Goonies Legos!

 What more can I say? Just look at it in all its lego goodness!

It has all the major scenes from the movie. Whoever designed this went above and beyond your normal lego set. A+

Northern Lights - AGAIN!

 Wow! All glory to the Almighty, Creator of everything! January 21st displayed, AGAIN, the Northern lights so that we can see them from our house! So amazing and beautiful!

God, You alone, are truly awesome!

Test Mattress

 

Girls' Weekend 5505 Keel

Wishkah Valley Community Church 75th Anniversary

You can't see the pretty lanterns with flowers and stain glass window frames. I'll have to take another picture and add it. Sherri and Linda did such a lovely job decorating!

We had a lot of food! The tents are Steve and Sherri's. She decorated the tables beautifully with flowers and table runners.

 We celebrated our church's 75th anniversary August 17th, 2025. It was such an encouragement and blessing seeing so many come out to celebrate. Pastor Jim and Christy came, Roy Sprague also. Three Smalls were baptized! Everything was decorated so lovely. The messages were wonderful. It is all about glory to God! I need to go and listen again, because they were so encouraging. 

2025 VBS Magnified!

I put Jean in charge of the bubbles. She got a kick out of watching the kids have fun.

The tweens did the skits all week! They did an amazing job, Praises to God!

Friday Fun - thank, You God, for the beautiful weather!

Solar butterfly craft

I loved watching the kids singing and dancing Praises to God!

Painting rocks

Our decorated stage

 Glory to God! That was basically our theme for VBS this year: Magnified! Discovering the bigness of God in the littlest of things. God is so kind. He answered prayers even for "little" things like helping me find a bunch of things! 

I should write them down because I will forget.

We were looking for the previous VBS posters. I knew we had them, but could not find them. Sherri finally reminds me to stop and ask our "Papa God". I love how she calls Him that. I decided to look one more time downstairs and immediately found it. I mean it was the first place I looked. We were still missing one and prayed about that and immediately found it! This is after searching everywhere for 30mins -1 hour at least. 

God also provided lots of helpers, what a blessing! We had 40 kids, praise God for each of them. God also covered me with such peace. Normally I would be super stressed about the weather ( it was suppose to rain) I didn't stress at all about it. We did games inside, and God took care of everything. He even made it beautifully sunny for Friday! 

O, thank You, wonderful Father God! Praise and magnify Your awesome name! I pray You would remind the kids how You love them and how awesome You are. May they turn to You for forgiveness. 

Joey's and Danielsan's Birthday Blankets

 I finally finished Joe's and Dan's blankets.  I'm not sure what happened to Joey's. The stripes were suppose to go the other way. But I think it still turned out lovely.  I've got one more blanket to go!

I bought the kit from Attic24, a lady in England who designs blanket patterns.  The actual shop is called Wool Warehouse. The kits are ($45) and shipping wasn't too much.

How Does She Look in the Snow?

 

February snow

House Painted - Finally

 

Doesn't she look lovely?!  We bought the paint last year. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate. But we (G'pa Tom, Smalls, and NeNe) got 'er done.  G'pa did the facia boards and the high stuff. 

This is Columbo. 

He is getting fixed next week. Hopefully, that will chill him out. He is pretty annoying to our other two kitties.

Snohomish Vacation

 We traveled up north to visit Benji.  The Airbnb we stayed at had a hot tub and an awesome view. The code for the door didn't work. We stood around for about 5-10 minutes trying to open the door. I started to call the owners/neighbors and suddenly heard a quiet voice saying, "Hello. This is Bill. Hello." I thought I was hearing things but then followed the voice to a security camera. I didn't realize you can do that!

He gave us the correct number (which he emailed to me after we had left so I didn't have the number) and we were able to enter. The code was suppose to be the last 4 digits of our phone number :( Oh well, they tried.

We had a nice time. We hiked, hot tubbed, sat by the fire pit, ate at Cheesecake Factory (don't order the enchiladas), and Ivars and watched the Mukilteo Ferry load and unload .

What a joy to spend time with Benji!

 We've been on a little jig-saw puzzle kick.

First we put together a Sherlock Holmes puzzle. It was suppose to be interactive,  but was disappointing in that regard. It was fun to read the story (came with puzzle) and see if we could spot things in the puzzle that related to the story.

The second puzzle was extremely difficult.  All these Lego heads look very similar. It helped to dig out all the female heads, heads with glasses/goggles, heads with beards. 

Both of these puzzles were 1000 pieces.  I have a hard time getting anything else done when there is an incomplete puzzle sitting on the coffee table!