Benaiah, our 4-year-old, has episodes of slam poetry. It's very cute and entertaining and he's very serous about it. He doesn't know he's a poet yet, but Max called it slam poetry this morning, which I thought was fitting...
Benaiah: "The more it dries up
The more the waterfalls don't go.
The more we eat
The more we grow.
When we're in Heaven,
This place gets burned up.
How it is, it is, it is."
Friday, February 03, 2012
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Benaiah
"Mom, I love you as high as the sky. I love you as far as a river. I love you as long as this house!" A budding poet.
During nighttime prayers: "God, you can see backwards, sidewards, frontwards, and everywhere."
During nighttime prayers: "God, you can see backwards, sidewards, frontwards, and everywhere."
Monday, December 26, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Snow-tubing on JB's 9th birthday
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| Gloria and Grandude on an inner-tube behind a 3-wheeler |
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| Friends, Bob and daughter, Louella, about to go for a ride. |
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| During ride. |
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| Post ride. |
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| JB with Grandude. Max ready to give them a snow-gliding adventure. |
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| After Max's 3-wheeler tipped over and had to be towed. JB trying to hitch a ride. |
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| JB hitching a ride. |
We started out with good, old-fashioned sledding...
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| Sticking out your tongue must make it a better ride... |
Oops...Benaiah had to go inside after trying to jump across the flowing part of the creek...
...I guess he had to learn about ice sometime...a bit frigidly.
Friday, December 23, 2011
JBs 9th birthday party...the indoor half of it...
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| Two things JB wanted to do for the indoor portion of his party...make fire-starters (works like kindling), which involves dipping string-tied pine cones into colored wax and then putting "funky flame" powder on them (an extra:)). |
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| ...the other thing JB wanted "indoors" was a Treasure Chest birthday cake. Gramma Shell did a great job. |
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| Not many kids get to blow our a treasure chest cake on a wood stove. Enough sun was coming in through the South facing windows that it didn't need to be "on". Plus, it provided a great kid-level display for the glorious treasure cake. |
First Evening in Colorado
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| Reading with Granddude after getting done with our long drive. |
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| Daddy's "cupcake" |
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| An early Christmas present...she's just getting into dressing up, but doesn't really know how to wear a princess skirt yet. Her older sister will have to teach her... |
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| She's also unfamiliar with how to show off a new skirt. Good thing she had her pjs on underneath... |
Bald Eagle
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| If you click on the pic to make it bigger, you can see an eagle on top of the post. |
We've had bad adventures before which involved witnessing a semi truck clip a farm truck in front of us, causing it to flip off the road, killing the driver, and then staying to report to the police and seeing the widow come and see her husband's body dead. This past experience on a drive from Oklahoma to Colorado a few years ago is burned into at least 4 of our memories (I don't think Benaiah and Evelyn would remember it). Anyway, that memory was also in a drive right before Christmas. This time we did not experience anything so horrific.
This time there were road closures we had to go around because of storms, which caused us to go the scenic route. And this truly was a scenic route. We spent more time in New Mexico than we ever had before on a drive to CO from OK. We ended up going west into New Mexico instead of North through the Texas panhandle, through NM for only an hour, then into Colorado. That route, which we normally travel, was closed and many were stuck in Clayton, NM or other places in Texas and NM, not able to get to their destination.
Since we didn't really feel like sleeping in our truck that night nor dealing with the snow storm that was coming the next day (the previous one left 15-20 foot snow drifts, which caused the closures), we planned a different route early on. Benefits to having a pilot for a husband are that he thinks about these things way ahead of time and was also able to call the weather shop on base to find out when the next storm was moving in.
We ended up driving through beautiful NM prairie and then suddenly a mesa (butte?) was in front of us and we got to drive up and on top of it, where there was a beautiful little town called Masquero and a humble village (which is what they called themselves) called Roy. The kids were great, already seasoned travelers, plus we found JB and Benaiah's missing Leappad before we left on this trip (thank you God!) and we got to see a bald eagle (in the picture above). Thank you, Lord, for your many blessings!!
The best Christmas presents ever...(other than Jesus:))
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| JB was due on Christmas and came two days before! Happy Birthday JB! |
Sister Love
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| Evelyn soooo happy to be on her big sister's bed. Gloria was reading to Evelyn from her picture Bible. |
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| Evelyn: I can't believe I'm getting away with this. |
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| So cute...I just can't stand it! |
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