porch. 


A bicycle built for...3



Another one of the pre-projects to get done before the siding acatually gets under way, is removing 2 spots of concrete up by the house. Luke thinks that our living room was at one point a detached garage, and that is why it has the random lip of concrete under the window. And the other patch is a small sidewalk that leads back to the door that is no longer there.

The living room floor just vibrates when he's working at this.





It's jack hammer time!


Helping Daddy and loving it!





Time to relax. Buirlen has decided that his old carseat is the perfect lounge chair. 


This past week, I have also been working on getting my garden in. I am very excited about it this year and hope that it turns out as beautifully as I'm picturing it in my head. I have a sunflower, "forest," wildflowers, cosmos, zinnias, marigolds, tomatoes, peppers, beans, peas, beets, collards, and broccoli. 

Tilling in the rain. He's a good guy. 

A cute and dirty little gardener. 



Planting beans. 


Getting dirty. 



This afternoon, I added a touch of class and charm to my garden which I'm hoping will also deter deer. 






Baby strawberries. 


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. 



Mini road trips to see Poppy. 


Sherif Buirlen is on duty. 


My happy boy. 



Until next time. 

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair." ~Susan Polis Schultz