Well, I've been cleaning up and organizing my garage during Spring Break and today one thing I did was put up our well-worn and traveled height-measuring chart. It has been hung in our last three houses and documents how our kids have grown over the years with lots of marks and then the name, date, and age at the time. It's kind of fun to compare how tall our kids are in comparison to each other when they are the same age.
So, after carefully measuring and taping it up in our garage, I measured our three boys (Hannah is still in Mexico and Lani declined to be measured!). Levi is now 4' 8", Caleb is 5' 4", and Micah is up to 6' 2.5"! All have grown quite a bit since their last measurement! Lani and I were laughing as she imagined eventually having to look WAY UP at all her guys!
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We all watched "The Pursuit of Happyness" tonight. That's a good movie! A touching story of character and persistance. It makes me wonder if I could make it through such dire times. It also reminded me how blessed I am.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Spring Break!
Spring Break began for me and all my family yesterday (Friday, Mar. 23)!!! It was so nice this morning to not set an alarm and not have anything we HAD to do today. This is the first Saturday in a looooooong time that there wasn't even one scheduled thing we had to do (no basketball games, no meetings to attend, no rehearsals, nothing!).
So, I enjoyed a lazy morning and read most of the paper and then worked most of the rest of the day on painting and putting up shelving and peg board in my garage. The garage is still needing lots of work, but I reduced a lot of the piles of stuff today, so that it's only about half full of stuff on the floor (now. . . what to do with the remaining stuff. . . hmm. . .).
Hannah left yesterday with about 120 or so teens and chaperones from Abundant Life Church to do a Mission Trip in Mexico, near Ensenado. They all rode the train from here to L.A. -- about a 30-hour ride -- and now should be off the train (they rented about a dozen or so vans) and ready to enter Mexico tomorrow morning. They are supposed to post updates at www.coolchurchyouth.com
Lani's mom is in town, so we're enjoying hanging out in the evenings, and the cousins playing together during the daytime. We played "farkle" tonight and Lani was the winner.
Go Ducks! Beat Florida tomorrow. Quack, quack!! It was fun to see UCLA beat Kansas in a good game. Go Pac-10. USC sure looked good yesterday until they just ran out of steam against N. Carolina. March Madness rolls on.
So, I enjoyed a lazy morning and read most of the paper and then worked most of the rest of the day on painting and putting up shelving and peg board in my garage. The garage is still needing lots of work, but I reduced a lot of the piles of stuff today, so that it's only about half full of stuff on the floor (now. . . what to do with the remaining stuff. . . hmm. . .).
Hannah left yesterday with about 120 or so teens and chaperones from Abundant Life Church to do a Mission Trip in Mexico, near Ensenado. They all rode the train from here to L.A. -- about a 30-hour ride -- and now should be off the train (they rented about a dozen or so vans) and ready to enter Mexico tomorrow morning. They are supposed to post updates at www.coolchurchyouth.com
Lani's mom is in town, so we're enjoying hanging out in the evenings, and the cousins playing together during the daytime. We played "farkle" tonight and Lani was the winner.
Go Ducks! Beat Florida tomorrow. Quack, quack!! It was fun to see UCLA beat Kansas in a good game. Go Pac-10. USC sure looked good yesterday until they just ran out of steam against N. Carolina. March Madness rolls on.
Friday, March 16, 2007
What a beautiful Spring day!
Today was warm, sunny, a Friday -- just a gorgeous day! We went over 70 (I think for the second time this Spring) and trees and flowers are "bustin' out all over". Only stressful thing was that grades were due for me today at school, so there was extra work last night and during breaks and lunch today and after school until they were all done.
I didn't get to watch it, due to work and the aforementioned grades to finish after school, but I saw that Oregon eeked out a first-round win in the Big Dance today. Glancing at the box score, I see that they were way off on their 3's; they can be the hottest team around when those long shots are falling, but when they go cold then there's not much else to do. Hopefully the hot Oregon team will show back up in their next game against Winthrop.
God bless you wherever you are!
I didn't get to watch it, due to work and the aforementioned grades to finish after school, but I saw that Oregon eeked out a first-round win in the Big Dance today. Glancing at the box score, I see that they were way off on their 3's; they can be the hottest team around when those long shots are falling, but when they go cold then there's not much else to do. Hopefully the hot Oregon team will show back up in their next game against Winthrop.
God bless you wherever you are!
Friday, March 09, 2007
1 week's worth or so of thoughts. . .
Once upon a time I was a fresh new blogger and enjoyed posting every day. These days a week or two can slide by and I may have hardly visited my site (or my friends' pages either). Life just keeps moving.
Last night we hosted a bunch of Hannah's friends here at our home for a surprise 17th birthday party (for Hannah, whose actual birthday is this Sunday). One of her friends had talked to Lani about doing something either at our house or somewhere else -- and we'd been thinking about doing something like this on Saturday night -- so we thought it would be fun. I'm thankful for Hannah's life, for her gifts and talents, and for the quality friends she has made here. We had a house-full and they were all really nice kids!
How about Oregon's men's basketball team? So far they've won two games in the Pac-10 tourney and they sure look strong in doing it. I hope this is a sign that they've got in going for the "big dance". I love college basketball and am eager to watch and follow the NCAA tournament coming up! (One recent year I gave up watching TV for Lent, but stated one exception to my TV fast: I could still watch the March Madness games. Ha!)
We had a couple of days this week that slipped up into the 60's, though it was cooler today. All my 300 or so bulbs I planted are sprouting up and should burst out in beautiful, brilliant colors soon!
I noticed that the berries and bushes and trees along my favorite running trail -- the Springwater Corridor -- are all budding or just starting to leaf out. There's such a joy in the renewal of Spring after the cold, dull months of Winter.
Our Spring Break here is still two weeks away (I saw on a couple of other blogs that I follow where they were starting their break now). We'll have our week off during the final week of March. Seems like a good time for working on projects, sprucing up the yard, and watching good college basketball games!
Last night we hosted a bunch of Hannah's friends here at our home for a surprise 17th birthday party (for Hannah, whose actual birthday is this Sunday). One of her friends had talked to Lani about doing something either at our house or somewhere else -- and we'd been thinking about doing something like this on Saturday night -- so we thought it would be fun. I'm thankful for Hannah's life, for her gifts and talents, and for the quality friends she has made here. We had a house-full and they were all really nice kids!
How about Oregon's men's basketball team? So far they've won two games in the Pac-10 tourney and they sure look strong in doing it. I hope this is a sign that they've got in going for the "big dance". I love college basketball and am eager to watch and follow the NCAA tournament coming up! (One recent year I gave up watching TV for Lent, but stated one exception to my TV fast: I could still watch the March Madness games. Ha!)
We had a couple of days this week that slipped up into the 60's, though it was cooler today. All my 300 or so bulbs I planted are sprouting up and should burst out in beautiful, brilliant colors soon!
I noticed that the berries and bushes and trees along my favorite running trail -- the Springwater Corridor -- are all budding or just starting to leaf out. There's such a joy in the renewal of Spring after the cold, dull months of Winter.
Our Spring Break here is still two weeks away (I saw on a couple of other blogs that I follow where they were starting their break now). We'll have our week off during the final week of March. Seems like a good time for working on projects, sprucing up the yard, and watching good college basketball games!
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