Sunday Reflections

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.

Psalms 57:5

CRIME SCENE: DO NOT CROSS

Yep you are seeing correctly. There was crime scene tape all over our back yard. Wondering what happened? Fil got the boys crime scene tape to play with (it was one of those company promotions one but it looked real to me). That is all to it. If you know our boys you know it was one of the best gifts ever. However, I had to limit them to our back yard so we would not attract to many neighbors. I was hoping nobody was moving into our neighborhood that day. What a sight. Sam was busy taping our whole back yard.
Some of the neighbor kids came over to play with the boys. Well they came first with their parents to make sure everything was ok.



Do not ask me why Nate is wearing goggles.
Jo was a happy girl as long all the kids were playing around her. As you can tell she is starting to get a few more teeth. She has four now.
Our detective

There is never a dull moment in Steiger household.

Just in case you are wondering what I did with 17 pounds of blueberries I made four blueberry buckles, few blueberry pies, froze 18 cups (about 4 1/2 liters) and filled six Steiger bellies (we will have to go get some more for blueberry jam).

Blueberry picking on Tuesday

Blueberries are ready in New England. You bet I headed out with the kids to go pick "few" pounds. People ask how I do it with four kids but to tell you the truth I have done this with my kids since they were very little and they look forward to blueberry picking every year. I wouldn't say they actually pick much for the basket but mostly to their bellies but this year Sam helped a lot. Sam picked 3 1/2 pounds of blueberries all by himself. It is also safe to say that Jordan LOVES blueberries. Nate was her personal blueberry feeder while I was busy filling my bucket (Yes Emma picked blueberries in her tiara). We got a little over 17 pounds of blueberries and it took us 1 1/2 hours. Each year we have a contest who find the biggest blueberry. Sam won this year.
On the way home we stopped at another farm for fresh tomatoes and other vegetables. They have plenty animals around for the kids to feed and Jo loved the goats.
As you can tell we had a busy Tuesday.

Sunday Reflections

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 63:1

Paving driveway

We have been in need of fixing our drive way for some time (we are in a need of a new driveway but that will have to wait for little bit). Anyway we had couple of guys come this Saturday to do some patchwork and I couldn't resist of taking picture of our kids who were watching them the whole time. Here they are with their neighbor friend on our rocks.
It sure looked interesting and I have to say those guys earn their money by hard work.
Sam in thinking position




Here they are being silly with daddy. The boys got summer haircuts (again) and Emma thought daddy's head worked good as a drum.
just being silly

Jo has this expression on her face like we are the craziest family ever. I guess in a way she is right. We spent that morning on mountain bikes and she was not very happy in bike trailer. I bet this little girl travels more every week that she did in her first 9 months of her life. She is a happy girl most the time.

Creation Camp

The boys spent the whole week at Creation Camp. This was their second year and they had as much fun as last year (they are already asking about next year). They spent most of their time playing and learning about God's creation. They got to see their old friends and make new ones. We also got to introduce Jordan to our friends from CBS (community bible study). Sam with his group
Nate with his
The girls snacking on graham crackers and checking what is going on with so many kids around.

the David's

Today we had the David's over for dinner. We have been looking forward to this visit for some time. This is one of the blogging world friends we made along the way on our adoption journey. Our dossier (papers) traveled together to Ethiopia and our girls were roommates. We have been following each others journeys for some time and it was great to meet them finally in person. They have spent the last month traveling and stopped by to say hi to Caleb's family here in NH. It was nice of them to make an extra trip to see us.

Sakari loved this baby seat. I use it to block Jo from pulling all the books out.
Jo wasn't so sure at first what was going on but she did get to play with Sakari who was busy exploring our house. Here she is with Becca.
Anybody else coming our way?