Visit to WA

With the kids year round school and having from Dec 21st to Feb 4th off of school I decided a trip to WA was in order. We left on Jan 3rd (when Jeremy had to head back to work) and then got back home on Jan 22nd so we enjoyed close to three weeks of vacation. The kids traveled really well and we had a few different stops built in and a hotel stay each night. Then we got a chance to visit with a lot of family and friends for our stay! It was so fun to see everyone and hang out and bonus - I got to teach at my old school for 6 days while Grandma and Gram had kid duty so it felt like a true vacation for me too. We were bummed Dad had to stay and work but it is a busy time. I didn't get very many pics of all the things we did, too busy having too much fun!

Our first hotel night on the way up. (I forgot swimsuits so we had to run out and grab some)

 First stop, Auntie Jenny's. Unfortunately our Seahawks lost but we still had fun cheering for our team.

 Blurry pics of the cheering cousisn

A canoe ride with Uncle

Some quiet relaxing time

We made it back to 'our' side right in time to see the twins get dedicated at church!

Arriving at Grandma's enjoying the bed!

Kate was 'helping' Gram read her new book. Telling all kinds of made up stories about the pictures she saw.

If you look carefully you can see Kate wrote her numbers 1-10 on the chalkboard

Gram and Lucy would enjoy morning yoga time.

So blessed to visit old neighbors Bob and Mary (the girls even got to have a sleep over there)

Lucy enjoyed visiting with the dogs at Bob and Mary's

Kate was quite decked out for a trip to the Lamb's house.

 More morning yoga, Kate joined in this time.

Our pool on the trip home (way nicer than the way up)!

At a friends house playing in the band!

So many incredible memories, if it wasn't so hard for me to teach a traditional schedule while kids were year round schedule I could do this forever and enjoy vacations in off times like Jan, May and Oct. We truly enjoyed ourselves and survived very well for the long car ride both ways.

Visit with Great Aunt Carol and Great Uncle Bill

We loved getting a bit of an extended visit with Carol and Bill. After seeing them in Redding they got dropped off at our house to spend another couple nights before flying out of Sac. We took them to the train museum and the river boat restaurant and just enjoyed getting some time to hang out with people who have been such a loving wonderful part of my extended family. (For those who don't know Carol is my Grandma Stange's (mom's mom) younger sister.

Odds and Ends of October

October was a busy month. We had 3 sets of family visit, celebrated Kate's birthday took many fun outings exploring the area and of course had Halloween to celebrate. This post is the odds and ends of Oct.

Jaydon really got into cooking, he was excited to make these cookies with help from Granny! Kate really just came along for the photos and to do a little decorating.

Kate helped make dinner one night with Granny

This cat bed Jeremy bought Lily for the drive down to our new house has been a hit with her!

Jaydon continues to wow his teachers and does a great job at school

Jaydon had a huge bike accident and fortunately was wearing his helmet. His was definitely sore but luckily only had a couple bad scrapes on his face and nothing more serious.

Kate (and Lucy though Lucy's class was when the gym was super full so I didn't get any pics) did a gymnastics class through our local parks and rec. They both enjoyed it but are both ready to be enrolled through the actual gym facility not the parks and rec for next time.

Kate enjoys reading stories

I took this pic and sent it to my family as proof it did rain! This was almost 2 months after we had moved in and it was the first precipitation we had, the kids were also out at the playground within an hour of it ending!

Jaydon created this ship at Cal Fit (the gym we go to) and wanted a pic

 We came home with balloons from Kate's party and Lily was in heaven!

Grandpa and Nana came into town and we ate out on the river boat and toured the capital, it was fun.

Grandpa and Nana's dog Ziggy.

I got invited to bunko night and enjoyed meeting a lot of women who have kids at school with my kiddos.

One bummer is we missed the Leighton's Halloween Pumpkin Party for the first year since it restarted. Luckily Jen and her family attended so I got some pics from afar.

Uncle

Auntie and Cousin A (with Hilde looking on)

Carving those pupmpkins

Cousin E

Nona and Cousin A with Hilde just hoping for a snack.