Shalom Friends and Family,
I hope you all had a pleasant month! Ours was very good ... but full. The most surprising thing about last month was, we didn't get very many pictures! And that is a shock in the Washburn family - we are known to take pictures of "everything" :) Well, I need to correct myself, we did get hundreds of pictures ... but most all of them were of our dogs and puppies ... and I'm not going to post those here :) But hardly any just regular pictures!
It was quite a change coming back here after being in Israel. While in Israel, we would go to, or walk by, the beach more days than not. We lived 5-10 minutes walk away from it and we had to pass it to go to the different congregation activities, etc. It was hot there ... the sun was bright ... there were blue skies ... and we went swimming some days. We came back to TN and it was COLD and gray! Quite the change! Now we have beautiful spring weather, but it is odd because we already had spring ... in Israel :) But it was not green there, like it is here!
The past month was full of work ..... spring cleaning, catching up from being away for so long, taking care of dog stuff and our different home-businesses. As well as fun things like ...... going to a friend's birth, parties and meetings ..... I think I'll stop there!
Here are the few pictures we do have to share.
We went and took lunch to Abba and Sam one day ... they were working beside a beautiful large creek. FYI ... the water was FREEZING :)
Abba ve'Ima ("ve" is "and").
On a different day the children built a castle on a rock.
Almost matching … I really like this picture!
Ruthie.
Abigail
(she and Lydia were dressing up)!
I like this picture of Sam mowing the lawn .... actually, I think he was just taking his dog for a ride!
I was so excited when we got the call in the middle of the night that our friend was in labor ... but a little disappointed when we missed the birth by ONE MINUTE!!! I still had an amazing time and was very blessed to be there! Below is me holding Ezra ... the day of his birth.
Samuel and Ezra.
I really like this picture. Almost every time we tried to get a picture ... he would close his eyes :)
He is such a sweet, peaceful little guy!
I hope and pray your coming month is filled with much joy, peace, and lots of laughter! Shalom.
