Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts

Saturday, April 09, 2016

Tulip Festival 2016

I'll just throw some pretty pictures (mostly from the Tulip Festival) in between the weirdo things our tinies have said this week:
G keeps drawing dead guys with chalk on the sidewalk (I know they're dead bc they have x's for eyes). Then she stomps on their heads and says, "blah," with her tongue out. Should I be concerned?
Dude: Mom, what if everything was awesome? Then even toots would be awesome.
M just said to me, "well, you're not really the mechanical engineering type." Guess she noticed.
G: I'll be really tippy-tippy quiet, okay mom?
G and I are playing a game that's missing its die. G goes, hmmm...maybe I can smell it and starts crawling around sniffing for the die.
G likes to draw more than one Candy Land card at a time "accidentally." Then she chooses which one she wants. The best part is she doesn't always choose the one that is most advantageous to her.
G just wished on a dandelion that her mom can be bigger and better than she and that when she grows up she can have a baby animal.
I told L to not even think about it. She walked in the room, shook her finger at me and said, "I no tink bout it." If only. If only.
Oh and we spent time at Omsi and at grandma and grandpa's! Here's grandpa with his two Gracies:
Having fun with our Idaho cousins:
L was hysterically terrified of this "magic" floating ball:
G asks me if she can please go potty on THAT toilet. Uh, I think not.
I'm pretty proud of myself for not losing anyone during the 3 hours I was alone with all of them at Omsi. I mean, I didn't always know where they all were but I came home with he same number I arrived with! I usually just followed L and prayed that the rest wouldn't wander too far, but I turned for a second and L was suddenly serenading the whole room with "I am a child of God," as she salivated all over that microphone:
Oh and then the week ended with the Big Three enjoying some sunny fun in Bend:
What a week. Why is it I'm always so tired?

Sunday, May 03, 2009

So amazed by the Tulip Festival!!!!

I am ashamed to admit I have never been to the Tulip Festival before. I don't know how I've so missed out - I only heard about it last year for the first time and I've lived here my whole life. So sad. Because this is what I was missing:
Pictures so don't do it justice ... at least the pictures we are capable of taking that is. When we walked around the barn and the whole view was laid before me, I got teary-eyed I was so overwhelmed by the incredible, indescribable beauty! I gotta say, that whole Big-Bang theory just doesn't add up to me. Those tulips are just further evidence of our loving Heavenly Father. I'm so grateful that he cared enough to not only give us a world to live in, but to make it so amazingly beautiful!! He didn't have to do that, but He knew we'd enjoy it, and I imagine He enjoyed creating it too. I'm so grateful He took the extra time or effort or attention to detail or whatever to grant us such visual feasts. I'm grateful for the hands that prepared such a meal!!
Here's a couple of pictures to sum up our day there:





Cute little girls are evidence too!