Summer lovin'...

Oct 26, 2015

When Chris and I decided to uproot our tiny family of (then) four to the tippy top of the western U.S. we dreamed of the summers we could spend frolicking through the pacific northwest.  With neither of us working for a total of 10 glorious weeks we imagined, well honestly, I think we imagined a life without kids, but instead we decided to have one more.

So in an effort to reminisce over our not so originally planned summer turned absolutely perfect with the arrival of baby Max,  I give you 10 weeks worth of pictures.

June -

Scarlett finished preschool and Max was born the next day.
 
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July -

My dad and sister came to meet Max...they were the first family members to meet the little guy.
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Once we came out of our newborn baby cave we got on a plane and flew to CA for a little R and R
But mostly we went to CA so Granny could meet her umpteenth great grandchild and to get Max baptized at our "home" church.

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We bought a van
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August -

We came home from CA to a flurry of visitors.
Joe and Kim and their four kids came for a week long visit.  This idea that originally stressed me out (I had no idea what to expect while having a total of 11 people in our house for an ENTIRE week), quickly became one of the best weeks of our summer.  We had SO MUCH fun.  We made memories with our kids and our family that I will never forget and we hope that this can be a tradition every year.

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So, even though summer has officially been over now for a month, and truthfully we welcome the beautiful fall leaves and pumpkin spice everything.  We miss the day to day monotony of asking "what do you want to do?" and knowing that it could literally be anything.  We were so lucky to have been able to spend that time as a perfect family of five and look forward creating more memories in the Washington summers to come.  


Reasons why we cut our hair...

Oct 22, 2015

Because we are going through a breakup, because our pregnancy hormones are raging and it is just to darn hot to have anything touching our necks, or because we saw an opportunity to change our look on our very own with moms craft scissors and we just happen to have a 2 year old brother available for the blame.


A couple of weekends ago I went out of town for a short trip and came home to a proud husband, a clean house and a whopper of a "sort of" confession from Scarlett.  One of the first things she blurted out after the obligatory hugs and kisses was "Dominic and I were playing, and he cut my hair".  Now there were a couple of things that tipped me off that this was pretty clearly not true.  1) Chris knew nothing about it...didn't even notice the hair cut at all.  If Dominic really cut her hair "while they were playing" I am pretty sure Scarlett would have made a stink about it.  2) Dominic doesn't really know how to use scissors that don't come with dull blades and neon colors.  3) When I asked her where the hair ended up she said "Dominic pushed it under the bed".   I then passed her the shovel and encouraged her to keep digging.

Unfortunately it took me a full day and a half to get her to admit the truth, and fortunately my neighbor is a stylist and was free to come over and fix the damage.  There were a lot of tears both in the confession and consequence but the damage was manageable and she rocks these new locks.