Even If...

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They say sometimes you win some
Sometimes you lose some
And right now, right now I'm losing bad
I've stood on this stage night after night
Reminding the broken it'll be alright
But right now, oh right now I just can't

It's easy to sing
When there's nothing to bring me down
But what will I say
When I'm held to the flame
Like I am right now

 

 

I know You're able and I know You can
Save through the fire with Your mighty hand
But even if You don't
My hope is You alone

 

 

They say it only takes a little faith
To move a mountain
Well good thing
A little faith is all I have, right now
But God, when You choose
To leave mountains unmovable
Oh give me the strength to be able to sing
"It is well with my soul"

 

 

I know You're able and I know You can
Save through the fire with Your mighty hand
But even if You don't,
My hope is You alone.
I know the sorrow, and I know the hurt
Would all go away if You'd just say the word
But even if You don't
My hope is You alone

 

 

You've been faithful, You've been good
All of my days
Jesus, I will cling to You
Come what may

‘Cause I know You're able.

I know You can.

 

I know You're able I know You can
Save through the fire with Your mighty hand
But even if You don't,
My hope is You alone
I know the sorrow, I know the hurt,
Would all go away if You'd just say the word

But even if You don't,
My hope is You alone.

 

It is well with my soul.
It is well, it is well with my soul.

 

 

 

~Amen~

Fun, Hiking, Birthdays....

Two Saturdays ago us girls took some friends to the Ape Caves. So much fun!
It was the first time I had filed all 7 seats in my car. Which was fun for me! 😊
I didn't get any pictures as I didn't want to carry my camera through the cave like I did last time. 😕
So here are pictures Aus (last 4) and Fritz (first 6) took and sent on to us. 😌

Suspension bridge at Lava canyon. SO fun to cross!

Lava canyon

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Last week Megs hit her 2 decade birthday!
So now Kai is the only teen left in our house!!
Megs went to the Christian Writers Conference in Portland for her birthday.
She went with 3 other friends, Emily, Ivy & Abigayle.
Two are from the Spokane area and one was from TX!
She had tons of fun and learned lots. :)
My moms birthday is next week!
We are going down to Salt & Straw for Ice Cream on her birthday. 😁

The Eclipse was today. SUPER AMAZING!!!
We stayed home, only had 98-99%, but it got darker and was like 5:30am out at 10am!
It cast the coolest shadows too! Wish I had thought to grab my camera! 😑😢
We watched it live on KGW, it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!😍😍


So what'd ya'll do for the Eclipse.
I know quite a few of our friends went down to 100% totality to see it.
How was it?

Fair!

The Fair has come again.
Already!? It feels like just a few days ago it was last years fair!

Anyways, this year dad, us girls, and our friends the Hazen boys went to the fair on opening day.
We all entered items into the fair, and did pretty well.
Though I must confess I forgot to get a picture of Megs beading and the picture of Kai's horn didn't turn out so great.
But, I can post pictures of them once we get the back from the fair. :)

So here are pictures that I did get. Hope you enjoy. :)

The judges wrote they liked the detail on the donkey. :) Good job Megs!!

The boys entered their knives they make and Austin entered some S hooks he forged.

Mom had her post-op today, the doctor said she's healing well and can slowly start working in the office again. Yay!!! :D

I also finished the Virtual goat show I'd been in charge of, so things are starting to slow down a bit.

Welp, we're off to the Ape Caves tomorrow morning!
Have a great weekend everyone!

Already!

I can't believe it's August already!!!
I mean, I didn't really have time to work on a project to enter in the fair and the deadline was today!
I did get to enter a scrimshawed horn I did last summer and a scrimshaw piece I ended up doing this morning before we headed down to enter stuff. ;)

July went by in a whirl of craziness.
July 4th we were in the Ridgefield parade with our church. passing out candy and bracelets was fun!!

For my dad's birthday we all went and saw Cars 3, pretty good movie, I still like Cars 2 better. ;)

Then our Grandparents came up for a week, that was a busy week.
The day after they came up on the train, we all went to the beach. This year we went to the beach with the old wreck near Fort Stevens. Had lots of fun and ate wild caught fish n' chips for lunch. Yum!

Then mom had surgery that week, which is why Grandma wanted to come up that week. :)
Mom is doing fine and recovery well. Hopefully back to normal soon though they said its about an 8 week recovery time....

Then that Saturday we went to Fort Vancouver 1867 Base Ball game! Grandpa went with us and Grandma stayed home to keep mom company.
Our team won by 1 point in the last inning!! I think it was the most tense and close score game we've had yet! :)

Then these last 2 weeks I've been really busy. I have 4 jobs I'm juggling!
My normal membership/secratary at home job, the online Virtual goat show I'm in charge of, and I'm doing work registering the goats that come in for mom while she's on leave, and last week Blueberry season started so we pick blueberries for our next door neighbors.
Busy busy!

Anyway, here are some pictures from July.

Sand....... :)

Keep cool everyone in the heat this weekend and maybe see some of ya at the Fair Friday! :D