Life...

Here are some shots of our life from the past few months:

Hope's first day of school!




Getting off of the bus


Hope and her kindergarten teacher


We got a chance to visit the local firestation and get a tour from one of our friends, Firefighter Ashley. The kids had a great time!




Potty training is going better for Livia's dolly than Livia herself


We had a really fun family night a couple of weeks ago that was totally planned by Hope. She requested a fire in the fireplace, hot cocoa and that we all work on a puzzle together

The Fair

Ok, it's taking me forever to get the vacation pictures up and life continues to move forward. Someday I might get the rest of the vacation pictures posted, but for now you can enjoy our day at the NWWF (Northwest Washington Fair):

Final Installment of Yellowstone

Old Faithful
Old Faithful in Action:



I believe this is the Beehive Geyeser, could be wrong, but it was more amazing than Old Faithful! Upper Falls Family Pic
Yellowstone's Upper and Lower Falls:


Last night in Yellowstone. Could have spent an entire week there, so much to see and do. Maybe when the kids are bigger we'll go back and do some hiking and stay longer.

More of Yellowstone...

Marshmallows!!!






Livia's First Marshmallow...



She LOVED it!


Our Sweet Hope!


You can see some of Josiah's battle wounds. At our first hotel (second night of the trip) he was jumping on the beds and fell and hit his face on a night stand, ouch!


More Animals...


So glad these buffalo feel so comfortable on the road right between the cars!

Buffalo X-ing

Yellowstone Day 1

The North Entrance!






Mammoth Hot Springs


The Campsite! The girls tent was the blue one and the boys tent was the orange one. The first night we had a major wind and rain storm. We stayed quite warm, probaby because of the cloud cover, but we were awake most of the night because the wind was SO strong!


An elk in our campground!





Sunset on Yellowstone Lake

Vacation Pictures Continued

After we left Wenatchee we stopped in Wallace, Idaho (an old Mining town) for a picnic lunch.

The start of Vacation pictures...

The Beginning of the 12 day road trip...Andy's packing job in the van. He could even see out the back window. Yes, there are tents, sleeping bags, camping stove and supplies, plus suitcases in there. My husband is AMAZING!


Everyone is ready to go...


Cheese!


We've only been in the car 2 hours...


Our first stop was in Wenatchee, WA and we visited with our good friends the Strong's. We met Kyle and Laura at Multnomah and our front doors to our apartments were about 7ft away from each other. Now, 7 years later we each have 3 kids, that makes for a busy and noisy house. Thanks for hosting us Strong's!
(R-L: Josiah, Livia, Evan, Hope and Maddeck -baby Miles was sleeping and missing from the picture)




Laura, Kyle, Andy and Amy