Girl's Weekend in Walla Walla

My Tri-Delta College friends and I try to meet up once a year. This year we planned to reunite in Walla Walla. We have such a great time when we get together. We all wish we could do it more often. Walla Walla was a wonderful place to relax, catch up and meander downtown. It was JUST what I needed!

The Little People

I think all our kids are pretty fantastic. They fight (like all kids do), but they really do care about one another...some days, it seems "deep down".

Luke loves Zach and Eva. He even let Zach crawl into his bed and sleep there most nights (which I do think is about the cutest thing ever). Here are some pics of the "little people in our house". Lots of Luke loving Zach.

 

Recipe by Joel the Chef

Joel is pretty proud of his new "recipe". He has it most mornings. I will be happy to share it with you all.

3/4 c canned applesauce

1/2 cup canned cherries.

and it is called.....Pie! Gotta love that guy!

Experienced....I'd say so!

I think this picture proves that John has the doing-school-work-while-being-a-dad thing down!

No, they are not in head-locks, they are sleeping!

*You can notice his book in the corner of the picture. I think I was working that day. Let's just say that truthfully, it isn't always this smooth when I go to work, but John does manage to do a pretty good job juggling it all!

Butterfly Release Party!

Chloe and Luke took a Butterfly Class this spring at the home school site, and they got to raise butterflies in class!

After the caterpillers turned into butterflies, they got to release them!

Pic of the boys watching the butterflies.

Chloe ready for the release.

The butterflies didn't just fly out, so the kids tried to help them.

I thought it was so cool that the butterflies would land on the kids hands!

Love this picture!

Insanity Workout!

John and I decided to kick our workouts up a notch this summer. We borrowed the Insanity Workout from our neighbor. My sister Holly happened to also be doing this set of videos and she was smoked by these workouts! They are serious! These are pics from our first Family Insanity Workout! Quite an experience, and quite commical!

Doing push-ups....Chloe, starting out in a dress (later changed). Joel starting out in a turtle costume??....later changed.

Zach is surely the youngest person ever to do the Insanity Workout!

I can't forget to mention that Luke hung in there untill the end, and even yelled at John to speed up!

Ya, it got a little crazy when Joel jumped off the couch into my tennis shoe! Don't worry, his eye is ok.

Oh ya! That was crazy!

Trip to Tacoma

John was able to go to a chaplain's conference at Ft. Lewis last month. I debated about going with the kids and touring our old stompin' grounds (we lived in Lakewood while John worked at Ft. Lewis for 2.5 yrs). At the last minute (literally the morning of), I decided to go! We shoved some things in bags and headed out the door.

Here is the first night in our hotel. Actually there was a kind sized bed and a hide-a-bed couch, so it was spacious enough.

The kids and I toured Point Defiance Park.

Joel, actually giving me some decent pictures! I think it's possibly the first time in yrs. I must have bribed him with something good enough!

Lunch at the Rose Gardens.

Craziness at the Koi Pond.

We also went to Point Definance Zoo and Aquarium for part of our home school that week. It was lots of fun!

Another movie night.

I forgot to take pictures of all the friends we were able to see. We met with my sweet friend Jaime, we were able to meet with my friend Heidi and her two little boys and on our way home we saw our friend Laurel and her 3 kiddos, who is underway with her husband's second deployment.

We were so glad we went!