You remember in the post about the strawberry picking I mentioned that we drove to the strawberry field. I also mentioned that Michael came and joined us. Well, those two things culminated in this post. When we finished picking berries we put the flats in the back. At that point Nicholas decided to plant himself […]
Strawberry Fields Forever
God is good. At the ages of two and three my boys started picking strawberries. They love fruit so much and eat it so quickly that I explained to them they would have to work for their fruit. Those first couple of years they ate more than they put in the buckets but it was […]
Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum Home...
On Friday the boys and I went to Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. Each month, during the school year, they offer a homeschool class on a certain topic. The topic for the May class was VE Day. Although we are members and would be able to attend the class at a discounted rate, I chose […]
The Many Mothers That I Love
I hope that each of you had a great Mother’s Day. Here are my boys coming back from picking me lovely flowers. They often pick me beautiful bouquets. They also made me a delicious breakfast that morning. We decided to go our separate ways this Mother’s Day. Not out of anger or anything like that. […]
We Boys go Camping!!
So, according to the Espalin school calendar, Karen and the boys had a week off of school, Spring Break. I chose to take a week of vacation during that same week. So instead of going to Daytona Beach like we usually do (yeah right), the boys and I had planned to go camping; camping trips are […]
Backyard Camping in March
The boys decided that they wanted to camp by the pond with Dylan on Friday night. The weather has been so unseasonably warm that it was easy to say yes to their request. Our public schools only go to school Monday through Thursday so Dylan is typically over to our house at lunch wanting to […]
Trip to the Gun Range
We are members of a gun range and have been for years. Even though we could shoot on our property , we find that out of respect for our neighbors it is still better to go to the range. The boys have been shooting since probably 5, started out with the air rifle/bb guns, and […]
NWODGA 2015 Goat Conference
Having finished our three Sundays of being out of the house early and heading up to Portland for fruit tree pruning classes, we got up even earlier on Saturday and headed up to Portland for the annual goat conference at Clackamas High School. The NW Oregon Dairy Goat Association hosts a large conference every year […]
A Visit to Diji Farm
Halle Berry was born at Diji Farm. It is a wonderful farm just about 20 minutes from us. Carol is the owner/breeder/Nigerian Dwarf goat aficionado. We arrived smack in the middle of kidding. They have quite a large barn and have kidding stalls for the goats. Probably seven stalls with either a doe and her […]
Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum
On Sunday we bought a family membership at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville. The site houses four buildings. Aviation, Space, IMAX theater and an indoor water park. We went to the IMAX 3-D showing of D-Day: Normandy 1944. Excellent. Not only informative but very emotional. It looks like they show about five […]
What’s Up
Hello everyone, I can’t believe it has been a week since my last post. I can believe I haven’t had any time to write a post. The last I reported we were headed to the beach to celebrate me and Joshua’s birthday. Do you think the boys had fun? You wouldn’t have guessed by this […]