A few updates for the year--or oops, we forgot to post for almost a year!

This year we have started playing games after dinner or on weekends.   Sabrina has become a Clue champion!

At Halloween, Bat Queen made her appearance!   

Randy has been working so hard on the house.   The inside projects were basically finished in September where he shifted his attention to the outside projects.   

At Christmas, Sabrina was given a sewing kit and she has started to hand sew many projects.   Soon she will be able to sew small items with some guidance on the machine.

We had a few weather days off of school for floods and some snow.   It usually doesn't last long and is nice for looking at from a warm house, while reading a book by a fire!

Sabrina loves Benny Beaver!   The Beaver basketball teams have done well this year.   We were blessed with tickets for a woman's game in December.

The entire game is hard to "sit and watch" so Sabrina started climbing around Randy.   Luckily no one was really sitting right behind us.

Julie subbed for six months in a middle school classroom.   One highlight of the fall was the Salmon Watch field trip where the classes had field labs on the river.   As we went out to watch the spawning grounds, these chinook salmon were competing to get to the female up river.   Never have we seen so much action!   

The school had a fund raiser for a boy who is receiving treatment at Dornbecker children's hospital.   One activity was face painting!

Pretty flowers!

All of Sabrina's class had "Rio Strong" capes and shirts for the event as they were helping generate interest and funds for the family.

In August the cousins played king and servant.   Sabrina fanned her cousin with ginko leaves.   The King held his septer and cooled off.

As with many families, this fall brought on the schedule of craziness.   We suddenly found ourselves frantically trying to balance work, school and play.   Julie worked at Sabrina's school in a long term sub position which lasted from the beginning of September to Spring Break!  Sabrina continued to strive in first grade and is now reading chapter books to us at bedtime!  Randy continues with his home improvement projects.   He really has a talent for vision and potential when looking at houses and yards.   This year the house has been transformed to have nice landscaping and a fenced garden area.   Hopefully, we will be able to harvest apples, pears, peaches and plums right out of our own yard!  Soon raspberries will join the blueberries in the raised beds.   What a luxury it will be to eat from the garden in our yard!