Chronicles of the Willi

How do we measure success?

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

~Joshua 1:8

-Kasie

Filed under: God on July 25th, 2010 | 3 Comments »

It’s about that time of year again…the blueberries are ripe, and we’re a’pickin’!

Man who owns blueberry farm (paraphrase): “I don’t think I’ve met anyone who has as much fun blueberry picking as you guys seem to! That’s really neat. Come again!”

I guess he heard all our talk and laughter (we were probably the loudest people there!).

We picked four gallons just for our family that day, and we’ve already consumed about two of those gallons. Believe me, they won’t last over a week and a half. Not in this family!

Aren’t blueberries delicious?

-Kasie

Filed under: fun on July 21st, 2010 | 4 Comments »

All in the Willis household rejoice – A Dunkin’ Donuts has come to town!

Now, whenever our family visits, we can pick up some freshly baked bagels and delicious coffees and lattes, as generally was our tradition in New York (we lived 5 minutes from a Dunkin’ Donuts). Huzzah!

-Kasie

Filed under: Odds and Ends on July 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.

I love this verse.

-Kasie

Filed under: God on July 16th, 2010 | 5 Comments »

A science museum, to be exact!  Those are always a lot of fun.

One morning,  a couple weeks ago, we met up with a group of friends to go on a field trip together. It was an all-day outing, including our self guided museum tour, a dinner at Subway, and capping it off at the movie theater watching Toy Story3! (a great movie, by the way! we all loved it, especially since we grew up with the previous two Toy Story movies). We had a great time!

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I wish I could be back in that climate controlled, extra cooled museum now; it’s super hot outside! Summer is here!

-Kasie

Filed under: fun on July 14th, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I now have a floor for my workshop! I’m so excited! Of course we picked like the two hottest days of the year to work on it. It was definitely well over 100. Anyway…I’m not much of a writer, so I’ll let the pictures do all of the talking for me.

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-The finished product

Many thanks to John and David for all of their help. (and being patient with us) lol

-NatetheGreat

Filed under: Uncategorized on July 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

We began our day by playing acoustic worship music for a church. We met in the national forest near a mountain stream, and even watched a baptism – it was beautiful!

Afterwards, we dropped our instruments off at home, then headed out to a party!

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Independence Day! God bless America!

-Kasie

Filed under: fun on July 7th, 2010 | 3 Comments »

So I’ve been thinking about beards lately (for no particular reason of course ) and I came across this scale of the trustworthiness of beards. I thought it was pretty hilarious.

(You have to zoom in to get a better look)

I think I’ll go with the werewolf, or the Hitler. LOL

-NatetheGreat

Filed under: fun, humor on July 5th, 2010 | 7 Comments »

She made the mistake of sitting right between these crazy guys…

You have my sympathy, Ashlee…

-Kasie

Filed under: Uncategorized on July 3rd, 2010 | 6 Comments »

We are in the process of building me a workshop. This is something that I have always wanted since I’ve been into woodworking. We finally got started yesterday by getting the ground level, and digging a trench around the perimeter. Of course when I say digging I mean have a guy with a backhoe come and watch as he digs.

It will be 16 x 24

I didn’t even think about getting pictures while he was digging.  Sorry!

For those of you who know me well you know that I like to doodle, so I thought that it would be cool to doodle on the ground. (never done that before)

I can’t wait until its done!

-NatetheGreat

Filed under: Uncategorized on July 1st, 2010 | 10 Comments »