How lucky were we

to get a live band performance for the evening!

Herm, John and Bob VH came over tonight and gave us a special treat!

I guess these guys all played together a couple months back(I missed it). We fell for their family, they fell for ours. These three men are from a family of 11 boys and 2 girls, one of those *girls* is our neighbor.

Neither of them can read a lick of music, everything is by ear. They each play a minimum of two instruments. Jon taught both Jacob and I some new tricks on the guitar.

Herm on Dobro, Jon on acoustic guitar, Jacob on acoustic, Daniel on the fiddle, Micah on spoons and Bob on the bass. Jessie and Ems vocals - Gracie was on tambourine and Elijah was on shaker off camera.

What a blast. These guys have hearts of gold and were so patient and mentoring. Thank you! Catch them at the Lynden Community Center this Friday at 12:30pm,  our kids might be joining them for a few songs.

It was one of those nights I just sat back, watched my kiddos and thanked God for His goodness to our family. Where He’s brought us. My sweet children who love each other, their smiles, their brilliance, their cheerfulness, their talent, their hearts for hymns and singing…it was a wonderful night.

Sweet sleep..

…with a brother is best.

She’s legal….

AAAaaaaaaahhhhh!!! This happened too fast.

I told her to expect to be turned away because we didn’t have enough ID. I told her to expect to flunk the first test. I told her to be patient. I tried to protect her from being disappointed, BUT she passed and in two hours we left with a permit. We prayed before we went in and the Lord just made it so smooth and blessed her with the kind man she leaned over and told me she “hoped she’d get”.

That was the easy part, now giving her the wheel will be cause for much more anxiety…for me. Yay Jess! We are so proud of you!

Happy birthday..

…to the sweetest, kindest, most handsomest man I know.

The Lord gave my men seven beautiful trout this morning for his birthday…not bad.

Yesterday, we had fun taking family pictures! Here is Paul, me and Paul’s Dad. He is feeling much better this week!