April's Tidbits

Here it is - tidbits that didn't make a blog post. Assume the parents of the child or the person in the photo sent me the photos unless the photo is watermarked. 

Gideon is way more laid back than I have ever been at the dentist! 

Stella - the Porch Chicken

View from Josiah's place - it's been 18 months since Josiah's death. 

New spring look

Stormy stalks the goldfish

 

CoRielle and BreZaak's kids have been participating in the Home School Charter School running club. Bre sent these photos along of the last day. 

Annie, Bre, Gideon & Josiah

Spring has truly arrived. We are all enjoying it. Everyone is busy finishing their school year and making the most of outside hours.  Here are photos from a recent trip to a playground with CoRielle's crew. The boys have purchased their kites with their OWN earned money. Way to go! 

Benny & Danny

Charles

Arielle, Lyra, Cory

Cory & Ellie 

First hike of 2025

Outside school is the best in spring. 

STEM @ IDEA I believe

AWANA race cars

Krista's last trip to Guam

Trudy - April showers bring May flowers?

It's been a busy month. 

Monday with Josi

 Josi has learned a new trick. She was excited to show me over.and.over today. She can STAND UP and climb out of her highchair. ::snort::

We had another great day of playing together. Josi gives some of the BEST hugs in the world. 

She has incredible concentration and determination when something catches her eye. 

Determined to get Bachan's laptop

Liv and I had a nice talk about band and various instruments when she got home. I stopped by the cemetery and discovered what I had forgotten. It probably isn't wise to put fresh flowers out because you feel springy....its still cold at night. I need to get the fake ones back out there. LOL  BUT this sort of fits the mood! Trying to be hopeful, feeling it... LOL 

Star Wars & Horsin Around

Stacia drove across town, picked up Allie and they went into Eagle River to meet up with Jamin and Jared at the 1000 service of ACF.  They drove on into Anchorage for lunch and caught the 20th anniversary showing of Revenge of the Sith.  I love that they were able to do this AND go to church. 

Jared, Allie, Stacia and Jamin 📷by Jared

Allie had us laughing as she recounted the following discussion.  Evidently, Jared asked if they remembered seeing the movie when it came out in 2005 at the Totem theater. Stacia wasn't born yet and Allie was only a year old. The boys got just a touch of what Michael and I feel with 1980 seeming to be just a blink ago. ::snort::  I love that our children range from Millennials - Gen Z.

GG, Michael and I caught the 1130 service with Carrie (and girls) and Luke (and kids). 

Evening rolled around and Allie and I took some sleepy meds and were ready to call it a day.  THEN we realized Allie had left her wallet in Stacia's purse which was 40 min away. Michael is a hero and said he would go get her wallet. Seriously, he is a champ and loves us well. He soon called back with the news that two horses were out. He thought he knew where the horse belonged, but no one was answering the door. I posted on a neighborhood Facebook group. Allie and I went out. We found the horses. Some men stopped and approached homes with no answers. They left. Allie called the police department. They called animal control who called us back. Because the horses weren't heading towards the highway we were told to leave them. We went home. We did find out the owners woke up when their motion sensor lights went off and their dog began barking. They got up to check and discovered their horses missing and they came home.

Basically, we went on a midnight misadventure where Allie chased horses with her little flashlight in the dark and I sat in the heated seats of the car. 

Allie had to get up early Monday morning to report to jury selection. I had to be up at 4:30 to leave the house by 5 to go watch Josi. 

 All ended well. What a night.  

IYKYK

Work and Play

This Saturday had a little bit of rest...it was mostly filled with activity; together. 

I got up before the rest of my house and attended Benny's final soccer game of this "season." I'm sure there will be another season - outdoor soccer - starting soon. It was fun to see how much these kids improved over the season. 

Jared and Jamin came over to help Michael with a project of his choice today. They began hanging cameras around the outside of the house. 

While the guys worked Allie and I played with Noah. Stacia is housesitting for 10 days 40 min away from us so she is in and out these days. She popped in right at the end of the day. 

Trying out my no spill bubbles

feeding chickens

At some point in the afternoon Arielle showed up with Benny and Charles and the Bre dropped by with her crew. It is fun to have the yard full of kids again. Danny was THRILLED to get the battery for the car. 

Danny

Gideon and Jojo

Bre helps Trudy feed chickens

Jared plays the age old "stud finder" trick on Noah. 

Yes - no spills. It worked. 

Noah takes over the search for a stud. ::snort:: 

Feeding chickens is always fun for a bit. 

Danny

Jojo

Benny, Bre and Gideon

Noah and Allie powering Annie and Trudy. 

The plan was to keep him off the ladder and the boys on the ladder - it sorta worked. 

Jojo

Cousins

Bre played tball with the boys 

Playing "Ninja".

I enlisted the young guys to help me back up storm downed twigs and branches. 

Watch out world! Noah has the wheel. 

Still Allie and Noah powering Annie and Trudy. LOL

Sweet boy! 

Stacia helped GG with a puzzle. 

The photo says we did some hot tubbing in the evening.