Me and my punkin'
Ester and me
Kate and Adrian
Our friends!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Pictures
Kate at the top of this huge hill of cinders. It was a STEEP hike, and it was so windy!
Me and my punkin'
Ester and me
Kate and Adrian
Our friends!
Me and my punkin'Ester and me
Kate and Adrian
Our friends!
Follow-up from insane last post!
The last post was a little brief about all of the stuff happening in our little world right now, so I have a few minutes to expand. Hope you don't mind. If you don't care, stop reading!
Okay, about our move. We have a cute little house picked out that we're planning on renting in the West Valley area of Yakima. Kate and I will move on August 15th, and we're planning on Den joining us in early to mid-October. He's going to transfer straight across with work, so we don't have to worry about his job. I've applied at Yakima Memorial and at Toppenish. I really want to stay in labor and delivery. I've missed it so much since I left in April. I'm loving the time with Kate (most of the time), but I miss my work. How lucky am I to have a job I'd go to for free? Kate's registered to start school at Apple Valley Elementary, where there are only two second grade classes. How cute is that? When I told her the name of the school, she said, "Well, at least it's an Elementary. I love Elementaries!" Priceless! Anyway, we're all excited and scared and sad all at the same time. We so want to be near our families, but we're going to miss all of the amazing people we know here in Idaho!
A couple of you asked about Kate's sleeping issues. I took her to a pediatric sleep specialist last week, and we've implemented some stuff that's helping. She's having tons of anxiety about going to sleep, and we aren't really sure where it's coming from. She sees a counselor tomorow, and that will continue till we leave. Hopefully, it will help a ton with her fears. At this point, we adore her during the day and are struggling with wanting to hit her over the head with a hammer at night. Whoever said parenting is easy?
The yard sale went great. Made some cash, which was good. We're still trying to sell our universal gym, so if anyone knows of anyone looking, let me know!
We had a blast at Craters of the Moon with the Sanchez fam on Friday. The stinkin' road was closed after we got most of the way there, so we had to backtrack and ended up taking 5 hours to get there. Long trip, but we did okay, and nobody seriously wounded anybody else on the road trip, so the whole thing was a success. Great memories, I tell ya! I'm so glad we were able to do that together. Thanks, guys! I'll post some pictures here in a bit.
Merlin is resting peacefully as a puppycicle in our garage freezer until we can get home to my parents' place to commit him to the Pet Cemetary. I haven't shed a tear over him in over 24 hours now, and I'm darn proud of it. Kate misses him. She and I both desperately want another little dog, but we also know it's stupid to do that when we're getting ready to move. So, I have to bide my time and settle for a warm bag of rice at the foot of my bed for the next few months...
Dad and Mom were here from Saturday night until this morning. It was fun, and they were a HUGE help! They packed up my books, knick knacks, spare bedroom closet, and some pictures while I was out running errands. Then... they hung out with Kate for us for an evening so we could go out and spend some time together. It was wonderful, considering it was basically a blind date. It's been so busy lately, I had forgotten what he looked like. Fortunately, he is as handsome and wonderful as ever, so we decided to continue moving forward in our relationship. That's good, since we've now been married 14 years. Wow!
The Wii is officially hooked up to the TV I bought at a yard sale over the weekend. Kate's loving it, and Den and I are trying to figure it out. The Fit says I am overweight but not yet obese, so I gave it a hug and promised to love it forever. In the future, if it continues to lie to me, I will continue to be happy. If it lies even more and tells me I'm just right, I will run away to Mexico with it.
Last thing. We all appear to be over this silly little flu we had. It was short, not sweet, and may have forever ruined strawberry/banana smoothies for me.
Goodnight!
Okay, about our move. We have a cute little house picked out that we're planning on renting in the West Valley area of Yakima. Kate and I will move on August 15th, and we're planning on Den joining us in early to mid-October. He's going to transfer straight across with work, so we don't have to worry about his job. I've applied at Yakima Memorial and at Toppenish. I really want to stay in labor and delivery. I've missed it so much since I left in April. I'm loving the time with Kate (most of the time), but I miss my work. How lucky am I to have a job I'd go to for free? Kate's registered to start school at Apple Valley Elementary, where there are only two second grade classes. How cute is that? When I told her the name of the school, she said, "Well, at least it's an Elementary. I love Elementaries!" Priceless! Anyway, we're all excited and scared and sad all at the same time. We so want to be near our families, but we're going to miss all of the amazing people we know here in Idaho!
A couple of you asked about Kate's sleeping issues. I took her to a pediatric sleep specialist last week, and we've implemented some stuff that's helping. She's having tons of anxiety about going to sleep, and we aren't really sure where it's coming from. She sees a counselor tomorow, and that will continue till we leave. Hopefully, it will help a ton with her fears. At this point, we adore her during the day and are struggling with wanting to hit her over the head with a hammer at night. Whoever said parenting is easy?
The yard sale went great. Made some cash, which was good. We're still trying to sell our universal gym, so if anyone knows of anyone looking, let me know!
We had a blast at Craters of the Moon with the Sanchez fam on Friday. The stinkin' road was closed after we got most of the way there, so we had to backtrack and ended up taking 5 hours to get there. Long trip, but we did okay, and nobody seriously wounded anybody else on the road trip, so the whole thing was a success. Great memories, I tell ya! I'm so glad we were able to do that together. Thanks, guys! I'll post some pictures here in a bit.
Merlin is resting peacefully as a puppycicle in our garage freezer until we can get home to my parents' place to commit him to the Pet Cemetary. I haven't shed a tear over him in over 24 hours now, and I'm darn proud of it. Kate misses him. She and I both desperately want another little dog, but we also know it's stupid to do that when we're getting ready to move. So, I have to bide my time and settle for a warm bag of rice at the foot of my bed for the next few months...
Dad and Mom were here from Saturday night until this morning. It was fun, and they were a HUGE help! They packed up my books, knick knacks, spare bedroom closet, and some pictures while I was out running errands. Then... they hung out with Kate for us for an evening so we could go out and spend some time together. It was wonderful, considering it was basically a blind date. It's been so busy lately, I had forgotten what he looked like. Fortunately, he is as handsome and wonderful as ever, so we decided to continue moving forward in our relationship. That's good, since we've now been married 14 years. Wow!
The Wii is officially hooked up to the TV I bought at a yard sale over the weekend. Kate's loving it, and Den and I are trying to figure it out. The Fit says I am overweight but not yet obese, so I gave it a hug and promised to love it forever. In the future, if it continues to lie to me, I will continue to be happy. If it lies even more and tells me I'm just right, I will run away to Mexico with it.
Last thing. We all appear to be over this silly little flu we had. It was short, not sweet, and may have forever ruined strawberry/banana smoothies for me.
Goodnight!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Pics from the last few months
Kate and her daddy at the Eagle parade
The front of our new house
This will be our kitchen, sans the man, I think!
Kate and her Aunt Carrie on the 4-wheeler
Kate playing at the park during her 1st grade walking field trip of Kuna
Me and my buddy, Heather
Our little family at our friends' son's baptism
Kate and our sweet Merlin
Kate and Kibbles
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
New at this!
So, I've given up and decided to blog. No, I don't have time. No, I am not naturally funny. Yes, there will be lame attempts at humor, because my life itself requires a sense of it.
There's so much going on right now that I don't even know where to start. Hmmm... we're moving to Washington... my kid doesn't sleep... I'm having a yard sale Saturday and Sunday... we're going with friends to Craters of the Moon on Friday... we had to put Merlin to sleep last Friday night... my parents are coming to visit (I think because they're concerned that I'm about to go off the deep end, which is quite plausible)... and my husband threw up all evening. It's been fun.
On a lighter note, I have recent proof that God exists and loves us. After asking for a Wii for years (okay, months), Kate won a Wii Fit in a drawing last week. When we went in to pick it up, thinking we would just hold onto it until money grows on trees and we could buy the actual Wii to use it with, the lady asked if we had one, and when we said no, proceeded to let us know they would get us one! Yesterday, Kate became the proud owner of a Wii. Unbelievable.
I'm too tired and lazy to post pics tonight. Maybe some other day. Write a comment and welcome me to this silly blogging thing, or else I'll give up and do something more productive with my time. However, I do much prefer this to cleaning toilets.
There's so much going on right now that I don't even know where to start. Hmmm... we're moving to Washington... my kid doesn't sleep... I'm having a yard sale Saturday and Sunday... we're going with friends to Craters of the Moon on Friday... we had to put Merlin to sleep last Friday night... my parents are coming to visit (I think because they're concerned that I'm about to go off the deep end, which is quite plausible)... and my husband threw up all evening. It's been fun.
On a lighter note, I have recent proof that God exists and loves us. After asking for a Wii for years (okay, months), Kate won a Wii Fit in a drawing last week. When we went in to pick it up, thinking we would just hold onto it until money grows on trees and we could buy the actual Wii to use it with, the lady asked if we had one, and when we said no, proceeded to let us know they would get us one! Yesterday, Kate became the proud owner of a Wii. Unbelievable.
I'm too tired and lazy to post pics tonight. Maybe some other day. Write a comment and welcome me to this silly blogging thing, or else I'll give up and do something more productive with my time. However, I do much prefer this to cleaning toilets.
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