Took my camera on our walk in the beautiful sunshine yesterday! Had to snap a few of my babies.

Bucket List

John and my time here in Corvallis, OR is beginning to dwindle as we only have 50 days left here! John will be done with school this term and we are heading out onto the great journey of life. As epic as it will be, it is still be a little scary to be heading into the unknown with few plans set in stone at this moment. Which makes me quite nervous! But as I see the next steps of our lives start to unfold and lay before us, I start to plan and get very excited for what I want to do! Everything from buying a home to traveling somewhere I have never been to with my family (Alaska maybe :) ) I want more babies. Maybe adopt! Who knows! 

It is un nerving to not know where we will end up within the next year, but I am comforted in the fact that God has me in his hands and my family has him as the center of our universe and in our hearts. He will take us where he needs us to be. To do his will and to do his works. That is why we are here. To bring people to him, to set an example in his name for non believers. No matter where my family and I end up, I have the strength and the support of the Lord to guide me and nourish me. And with that, I am truly blessed. What a blessing to know that we will be provided for! That he has everything under control. It might be Medford or Bandon or Springfield or wherever! 

And I cannot wait!

A year in rewind

What a year it has been. There have been so many blessings and challenges that the Lord has given us. We are so incredibly thankful for all of these experiences for we feel that without them we would not be able to be the people that God wants us to be. We pray that 2012 brings love, happiness, faithfulness to our one and only, health, and a whole lot of fun!

We spent our new years at the beach, no wind at face rock=fabulous day at the beach! Check it out!

Halloween 2001

Pumpkin Patch 2011

We had a great time yesterday at the Davis Family Farms Pumpkin Patch! We got our pumpkins and had a wonderful time as a family. Things have been so crazy lately that it was very nice to get out and enjoy each other.

Summer 2011

This has been one crazy and wild summer! We spent the entire thing down on the south coast, as John worked for some local ranchers over the summer. Wespent our days playing at Grandma's, flying kites, swimming, berry picking, splashing around in Grandma's hot tub and Grandma Gayle's pool, and many many more fun activities! We made it over to the Rogue for our annual family river trip (maggie may even joined us there) We also did the permit section of the Rogue, which was the first for many of us. I will tell you that Blossom and Mule Creek were not as bad as they were built up to be, but still a little nerve racking non the less! Our summer has not even began to wind down at all as we headinto soccer season here in Corvallis with the Beavs. John had his first game tonight and they won 2-0! Awesome! I am getting ready to head out to New Orleans where I will enjoya good smoldering.. I may actually melt away!

We have had a very blessed summer and I am hoping to be staying more up to date with this blog thing.. My life in insane! :)

KaiLey Jo Ballet Class

KaiLey Jo recently started a ballet class at the Corvallis Dance Studio last friday. She really enjoyed the class and danced away from it with a pep in her step ready for next weeks lesson. SHe loves her ballet clothes and wants to wear them all of the time. The class is for 3/4 year old little girls. She is the youngest in the class and LOVES to see herself in the mirror (it can be sort of distracting) :)