Father's Day

Dad really wanted a video for Father's Day since Mom got one and he thought it turned out so well.  So, that's what he got.  We filmed it at Jason and Nicole's house on a Sunday.  And Dad was pretty confused as to why he wasn't invited to come.  We eventually gave in and told him why we were going to Jason's and why he wasn't allowed to come along.  Then he was like, oh, ok.  So here are some pictures of the process and the video is at the bottom.

I actually have no idea why it looks like I'm scolding Zach here.  By the way, I got contacts, so I don't have to wear glasses all the time anymore!!!  It's AWESOME!!!

Jason played Dad in both mine and Zach's memories.  It was so funny how Jason looked just like Dad in Dad's bathrobe, hat, and slippers!

                     If you click on the video, it will go to the youtube site and you can see it bigger.

I love you, Daddy!  Thank you for doing everything you do for me.  And thank you for guiding me and really talking to me about stuff when I needed it.  I love you so much! ♥♥♥

Sunday Hiking

 

Abigail, watching Dad, Zach, and Nathan build a dam.

Me and Abigail, I'll confess I went up there with Ab so I wouldn't get roped into building the dam with the guys.  It didn't work.  I ended up helping after all.

Dad, Nathan, and Zach starting to build the dam.

Anna, looking gorgeous.

Dad and Zach making progress on the dam.

Nathan with Prince.  Sadly, Prince is the only dog we have left.  Lady got really sick about a week ago and we had to put her down.  *tear*

Dad and Zach moving a big heavy rock into place on the dam.

Nathan and Zach in the Platte River.

Mom decided to get her feet wet.

The guys and Abigail decided to go for a swim in the Platte River.  I almost wanted to, but I didn't want to have to change my white shirt to do it.

Sunday Hiking

In the above picture, do you see where the two hills dip down into each other?  Well, Dad, Zach, Nathan, Abigail, and I climbed all the way up there, turned left, and continued on up following a stream.  We wanted to find out where the origin of the stream was, and I think we did.  It pretty much vanished into the ground.  I was a little disappointed because by that time I was so tired and hot that I wanted the origin to be a big lake that I could jump in and go for a swim.  Oh well.  It took us a long time to climb up and then down that mountain.  At least 3 hours.  I think it was 9 p.m. by the time we got back down to the truck.

Prince



Nathan, after we got back to the truck.



Me.  My face, hands, and clothes were dirty from all of the charred trees.



Zach and Nathan.  It's probably a blurry picture because Mom or Anna most likely had to zoom in to get it.

Lady

We're all pretty sore in our legs from that adventurous trek, and I'm even sore in my arms.

Today

Ok, so today was a warm spring day.  I would say that it was hot, but it was nothing compared to what the weather must have been like for my friends in Missouri, Texas, and Wisconsin.  It's amazing, the weather here!  Since moving here from Missouri 2 years ago, it's not been that hard to notice that the weather is much kinder to us here; it's cooler in the summer, and not so bitter cold in the winter.  Ahh!  I love it here.  But I still miss home.

So anyway, our neighbor is going to be out of state for about 3 months and we were given directions today on how to water her flowers, trees, and lawn, and feed the birds.  Am I forgetting anything?  Oh yes, we're also mowing the lawn and clipping (more like demolishing) all the ugly shrubs in her yard and ours, and washing her windows.

The 3 of us gals sang at a retirement home today.  We sing at 4 places 2-4 times a month and we've all agreed that this is our favorite place to sing.  The people at this place seem to really enjoy it and want to hear us.  Plus, this place has the best piano out of all 4 places.  It's a mahogany colored Yamaha grand.  It's beautiful!  Only, the keys tend to stick the faster and louder you play.  Haha, it was so funny today.  I was playing the 3rd movement of one of Beethoven's Sonatas, and the sticking keys were really muddying up the sound, so Anna and Abigail stationed themselves on either side of the piano, and whenever they saw a rebellious key still sticking up, they'd reach in and push it down really quick.  It was so funny while it was happening, all 3 of us were laughing, and we must have been some kind of sight for the folks listening!  (Yeah, I guess you had to be there to get the real effect.)

I edited the following photo today.  I just put up a new post on my photography blog, so I just decided to put it up on this blog.

I saw this white and purple iris while walking the dogs yesterday morning.  I LOVE how the colors are on it!

So anyway, that's what I did today.  I know I haven't been getting many Sunday Hiking posts up lately and I'll try to get on that.  Those are my favorite posts.

On a side note, Mom and Dad's 23rd anniversary is tomorrow!  23 years!  19 of those 23 years they've spent raising me and I love them so much.  I know I am not the most perfect child in this family, I've got a tendency to rebel in certain areas, but they've dealt with me with love (more than I deserve I know) and firmness and prayed for me whenever I needed it.  Even when I didn't think I needed prayer.  But the truth that I've come to learn is, everyone needs prayer. Every day.  Every hour.   Every. Single. Minute.  So, thank you Mom and Dad for dealing with me the way you have for my whole life.  I love you so much!

Pictures

A while ago, we took all of our pictures off the computer and put them on a separate hard drive because they were taking up so much room.  So we only have a few recent pictures on the computer now, and if we want to see the other ones, we have to plug in the other hard drive.  Well, I needed a particular picture from the hard drive but had no clue which file it would be in.  So I went through all of the files on that hard drive!  And boy, we had a LOT!  Anyway, looking through all those pictures I stumbled upon these few.  And I just couldn't not put them up.  It's so fun to take a stroll down Memory Lane.

Dad and Zach looking AWESOME in their dressed-up cowboy outfits.

I think this is the most recent pic of the 6 Silverberg kids.  And this was taken last year in June.

Me, with my Missouri pastor and his wife.   I'm probably 12 or 13 here.

This is probably my favorite picture of Jason and Nicole.

I love this one of Abigail and Anna Marie.  It's so cute!

Jason.  This is one of the days he was riding bulls all day long.  Don't those chaps look so cool!

This baby camel was so adorable!  And he LOVED kisses!!!

Me and Anna.  This was at a friends' wedding.  It's supposed to be a pic of our hairstyles.

Me and Anna again.  Anna's on the left.  I love this one of us!  We were like 3 and 4 years old.

Well, not a very good facial expression.  I was actually trying not to make a face.  But everything else is kinda cool.  I'm 13 years old here.

There were a few others I thought about adding, but it would have made for a super long post.

Woops!

Ok, so I've got a confession to make about this post:  these pictures are actually from last Thanksgiving.  I was going to put them on facebook to share them, but somehow it all got forgotten.  So, here is the long lost story.  Thankfully it's a short long lost story.  Last Thanksgiving we made like 3 pies and Chocolate Creme Pie just so happened to be on that list.  Well, since there were 3 pies, only a little was eaten of each one.  So after dinner I took it upon myself to put the pies away.  So I put the Chocolate Creme in the refrigerator first, then comes the Apple Pie; only they would both fit better if the Apple Pie went in before the Chocolate Creme.  *here it comes*  I grabbed the edge of the Chocolate Creme foil pie plate, began sliding it out, started to lift, realized I didn't have firmly enough in my hands and .....*slip*.....Just like that.  The pie flipped, but amazingly I caught most of it with my hand.

As I said, I salvaged most of it, but now it's more like a pudding than a pie.  It still tasted pretty good though!

This is me cleaning up the part I wasn't able to rescue.  Of course Anna had to run and get a camera before I was done cleaning up.

The whole thing was pretty funny though.  As soon as it fell I gasped, causing Anna to look over and see what I had done, resulting in a gasp of her own.

Mother's Day/Sunday Hiking

Well, yesterday was Mother's Day, and like we always do after church on Sunday, we went into the mountains.  But instead of having a bon fire and roasting our hotdogs, this time we brought along a newly bought grill just for this kind of occasion and grilled our hotdogs and hamburgers.  And in my opinion, Dad grills the best hamburgers there are to be had.

Since it was Mother's Day yesterday, I'll start off with my beautiful mother.

The 3 gals in this family quilted a table runner for her and snuck it upstairs and placed it on the table while she was in the kitchen double checking everything in the cooler.  Jason and Nicole stopped by with the flowers while we were out.  The last gift we gave to her is at the bottom of this post.

Mom...you're the greatest.  I love you so much, and I want to thank you for all the encouragement that you've given me for my whole life, and I know you'll do it for as long as you can.  I just want to say that I love you and I always will. ♥♥♥


These pictures are from the hiking that we did yesterday.  I didn't take them all,  Anna did a few and so did Mom.

Anna Marie

Rachel, well, me ♫

Zach

This is Nathan up in an aspen.  And just so y'all know exactly how high we was at this moment...

Thant's him up in the tree with the rest of us down on solid ground.

Abigail

Dad

And now for the last gift given to Mom for Mother's Day: