Summer Fun

So I'm finally getting around to updating what we've been doing this summer! Now that the weather has FINALLY warmed up, we've been having fun enjoying the beautiful sunshine. It feels like we're getting a week of summer crammed in before school starts, we're trying to enjoy it while it lasts though!

First up, we've really loved the Nature Center at Snake Lake, we've been there quite a few times this summer:

We also got to take a trip up to Northwest Trek, if you aren't from around here, its sort of like a zoo, but more open and less rare animals. You can take a tram ride around like 200 acres or something, where the animals are all right out in the open and sometimes right next to the tram. They also have big wide open exhibits of other animals, its pretty neat and we had a great time:

We've also gone to a splash pad a time or two, even though its really not THAT hot and they end up freezing when they're done, they still beg to go ALL the time!:

I think I'll stop there for now because its getting a little long, but you can look forward to pictures of us at a petting zoo/fishing trip, Wild Waves Water Park, and going to the ocean! Fun times!

The 4th of July

I am FINALLY blogging. Sheesh. I tried to blog about the fourth of July a week or so ago but blogger is so dumb when you try to add pictures, so I am starting again.

I'm going to start with the fourth of July and we'll see if I can keep catching up after that! I think I'm just going to add a bunch of pictures, you'll get the idea of how it went by them! But apparently these are backwards, so as you look through the pictures pretend its a movie thats on rewind or something. You remember rewind right? :D

It was a really fun day, the weather was great, the fireworks were puny but still fun, the kids ran around all day, it was fabulous. :)

Boo Hoo

Once again its been a month since I last blogged.

Ugh.

This time its really not my fault. My computer's hard drive is broken and I haven't gotten it fixed yet. I don't have an extra $300+ laying around, ya know?

Dave's been really good about bringing his laptop home from work and letting me use it, but even so, I just don't feel like blogging. I can't get my pictures off my camera, I can't edit, I can't do my photography project, we even got our family pictures back and I can't show you them! Its depressing.

Also, we were planning a trip to Utah for a family reunion and decided the week before to cancel the trip. I'm still avoiding thinking about it because it just makes me so sad. We're trying to buy a house right now, so in an effort to save money we decided it would be smarter to just not go. I hate money. And responsibility. And... and...yeah.

So right now, instead of being down in sunny Utah, hanging out with family and friends; we're stuck here in drizzly Washington, doing not a lot of anything. Boo.

Also I tried dying my hair red again. I thought for sure I had found how to get it exactly how I wanted. Do you think it worked?! OF COURSE NOT!! What is wrong with my ridiculously hard to dye hair?! I spent HOURS researching the best way to dye dark hair and STILL didn't work. So annoying.

Okay, this pity party is over. Here's hoping my computer gets fixed soon, we find the right house, and everything works out. Keeping my fingers crossed. :)

A little bit of This, A little bit of That

Its been a month since Sam's birthday. Whats happened in the last month? I don't know, my brain is so fuzzy right now. Its Sunday afternoon, I ate a nice meal, I'm full and I'm sleepy. A nap sounds real good right now! :)

Actually this last week was pretty crazy, something to do every day. Monday I went and looked at a house to rent. It was a pretty good price for the house, and she said "HURRY and put your paperwork in (meaning: pay us $40) because there's been a lot of interest!!!" So for every person that turns in an application, they get paid $40, but I'm not just forking money over to people if I have no chance of getting the place, thats just stupid. Anyway, the place went before we could put any paperwork anyway.

Last week Dave went to play basketball and when he got to the van he noticed the window behind the driver's window (the sliding door window) was shattered. Because its safety glass, it all sticks together, so there was no hole in the window, just a couple pieced around the edge fell off. We have NO IDEA what happened to the window, but a really nice (sarcastic much) guy came over (I think he was on drugs) and was super interested in what happened, "ohhh, uhhhh, something happen to your window?! yeahhhh, thats terrible....soooo, uhhhhh, can I borrow some money?" For real. That happened. Dave told him no and he was gone. So anyway, on Tuesday we got the window fixed. It was so awesome driving around with a garbage bag taped to the window, as if we didn't look like white trash enough. *sigh*

Wednesday, I've blocked from my mind. But it involved lots of cleaning and lots of laundry.

Thursday was our Relief Society meeting. Can you guess what the topic was? It was on "combating stress". Ironic much? It was a really great/really interesting class and boy did I need it! haha We had a marriage and family counselor come do it, and her husband was there who's a naturopathic doctor. It was really informative and now I'm pretty sure I've maxed out my stress receptors in my brain and don't have enough cortisol to handle day to day life. Huh.

Friday was a day to try to relax a little, but I did give Bethany a haircut she's been begging for since forever. I can't remember what else we did besides make a tent on the living room floor and watch some stupid movie about horses Miranda Cosgrove was in.

Yesterday was the best day yet, my cousin Lee's wife Megan called and said she was taking me out to lunch for taking newborn pictures of her sweet Maddox, so we met up at the mall, shopped a little, ate a little, found some great sales at Crazy 8, and talked a BUNCH. :) Both our husbands were awesome and kept all the kids at home, so we just got to enjoy every minute. I loved it! Do girls realize how important they are to each other? We must not or else we'd be nicer to each other! :)

I've also been doing a little photography project, where every week I get a new prompt and take a photo for whatever the theme is. I've been doing it all year and am up to week 24 this week. Its been pretty fun! If you want to see them, you can go to my photography blog. So there you go for a little update, maybe this next week I'll implement some of the stress reliever tactics and I'll be able to remember what happened the first part of the month!

Sam's Birthday

So Sam had his third birthday earlier this month! He was so excited to open presents and tell everyone that he's three now! He's very into the "Cars" cars and boy did he get spoiled! He got a bunch of knew cars and fun toys! It was so fun to see him so excited opening presents, and playing and being such a big boy! He's saying the funniest things every day and I just love it, he's saying BIG words now, like someone's not "allowed" something, earlier he was trying to say coyote and it sounded more like "key-odie"--so cute! I love the way he purse's his lips when he talks and gives me sly looks out the corner of his eye, he's such a funny kid. He's been really friendly to other kids lately too--I was working on a project in the garage with the door open so the kids were playing in the driveway, a neighbor girl ran up to us and started asking questions. Sam looked at her for a minute, and then said, "Hey! Come chase me!!" and ran away, so she did! It was killing me! One of his nursery teachers told me there was a new little boy in nursery and Sam came right up and said, "I'm three! Do you want me to come to your house to play?" hahaha And earlier today we went to the ocean and a little boy was playing next to us, so Sam turned and waved at him and said his name was Sam, I just love that he's so friendly!

Here's a couple pictures from his big day:

Fun in the Sun

The weather is starting to get a little nicer, and when I say "nicer" I mean we have a day or two with sunshine and it gets over 60, and then it rains for five days. :) I'm just happy with the beautiful days and trying not to focus on the rainy ones (its hard sometimes). When the sun shines here though, it is absolutely gorgeous and the kids love being outside (I love them being outside also)! :) My parents got one of those big play toys from Costco, so the kids have had a lot of fun playing over there when all the stars align and the sun is out and we have a car to be there. ;) Here's a few pictures from some of the nice days we've had lately:

Argh, its a Lot!

Okay, its been a long time. I think the longest I've ever gone updating this blog! Its hard once you get behind it feels overwhelming to go back and try and do all the stuff you've missed! Hmmmm, what have I not told you about the last month or so?

Let's see, I could add a couple pictures from my birthday. David took his first work trip to Washington DC. And then there's Easter and Kimball's birthday, baby blessings, did a little photography, Jim & Kay came to visit, a Cinco De Mayo party and Mother's Day...and I don't know, lots of other little stuff. So in an effort to get back on top of things, I'm just going to add a bunch of random pictures. :)

This is from my birthday, Dave got a pinata and we hit the candy out of him! haha

This is his hotel room in Washington DC, I added more pictures from his trip on my other blog. (cherryblossomsphotos.blogspot.com)

Just a few pictures from Easter:

Jim and Kay's visit, we went to Point Defiance and it was actually a nice day!

(Jim picking a flower for Maddie)

Cinco De Mayo party, we all wore mustaches. Yes even me. I looked so gross. hahaha

This was the pansy plant they gave all the women at church Sunday for Mother's Day.