Trying to Finish Well!

Update on our lives beginning were I left off from my last blog post; Shane didn't have work for a week so we made a trip down to my folks house to pick & can greenbeans, & apricots. The kids played on the rope swing, and in the ditch. We made a trip up to the Southhills to see the Copper Butterfly's and just enjoy the peace & quite the Hills provide to our lives that are surrounded my noise & chaos. We were able to go camping again last Thursday-Saturday in Mt. Hood National Forest I'd say we finally found the perfect spot to go camping, it was secluded with limited number of people, lots of trees, no plugins or a spiket for water, we had to hand pump our water from a central location. It wasn't as refreshing as I'd like, but it was most enjoyable to enjoy the trees. Shane starts school this coming Monday, Kelli starts Tuesday, Daniel & Dakota start Wednesday, Seth will be the only kid home for two hours everyday. I am wrapping up P...

The finish line of being done with school is slowly showing over the horizon, I have entered the last semester at Multnomah and I'm on schedule to finish December of this year. As I told Shane last night it feels like I have senior-its but it's been so long since the last time I was this close to being done with school. Then we wait till Shane is done in May and the kids in June before moving somewhere else. We have been enjoying Summer since it decided to make it's appearance here in Portland, we've been camping again and taking short trips out of the city to enjoy the area. My garden is doing good, I've picked peas a couple times and green beans yesterday. I feel like I need at least 8 more rows besides the two I have of either crop to make it worth canning. ;-) We've been fighting mice since we got back from Idaho in July, so far we've killed or captured 6. I've done plugging of holes, and cleaning up messes, we haven't ever had this kind of ...