Assessing the morning

Being woken up at 5:30, not so good.

Being woken up by noisy yet adorable kittens, not so bad.

Discovering a bug bite on the palm of my hand, really annoying.

Camp

This week I have been blessed to be able to go out to Solid Rock Camp in Tenino, WA with my church. I've been hanging out with the day campers and havin a blast. Not being in charge of anything and most of the time not even really knowing what's going on I almost feel like an extra wheel but my heart is really just to be there and available to help with whatever so it's been good. It's been a major blessing in my life right now, being able to get some exercise and hang out with cool people and just being part of a camp is super fun. I took a couple pictures of where my map ended up so you guys could see the final product.













Unfortunately I didn't get my camera out until right before I left today and the pavilion was inbetween things so there are tables up and also at some point yesterday I think the light sheer fabric that you see hanging down between the map and the screen was stapled above the screen. I don't know if it was in the way or if the wind knocked it off, it may have even been the older kids, oh well. Check it out.

woah

I just noticed guys... less than 100 days until Rowan's due date.

Infuriating

Hokay, so... I'm working on some artwork for a camp that my church is doing next week. This is just a piece of art that will hang in the meeting area where the kids will hear the lessons I'm guessing. Anyway the theme of the camp is treasure quest and the theme verse is Matthew 6:21 "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." So I was asked to draw some sort of map. I wanted to incorporate as much of the actual lessons as possible so I asked about what they were talking about and I found out that there will be five points taught over the week so I named little places on my island map and so far it's turned out pretty good.

EXCEPT my glaring mistake :P well... it maybe it's not that bad but it certainly glares at me.


Observe, if you will, the top right corner where in a moment of prideful arrogance I did not practice how big to make the letters with a pencil (which is almost invisible) and I ran the e of purpose into the outline of the island. The infuriating part is that I had SO much room in that corner to write! And this is all permanent marker so there's no going back. *sigh* I am disappointed in myself...

Of course I know it's not a big deal and it's supposed to look almost like a kid drew it so it's ok that it's not "perfect". Also we're planning to "age" it anyway so it's going to get paint all over it to make it look dirty and old. Tell me honestly though, are the crowded up letters above a huge space of nothingness distracting? I'm distracted, the composition is off! The balance is in shambles! I'm also a hungry and pregnant perfectionist....

Boys and Girls

Hokay so, we've got three boys and two girls. As of right now, if you include Rowan the boys are one up on the girls in numbers. Current totals are five girls (four cats and me) and six boys (three cats, Max, Terrance the turtle and Rowan) but Chaos has yet to reveal her hand so who knows, we just may pull ahead on this one.




Alrighty, this is Polar Bear he's a boy.

and a cutie :)

Here are Norman (left), Peanut Butter (right) and of course Max (far right).

Norman is a boy and Peanut's a girl.

This cutie baby is Ruckus, he's a boy and was sitting there staring at me as I took pictures of everyone else. The most adorable thing was since they're still just a bit unsteady on their feet he was rocking back and forth just a little, soooo cute!



Then there's ninja, the other girl baby kitty, she is the most active little bugger of them all.
As I was taking pictures sitting in the hall she was all over checkin out my belly, wandering a bit and puffing herself up at Max which was cute and hilarious at the same time because Max is pretty much scared of the kittens.


















I don't think he knows what they are or what to do with them, if they start coming near him he starts looking around nervously and eventually runs away. Mostly the kittens just stare at him, Ninja was trying to hiss last night but she's not very loud or intimidating... or at least I didn't think so, Max was petrified.

Cute and fun

Here they is! Five little kitties.

We don't know yet which are boys and which are girls but we named them anyway because they're just so darn cute how could we not? The one sitting up the tallest is Norman (after Norman Schwarzkopf, because its splotches of tan reminded Logan of desert cammo), Little Ninja is the black one looking sleepily at the camera, the other black one is actually black and white and looks a lot like Havoc and Chaos so we call it Ruckus. The other two look so much alike that I can't tell in this picture which is which, Polar Bear is one of them and has a little black spot on its nose and we call the other one Peanut Butter. Those two look like they'll be either mostly white or mostly tan, we'll just have to wait and see.



Here is Max with our new neighbor, we don't know his or her name yet but it looks like a young golden retriever. It didn't take too long for Max to start to try and teach the run-up-and-down-the-fence game he so enjoyed with his little white buddy who moved away. I have to say this bigger dog isn't as good at it though, instead of racing endlessly up and down it'll follow Max for a bit and then lope back into its own yard. It's pretty amusing to watch Max's little legs pounding away while is new loftier friend bounds along the other side.

'Twas grand

Here are some pictures of the adventure Logan and I had last weekend. We headed south "behind" (to the east of) Mount St. Helens to the Columbia gorge, it was a beautiful day.
This first shot is somewhere between Rainier and Helens, I don't recall where exactly.















We stopped for lunch at a boat launch on the northwest corner of Riffe lake.


















And here's St Helens from the west, it was so so pretty.

Logan took this flowery shot :) isn't it awesome?

When we got to the gorge we realized that is was Saturday and the great weather meant the old road with all the waterfalls was CRAZY busy so we only stopped at one (Bridal veil). That was special to me because it was one of the places we went on our honeymoon. And, of course, it was majestic and beautiful :D









Then we slept at Dad and Mom's house and headed home Sunday to see our kitties! Their eyes are opening up a bit more but I haven't taken a lot of pictures because I feel mean making flashes at them while they are just starting to see. Perhaps in a few more days (after Havoc stops moving them around) I'll take some so you can see how cute they are.