God's protection at South Fork

Last time we went to South Fork in July of 2017, we met up with a rattle snake separating us from our girls. This Sabbath we met other interesting experiences.
We were invited to go to the Michael's for lunch then out to South Fork to hike. It was a relaxing day of hiking and playing in the river with NO snakes.
Upon arriving back at the vehicles,  Tiffany asked if I wanted to make sure the van would start before they headed off for home. ( I have had several times recently when it wouldn't start or run)
I walked around and started the van leaving the door open. Caleb immediately scrambled up on the drivers seat.
Rick called for the kids to come to the passenger side front of the van to see what a tick looked like- can you believe my kids don't know what ticks look like??? I walked to the back of the van noticing a pile of kiddos treasures on the back bumper. All of a sudden, the van began to creep forward towards the rushing river. (I must insert here that I thought we were maybe 10 feet from it when in reality it was more like 20 feet.)
Panicking I shrieked and began running towards the front of the van. Rick and Lucas both thought I was the driver. It took a moment to registered with them that I was the one screaming instead of driving. Rick reacted quickly clambering into the passenger side and shoving the gear shift lever into park- wincing and hoping the transmission wasn't stripping out. The van came to a rest 2-3 feet from where I had parked it the front end pressing into the bushes.
Tears of relief and fear of what almost happened sprang into my eyes. But my baby was safe. Praise God. I waited for my heart to stop pounding and the shaky feeling to subside before driving us home.
We felt God's protection very strongly that day. Thank You LORD for your protection. Here on some other pictures from the weekend.

A new "baby" in the family.

Meet Jasmine. She is a 6 week old German Shepherd puppy we found on Craigslist. From all appearances she's gonna grow to be a really big dog. Her birthday is March 9th, 2017.

Happy 10th Birthday Abrianna

Abby looks concerned.

Blowing out the trick candles.

Always more fun with friends.

Birthdays!

Abrianna has been taking cake decorating at co-op. She made me ( mommy) my birthday cake this year.

She was helping little sister learn the basket weave.

Happy 3rd Birthday Caleb!

Caleb's third birthday

The day of Caleb's third birthday was spent running errands in town. He had a post-op appointment to check his teeth. Then we met up with Uncle Reggie as a surprise at the Taqueria. Then Uncle Reggie took us to Iceburgs. After that all of us went to the Walla Walla clinic for Abby's hip x-rays. The pictures are from stopping at Lion's Park to play for awhile. Long day. Good day.

New teeth

Silver fluoride treated teeth. When he was 18 months old his teeth started rapidly to decay over about 6 weeks. He was too little to sedate and properly fill them so the decay was stopped with silver fluoride.

Now he had a tooth that was badly decayed break in half so the dentist thought it would be best to remove it. I also asked for the black to be fixed. The front 3 are capped and the other black areas filled.

As he is as big as me...

I started to compliment Lucas on his nice looking pair of jeans today when I realized they were MY jeans! Oops. Guess he could swipe mine in a pinch ( he was pretty horrified he was wearing his MOM'S pants).