Really, I’m planning on updating…

By Lena on September 3rd, 2010
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…it’s just that right now I have school hanging over my head: something along the lines of the sword of Damocles.

But, it’s the thought that counts, right?

Until I have more time, here’s a few more pictures from our beach trip – which I don’t think Lydia has posted.  Hopefully, in the near future, I can upload some more of the ones we got:

Lydia and Karl

One perspective of “The Dune”

Part of the view from the top.  For those interested, that’s Cape Lookout in the distance.

Photo courtesy of Karl

Pete

Lydia and I on the first day: happy to have the week off from school!

The moon setting one morning

Haystack Rock

Climbing up the dune – photo taken by Karl

~Galena

Where I’ll be going this coming week…

By Lena on August 21st, 2010
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Beautiful Cape Kiwanda – and I can’t wait!

Fourth of July

By Lena on July 4th, 2010
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This year, we went over to the Kochs along with a bunch of other families from church.  Below are some of the pictures that I got from the evening (all photos that contain me were taken by Lydia):

Josh

Jessica

Micah

Naomi

Watching someone navigate the obstacle course, blindfolded.

Pete.

Evie on the swing


Caleb

Mr. S

Caitlin

Peter

Mrs. Seifert

Lydia and Karl

Rebekah, beautiful as always!

Maria

Dad

Mr. Mack

Heidi, Andra and I

Rebekah and I

Lovely girls and friends: Heidi, Andra, and Lydia

And, I have lots more, but I think other people will be posting some pictures so I’ll finish with this one (and if someone who didn’t get it, wants the album link, just email me or drop a comment).

I don’t think there are words that are adequate to describe this one…

Galena

California Trip

By Lena on June 1st, 2010
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A couple days ago, Mom, Johannes, Victor, and I headed down to California for a (really) quick trip to bring back my Grandma.  I figured, seeing I don’t update much anyway, that I’d take the opportunity to make a blog post.  We left Sunday morning and got back at 6:30 pm this evening. And the reason I’m doing one tonight is because I know that the longer I wait, the less likely it is I’ll make one.  Besides I have school tomorrow!

This will be mainly in pictures – I’ll try and add a few explanations where necessary.

Still green and overcast. I think this was still in Washington.

Blue sky! For the rest of the trip until we left it was pretty much like this.

Passing through Oregon:

Entering California (I know – weird sign: I missed the actual “Welcome to California” one):

And the miles tick by… believe it or not, the trip actually went by pretty quickly: in fact it was the last half hour that was the hardest because we were almost there, but not quite.

Mt. Shasta

California is flat!

Sacramento!

Bad picture, but I snapped this for Lydia: see, we know of a place we can go to!

And we’ve arrived! This is a picture of my Grandma’s friend Monica, my Grandma, and my Mom:

After 1.5 hours of loading, they were ready to go! They left the day after we arrived at 10:30 am.

Mom

After the guys left I wandered around the campus and took pictures of everything.

Besides the college, the Christian Life Campus also has a high school, grade school, pre-school, church, bookstore, library, dormitories, and a radio center.

The High school

Radio center:

This is their “old” church building which they still use. It seats approximately 2,000 people:

The girl dormitories:

A rose I found:

The Hogue Library where my Grandma worked as a librarian:

They have some really old and neat books! It would have been wonderful to stay there for a while and just read everything but unfortunately I didn’t have time, so I took pictures instead:

This was a copy of a 1700s Encyclopedia. They had about 75 pages on Midwifery.

2 of the 3 volumes:

A copy of a 1611 King James Bible:

And a 15-something Geneva Bible:

The Haneys: founders of the whole campus:

The really old books:

These ones were about 110 years old:

After the library, we went over to the “new” church building. It reminded me a lot of Overlake Church in Redmond in the way it was built. Apparently it seats 6,000 people:

The Information Center:

Entering the Sanctuary:

The altar:

Some of the instruments: they also had a drum set (which you can see a little of to the right), guitar/bass, piano, and organ:

Front view from the stage:

Side views:

The front of the church:

And Grandma and I outside (as proof that I went):

And that’s all for now!

Galena

Flowers

By Lena on May 23rd, 2010
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Happy Birthday…

By Lena on May 15th, 2010
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To my dear sister Greta!

You’re growing and maturing so much lately, and it’s such a blessing to have you as a sister! I love you!

Galena

P.S. And thanks for all the times you’ve surprised me and cleaned my room while I’ve been gone!

By Lena on May 9th, 2010
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Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!

Thank-you so much for all the care, effort, love and patience that you have put into training me over the years. I know I’m far from being a perfect daughter but I greatly appreciate all you have done and continue to do. I love you!

Pictures from March and April

By Lena on April 22nd, 2010
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Below are some pictures of different events during the past two months:

These things were born. Otherwise known as baby goats: I have to admit they’re pretty cute though. For now.

Greta, Peter and Iona had an Easter egg hunt.

Looks like Iona is taking after Lydia’s jumping skills.


And this reminds me of this photo.

I’m not sure what this reminds me of – but it seems a little familiar nonetheless. This was from Karl’s birthday at the end of March.

I was roped in to help with the branding dehorning of the goats again. Thankfully I had the “easy” job of holding the goat still: Lydia did the actual dirty work.

Now from this, you could get the impression that we actually enjoy burning goats. But in reality, we were laughing over the fact that we were telling the goat to calm down while searing his head with a red-hot iron.

And here’s my beautiful sis with one of the finished “products”.

In early April, the WPC Speech Club gave all the interps that they had been working on. Lydia played the prelude.

April 18th was Peter’s 8th Birthday.

Iona got pretty excited over the fact that one of his presents was wrapped several times so he had to keep unwrapping it:



That was just three of the seven layers, by the way.

And that’s all for now!

Galena

Pretzels, Cookies and Flowers

By Lena on April 1st, 2010
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Galena

Iona the Squire – or Don Quixote revisited.

By Lena on March 27th, 2010
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This is what Iona was wearing this morning:

She was all set complete with sword, walking stick, food, money (aka aluminum foil), cape, “boots” and a great attitude. And even if the outfit and idea wasn’t strictly in keeping with the biblical idea of women being homemakers, she’s still the cutest squire I’ve ever seen.

Galena