Long Week

Well, this post was supposed to happen last week but in between processing around 300 pounds of meat (which we did all ourselves including the ground meat and canning!), caring for two little ones and running the house it got lost... until today! The boys are doing well. Lincoln has finally realized that things are different and that he misses the old ways. He started having a really hard time when I am nursing Bear, throwing fits and misbehaving but I think we are on our way out of that. This past weekend Levi okayed me going to our church's women's retreat and oh' how amazing it always is. I took Bear and Levi took Linc. Bear did great at the women's retreat and he was the only baby there (there are usually a few) so he got very spoiled :0) I wish I could have a gang of church ladies follow me around all the time!! There were about 80 women and in a church the size of Hauser these functions are so important to me. I don't know how on Earth I would meet people without retreats! The speakers were great and I got some great advice on how to keep my joy during this trying time of life when it's so easy to loose perspective.

Barrett even made it onto center stage :0) Look closely and you can see our wonderful women's ministries director, Brenda, snuggling on Bear as she opens us up for worship time;

While Bear and I did that Levi took Linc camping, grouse hunting and to the beach to build a deer blind! What a great papa these boys have! Lincoln of course had a blast. He has been walking around the house pretending to shoot pigeons and grouse. He'll bang something against the wall for the gun shot sound and then he'll pretend to retrieve the pigeon and say "lincy eat pigeon!". He does this with pigeon's, elk and now grouse. For the elk he adds "Lincy cut meat " and then "lincy eat elk meat"... it's hilarious!! He has really started playing pretend and it's throwing Levi for a loop. They were driving along over the weekend and Linc kept yelling out "Here come BIG buck!" or "here come PIGEON!". Levi got all excited the first couple of times until he realized that these were imaginary bucks and pigeons :0) He also talks to his friend Ian all the time even though Ian is not around... is it too early for him to be having imaginary friends?! He is pretty funny! Linc has really started loving to try to read to us also. He'll grab a book and recite his version of Zaccheus (sp?). It goes something like this; "Zach climbing BIG tree. Zach and Jesus eat elk meat. The End". I have GOT to get a video camera for this stuff!!