Life Lately

Life Lately... well I took a 3 month break from this whole blog thang.  Life for us has been pretty hectic.  I can't believe the last thing I posted was Lachlyn's birthday!!  I can't even believe that i haven't even blogged our crazy exciting news yet?!  - I'll get to that in the next post-  Between kids being out of school, moving into a fixer upper house, and me working practically full time now it's been hard to set aside time for this space.  But I have missed it!  I have missed writting.  I have missed taking endless pictures and posting them here.  I feel like I have missed the whole summer. 

Speaking of summer, tomorrow Rhone goes off to school! School!!! I can't even believe how fast this summer went.  I feel like I just wrote about him ending Kindergarten and now he's off to 1st grade.  He is so excited which is pretty huge when I think about just 4 short months ago he was crying crocodile tears about leaving his school and his friends.  This summer was so great and being in the new house for about 5 months now, he has adjusted a lot more to the neighborhood and his school which we purposefully took him to play and ride bikes all summer in hopes he would grow to love it.
 // can't wait to share his 1st day with you all soon//

This summer has been pretty full.  We worked hard but we also played hard.  We took some amazing trips full of great memories this summer.  2 Camping trips, kids stayed with the grandparents for a week by themselves, California, Disneyland, and many small weekend trips around WA.

But finally our big news is that we are expecting baby #3 this November!!!!

We are so crazy excited and it has been a long journey to get to this point.  This little baby GIRL is such a blessing from God and we are beyond ready for her.  I will try to post soon about her little story and how she came into our lives.

Coming into to this new season of fall and school starting I am excited to get back to updating my little space.  Love that this little diary of mine is so forgiving and love that I can write and share this part of my life here.   And although I have over 2000 pictures sitting here on my computer of just this summer, here are just a few of our summer.

Memorial Day Weekend

 

KC and I have always wanted to give our kids the experiences that we both had growing up camping as a family.  However, as I grew older and as I had kids, I realized camping is hard man!  We've done several camping trips for 1 night but this weekend we decided it was a good idea to try out my parents camper ( before we buy one) and try 4 days.  Well, we only made it 3 days and really it was all because of my health.  The kids were having a blast, but I however was having a pretty hard time with the outdoors and my skin issues/allergies.  But we did manage to pack in everything we wanted to do into those 3 days.  We went to Leavenworth, WA which is more east meaning much warmer weather even though it's up in the mountains.  The camp site was perfect for kids!  If a lake, swimming pool, mini golf, rec room games,play grounds, and trails weren't enough... they also had a junior Circus there to entertain!  Needless say the kids weren't bored and it was nice to be able to sit back after a long day and just be together.  No TV just us in the woods figuring it all out.  The camper did save us, love being able to escape the nature for a nice nap inside.  On Sunday we took a break and drove into town and got some much needed coffee and lunch.  We even meet up with my sister and had a fun day exploring the town.

We learned a lot on this trip and hopefully can figure out a way to do this more often and also figure out how to manage my health better so that I am able to enjoy it with them.  I just can't escape my urge to buy an old vintage trailer, fix it up, and create a home away from home in it.  Or maybe we'll try a resort next time haha.

Hope everyone had a amazing weekend as well.
Happy Memorial Day!