Trying to Finish Well!

As most of you weather watchers know this is the week for hot tempts in Seattle and Portland area. We here in Portland have hit over 100* the past two days and predicted for Wednesday & Thursday also. The kids and I have been having water fights and we bought an A/C for the house which has helped keep the kids rooms cool and pushed some cool air into the main area which makes it tolerable. Shane is working his last days at Seed IP Law Group. He's been working there since he came back down from Alaska in 1999. He started as a temp in the Mail Room, got hired on as a Permenant just before we got married in 2000. Started as an Patent Paralegal shortly after that and has been going strong with ups & downs since then. Just continue to pray for us as we are going into this new stage of our lives with Shane going from Full time worker/full time student to Full time student/part time worker. We've lowered the price again on the house in Lake Stevens hopefully someone will thi...

Well our transitioning down to Portland is almost over with. Shane is up in Seattle for a couple days working, the kids and I stayed so that we can keep them on schedule and I can get some work done on the house. No hits on the house, it would be a God thing if we didn't have to pay a mortgage for a while with Shane's last days at Seed come to a close. Here are some pictures for this week, I'll clean up the kids rooms so you can see there new digs. Thanks Carrie for helping build dressers with Shane last week and helping me organize closets.

We had a wonderful week, this past week full of lots of adventures. The biggest was Kelli turning 6! OMGoodness how time has gone quickly. She was able to have a sleepover with her friend Caylee Carter. I believe they had a good time and both want to do it again. On Kelli's actual birthday Aunt Carrie flew into Portland and helped us get the house in Portland a bit more organized and set up. It was a blessing having her with us for a few short days she was able to take between working. Thank you so much for the time! We also got to spend some time with our cousins in Boise before coming back up to Washington. It was fun to spend time with all our cousins we haven't seen for a while.

We are home from Idaho, and up from Portland. Short layover before heading back down, it is stuffed full with repairs, shopping, packing and a six year olds birthday party. Whew. Kids have sinus gunk, we had a wonderful time in Idaho. Thank you Mom & Dad for letting us stay and play, holding kids, and reading stories. It was good to see those who've we got to see. Oh and thankyou for letting me wrestle some bales Dad.:-) It was interesting watching a gaggle of five/six year olds watch a friend open Princess birthday gifts. Man I hope my friends & I weren't that silly at that age, (no wise cracks from the Peanut gallery) :-) I'm thinking with so many great pictures will have to do a slide show to show you.

As suggested we've been busy visiting family this past week. We had a great time at Dawna's annual Backyard BBQ Bash last Sat., then Sunday we packed up the Uhaul and headed down to Portland with one more load. Monday Shane had school, then we loaded up again and headed down to Southern Idaho to spend a week with my Mom & Dad. We've had a great visit so far, the kids got to go fishing and go to a parade. It's been awesome weather wise, but unfortunately the kids have developed allergies trying to turn into Sinus Infections.