This is our first time doing this.
Note to all you out there thinking about it.....
DO NOT soak your things in the soda ash in the kitchen sink! Luckily I am married to a VERY forgiving handy man who is not afraid (or really angry with me) about my crafts gone bad!
Or a cement like substance solidified in the drain strainer.
We always joke around here that "it is always something." And it usually is something exciting such as this encounter on the way to Katie's Halloween dance recital. Good thing we left early and made it right on time. Ya just never know!
Can you believe this girl is going to be 9?
This was the first of many birthday celebrations this week. We invited our friends over and they helped to make Katie's birthday very special.
We did our traditional lantern walk and wrote our birthday wishes on the lantern for Katie. Then we followed her down to the big evergreen tree in the middle of the field and hung our lanterns. It was really cool to see the lanterns hanging there in the dark lighting up the field.
That night when I was tucking Katie into bed, she hugged me and thanked me for making her birthday so special. It brought such joy to my heart to know that even though we are far from family and our old friends, we were able to make her day special in our new life here.
For official birthday is on Wednesday and we will celebrate then too! Actually, I think we are all going to go bowling!
I am not sure if you can see it because I took this picture with my phone, but up on the top of that tree with no leaves sits a hawk. We drove up behind the cabin this morning to see if we could find snow. But we were going to have to go too high so we turned around. This Hawk followed us the whole way.
But I do think I need to draw the line somewhere! Those lines you see in the picture are my laundry line. That little blue basket is filled with the close pins. First it was the kittens now the cows. At least no 1 did their business up there under the laundry line or we would be eating hamburger for a long time.
