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Amazingly, August is finishing up!

We spent the last few weeks of August keeping busy partly with Church activities.

VBS! The kids couldn’t go to more than one this year as they kept finding other things to do.

While they would go to VBS, the parents (us, my parents, Luca, and Ezra) would find other random places to hang out – one day we went to St. Johns.

On the last day of VBS, there was a perfectly shaped heart over the roof of the church. Fitting.

We got to watch Arabella and Elijah do their song and dance. It was cute and they liked doing it. Next year Arabella wants to volunteer at the churches that do VBS. We shall see!

What else?

Since we had my parents visiting we decided to meet up with Gramps and Nonnie for dinner. We are taking every opportunity for the kids to spend time with the grandparents – and pictures with all of them?! Even better.

One night Tmobile had a coupon for BOGO ice cream, so my dad got Elijah 3 scoops – he wasn’t disappointed.

We also went to church and found that they were having some huge event (we had missed the last few due to being sick) so they had bouncy houses, a cookout, and a gathering. The kids had a scavenger hunt and part of that was to take a picture with a silly face. Arabella to the rescue!

Last thing – we have been watching “May Day” which is all about airplane crashes- and how those crashes have changed the industry for the better (over time). One of those Episodes we watched was United Flight 173 which crashed in Portland in 1978. Across from that plaque is an empty field where there used to stand a house – but was destroyed by the crashing plane.

We probably wouldn’t have gone to visit, but this same day we noticed that a small plane crashed not too far from where we live. We looked it up and the NTSB and FAA are all over the place. Along the search for that crash, we found out about Flight 173.

It is a SUPER small area they have dedicated to it. I think they should buy the land across the street and make a better memorial for the 10 people who died on that flight. But what do I know?

just Pray

Hey there,

It was recently our anniversary! It’s been 12 years since we tied the knot, and even longer (15) since we had planned to get hitched. We got engaged in 09 and wanted to get married right away, but in 10, and 11 kept putting it off for my brother who said he wanted to come.. and then rescheduled for his girlfriend (while he is still married – what a mess) then finally said NO MORE WAITING for anyone and got it done in 2012. Without him.

So what did we do?

We went out for a nice steak dinner (thanks to my parents).

After the dinner (which was the night of the storm/rain we went out to do something I had planned to do for at least a year (but didn’t last year as she was preggers still).

I’ve had to sit on this surprise for a while. Anyway, I found a lovely little company that does sunset sails on the Columbia River. It didn’t disappoint.

Plus, I successfully surprised Sky and she enjoyed it.

Win-win.

just Pray

Hey

So it’s been quiet around the house. Why?

Arabella has been gone. She left to go to her friend’s house for a sleepover for something like 9 days. Nuts, but she wanted to.

We have been cleaning which ironically has been a little easier to do.

Here are some random photos for this time. We took a trip to Walgreens and I snapped a photo of the smaller crew we had. Then I took a photo of Ezra looking snazzy with his glasses on (he typically doesn’t love to keep them on unless he is sitting with his mama). Also gave the kids a haircut. Lijah wanted a classic cut for him, a mohawk (thank you Cobra Kai and the characters)

I also caught Luca being really sweet with “his baby”- he was sitting on the couch and just making him explode in laughter. It was sweet. As soon as Ezra saw the camera he IMMEDIATELY stopped laughing and started staring at the phone camera. Like “What? I wasn’t doing anything!”

We had some people come and give us an estimate for Solar. Also checked out estimates to have our AC and Heater replaced. Long story short: even with federal rebates it is WAYYY out of our price range. We also went for a trip again to pick some berries (this time with my parents who were visiting) and Luca was himself, picking flowers for mommy.

Also, we found this oldie but a goodie of a Coyotes jersey. Had to pop it on the little man again.

RAIN!? in August? What madness is this? Stop the madness! But really, keep it going if it gets us more rain. I love rain and the cooler temps were lovely. The only bad part was I had an anniversary event planned for that day but ended up postponing it a day so we could go on clear weather.

Anniversary? Yeah, it’s that time again.

until next time

just Pray