Monday, April 27, 2009
More Spring Things
Here we have been celebrating Spring in every way we can think of. Kyle has been getting his fruit trees and berry bushes ready to go. We also strung a clotheslines; we got the idea from Martha Stewart to make it easily removable. It's all play to the children. And speaking of children, what is Springtime without dirty bathwater?
Spring Things!
ROMANCE!!!
It's been pure romance around the Engelson place since the sun has arrived! (Yes, Washingtonians, that yellowish orb in the sky does emit heat.) This is truly a wonderful time of year, and I have to make myself come in and go to bed at night when I really want to stay outside enjoying God's beauty! What a wonderful gift we have been given that we are part of this masterpiece of life! I love this season, everything from fresh-cut lawn and planting gardens to dirty feet and brown bathwater, from earthworms to butterflies, and especially croaking frogs in the evenings. We have been working our tails off outside this year, turning our yard into a little oasis. We have planted a sunflower hide-out for the kids (PLEEEASE GROW!!!), a vegetable garden, a few flower gardens, an herb garden, plus more!
Above we have pictures of Faith and her gardens of which she is very proud! I thought I would end with this children's poem by William Wordsworth. I love our collection of poetry books illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa and would reccomend them to anyone.
Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd-
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I, at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
what wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude:
And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.
It's been pure romance around the Engelson place since the sun has arrived! (Yes, Washingtonians, that yellowish orb in the sky does emit heat.) This is truly a wonderful time of year, and I have to make myself come in and go to bed at night when I really want to stay outside enjoying God's beauty! What a wonderful gift we have been given that we are part of this masterpiece of life! I love this season, everything from fresh-cut lawn and planting gardens to dirty feet and brown bathwater, from earthworms to butterflies, and especially croaking frogs in the evenings. We have been working our tails off outside this year, turning our yard into a little oasis. We have planted a sunflower hide-out for the kids (PLEEEASE GROW!!!), a vegetable garden, a few flower gardens, an herb garden, plus more!
Above we have pictures of Faith and her gardens of which she is very proud! I thought I would end with this children's poem by William Wordsworth. I love our collection of poetry books illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa and would reccomend them to anyone.
Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd-
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I, at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
what wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude:
And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
It's the Mattea Show!
These are some photos Kyle took of our niece Mattea last weekend at Katelyn and Jessi's birthday party. Isn't she precious? She is about six months old and barely over ten pounds! So petite! I just love her little tongue.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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