The day I turned 30

So, I turned thirty. Just a week and a half ago or so, April 23. We took Josiah to the beach to see his friends, Paul and Molly. We saw some whales. Yes, those little black blobs in the water are them. We thought there were two at the time. After examing my photos, I'd say at least four. We took everyone out for lunch. They made me wear a sombrero and took my picture. Then they gave us all free ice cream. We left Astoria after lunch. We drove to Rockaway to spend another night, just the three of us. We took a walk before dinner. The sunset was way better than my pictures do justice. I couldn't find my nutral density filter before we left. Bummer. They should have been better. More to come. Sleep calls now.

scraping

So I wanted to post last week. But I couldn't. Just in case. Beth didn't need to know what I did all last week. After our busy/fun weekend I spent Monday and Tuesday cleaning up. Then I began to move all my tool upstairs. Time for a little scraping fun. Tuesday evening a group of friends came over and we began our project. You see, Beth is having a baby. We decorated a scrapbook for her so that she could just paste, journal, and be done. It was a good time. It's not often that I stay up past midnight. I continued to do a couple more pages on Wednesday and Thursday. Josiah even did a page. Then on Friday we kidnapped Beth's other children. They each did a page for the scrapbook and their parents got to go on a date. Beth's shower was Saturday. I think she liked the book. Maybe that's understating it a bit though.

photos that go with the previous post

a busy week/a great weekend

This past week has been crazy, busy. It hardly felt like there was a minute to rest. We got our taxes done, finally. We've been taking Josiah to swim lessons. We haven't been able to get Josiah onto daylight savings time, so he's still up till 9pm. I had lots of cleaning to do for this weekend. We had shopping to do for this weekend. We've just been go, go, going.

The weekend rocked. We had a Good Friday service. It was a stations of the cross deal. It rocked. People who set it up rocked. (I had a dream last night that someone screwed up the station they were creating.) Saturday we had around 25 people over to our house. I don't think this house has ever seen that much action. There were kids everywhere. It was crazy fun. We took the kids to a local egg hunt. It was a pretty nasty day for hunting eggs. Josiah got a package from his Grandparents in Eastern Oregon. It was a train with animals. He loves it. The Easter bunny came Sunday morning. She left baskets for Josiah and Wes. Why is it I never get a basket? :O) Josiah got Toby and Mavis. He's upstairs playing with them right now. Sunday we had a morning service. Josiah and I spent most of our time reading books, taking pictures, and painting. Wes did video. I'll have to listen to the message when it gets posted. We went to my parent's house after the service. Mom made a roast. They got Josiah a puzzle for Easter.

Today is Monday again. Wes had to go to work. Josiah didn't want him to go. Josiah is crabby today. I guess great weekends have to end sometime.

I lied

Tonight Justin asked if I'd taken any photos worth framing recently. I lied. I'd like to clean this one up and frame it. Josiah will grow to hate it. Especially when he starts dating. Yes, in the original you can see his cute little tiny butt.

mommy vacation... a sad ending

One of my cats went missing this weekend. She didn't come home in the evening. It was a bit odd. She's a total homebody. It was raining. We figured she found some dry place to curl up for the night. She never made it home.

Wes and I got up Sunday morning and went for a walk. When we got home we spent some time in the front yard discussing our fence (that fell over) and what we'd like to do with the yard. While we were still there a car pulled up and stopped in front of our house. It was our neighbor how lives back behind us. She found Pepper while out jogging that morning. She took her to an emergency animal hospital. Wes and I called and drove down to see Pepper. She wasn't doing well. She was very sick, very cold, very sad. We ended up making a decision to put her to sleep. It was a hard decision to make. We cried. Hard. Then the Dr. came in to tell us she died on her own. So as it turns out it wasn't our decision to make. They put her in a kitty casket. There were blankets and a pillow for her head. She looked peaceful. We brought her home. We dug a hole. Under a tree. Way in the back. Josiah came home.

We had planned to pick Josiah up at Grandma and Grandpa's. But called and they brought him home. He'd had a fun time. It was his first triple nighter. He was ready to come home though.

Today we went to run some errands. Josiah asked, "Where Pepper?" I told him, "She died. She went bye-bye. She's not coming home. She died. We just have one kitty now." In a small, quiet voice, Josiah replied, "Yah."

Spring - a photo essay - part 3 (the end)