Early August Adventures

In the crunch to get this blog updated I am going to crunch a lot of posts into one.

Lily got her Lion Shave again and is a happy girl.

Note that this picture is in the early August category, that is because it took that long for Jeremy to open his birthday gifts (from July 14th).

We threw a birthday party for Jaydon in early Aug because we knew we would be moving and not have met many people to have a party for him in CA. Our neighbor Adam put his lineman skills to good use helping us hang up a shade tent.

Jaydon requested his usual cul de sac party.

Great pic of Uncle Greg and Auntie Wendy

Lots of family and friends were able to come celebrate Jaydon and say good-bye

He requested pie for dessert and Nona Lainie came through with a homemade cherry and berry pie!

Our friends the Lambs made it after a soccer tourney, Kate and Alexa were loving feeding the twins their bottles.

Again trying to cram in as much as possible we met up with cousins Brenna and Caedan at the horse farm where Lucy did camp. We enjoyed a trail ride, then went to the nearby pool. Fun last day hanging with our family.

Jaydon was at a baseball camp during this week. So he missed out but I am thinking he much preferred playing baseball to riding a horse.

Didn't get any pics actually playing in the pool but we enjoyed it!

The day after riding horses and swimming my mom took us to a horse barn in Snohomish where one of her former colleagues has a horse and took us around. The girls continued to be in heaven as the horse crazy kids they are.

The famous horse at the barn Rembrandt.

One lonely picture of hitting the jumping place with our friends Miles and Lena before we moved.

I told Kate she needed to try packing a bag of the stuff we would need on our vacation before we got to CA. She got this pile together. It was better than the day before when she emptied every single item from her drawers worrying that not everything would come with us on the move.

Saying good-bye to the Angelos kids. Tim and Alex were our ring bearers when they were young and Sarah was just over 1. It has been so wonderful being close to them the past few years, we will miss them a lot.

Saying good-bye to Leo (a neighbor boy who Jaydon loved playing with.

The 5 of us before we drove away for good!

Sad faces with neighbors we will miss.

Driving out of our cul de sac for the last time. Boo hoo!

The end of July

We definitely packed a lot of adventuring into the last couple months we lived in WA. Jeremy was busy working down in CA much of the time so the kids and I tried to find some fun ways to keep busy.

We spent the night with the Chambers family on our trip to B'ham. The kids enjoyed their nighttime stories! And of course played non-stop before that but I got no pictures of that.

We were able to get a quick trip to Leavenworth in to take in a show. The older two were able to go with us this year and we saw Sound of Music at the outdoor theater on Ski Hill. It was great and they enjoyed the show.

The Chambers swung by on their way camping and the kids got to play for a bit.

Lots of cribbage was played. Jaydon manages to pull a number of really good hands.

I took the kids to the butterfly museum in Bremerton after leaving Grandpa and Nana's, before hitting our cousin's 1st birthday party (which I didn't get any pics of - bummer) and then heading to Auntie and Uncle's place for the rest of the weekend.

Some boating time with Uncle and cousins.

 Then we even got to go tubing on our last day. What a wonderful way to end July!

We are alive

Hello, long time no see!

Let's just say life got away from us a bit. I will slowly be catching up with blogging for the 2018 year but it won't be fast. Just a few of the ways life got busy in the past half a year...The winter went well, just lots of school for me (learning new content and first year with both curriculum's) and school for Jeremy trying to get everything ready for his comps. I coached both older kids basketball teams, the girls still did gymnastics and Jaydon's baseball season started in Feb. In April we managed to have our first ever experience with head lice (and it was a brutal weekend into the week of de-lousing), Jaydon broke his foot the day before my birthday and was on crutches for 4 weeks, Jeremy had his comps for his PhD (which he did amazingly well on) but it was an insane week for him and us trying to stay out of his way. I submitted my National Board renewal in mid-May (that is a ton of work and hopefully I pass, I won't find out until November). We found out 2 days before the kids school ended and 4 days before mine was through that Jeremy got a promotion and we will be relocating to the Sacramento, CA area. So needless to say that has made for a crazy summer with house hunting, trying to sell our current house and all the logistics that go into a move. Jeremy started his new job July 2nd so he is down in CA during the week and we are surviving up here without him. This was supposed to be a leisurely summer for us when I told him he couldn't start his dissertation until the fall because I wanted to enjoy our summer, maybe I will see if he can start in January instead. With all that being said blogging was not a priority. I do hope to get back on track when we get settled in CA and will do a brief fly through of 2018 to date.