This year the kids are all studying US history. We’ve had fun learning about Columbus and mapping out his voyage routes. We have also been learning about many different explorers. The year is off to a great start!
Hunter got promoted to Lead Lifeguard. That means more hours and more pay. We are proud of him!
1st weekend after school back. Weather has been horrible with smoke all week and this morning we woke up with some blue sky! Rains yesterday also calmed the dry soil.
Boys went in a bike ride and Abbie let the chickens out to roam. All the chickens are laying eggs now — of all different sizes! We got one last week that was the size of a goose egg and it was a triple yolker!
This week started the first week of school for the Donaldson Crew. Hunter drove to school this year and stopped off along the way and got a special treat of a box of gold fish from Kirra. 💕
We have a 10th, 8th, 7th and 4th grader. It’s going to be a great year!
Abbie turned 12 and she celebrated her special day by waking up and going for donuts with her brother, Hunter. We spent the day getting her room together. Abbie asked for a “big girl” bed for her birthday. Nana gave us her bedroom set that Kevin and I have and also her headboard and footboard. The headboard and footboard fit a full sized bed so it worked perfectly for Abbie’s new bed. We ended the night with sushi and ice cream.
We love you Abbie and you make our family and the world a better place!
Noah with his new job just got a dirt bike as well. Today they went out together for the first time over to a friends house to ride.
Here is a picture of Noah on the first day he got his bike a couple weeks ago.
Here is a picture of them riding with some friends. Noah at the back of the photo, Hunter is on the right side.
This years campout was a little different with no fires allowed due to drought conditions. It makes you realize how much a part of camping the campfire is. How it becomes the gathering place for meals and talking with its light and heat.
Nonetheless we made the best out of our 5 days away! Our friends the Christoff's came up for a couple days/nights as well!
We met up in Beautiful Black Butte Ranch this summer. The MacDermotts ended up with Covid so they stayed at our house while we all stayed in BBR. While it wasn’t what we had planned and it was very disappointing it made us happy to know they enjoyed some quiet family time of R&R, days in the pool and some lake days. Charlotte and Anna especially loved looking after Holly. They thought they were her dog trainers.
We look forward to the next time we can all be together. Grateful for family! ❤️
Hail storm out of nowhere today at our house. Kelly was in town and she didn’t see any of it. Hailstones the size of ping pong balls. Abbie and I scrambled to save our potted plants by getting them under cover but trees and flowers are feeling the pain today.
We decided to go out for dinner but instead of trying to fight the hordes of tourists at restaurants we packed up food for a picnic and went down to an area of the deschutes called the big eddy. It was nice and quiet.
The lighting was really nice this evening. And of course Noah wanted to get pictures of him mid-air jumping :)
