Last Piano lesson

Today is Jamie's last piano lesson down here in Phoenix. Next month we are moving, so I didn't sign her up for piano lessons. I figured we'd be busy with moving back to Idaho, and the end of school. So we'll resume piano lessons as soon as we get to Hillsboro.

Jamie is sad that she's done with this teacher. She has loved working with her. She's a very nice teacher and has a gentle way of getting Jamie to learn more without making her upset. I hope that we can find a teacher like that in Hillsboro.

Meanwhile, she'll practice the few songs they skipped in her book. I might practice along with her so that she knows she playing the song right. And I could use the practice too. :)

My Cross stitch

When I'm too tired in the evening to do my homework for school, I sit and do cross stitch. :) Here are my results. My sister's mother in law asked about what I'm doing, so here you go! :)



My progress



What it will look like when I'm done. :)

I think I'm going to like it there!

I have been tracking the weather in Portland and I think I'm going to like it there. I am not a big fan of sun, it is too hot. And I like temps in the 50s and 60s. That is normal temps for them. :)

I'm hoping to get a job there in the fall and work with kids and their reading. :) And I want to live by Joe's work, and I would like to work in the same school as the girls. That would be awesome. In my perfect world. :)

2 more weeks, and 4 more weeks

I have 2 more weeks of the current class I'm taking. I have a ton of work to do for it. And yesterday I totally didn't feel like doing it. OI!

We have 4 more weeks of school here. The last 2 weeks will be just fluff and stuff because we'll have progress reports in already, and all of our other paper work done. So that will be me packing and the kids reading. I'm mean, I'll still make them work. :)

Other than that, nothing else is going on. There really isn't time to do anything else besides pack! :) Oh, Jamie's last piano lesson is next week as well. She's bummed. She likes her teacher. We'll have to find a teacher as soon as we get to Portland.

An experience to remember!

Today Jamie and I went with a friend of mine and her two daughters to a Nascar race. We were very close to the race, which made it two things: very hard to see what was going on, and very, very, very loud! Praise God for ear plugs. I have to say it is very surreal to be walking right next to cars whizzing by you at 200+ mph with nothing more than a chain link fence separating you and the cars. The cars looked like blurs going by us. We were almost across from Tony Stewart's pit, so that was cool.

We walked around all day looking at all the sites. It was fun, fun, fun. We spent way too much money on food and one t-shirt. I wanted a shirt that says Phoenix International Raceway since we are moving to Portland soon.

By the way, Mark Martin won and Tony Stewart came in 2nd. :)

Easter Egg Hunt in Warm Sunny Phoenix

The weather was beautiful down here today. No wind, plenty of sunshine. Beeeauuutiful!

Here are some pictures!



Jamie finding an egg.



Faith with her eggs.


Jordan looking for eggs.



Tatum looking ever so cute!

Happy Resurrection Day!

He is Risen, He is risen indeed! I asked my girls what "Easter" is all about and Faith piped up with Easter Eggs. NOT! So we talked about why we celebrate Resurrection day and why it isn't all about the easter bunny. Christ died on the cross for our sins, so that we could enter the kingdom of God without the blemish of sin. I told them about the awful things he went through before, during and after the cross. Someday, when they are ready, I hope to show them "The Passion" movie. They are not ready for all of that realization yet.

Happy Resurrection Day!

Faith's turn!

Faith was jealous that I just posted about Jamie, so I'm going to post about what an awesome, sweet, caring girl Faith is as well. Faith is so vigilant. Whenever I have dairy, she reminds me to take a dairy pill. In the evening, she reminds Papa to take his restless leg pills. She always tries to make sure everyone is comfy and happy as well. She's an all around caring girl. Ultra Sweet! :)

My sweet, sweet girl

We were watching Marley and Me tonight. It was getting towards the end of the movie,and Jamie knew I was going to cry. We watched this movie in the movie theater. So Jamie knew what was going on. She said she had to go get something and came back with some tissues for me! Wow! :) She's is such a sweetheart. I love her so much.

Moore inspirations

We are doing the video section of the "Wishing Up" Bible study by Beth Moore. Tonight we talked about how much good our tongue can do. Last week we talked about how much harm our mouth can do. One of my favorite quotes from tonight was from Proverbs 15:4, "The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit." Also, "But few words bring the joy of the right word in the now moment." Proverbs 15:23 KJV "...a word spoken in due season, how good it is." Beth Moore said in closing, "God will tell us what to say, and how to say it."

So for all of those who have put their foot in their mouth, or just spoke without thinking, God can be a tool for you. Sometimes he will lead you to think about what you say before you say it, and sometimes he will provide you with the proper thing to say in the moment.

One more week done!

The girls and I are getting excited to go home. And to live with daddy again! He might be home in June now. That would be nice. We'll go straight home to Portland with him right away then. We think.

We had an uneventful week. Same old, same old. The nieces stayed over night for the weekend. That was fun. My niece, Tatum, is growing up so she isn't as much work as she was before. She's also able to play with the other girls better. It was great. Of course all this happens right before we leave. :)

Joe was "jet setting" all over Europe this weekend. He went to Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. They saw where Patton is buried, along with over 5,000 other soldiers. It was very surreal for him to see. He also saw a German Car show, as in a car show in Germany, not a car show with just German cars. Pretty cool. I got a new picture of him to put on my wallpaper too, so that is nice.

My sister is doing well with her baby. The baby needs to let her sleep longer at night. Too bad. My sister is so tired.

I hope you all have a great, great week!