Luke and Jenny Anne Bulla!

This is a great inspiration for my kids!! These two were so good! And cute as can be!!

Random Family Pictures

We went to the park today and took some pictures with ALL 30 cousins...not an easy task....but they all did awesome!!!! Here are just a few of my quick candid shots I took. Trust me there are 'Way' many more to come!

Mailee, Murren and Savannah

Seth, Levi and Will

My litttle Goldman Family bunch

Mailee, Savannah, Cassie, Breannah and Murren

Levi, Alex, David, Kaleb, Kolten, Devin, Collin, Jared and Seth

Alex, David, Kaleb, Devin and Collin

Meghann and Anna

Happy Birthday Savannah!

We are so happy to have Savannah on her birthday today here in Oregon!!! 8 yrs. old. Yippeee! What a sweet niece and fun cousin to my kids. I like to think of her and the twins as triplets when they are together. Savannah is so smart, she likes to talk and have conversations....deep ones, she must take after someone in her family?...hmmmm! HA She seems to try very hard, and do her best in whatever she does, which is great.
We love her very much and pray God's blessings on her this next year of her life! May the Lord bless you Savannah on your birthday today!!! We Goldman's Love ya

Playing tomorrow at the Park

Quick update on a free event we are playing at! The Friday Night Festival Music in the Park in Central Point. 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m. The park is behind the Post Office. If you can please come! Unless you are planning on going to the Mannatech Regional at Table Rock Fellowship...do that instead!
Well better go practice :)

P.S. Alex has been sick for a few days (and he never hardly gets sick) anyway, he has a very sore throat and that is not good because he sings many of the songs we play and will be playing tomorrow night. Please pray for him....Thanks

Few More Festivals Still!

Tomorrow will be a pretty busy day. 10:00 a.m. we play at the Lake Selmac Bluegrass Festival, then we'll jam a little, join the band scrambles, and say howdy to old friends. After that we will drive an hour or so away to the Thunder Ridge Ranch where Alex plays with the Emy Phelps Band. It will be fun, a bit hot (our AC does not work in the van this summer....yucky) but we'll keep splashing water on our faces and dream of winter days! We are so bummed we will miss the premier of "Come What May" with the family BooHOO. We did see the movie already and Loved it! What great talent, and for God's glory awesome!

Well, guess I should go practice that bass, so I can hit the right notes tomorrow!! HA

Oh how do you like Jeb and his little guitar?!? Alex won that at the last band scramble he was in but he shares it sometimes with Jeb. Funny

Happy Birthday Collin!!!!!

14 yrs old......We Love You!!!!!!!!
The Greatest
Can I say any more?? Nope!
We Love him!!!!!!
Happy Birthday Buddy

July Fourth 2008

Our day started off with going to Central Point to see the parade. Levi and Kolten are taking karate and they had a float. Waiting for the famous cousins on the float.

Ellie and Karissa did a great job holding up the sign!! WOW Cute too!

So why are Karissa and Ellie walking and these tough guys who do karate sitting and taking it easy on the float????? HA

Esther was running back and forth passing out papers and candy, I think, she was cute as can be also.

After the parade we headed over to Ashland to hear Alex play with the band Emy Phelps. He did an awesome job, it was wonderful.

After Emy Phelps was the High Lonesome Band...they are great! They asked Alex to come up and join them on a song, that was fun for him!! Back to Bluegrass!!!

Our Wonderful supportive family came to see Alex. What a blessing to have all the that love in the audience.

After the music Liisa took some of the kids to the creek behind the stage. It was hot so the kids loved that!

Fossil Bluegrass Festival

Wheeler Bluegrass Festival 2008Everyone LOVES Mason!

Jamming with friends, Dewgrass, Molly Adkins, Martin Stevens, Goldmans and more. It was so wonderful to see and hear Anna jamming with the banjo! She is getting sooooo good!! She sure loves to play, but she wants to learn more songs. I was proud of her.

More jamming late into the night...Playing with Green Mountain mandolin player Tyler

Jake, Collin and Alex

Band Scramble group....Mo (stands for mandolin orchestra) They won 1st place!!!

Counting the money they made, it was $107.00 WOW!!

Jamming more...oh my we love to jam!! All ages and all hours of the day at a bluegrass festival.

Thanks to Grandma Dot for taking us and making the driving enjoyable! We had a lot of fun!!! It was AWESOME to see the Dewgrass band again. We hope to go back next year to Fosssil, and Lord willing be a playing band in the list of bands!

Thanks Karissa for the Quilt

Jeb's 15 yr. old cousin, Karissa made Jebediah this BEAUTIFUL quilt! She made up the pattern and hand sewed it herself! WOW! This is homeschooling talent 101~~~~Totally. It is so funny because a few days before Jeb was born I dreamed that he had a quilt that was musical and confederate. Steve's mom did a qulit for him that was red white and blue! Oh I love my family!!! Thanks Karissa.... Jeb and I love the quilt!!!!! You are AMAZING. Thanks to your MuMu (Grandma) who showed you by example how to sew so beautiful.

Above....Jebediah in his new sailor outfit Grandma Dot bought for him.

Visiting Great Grandpa Bob

We went and saw Great Grandpa Bob, I grew up calling him "Big Grandpa" but Steve could not remember if he was big or little so he has taught the kids it's Grandpa Bob to keep it easy for him. Grandpa is 92 years old and still doing pretty good. The kids don't know him the way I knew him but they still like to go see him. Age is a strange thing, "getting older is no fun, but it's better than the alternative" which is a quote this Grandpa likes to say! He's funny. This was the first time he met Jeb, it was sweet.

Murren, Mailee, Jeb and Grandpa Bob

Mommy, Jeb and Grandpa Bob

Jebediah and his Great Grandpa Bob Cox

Anna and Grandpa Bob

Cassie Marie (Marie named after his wife, Marie Cox) and Grandpa Bob

Mailee, Grandpa Bob and Murren

Love.....Family

Oh yes, everyone LOVES Grandma and Grandpa! The greatest grandparents these kids could ever wish for!!! Love, support, encouragement, joy, comfort and well, 1,000,000,000 other great qualities are all bound up in my mom and dad!!!! oh it's......David, Mom, Grandpa, Collin, and Alex in the picture.

We were blessed to have my big brother Troy down here for a few days and he met Jeb for the first time! That was great! Troy said he looks like the rest of the Goldman's and he's a keeper, we agree! HA We are excited to find out what Troy and Heather are going to have in November # 7 boy or girl for them. Hey, that means we should have to come up to Washington to visit them huh!! Oh yeah!! They have the Organic wine vineyard near them...I am coming! Well, not to mention terrific and awesome kids!!!

Big sister Murren Loves Jeb. And she is a cutie herself with those missing teeth of hers!

Everyone loves David! I know I do! I took David with is to the Green show on Saturday and he is so funny. When we got home the twins and Will ran out to greet us, so sweet! What an amazing man! God is going to use him huge! He also is getting to know some pretty awesome people too...Bob Burg and stuff!! Wow! Love you David. Keep up the studies, piano and the blog :)

Green Show in Ashland

On our way to the Green Show!

Jeb's ready to go!!

Watching the Green Show...dancing and great music, Anna and Cassie looking cute!

Renaissance dancing and music, it was great! The dancers reminded me of Karissa and Destiny!

Alex, Collin and David, after the show. Cool Guys!!

All of the group, it was fun to have these kids, they are great!

This is the main reason we went tonight, :) we wanted to see Anna's old Penny whistle teacher Pat O'Scannell. It was fun to watch, hear and see her again! She's a great teacher and musician!