Things You May Have Missed

Belle lost her first tooth. She's 4, that was unexpected for us. She has since lost the tooth next to it as well. So she needs her two front teeth.

Belle played on the TeeBall team. She never really understood the point of playing outfield, but still enjoyed it.

Eliza played TeeBall too. The first two innings the teams hit off the tee but in the third inning the kids try to hit a slow pitch from the coach. Eliza hit better without the tee and loved it.

Eliza turned 6 on April 26th. She helped decorate her own cake and loved the journals and clothes she got. For her birthday dinner she chose to have steak, special potatoes, caesar salad and strawberries.

We are raising pheasants to release when they're full grown. We started with 100 newly-hatched chicks and still have 88 of them. All the chicks we lost were in the first week and I hear that it's pretty normal to lose at least that many. It's been a lot of work and is supposed to be teaching our kids about responsisbility.

Last weekend we hiked to the top of SilverCrown Mountain and took this picture. That's Northport way down below us and the Columbia River. It was gorgeous.