Portland to Coast

The Hood to Coast was this weekend and I was really missing it. Since I was 19 or 20 I have tried to do the Portland to Coast every year. The difference is H2C is a run and P2C is a walk but not just a stroll a motivated walk. So while I haven't been able to do it every year I have done it 11 times. As of yesterday I have signed up for next year. I am really looking forward to sleeping in random fields on the sides of the roads, cramming myself into a van with 7 other people and all of our stuff, no sleep and no shower for the better part of two days and when we finally get to the coast wait in line for an hour and a half just so we can eat breakfast at the Pig n' Pancake. I know this sounds like a list of negatives but its not....after it is all said and done I am always excited to do it again. Next year will be a blast for me because a lot of my friends that I do this with I will not have seen for almost two years! The only downside  now is I will have to make the trip all the way back home to West Richland after we are done...but I think it is still totally worth it. So with both the older girls in school this year Brooke and I can start training. I will finally get a lot of use out of my stroller.

Random

 Katelyn got cold but was to lazy to get up and get a blanket so she grabbed a pair of Paul's pj pants out of the laundry basket. I know that everyone who knows Katelyn is surprised that she was to lazy to move more then 2 feet....haha doesn't sounds like Kate at all!

 The girls wanted to have a tea party with Brooke and spend some girl time together....so cute. I love that my girls are so different but they are great sisters. Funny thing (or at least I thinks its funny) all of my girls have different colored eyes. Natalie - ice blue, Katelyn - brown, Brooke - grey (with a hint of blue). I do bet (and I am putting it in writing so I can look back) that when they grow up that they look more alike then they do now.

Natalie got her new glasses and she loves them. Now Kate is walking around the house saying "mom I can't see small words, or my eyes hurt I think I need glasses". Oh my sweet Kate can't be left out of anything. She couldn't even bare to be left out of this picture. haha I feel a little bad for Natalie because she got the bad eye sight from me but she looks really cute in them. Actually she looks really grown up to me and I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand I am very excited to see the woman she turns out to be.....but that is my baby! Anyways we got the glasses just in time for school.

6 months

 Brooke is 6 months old!!! She is a very happy baby and already learning how to play the DS. She is 19 pounds and surprisingly she is in the 75% for her height. I guess that would be why she is getting all kinds of chub-rub. This is a little unfamiliar territory just because my kids thus far have never been below 85%-90% on any of their stats.

She loves her baths!!! Notice the red rash on her chest....awesome! We have had to change her soap and lotion to all fragrance free and our laundry soap as well. Also the dogs are visiting friends for the week to see if crawling around on the floor in the pet dander is getting to her. If so the dogs are outside dogs until she is walking. I love it when she is in the bath because her head looks so round. When the out-of-control hair is all wet I think she looks a lot more like Kate.

We have moved on to baby food and the first couple of days she wasn't so sure about it. Now she is a champion eater and inhales the food. She still sleeps through the night and is up on all four rocking back and forth. It should be anytime now and she will be crawling all over the place.

The big debate....

I was having this big debate with myself trying to decided if I was done blogging or should I continue. Well as you can see I have decided to keep going. I really enjoy looking back on the past years and the older post to see the kids when they were little and some of the things that we have gone through and done over the years. Plus I didn't think it would be fair to Brooke if I quit. I don't want her to see this and noticed how it stopped after she came. So I will be knuckling down and trying to post on a weekly basis. (I hope)

So this post has the pictures that we had taken at the beginning of the summer. I love the lady I found and she did a great job. I got over 400 pictures on CD's to have....which is what I wanted but it is a blessing and a curse. I have always wanted to be able to get all the pictures taken during our photo shoots because there could be pictures that I like but the photographer didn't so I never get to see them. Well now that I got them all it takes a lot of time to go through them and sort the ones I do like. We are really pleased with what we got and now I just have to get them up in my house.....a project for another day. Enjoy!!!