Spring is a Roller Coaster Ride

 

The weather goes from 80° to freezing snow and back again. It's wild! 

Harrison has been working on building a shed pulpit. 

He goes out to the shed to practice his sermons, and we had some scrap wood, so shed pulpit (shulpit) is what gets built.

Speaking of sermons.... he and three other preacher boys preached a few Sundays back: Harrison's Sermon on Sanctification.

Some of our many cats. 

I love that little one sitting by the back door. She's orange and black and white. But she won't let us get near her. 

Sad. 

But Mama Cat just had babies last night, and she has them nesting in some straw in the loader on the tractor, and she's letting us pick them up and pet them, so there's a chance they'll be tame!

Phoebe's friend Kenna is getting married in May, and the church had a bridal shower for her. 

It was delightful! 

Jonathan made a trip to the Oregon coast during his Spring Break. That's Multnomah Falls in the background.

I think this is so neat: one of the residents with him in Boise is a boy whose parents I grew up with in Seattle. At least I knew them long enough to see them engaged and married before they moved off; and then I was friends with their siblings at church. So Jonathan and this guy (Gideon) are now friends, and Jonathan stayed at Gideon's parent's house on his way to the coast. I just think it's so fun that people I knew as a kid hosted my son through no connecting of my own!

And also last Sunday, my Aunt Jerie Lynn (my dad's cousin from Washington) walked up to our daughter at church in Idaho and said, "You must be Lanaya because you're knitting!" She was there visiting some relatives who live nearby. And I love it all! Aunt Jerie Lynn taught me how to French braid and kept me for a month or two while my mom was in Louisiana one time. 

Jonathan has now been to both coasts, and he drove almost all of it himself (except for an hour or so in Florida). 

We found a new spot for nature study. Harrison made a tree branch bridge so he could get across this stream and explore the other side. I'm pretty sure this is part of Spencer Creek.

We saw some ground prep work before the rain came. It's almost planting time!

A new sweater Lanaya Elizabeth has been knitting up. 

Gotta love a good moose pattern!

Harrison has been working on card pyramids. This was impressive.......

....... until he got to this stack! I think this is his highest so far.