flashback friday

Memorial day weekend is here!

I can't believe we are almost to summer time!

Today we are flashing back this time year!

I say this time of year because I don't always have pictures of

the actually weekend.  I also have the worse memory so I have no clue

what we did.  That is why I blog now!

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Celebrating Jana's birthday at my parents house.

2008

The kids and I had a busy weekend together.

We went to Jump around fun zone, out to dinner, the park, ice cream at Edaleen,

and to birch bay.  Josh was guy camping in Leavenworth.

2009

We spent the weekend at the Glen as a family.

2010

2011

Two years Josh headed to Leavenworth for camping in the wilderness.

The kids and I spent the weekend hanging at the house, visiting Jana in the hospital

for her birthday and went to the canoe leg of the ski to sea race.

Check out all the pics here.

Last year Josh again headed to Leavenworth for the weekend.

The kids and I headed to the Glen with some of my family 

for a night of camping and then had relax time at home. 

You can view all the fun camping pictures here.

On the mend {hopefully}

I finally turned my computer on for the first time tonight in like a week.

I got hit with a virus with symptoms similar to mono.

I was told to rest, drink lots of fluids and it could last anywhere from

two to four weeks. I have been more tired this past week then

 I have ever been in my life. Like cleaning wore me out. 

I slept a ton this weekend thanks to my amazing

mom having the kids. I had a little energy burst this afternoon so I am hoping

that is a sign that things are turning for the better. 

May starts busy month for us.

Softball tournaments, Jordan's spring concert, Jordan t-ball, 

and we celebrated my mom's birthday and Mother's day.

In the next month we will celebrate Jana's, Michelle's and Cohen's birthdays.

Along with Father's day and the birth of Ezra!

We are also in full swing with softball.

Josh has tournaments about every weekend along with league games once a week.

Jordan is finishing up his t-ball season next week. He has two games a week.

This Friday we will be heading to Portland, Oregon for a weekend 

softball tournament and also some family time.

The next weekend Josh and Jordan will head to the Glen.

Like the past few years I will take Michelle shopping for her birthday.

She also wants to go with her friends to Menchies for 

her birthday so we will do that Sunday.

On Michelle's birthday she has her last choir concert.

She is not to excited about doing that on her birthday.

Also that week is Cohen's birthday and Jordan has his 

last big school field trip of the year. Josh has an one 

day tournament down south. 

The next week is the last week of school!

In Jordan's class they will be celebrating all the 

summer birthdays including his!

The week after that baby Ezra is due and that weekend we head to

Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA for Josh's work Summer Regional.

As you can see June is going to be a super busy month too.

I also need to work on our summer bucklist! 

I make one every year and we usually do most of it.

Maybe this will be the year we do it all!

Mother's day

Happy Belated Mother's day to all!

I had a very relaxing, low key and wonderful day with my family.

Saturday Josh and I spent 15 hours out at Geri Fields.

Josh's softball team hosted their first ever men's one day tournament.

It was a lot of fun but a long day once it was over.

Sunday morning we were tired.

Josh got up and made breakfast with the kids.

I always look forward to this.

Not cooking or cleaning up breakfast.

Jordan also loves Mother's day!

He was full of I love you's all day.

He loves bringing me my breakfast in bed.

He will always check on me to see if I need anything

or just lay on the bed with me and talk.

He was even more excited to bring me the picture he made in school.

{iphone pic}

Michelle has been learning about different types of poems in school.

She has been bring stuff home everyday to work on.

She now has a new love of writing poems.

She made this one for me for Mother's day.

After I took a power nap (it is my day) we headed out to Bob's for lunch.

The plan for the rest of the afternoon was to snuggle in for family movie time.

We stocked up on snacks and a few movies.

Jordan isn't much a be lazy all day and relax kind of guy.

He was in and out during the first movie.

We started the second and he was back out the door to go outside.

Since it was Mother's day and I make the rules I decided we should

go on a family bike ride.  It was nice to get moving a little and some fresh.

We didn't even get rained on!

By the time we came back it was almost eight 'o clock.

I sent Josh for some wine.

We let the kiddos color in Michelle's room for a bit

and then it was off to bed for them.

Josh and I snuggled in with some wine and a movie!

It was the perfect end to my very relaxing all about me day.

If you want to go back in time check out

2012

2011

ten on ten

once a month on the tenth

taking a photo every hour for ten consecutive hours. 

Finding much life and beauty 

among the ordinary things of our day!

7:24 am

heading out for my morning exercise using couch to 5k app.

8:12 am

came home to find my little man still asleep!

9:03 am

working on morning cleaning

9:47am

we packed a lunch and hit the open road on our bikes.

10:52 am

lunch time at the park

11:58 am

got my mother's day baskets hung and watered.

1:29 pm
laying out and enjoying the sunshine!

3:30 pm
Empty quiet house.
The kids just left to their gramma's house.

4:29pm
A pic of me.
I attempted today to put myself in more pics.

5:14pm
Made it just in time for 1/2 off fraps!

flashback friday

Since Jordan started t-ball we have gotten quite a few comments about

how well he plays and understands the game.  

His coach even wanted to move him up to the next grade level.  

We always tell people Josh has been playing sports

with him since he could hold a ball. 

I came across these cute videos of him at 3 1/2 learning to hit bombs!

Spring days

We have been having amazing weather here.

It has been like summer the past week with 

temps reaching into the 80's.

It looks like it will leave us for a few days here over 

the weekend with promise to return.

I really hope so. I love the sun.

I am more happy, more motivated to get moving,

I want to eat green smoothies and salads

and I just love being able to be outside with the kids.

Here is what are sunny spring days have looked like in the past week!

We have enjoyed t-ball games, celebrating my mom's birthday,

ice cream, playing at the creek, picnic dinner outside,

play dates at the park, evening bike rides,

mowing the lawn, alley basketball games, shorts and short sleeved shirts,

having all the windows and doors open,

and staying outside until the last second before bed time.