Friday evening the boys earned their green belts in tae kwon do. Here they are receiving the new belts at the end of their promotion test.
Saturday I took no pictures. Ryan and I went to Seattle in the morning to help serve a Valentine breakfast to the ladies at the Union Gospel Mission Women and Children’s Shelter with some people from church. We came home to find an ordinary Saturday in progress at the Smith house – Toby was wearing his “bibs”, Jake was shoveling gravel in his pajama pants (with one leg rolled up), and Emma had her jeans on inside-out, with a camouflage shirt, and her church shoes that were all covered in dirt because she, too, was “working” outside in them. Smithy and Mary soon arrived and spent much of the afternoon working, playing, and going for walks with us.
We do have some pictures from today (Sunday). First, pictures of Toby and Smithy working:
Still clearing trees and chopping wood – that will be going on for quite some time. 
Muscle men.
Tough guys wearing bibs – aren’t they cute?
Toby looks like a bald Paul Bunyan in this picture, I think.
After a couple hours of work we all went on a little hike in Carnation.
Jessie, Toby, Emma, and Smithy
Jake asked me to find him a nest – here are the two I found.
Emma, Smithy, Pippi, and Ryan along the Snoqualmie River.
4 comments:
Looks like fun! Where did you guys go? It looks very familier....
It's called Told-McDonald Memorial Park and it's right in Carnation along the Snoqualmie River.
Wow, green belts! Congratulations you two, Ryan and Jake. Keep up the good work!
And Carol, I'll have to show Jake my collection of bird nests when we get together for GG.
Laurie : )
Jake and Ryan - you must be getting very good at your tae kwon do! Good job sticking with it for so long!!
Grandpa and I just LOVE looking at the pictures and reading about what you are doing. We don't like being so far away from you, but getting to check the postings on the blog make us feel so much more in touch with your lives.
Keep up the good work, Carol.
She seems to have taken this over, Toby!
Love, Grandma
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