Donated

I've been growing my hair out for about 3 years not for any particular reason, just to have long hair.  It started getting long enough that I thought about donating it and then it got soooooo long and needed to be cut...but I was scared to have short hair.  You know what's scarier than short hair?  Cancer.  So I did it.  It's off my head and donated to Pantine Great Lengths and I couldn't be happier.

Before

After!

Small Paul

It makes me giggle that there's a line of clothes called "Small Paul".  Here's Jack modeling the pajama bottoms :)

A Northwest baby

There are many experiences that are unique to growing up in the Northwest, like fresh seafood.  What could be fresher than crab that your dad caught while diving? 

Jack thought seeing the live crab was super fun but what was even better was eating it!

Love him!

The other day I realized that Jack had been napping for longer than usual.  I checked the monitor and what did I see?  He was reading in his crib!  Ok well technically he was looking at the book but that's "reading" for a 10 month old.  Apparently he had reached over his crib to his nightstand, and picked out a book.  I just LOVE this little guy!

I wish I had a picture of him reading but as soon as I walked in there, he stood up and was ready to be done with nap time.

Bye Bye

Paul had to say goodbye to a dear friend...his Subaru. 

We recently purchased a truck to pull an RV and therefore had to sell the Subaru to pay for the truck.  It was a sad day for Paul and I'm sure somewhere in our future we will own an Outback again.  Until then...

Happy 4th!

This year for the 4th of July we spent the afternoon at my Gram's house for a BBQ and it was a GORGEOUS day!  We soaked up some sun...

And Jack got a real treat - a ride on the tractor!!  Ok, it's a ride-on lawn mower but we've always called it the tractor.  When I was little Pa used to take us for rides on the tractor (a much older version than this one obviously) so this may have been more special for me than it was for Jack.

Here comes the tractor!

And we're off!

The other special treat was a ride in the Jeep!  This sweet ride has been through 2 of my cousins, is probably 15 years old and is still running.  Jack is way too short to reach the pedals (and too young to understand how to steer), so that means mom runs alongside pushing the accelerator and dad steers from the other side.  It was a great workout for us and so fun for Jack :)

Happy 4th of July!!