Nature...

worth sharing

Our dear friends Kenna and Josh are beginning the journey of adoption and have started a blog. I thought I would help spread the word just in case there is anyone out there that might know of anyone that is exploring options for their child. Click HERE check out their adoption blog. They are amazing people and they have so much love to give!

Oldies but Goodies

I was trying to find a picture and I came across these ones of Collin and his buddy Carter.
This is how we would spend our summer days in UT. Collin and his melon

Carter and his melon

I'm sure they were watching each other to see who could finish first.
I love carters Little farmers tan!

I miss our cool little pool!
Dang, the grass in UT is greener then ours is now in WA.Daredevil Carter.

I'm sure Collin was trying to get the grass out of the pool here.

What up dawg?

Josh and I have been discussing the possibility of a dog. Here are some options we are thinking about.

(Not the actual dog in the picture but the same kind and in no particular order of preference)
Above is an English Bull Dog


Here is a cute little PugHere is the last one, Ori Pei

(American Ori-Pei) (Pugpei) (Sharpug)

Pug / Shar-Pei Cross

What do you think?

Under sea adventures...Horrocks style

Before the kids got sick last week we actually got to have a little fun.


Here is cute little Hadley after giving the shark some love.

Collin said that this was his favorite picture we took.

Compromise

Since this is out of the question...(for now)




I'm thinking this...

I NEVER thought that I would say this but...
I want a van!

Don't get all excited and tell me how cool your MINIVAN is because I don't want a minivan. That might work just fine for you but I'm sorry they just aren't my thing. I actually drove a minivan for the first time in about 5 years just a few months ago and it just didn't do it for me...sorry Janell it's not your Honda...it's me. I know...I'm sure I just offended all of the minivan loving people out there and all of Josh's family, seeing how he is the ONLY sibling in the family with kids that does not have a van. I know that there are tons of Honda Civics out there but just for the record I didn't buy that car...Josh did! But the "Hond" (that's what we call her) just isn't doing it for us. It's great to get Josh to work and getting around town but we like to go places.

Maybe it's all of this fresh air up here in the NW but I LOVE these VW Eurovans! The other day we went on a drive and Josh turned to me and said "Hey, I was thinking that maybe if you find one of those VW vans at a good price we could look into it." It was a good thing I wasn't driving because I was very excited, I'm sure I would have crashed. I know I'm crazy but I saw one of these for sale in Astoria when we were there and I would check it out every time we went into town. They have more cargo room then a suburban even though it's shorter then a suburban.


While growing up our family friends, the Condie family had one and I even thought it was kinda cool then. They took that thing everywhere and it seemed to last forever...I could be wrong but that's what I remember. We had good times with Bro Condie driving us to stake dances and beach trips and girls camp. It looked different then this one but it was the same kind.

Then one of my friends, Jenn Wallace had a really OLD one.
Her's had issues...but we had good times in that van. Once after a drive into town we got back to her house and it was smoking really bad, which wasn't unusual. So we went to go into the house and I turned around and looked and I saw the engine was on fire! We ran and got the hose and sprayed it till we thought it was out. I think that was the last time I went in that sweet van of hers.

I think a VW would fit our family just fine.