This n That

Benj is starting to scoot a little, he worked so hard to get this toy that he fell asleep-I promise this was not posed!!

What a crazy two weeks...I never knew that being on vacation was so complicated. Actually I did but this is a different kind of vacation-one with school for the kids & entertaining a husband who is bored of trying to work out a practice purchase and helping my mom keep her sanity with 6 extra people in the house. So a brief synopsis of the fun things we have done the last little while:

PASCO PASCO-we love you!

We visited Dave's twin brother in Pasco, WA and we all had a great time. We hadn't seen Aaron & Hollie since 2006, and then it was only for a few days so this was a long-overdue get together. We thoroughly enjoyed staying in their cute house, enjoying the tri-cities sunshine and letting the kids play and play while we visited. We ate at Zip's burgers which Dave loved in high school and had a get together of about 4 other high school friends & their wives. Had to do that at the park since 16 kids makes for crazy loudness.

The girls played so hard that they crashed the entire 4 hour drive home... yeah for us!!

PARK FUN-

The weather was beautiful for a little while and so we had to have some park days & days playing in my parents beautiful backyard. I hope to have my mom's talent with plants...and energy to work in the yard-whew she is a machine!

Enjoying the beautiful weather & mom's backyard

BIRTHDAY COUSINS-

We just can't get enough of the cousin get togethers. I think Dave might be tired of having people over every day but I LOVE IT! And even though there is fighting & bickering at the end of the day there is always "I Love you, don't go, you're my best friend" and that makes the whole event worthwhile.

Jackson's Birthday cake with Tabitha singing!

BI-ZI FARMLAND

A quick trip with my niece Sidney's pre-school to the farm, bella was in her element running from place to place and petting animals. Fun Fun Day!

Bella & the baby chicks...... Do those Lachers look alike or what??

RUNNERS WANTED

I am getting ready to run with my fab cousins/aunties/sisters/mom for TEAM RAQUEL in the Sound to Narrows race, now don't get excited. Running for me is a misnomer-I really jog, very very slowly...flabby flabbiness is a little hard to get in gear but I do what I can. But still it will be fun to run in memory of our beautiful grandmother who we all love & miss so much and that has been great motivation to get up early and enjoy the fresh air.

BUSINESS UPDATES

We are still in the negotiation/finding out details stage of the practice purchase which is frustrating...it is taking a long time because this was a sudden decision on the part of the selling dentist so he was very unprepared to sell. But we are hoping that in the next 2-3 weeks to have all the kinks worked out and for Dave to start working again...although in his spare time he has managed to clean my parents yard of debris from the winter, clean out the gutters, check the roof to spray with moss, volunteer 3 days a week mentoring dental students at OHSU, fix broken chairs, work on another class for his MBA and help me with the kids every day so he has kept pretty busy. That's my Dave, he isn't happy unless he is busy busy. Love him!!

Miss Avery of the messy faces!