Family

I have to say the best thing about living in Oregon is being near family. This is my family.... our crazy picture. It's tradition to take a crazy picture as well as a good one when we do these photo shoots. This was taken last Sunday and usually when we take them it is because we are only here for a few days and then are heading back to sunny Cali. and we have to get the picture, but this time it was a much much happier day. My brother Peter and family were here for the weekend and were visiting us! 

We love it here. Last week it was 80 degrees and beautiful... today it snowed. God was showing me how He is so surprising just like the weather of Central Oregon. It's all good, it's all needed, the snow, the rain, the sun, but it's all so unpredictable.  I love it!

I have to admit, I'm rather ready for the sun to come out and stay out and for the snow to be put away until next winter, but for now it is an adventure.

We are pursuing a couple of things and would love prayer. We are really considering buying a house and need favor as well as wisdom for that crazy adventure. The housing market is incredible right now and we are in a place that this would be a wise decision, just one we've never done before so it leaves us quite overwhelmed.

We are also making decisions concerning our next school year for the boys, the House of Prayer we are called to start here as well as other major decisions... all of them good for once. It feels so good to have all this anticipation and it is all exciting. 

We'll keep you all posted!!!

Pink eye!!!

So my poor Ethan woke up a couple of mornings ago sick. I thought it was just a nasty cold or the flu but its mutated into pink eye. Although he feels mostly good he looks like he lost a fight with a heavy weight.

Anyway, desperate to get a remedy and not wanting to take him to the Dr. mostly because I just heard a few weeks ago about how European countries treat pink eye like a cold and we Americans treat it like the plague, I thought I'd calmly go about trying to remedy the situation.

I'm blogging at this early hour on a Tuesday because I was laughing so hard I had to share it....

For a good laugh go to your google browser and type in "natural remedy for pink eye". Some of the suggestions we legit and totally could work, I'm looking forward to trying them today, but some of them were hilarious!!! This particular website has people write in and give their experience and remedy and then people and say if it helped them or not. A lot of them were things like salt water, green tea bags, breast milk...... you know weird natural things that people might have (although we are fresh out of breast milk around here). My humor was engaged though at a couple of entries. One was from a guy who claims duct tape worked for him..... go figure! Another was from an "energy healer" who gets chronic pink eye and "visualizes" the pink eye burning up. This person claims you have to close your eyes and picture you eye ball catching on fire, but it isn't the eye ball that is on fire, just the infection (nice of them to clarify that one) and then picture different colors etc.

Great for a laugh if anyone wants one :o) 

It is slooooowly turning into spring here. We had a beautiful 70+ degree day last week and were dreamily soaking it in as there is no place more beautiful than Central Oregon in that kind of weather, and then yesterday it turned cold again and was spitting snow. I guess this is normal, but it leaves a person feeling a bit perplexed. I'm ready for spring!!!