~Rachel and Family~

Monday, September 14, 2009

David's Boat

David's school assignment was to create, engineer, build

a boat

that would go 8 feet while carrying 50grams of "cargo".

It's a steam boat! Water is in the cyclinders with wood corks and a small hole in each to let out the steam. The tea light candles heat up the water. It took about 4 minutes to get it going, but once it started that little thing could go! He got an A+ and won "Most Creative". Great job David! You still amaze me kiddo!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Steak Feed

I love community gatherings.

Here we are at the Steak Feed (on Thursday night) that Paul's Kiwanis club does every year.

I just realized there is no account of Mary. She really was there though! She must've been in the stroller during picture snapping.

We also played in the park and visited with some of our employees and community friends. It was fun listening to the Gospel band and dancing around too.

It was a good time... The Dalles ROCKS!!

Thank you Lord!

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Labor Day Weekend (Ann's point of view)

Ann made her own memorable pictures after I snapped this pic of her.

The bunk bed

Happy Hannah

Happy Momma

David playing with Mary

Elijah hiding from Ann

Mr. Dinosaur

Momma and Mary

Hannah's eyeball

Water (or do I need to tell you?)

Mary

Cookie boxes

Daddy

Kitchen and Momma's tail end

There he is again...

Friday, September 11, 2009

Labor Day Weekend Part 2

This was our second year at the Civil War re-enactment at Fort Stevens near Astoria, OR. We were there from opening 'till closing taking it all in.

We met this family at our campground. Here they are with their granddaughter. Their grown children were raised "in the Civil War" and have their own camps right beside them.

He taught us a lot. Here are his homemade clothes hangers.

It was real special that he went in his tent and got out his rifles (I wish I could explain them better but I don't know much about guns). They were very heavy. He let the boys handle them and everything.

The battle. We went to 2 battles, this was the first one.

Would you believe Mary slept through most of this!

Some of the camps.

Part of the fashion show.

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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