June 12

Another beach day.....

the kids caught a ride down to the beach courtesy of STRONG Dad.

reeled in two fish on one pole, all by herself!

fishin' girl

throwing 'em back into the Ocean

like father like son

biggest shark caught as of yet, eek!

"more shark dadda!" from little shark boy

June 11

we spent a great afternoon at the beach today with friends. perfect 90* and small waves! plus we saw parachuters jumping out of planes!

June 8

playing an elephant spraying water.

95* today so the sprinkler, popsicles, and a crown were all a MUST have.

hoping tomorrow I am not such a grump. and that E goes to bed at bedtime- AND stays asleep for the entire night. last night he and I were up from 9:30p- 1am. tonight he went to bed for Clay, then woke up when I got home from the store, and proceeded to switch between pretending to sleep and throwing a fit for a few hours. goodnight.

June 7

I now notice and appreciate all the gorgeous mountain views WA has to offer, they were breathtaking and all around me!

so I missed a few days, I knew it would happen- bound to happen while traveling cross country with a 2 and 4 year old as my company! Last night we got in at 7pm, both kids were asleep from 9pm-9am. I loved sleeping in and even got like 10 hrs of sleep- that rarely happens due to my late night staying up. today was a no nap day for E, and I am hoping that he is tired enough to sleep thru the night and not just think going to bed at normal 7pm bedtime is a nap (who am I kidding, he doesn't usually go to sleep till closer to 8:30pm, but he was super tired he should sleep all night!). He was so tired he laid down on the bathroom floor, and it was almost 7pm so I put him to bed, he made it late enough! Gabby just whistled to get my attention, and get me into her bedroom. Prayer time after dad did stories. Being tired and 4 seem to be a pretty emotional combination for her. that and being even more boy crazy... our waiter in Seattle (at our hotel) and the pilots of our plane both got the compliment from her that they were such nice gentlemen!

a few things I noticed upon coming home, the Mr of the house doesn't know how to work the a/c. he had it set 7 degrees color than we normally do, it was CHILLY in the house (and bound to be expensive) and he didn't think to check the mail! He did however make sure we were stocked with milk, lemonade, lots of fruit and a box of popsicles! I made a big grocery shopping trip after he got home from work.

Today was a welcome back to VB day, high of 91*, we played in the sprinkler off and on all day, had grilled chicken for dinner, I mowed the lawn, almost unpacked the suitcases (well 2 out of 3 are done, just mine left!) and let E wear underwear all day! he had 2.5 accidents (that I know of) the half is to account for him starting to pee but stopping and me getting him on the potty in time to finish. you don't want to know about the others, lets just say we don't have a dog for him to blame!

June 3

this truck framed the perfect Mountain views for me on my drive home from a wonderful visit with a good friend! This is part of what makes the PNW so amazing.

June 2

practiced with different settings on the camera, while out in the perpetual sprinkles that are WA.

ps- my blogger is set to east coast time, really I have 42 minutes left until it is tomorrow!

June 1

my little loves! ring bearer and flower girl

I am jumping on the band wagon, going to try to post something every day for the entire month of June! It may just be a single picture- maybe I will really learn how to use my camera, or it might be a funny saying that my little talkers have said.

Tonight is night 5 out of 1611 nights that Gabby has not been with me! Since she was born, the only times she has not been home (where ever that may be at times, like now) sleeping the same place as me are; the two nights I was in the hospital after having Elliot, Christmas night of this past year when she had a sleep over with her Grandma Rose, and then earlier this week one night, and again tonight she insisted on staying for sleep overs with Grandma!

Elliot has spent one night away from me- out of 790 nights!