Jared's Baby Dedication

Today we dedicated Jared to the Lord and thanked Him for the blessing Jared has been in our life!  All three kids did well on the stage.  Jared let Chris (the Family Pastor at our church) hold him while Chris prayed over him.

And then this happened...

Josh's first buck

At the last hour of his hunting trip Josh shot this buck!  We are praising the Lord for providing this deer and answering our specific prayers - that the buck would walk right in front of him to shoot!  Our God is an awesome God!

Daddy got a grouse

Well, not what he was going for, but he provided our lunch anyway.  Josh has been deer and elk hunting over the past month and he hasn't seen anything he can legally shoot.  It's been a bummer of a hunting year.  But on his way home a few weeks ago he was able to get a grouse!  The girls helped him a bit, but mostly watched.  And we had a yummy lunch!

This is from a while ago ~ the girls enjoying some frozen cider from the cider we pressed while visiting the Bonus family.

Josh has seen some amazing views while out hunting!  He captured some for us to see. 

He is currently up hunting up near Chewelah with some co-workers and will get back tomorrow evening.  We are all excited for him to come home and we are praying he will get a buck in the morning!

Cider Works

Going back a ways ~ mid-October I took the kids to the Orondo Cider Works.  They have a few animals to pet, some straw to play on and in, some old tires made into swings (a horse and a tractor), and some very yummy cider donuts and pumpkin (or "punkmen" and Vivian says it) donuts!  We had a lot of fun playing and watching cider be made from all these apples up here!

Jared's favorite was this truck made out of wood. It looks a bit like Mater from "Cars".  Jared loved driving that truck!

Love those beautiful kiddos!!!

Zip lining!

Josh and I finished up celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary on October 30th with a day out on our own!  My sweet sister came up to stay with our kids so we took the day to zip line, eat out a few times and go see a movie (Bridge of Spies - great movie and we highly recommend it!).  We very much enjoyed the day together just playing and talking about our future.

We went up to Mountain Springs Lodge near Plain, WA and did eight zip lines.  There is usually a group of eight people, but it was just Josh and I that day.  So the two of us and our two guides zipped through the trees.  It was beautiful, even though it was a rainy and cloudy day.  Normally you can see pretty far and the guides can point out which mountain peaks you see, but we could just see across the valley.  It reminded me of those "Man From Snowy River" shots with clouds all in and around the mountains ~ so pretty!

Before we started - all decked out in our rain gear and zip lining gear.

It's been a great 12 years and we are looking forward to many more together!!!