June

In June we took the girls out of school two days early to head down to New Mexico for my sister's wedding. She married Cody Wilkins on June 19th in Colorado and it was Beautiful.

Then it was home to celebrate Brooke's birthday(which was the same day my sister got married) She had some friends over and we had a little party. I cannot believe she is 10 years old and going to be in the 4th grade-it blows me away-.

Farmers?

Three kids, two dogs, two hamsters, one cat and eight chickens! Oh my. We have added eight chickens to our family. The kids got chickens for Easter this year and we are all so excited to have fresh eggs in 4 months. We wanted 4 or 5 chicks but the "farmer" informed us that a couple might die off the first few days. So not wanting to have only 2 or 3 left I bought eight in hopes for 5, well we must be suited for the chicken raising business because all eight are alive and thriving.

Anyone need eggs? We will be loaded.


Brooke asked the other day if having chickens made us farmers? Sometimes I feel like I wake up at 5am and work all day then go to bed at 10pm just to start all over again the next day, so "yes" we must be farmers.
Not only of animals but of children.

A Date

This was taken when I was thinner and Sam's hair was Thicker:)


Last night Sam and I dropped the kids off at our great friends house so we could go out on a date for my birthday. We went to "uptown" Gig Harbor and had some yummy Thai food. We had never had Thai food before but we liked it especially the crispy squid with sweet and sour sauce-YUM-. Then after stuffing ourselves we headed to Ben and Jerry's ice cream. It was a nice night just the two of us - we need that more often. He even gave up watching the playoff game just for me, ahhh. He loves me. Even though it was on at the restaurant - you should of seen him grin!

*TIMBER*

When I look in my back yard this is what I see. Trees, trees, and more trees. We had three trees that were a little too close to the house for Sam's comfort. Sam has been cutting down trees all over our property since we have moved in, in July, but these. If one of these trees went the wrong way it would be the end of our house as we know it. I like my house. So us doing it ourselves was not really an option. Our neighbor on the other hand is a professional lumberjack -Yeah us-. So today Mr. lumberjack came to our house and took those pesky trees down. It was so awesome to see him cut them down he made it look so easy. "TIMBER" I yelled in my head as each one fell down. The loud cracking and swooshing of the tree as they fell is the best sound, I was in awe.

my new neighbors

I am so excited to be getting new neighbors. Over Christmas my parents bought a house 15 minutes away from me. They sold their ranch in Texas and have decided to move to be closer to grand kids, and me:) Never in my life did I think I would be living in Washington and now my parents, will someone pinch me because I cannot believe it.

Soccer

We finally got the girls to join a soccer team. They were hesitant about doing any sports since they played t-ball 2 years ago. They were the only girls on the team and had to wear boy uniforms-yuck-. They are so girly. So they were so excited to find out they were on all girl teams. Brooke is on the Red Rubies and Emily is on the Thunder Bugs. They LOVE it.

Clueless

Brooke thought Jack was taking her picture. This cracks me up. It's like Napolian Dynimite the more you watch it the funnier it is.