Fall Season 2014

I now consider our mornings and evenings cold. The afternoons are trying hard to warm up as much as they can before the evening cool takes over again. It is fall season. And we do LOVE fall in Spokane.  This Fall has brought along a few changes for our little family. We have a Kindergartener and a Preschooler and a baby girl that turns 2 soon and is quickly leaving her baby years behind.  Josiah is loving playing on his soccor team, The Blue Ninjas. His team is actually quite good and it is sure fun to watch him grow and love playing.  Wish you could all join us on the sidelines one saturday morning. ;-)

This one will also cheer on her brother (when she's not lying on the blanket sucking her thumb that is...)

Grace turned 4!

Happy Fourth Birthday Gracie Girl!

Any parent out there would agree that raising children has its challenges to say the least, but watching this one grow and change has been more encouraging and rewarding than I could have ever imagined. 

We got to celebrate Grace with our sweet neighbors.

It was quite the little Partay!

And Hannah hung out by the pool most of the time :-)

summer days

We love everything about summer (including the heat)! I am finding it hard to stop and take the time to blog some pics.  Here are a few. 

Josiah did a rock climbing class called, Wall Monkeys. Super cute!

 Free summer carriage rides!

 If she could Gracie girl would ride the carrousel over and over and over again.  This girl LOVES horses!

we did some June strawberry picking

roasting and camping

And what's great about this mid summer blog, is we still have all of August to play and be warm\hot!!

She's a bike rider

Well Grace can say she was three years old when she learned to ride a bike, she is only three for four more days, but I guess it counts! She has ridden the balance bike this summer and it has paid off.  

Way to go Gracie Girl!

We are grateful for this man

Everyone around here adores this man and we are so thankful he is our father and Grandpa.  Love you dad and Grandpa Larry!  

not blogging much

not blogging much lately because in Spokane you have to take advantage of every beautiful day outdoors! and we have had an exceptionally great month of warm sunny weather.

Palouse Falls

We took a little drive yesterday to a hidden away waterfall in the Palouse.  The drive there actually felt a bit like driving through west Texas, yet the the mountains in the distance kept reminding me where I was. 

Then we get there and peer over the edge and see this amazing view

then you look left and...WOW!

As you walk around to see the views there is a fence. I am thankful for this fence, and looking over the fence to see the straight drop to the bottom my legs feel a bit shaky.

However the higher you climb there is no fence.  It makes me feel very small!  We lecture the kids on safety and make our way over to get a closer view of the falls.  There is a trail that leads you closer to the falls and I may have been up for that adventure during my college days, but not today.

Hold hands please!!

 The views were amazing and the camera never seems to do them justice.  I appreciate these moments of feeling small and looking out and realizing I am so thankful that I know God who created this world. And he is so Big and I am really so small.  Oh how I need  a Savior!

 We joined the Green family on this adventure

 sleeping beauties