Molly and Ashley started school on Tuesday, I turned 40 on Wednesday and Tom had an important meeting at work, and Ashley started Kindergarten on Friday.  It's been a busy week . . . That evening, Tom got home early and made dinner and cleaned up the dishes.  🙂  It...

Both Molly and Sage started school today.  (Ashley starts on Friday.)  Sage took the bus and wanted to walk to her class herself.  Molly wanted us to drive her.  It's hard to believe we have a 4 th grader and a 1st grader! We started off the morning with some special...

After we got back from the cruise, we had just a short time before school started, so we packed the days full of fun things with friends and as a family.  Below are some highlights . . . Playing at Pipe Lake with friends This is the same lake as the one in Cherokee...

We celebrated Ashley's 5th birthday with family and friends down at the lake again this year.  The weather was beautiful and the kids had fun swimming.  (And it was such an easy party to prepare for!  Yeah!!)  

It's hard to believe that Ashley is 5 years old and starts kindergarten in just a few short weeks! We celebrated her birthday with Grandma, Grandpa and the kids on August 1st, her real birthday (pictures to come from our vacation later . . .) Today, she invited a few...

Saying goodbye to coffee in the morning and mid afternoon is hard!! About 4 months ago I started having severe pains in my breasts and under my right arm.  (I even took a few pregnancy tests which came back negative (thank goodness.))  After blood tests, a mammogram,...

One of the things that I love about living up here is the King County Library system.  I love that our library looks like it is in the middle of the forest.  Everyone is so helpful.  They have a great system for putting books on hold and offer so many e-books and...

Today is our 19th wedding anniversary.  Since Tom was off the 3 days before, we celebrated early.  We took the kids over the the Myers house and we headed up to Rattlesnake Ledge for a hike.  I was a bit intimidated by the thought of the hike, but it wasn't bad.  We...

Tom has been off for the past 3 days so we were able to enjoy a lot of time together as a family.  We camped in the back yard, headed up to the Lynnwood area to escape the heat and spent time at the lake.  Ah, summer!!

VBS ended tonight at church and it was a long week.  I was so excited for another year and thought it would be easier with the kids being older, but didn't expect some bad asthma trouble for Ashley, so it was tough. She was on my lap or glued to my side for at least...