A few highlights of our summer!

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Soooo, thanks to Brian & Brooklin we found out about this nifty little gadget called a wireless router!! We are still at Eric's parents house and while they have been so nice letting us use their computer it's just not the same as your own home sweet home computer. Thanks to our new router we can share the internet!! So here I am, back to blogging again! And back to my nightly rituals of surfing the net. Awesome!! SO lots to catch up on! We had our 1st real family vacation. Eric and I and the kids drove down to San Diego last month. We stayed for a whole week! We went to the beach everyday, visited the San Diego Zoo & Birch Aquarium, went to a Padres vs. Dodgers game, went to Coronado (one of my favorite places on Earth )made a visit to the Maritime Museum where we toured old ships and a sub! ( Jack was in heaven! ) The kids are such great little travelers which makes it so nice. anyway It was a blast!! It was so fun to enjoy our little family on vacation!

We finally heard back from the CA Board on Eric's license! Wow, waiting on state government agencies - Not my favorite thing to do. But Eric should be licensed within the next week or so! Hallelujah! Then we can look into some jobs and made a decision on where to live - the ongoing saga of "here or there" & most importantly buy a house!!

The kids are doing great!! They are just amazing! They both are such chatter boxes. It is so fun to know what they are thinking. They have such cute little conversations. Audrey is in nursery now and Jack being the big brother has been chasing kids down that bother or take any toys away from Auggie.

Wow! I am typing a lot! Just wanted to tell everyone that I am back in the blogging world if anyone even checks this still! ;)

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So I am loving that it is summer right now!! We have had some great adventures so far. Jack's 3rd birthday, visits from Amy & Chris and Christy, a trip to California, swimming, trips up the canyon, backyard sleep-outs, pretty much everything there is to love about summer. More fun to come, I get to celebrate my 26th birthday in Oakdale in a few weeks, a few days after the Valk family reunion. Woo-hoo! My Mom's birthday is 2 days after mine so we get to have a combined birthday. I can't really remember the last time I was in CA for our birthdays. It'll be great! Christy is in Nashville now living her dreams. Way to go! I think it's amazing she is chasing her dreams, we all have them I guess but who really gives them a chance or is in a position to for that matter. I'm living and loving my dreams to be a wife & mother but I am talking about those crazy things we would like to do or secretly think we'd be great at. I just think there is something to be said for being ambitious enough to put yourself out there against all odds. Way to go TT. We are still living with Eric's parents and things are going great. We thought we'd have some sort of plan by now but Eric's CA license is stilllllllllllll under way. We feel like poodles in the circus just jumping through hoops and more hoops. The kids are doing great. Jack is still loving Buzz Lightyear, along with trains, cars, dinosaurs, puzzles etc. He'll challenge you to a puzzle race where he yells out things like "I win, you missed... see ya later!" He has an amazing memory and blows us away with some of the things he tells us about. What a kid! Audrey seems to be growing up so fast. She loves animals and her baby dolls! I can already tell she will be such a good little Mommy. She is so sweet and dainty in her actions. She's definitely is a girly girl. She talks A LOT and repeats most everything we say verbatim. Some of our favorites she says is "Jack!! Monkeees! Weh-kum (your welcome)love you, cookie. She and Jack love the song "Sweet Escape." They request it over and over when we are in the car. They have the "woo-hoo's" down! anyway That's our latest and greatest. Hopefully I can keep this up better in the future. K.I.T. everyone!

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Office Lovers!!

Tonights episode - Oh my gosh!! I could hardly breathe during Pam's moment of truth!!! AH! Also, I forgot to check if Andy made it back on the bus!

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers out there!!! Especially mine - the most amazing, helpful, hard working, thoughtful, loving Mom. ; ) Here are some good quotes to celebrate Mother's day this week....

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle


A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan


I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln


She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning


[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson


All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln


“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one” Jill Churchill