~Rachel and Family~: Jul 6, 2009

Monday, July 6, 2009

Our 4th of July and Maryhill Museum

We went to Cascade Locks park for the fireworks show. We had an awesome time. We got there about 5pm and didn't get home until after Midnight (we were a tired bunch at church!). We had a picnic dinner got KFC (finally got to try the "grilled chicken") for the main course, I made some sidedishes and dessert, packed in some pops, water and chips.

We had several hours to kill before the firework show. The kids got DRENCHED running through the sprinklers, we took walks and watched other people's firecrackers,

played catch, talked, laughed, bickered, nursed, potty trips, snacked, played dinosaurs,

and just had such a great time together.

When the fireworks came, Paul and I braced ourselves for scared children (mainly the girls). We used to take the boys to the fireworks shows in Eugene when we lived in Springfield and the boys were always terrified (they were much younger). We were so suprised at what troopers the girls are!! (I guess that makes the boys sissies when they were that age!ha!ha!) Ann LOVED the fireworks, sat in her own chair and took it all in. Hannah got nervous at first and sat on Daddy's lap. She got really into it though when Daddy told her to name the purple ones. From then on she was a screaming color narrorator for our side of the park. It was so funny! Mary nursed, for comfort I think. I kept her exposed ear plugged with my finger. The boys are really into it now... no crying from them anymore!

It was an amazing show, with the fireworks smack dab over our heads.

We went to Maryhill Museum on Friday. It was even better than I expected. We loved looking at the art. I especially liked the miniature fashion displays on the the dolls. Ann and Hannah really liked them too. We hunted for Peacocks afterwards. There were supposed to be 36 on the grounds, but we only found 5. Elijah and I practiced our Peacock calls. They sound like screaming women. Easy to imitate. Paul and Ann did the road runner call ("meep, meep") (I don't know what they were thinking) Our family is big enough to circle around them so they can't get away and we got some good, up-close looks.

They know now to watch out for the Chouinards....

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Love the LORD Your God. These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah. Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers, thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the LORD said.
In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?" tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Before our eyes the LORD sent miraculous signs and wonders—great and terrible—upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers. The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness."
Deuteronomy 6
-Jehovah God