Hayden's Big Five

Hayden turned five yesterday. He had preschool, so we did his snack time at school. Then he got to play with his best buddies evan and zachary. Later after matt got home we had pizza, a pinata, and cake and icecream. He got a sweet nintendo backpack, lego's and pokemon cards. He was a happy camper.
He is such a mellow kid, and very smart. He is riding his bike without training wheels and thinks it is awesome, bruises and all.

the cutest blog on the block

My sister Lyndi suggested to me thecutestblogontheblock.com and I love it.
It literally takes two minutes to copy and paste a bazillion different background designs on your blog. I am way excited if you can't tell. the only thing is you have to have minima as your template, AND the best part. . . its our favorite four letter F word . . . FREE.

Thanks Lyndi for the Info!!

Indian Summer

We have been having gorgeous weather here, I can't even tell you how great it is. It was Ethan's first week back to school, and we have been able to walk with him to the bus stop. Usually if it is raining we drive. So that has been good for the kids and I to get some exercise.
I also just finished some canning: 68 jars later, and 5 gallon freezer bags of fruit for smoothies. It is work, but I am always happy I did it later, key word being "later". ha ha. It definately feels like the end of summer when fruit and veggies are ready for Harvest. I really enjoy this time of year.

Anyhow, if the weather is nice we spend little time indoors so until the rain settles in you may not hear from us too often. But we will try.

stormy at sea!

So we were having record heat here in Seattle before we left for our little Oregon coast getaway. And it was sunny the entire way there, we were very excited. When we drove into seaside there was a smoky haze creeping over the mountains so when we checked in I asked if there were Forrest fires. . . no that is just the marine fog that is always here. A short while later were were in a dense fog, it was crazy, we were standing on the beach and couldn't even see the ocean.

So the first few days I was a little disappointed, But we bundled the kids up and out we went. We played in the rain on the beach. Not exactly as I had pictured . . . but hey nothing ever turns out the way you expect it.

Squid did have a nice fall on the tile floor of the condo, and she split open her chin really deep. There isn't a hospital there, so we butterflied it and then when it healed a bit we super glued it closed. Fortunately it healed up nicely, and is at the bottom of her chin, almost underneath, so it is not visible.

Apparently we are accident prone lately.. . hmmmm.

It was awesome to go to the tide pools at low tide, especially cannon beach. unfortunately whenever we went to look at all the fun sea critters I always managed to forget my camera.

I did get one at the homespun aquarium. . . it was very interesting. . . the aquarium that is, not the picture, ha ha.

Kanani's Couponitis

So if you want to save lots o'money at the store you need to check out Kanani's new couponitis

Oregon Coast here we come!!!

So we have been home for a few weeks now, and . . . its time for a vacation. The weather has been HOT! here this week and it has been awesome! So awesome we are leaving and heading to seaside for about five days. You can be jealous because the ocean and sand is what I love. Oh and Sun, don't forget the Sun!