President's Day Weekend

Another weekend gone and what do we have to show for it? Saturday started with the produce co-op. We sold out at 72 baskets. The truck was a little late so the baskets weren't quite ready when the crowd arrived but we got everyone out of here pretty quickly.

 Then, it was time to make lunch because my mom and Greg were coming up to pick up their produce. They suprised Jacob with a new guitar and razor. With Jacob's curly beard, small bumps called "pseudofolliculitis barbae" form when he shaves. His skin is light enough, that any blemish leaves a mark that shows for a very long time so he tries hard to avoid the bumps. This razor is supposed to help. Then, it was time to go to Grandma Dickson's 90th party. We had a great time, thanks to all the hard work Viv, Sheri and Janice did.




Sunday was Valentine's Day and we celebrated with three kids sick with nasty colds. How romantic! Dode bought flowers for his young ladies. For me, his big girl, he sewed a pillow filled with rice. The idea behind it is, I'm always cold at bedtime. We heat our house with wood and our bedroom is always the coldest room in the house because it is over our unheated "useless" room and we always have our door closed. Once we warm up the blankets, I'm fine but waiting for those blankets to get warm can be tooth chattering torture. I can stick the pillow Dode made in the microwave to have my very own hot pad. The thing weighs about 10 pounds so it'd also make a killer game of bean bag toss!


Monday we took the kids geocaching and after looking high and low for the cache, finally gave up. We thought we'd be going on a 3/4 mile hike near Pilchuck Falls but when we got there, the gate was open so we drove right to the cache location. It was at an decomissioned campground. We spent a lot of time walking the woods, looking under every fern, but came up empty handed. The kids enjoyed throwing rocks into Pilchuck Creek. I took the girls to the park for some playtime while William was sleeping.