Strength, Joy, Freedom, & Esther at Home

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Liberty and her little boyfriend, Elisha. They played together in the woodchips for quite a while. At first it was just looking at the woodchips and at each other. Then picking it up and looking at it. It quickly progressed to throwing it in the air, then throwing it on themselves and each other, then Liberty decided to help Elisha cover himself in the lovely woodchips. They had big fun in a little kid kinda way! They were so cute I had to post lots of pictures! Hope you enjoyed them.

Howard Amon Park Pics

Miss Liberty wearing a little dress. She originally had on blue jeans which would have been much more appropriate for crawling around at the park but we ended up having to do a quick change due to diaper leakage and the dress was all that I had in the car! Cute for sure, but not the best park attire!

Avi, Az, and their friends. What are these children plotting?

All the kids waving.

My two little darling girls.

Kids at the park today

Avi with my tortilla chips (darn her...she was feeding them to the seagulls!) and Willard (one of the McCall boys).

Az and his wooden gun on the rocks. We were actually approached by a mother who asked us to PLEASE put away our guns because it was a bad influence on her son who was now pretending to shoot people because of OUR kids. Hmmmm. I did oblige, even though I thought her request was a bit ridiculous. Oh, and she told us lots of offended mothers left the park because of all of our kids and their toy guns. We figured, OH WELL...the park was overcrowded when we arrived anyhow.

Avi and Zeke .

Miss Avi and the gulls

Misc. Cuteness and NUMMY STUFF!

Liberty and Pap before Church a couple weeks ago.

The most incredibly AWESOME German Pancakes EVER! I've made a lot of these in my lifetime and used lots of different recipes but this is the BEST one I've tried yet. Everyone loved them. The kids had real maple syrup on theirs, Mark had powdered sugar with fresh squeezed lemon on top, and I had just what Mark had BUT I also added delicious raspberry sauce! Mmmmmmm! We've had this twice this week for dinner (not breakfast). It's just that good!

Monday, May 5, 2008

Liberty Flying High

Our Little Hobbit

AZRIEL BAGGINS

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Our Two-Family Field Trip

This picture shows (from front to back) Azriel, Willard, Ezekiel, Kaarsten, and Aaron. These are the McCall guys...except Az, of course! The littlest McCall boy, Elisha, is back in the Suburban with the girls and the women folk!

These were photos ABOVE the Falls. Mark, Aaron and all the boys went on a little hike to see the rapids and more of the beautiful gorge. The going was a little rough and steep and generally dangerous in a couple places. I was glad that Amber Dawn (who's 30 wks pregnant w/McCall #6) and I took the girls and babies and headed back to the parking lot where the view was safe and lovely.

Our Day Trip to Palouse Falls

We had a wonderful time with our friends, the McCalls, on an outing to Palouse Falls on Saturday! The falls & gorge were just amazing. God's creation is so marvelous! We had a picnic, then a little hike. The guys took all the boys on a REAL hike around and us gals went back to the vehicle with the girls and the babies. The girls didn't want to go, and to be completely honest, I wasn't sure I'd make it if I did! I probably would have fallen over the side somewhere to my death, taking Liberty and Avigail along with me.