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Today is Aaron's birthday, we have really been spoiling Daddy all weekend long with getting his birthday present (birthday $ and from me) on Friday. A Remington 30.06. Those of you who are not familiar with guns, it's a hunting rifle. He had some fun with his dad Friday afternoon doing a little target practice. 

Friday the kids went birthday shopping for Daddy. Clara knew what she wanted to get him. She even remembered were the gift was in Cabelas. 

She got him a pair of pj pants. They are a redish color with black moose all over them.  

Flora picked out a new coffee mug with moose on it (because it goes with his pants) and Andrew picked out a throw blanket. They all had a set amount they could spend,and I did have to guide away from a hideous orange plaid shirt that Flora had her eye on, but all in all a total success!. The kids had fun giving him their presents this morning and Aaron has tried out all three. 

I made him cinnamon rolls and am making a stew for dinner. We are working this afternoon to get a couple projects DONE! 

So, before I go, A birthday in the King family wouldnt be a true birthday if I did not say: 

Happy Birthday Aaron! We love you so very much. Thanks for being the husband and Daddy you are! Love, Amber, Clara, Flora and Andrew

Best Husband Ever

I woke up to these early this morning. Aaron set them on my side of the bed so I would see them first thing. I feel so loved that even when he is gone all night on calls, he still is thinking about me. I feel so special and loved. I am thankful that after almost 7 years of marriage, my man is still wooing me :) Oh, he also got me chocolate to enjoy with my coffee this morning, if all of the above doesn't put a woman in a good mood, I am not sure what will.

Today

I broke (we think) my finger in June. Last night I joked that because it was achy, the weather must be changing. Haha on me. It did. Today has been delightfully cool and a perfect day for baking!

I got lunch stuff cleaned up and then whipped up a pan of bar choco chip cookies. While those were making I got two dozen blue berry muffins ready for their turn in the oven. 

 

Both of those are done, and I then threw a chicken in to roast. We will eat that for dinner. Along with green beans, peas and carrots from the garden's picking.This afternoon we went to a neighbors to pick apples. We gathered the ones that were wormy for the chickens and the ones that were beat up for Amie and her pasture mates. While I work on a sewing project this evening, I am also going to be making apples butter with the good ones. Perfect thing to top oatmeal!

 

It feels like Fall today and I am so thrilled that my favorite season is here again!

Aaron has been plugging away at pealing off the layers on the inside of the walls to expose the beams, set new plugs/light switches and then insulate. It's coming along nicely. The kids have been enjoying a day of cooler temps and playing hide-and-seek.

Yesterday Aaron had another chiro apt and the doc is very happy with how well his back is staying in! Yahoo, and Thank God. My mom had a problem with her back when I was a child, and we have all hear horror storied of back problems. This scared me, and I am SO thankful that he is just fine. 

 

I am off to start washing apples!

 

 

 

 

Sorry that I have been awful with updating, but I just have not felt like getting on and doing so!

 

It's been an odd week but I thought I should at least up date you all on how Aaron's apt went. The Chiropractor is VERY pleased with how well things are staying in place, and saw even more improvement this week. He is off from doing the garbage pick up for the city for 3 months, but is more then able to keep working for the ambulance. We had a couple people ask about that so I thought i would clarify on that point.

We have been busy on the house (slowly busy) and I will get some pictures and up date on that soon. For now you all get to see a moth that Clara caught. She named it Cindy. 

 

 

Nana, Clara prays that the Feast will come "tomorrow" (even though we have showed her on the Calendar) so she can sleep at Nana's! :)

Slowly

Aaron when it for his longest Chiro appt yesterday. It was just a little over 2 hours with x-rays before and after his adjustment. The x-rays and the docs measurements showed that Aaron is tilting to the right. Eye level, Shoulders and hips all slumped to the right, all because of spine placement in his neck. One should also have a nice curve in the spin in the neck but Aaron's was almost perfectly strait. After the adjustment he was 50% better in all aspects. With the first adjustment like Aaron's the doc usually shoots for 30-40%, so this is very good. After a couple weeks he will be at 100%, then just making sure it stays their. Each visit from now on will be a lot shorter! We are thinking that when he is done working on Aaron, then it's my turn!

The Chiro also gave Aaron permission to slowly start back into the remodeling. So this is good as well. While Aaron's back is the most important aspect, getting projects done will be nice! :)

Blessings, 

Amber

Slowed Down

All day Friday Aaron cut down the tree, he got it almost all down, just some of the trunk left. Saturday morning he bent over and threw his back out. It was bad enough that he went to bed, was having a hard time breathing and needed some pain meds. It takes a LOT of knock Aaron down. 

 

We found a chiropractor who would see him Saturday evening (only off until Wed, and there was no way he could respond to a call in that shape) and discovered his back has got some major problems (spine looks like an S going more towards the right), all coming from his neck and most likely his accident in April 2007. The chiro addressed the cause of pain (vertabra right in between his shoulder blades was out to the left) so that he was not in as much pain, then gave him a detailed plan to get the source of the problem taken care of. It will be 6-7 weeks of once a week visits to make sure the neck stays where it needs to be, basically retraining his muscles. Then just every 6-8 weeks to help keep things maintained.

So, for right now, Aaron is taking a break from heavy work, so that he will be able to keep doing it once his back is back to normal! We are thankful that it's a problem that can be addressed with non-invasive treatment and that we discovered how bad it was, before he needed something major like back surgery.

Please pray for speed healing and that he doesn't go too crazy, since this is the man who has a hard time sitting still and is always working on SOMETHING!

Long Time Friends

Buddies since grade and middle school. All married now! 

 

Eric, Ryan, Tony and Aaron

 

Ryan's adorable family

Bride and Groom: Erin and Tony dancing for the first time as husband and wife! It was a very special day! We are so blessed that we were able to go. Thanks Aunt Karen for letting us crash and steal your car and for picking us up and dropping us off at the airport. Thank you Mom and Dad for watching the kidos! They had a blast!

Downtown Seattle as seen from I-5

Space needle at sunset.

Marble Creek

A little while ago my wonderful husband mentioned that he was missing the mountains. So, this Sabbath we took a drive, to a place I knew he would love.Up the St Joe river , then up a state road into the mountains. High on either side of a lovely creek. Since we have had such a wet and cool spring/summer everything was SO green and the "creek" was more like a river. It's a lovely place, and Aaron was thrilled. We want to go camping up there some time this summer. 

Right on the other side of the rocks we used as our picnic stop was a little creek and waterfall running into the large creek (or river since it is still running high!)

Clara is not crabby in the picture, she is feeling the whole where her tooth used to be. She looks like this a lot right now....pretty funny! :)

IOS speed set to 1600 on my camera

Same water/rock with the IOS speed set to 100. I LOVE playing with the different settings!

Best Daddy EVER!

The fort Daddy is building out of branches.

Three raga-muffins playing in said fort.

Andrew up on Amie and Mama rode a bit.

Local fishing pond. This afternoon Aaron got a tribal license and we took the kids fishing. More splashing in the water was done then fishing...but fun and sun was had by all.

Miss Clara. Shirt inside out and backwards...shirt on and in her seat before I noticed...it was quickly changed.

Doodle Bug

Miss Clara again...shirt back on right!

Miss Flora

The Daddy

While they fished I walked around the pond and took some pictures.

Daddy and his three little fisher people

Right by the A is a little turtle...all you can see is it's head.

Just dropping in to post a quick note. Aaron has his last test today, the Practicals. Where he has to talk his way though a set hands on skills (while doing said skills) in front of a panel of judges from the state. They want to make sure everyone is able to do the skillls well. 

 

He called to say he was on his way home a little bit ago. He PASSED! He is done and as soon as he gets his cards from the state, is am EMT-Advanced!