I've been wanting to change the way I blog... but waiting until I get caught up. Well, that clearly isn't going to happen anytime soon, so I'm moving ahead (and hopefully going back to finish posting between January and May!).
Rather than trying to post about specific events in our life I am going to try to post at least once a week and capture the charm and fun that occurs in our daily life. We'll see how it goes. :)
We're so blessed, Andrew is getting tons of time with his Daddy (we all are). I keep kidding that my kids are going to start thinking that we are independantly wealthy. Trever was able to take almost 12 weeks off when Andrew was born (he worked off and on during the last 6 weeks). Life went back to normal for a bit and then Trever found himself with an injury that is keeping him from work again. It's frusterating for him to be injured, this is the time of year that he is able to really enjoy his favorite activities. The Rainier trip is questionable, Trever is determined not to throw in the towel until he has to so we'll see. That frustration is balanced by the joy we've found in spending so much time together as a family.
Andrew is the sweetest baby! Everywhere I go I am asked if he is "always this calm?". Yes. He is super laid back, loves to watch what's going on around him, and adores his siblings. I just love to cuddle him and try to burn the image of this baby stage in my mind, it's going by so quickly. Andrew just got his first tooth, he's trying so hard to sit up, and he starting to roll over (although only in his crib when he's supposed to be going to sleep).
I'm SO thankful for each of our beautiful children.
We were finially able to squeeze in a visit with the Spencers! It shouldn't be so difficult to find time for friends, but life is busy. Hopefully our next visit will come sooner. It was fun to have Beth get a quick break from motherhood and watch her have fun on the dirt bike.
Nathan's Parents Tea. It's going so fast, especially since we only did one year of Preschool for Nathan. Off to Kindergarten all ready???? My heart is going to ache in September, my oldest is starting the process of gaining independence from us. It makes me so proud and so sad. :)
So we'll take each day as it comes... and we'll cherish the moments making memories as a family and with our wonderful friends.
This was my favorite tree when we cleared the land to build our house. Thus, it stayed. Many people encouraged us to cut it down. Their reasons seemed to revolve around the maintenance that it would cause. We're not afraid of work, and we loved this old beauty, so we resisted.
It did distract from the view of our house when you drove up. And as we planned to landscape our front yard we realized it would be better to remove it now than in a few years (an arborist said we had 5 years or so before she would need to be removed).
I need to go take a picture from the back of the house so I can compare the difference.
I was SO sad on the day we were actually cutting her down ... very truly emotionally sad. It just felt a bit wrong to cut down such an old and beautiful tree (and maybe I'm still a bit postpartum)
If it can be said, the fall was both awesome and graceful.
Definitely opens up the front of the house. And once the tree was down we were able to see that about 40% was rotting. I felt a whole lot better knowing that.
