A Very Full Week!

The weekend started out with a trip over to Bend to pick up Charlie. We were blessed to have him home for the weekend. We ran a few errands in Bend, and spent the beautiful day coming back over the pass.

Sunday we were blessed with another beautiful day as we headed to church. After church, Bill & Charlie headed to Salem to pick up Aaron so he could spend the day with us. We enjoyed our first real smoked ham. With Kristin & Bill's sugar allergies, we had a half pig cut as usual, but not cured in hams. It was not the traditional ham flavor, but it was very good. More practice and it will be perfect! We enjoyed a great day visiting with friends, playing WII and great food.
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Wednesday was a big day for Kristin. She cut off her hair!! She has been growing it for about 3 1/2 years, and finally decided to get the locks cut off. We scheduled with our good friend Kellie Kem and headed to her new shop here in town. We thought it was about thirteen inches, but we measured the braid tonight, and it's almost 13 inches braided...so we are guessing it was actually about 15". Way to go Kristin! We are very proud of you. About a year ago, Kristin started straightening her hair, then stopped because she didn't want to damage her hair, so that someone who didn't have hair could enjoy hers. SEE MORE PICTURES HERE: She looks so much older! Thanks Kellie for a great cut on a big day!

Friday we enjoyed our Pastor's 50th birthday party. It was Hawaiian style, and lots of great folks came. We had a late night, as after we headed for dinner, and a few late night errands. It was nice to come home and know that we could all sleep late in the morning.SEE MORE PICTURES HERE

Late was 7:30...even our sack rat Kristin was up at 9:30. She takes after her Big Papa and loves to sleep in! We headed outside as it was a beautiful day. The tree that came down in the snow storm needed to be tackled. Bill cut, Ryan & I moved limbs, started the burn pile and moved cut logs.




Kristin was down at our neighbor Carol's as she was "working" today. Work for her is brushing 5 horses, playing around with goats, and learning farm chores! she feels bad getting paid for doing something she loves. I told her a job that she loves is a blessing everyone wants!



While we stopped for lunch, I took three more chicks to the new pen. They were scared, and hung out on my legs for awhile, but seemed to fit in pretty well. They are all growing so fast. I love the silver laced Wyandottes, they are beautiful....but also our most shy birds. Fat Louise, our lone buff orpington, is still one of my favorites, as are "fuzzy feets", our two dark brahma's. The three that came out today are the 2 new Rhode Island Reds and the lone black sexlink. Sadly, Chickadee didn't make it, and we said goodbye last week. Kristin was relieved because she passed on her own, and she didn't need to decide if she was doing the right thing.


After lunch, Bill & I hit the tree again. HALF of it is down, cut up, limbs and brush burned, along with a few of the hazelnut trees that have just sprouted out there. It was a blessed day!! Even more special, Bill ran the chainsaw across his leg on accident....ripped his pants, cut through his undies not a SCRATCH on him. Praise God!



We wrapped things up about 7pm...the yard is looking great after a cut, some grooming and all that is left, is the other half of the tree! SEE MORE PICTURES HERE Time for dinner and a shower....and good intentions for blogging, but WAY too tired! Off to bed, and boy was it a good night sleep!

Here's to a great Sunday--the sun is peeking over mountains, and it's going to be a great day!