Good Bye Oregon, Hello Texas

We finally made it to El Paso. Yay. We have been planning this for so long it's weird that we are finally here...BUT I am so excited to be on a four month vacation! Woohoo! A few quick observations that I've already noticed.
1. We can see Mexico from our appartment.
2. It is windy here!
3. It is HOT here...and I LOVE it.
4. Deciding not to pack ANYTHING but clothes and "buy it all when we get there" is really overwhelming and costs A LOT more than I remembered!

Our appartments are great. They are really nice and new and clean and big. I will post pics once I get it all cute and put together.
Really I'm just excited and think this will be a great summer.

Our "Favorite" Friends

Don't get offended we tell everyone they are our favorites(wink wink)...Well befor we left for Texas we had a happy b-day Jake/goodbye for awhile party. It was a blast. We had a lot of people in our tiny house!...but it sure was a lot of fun. We are sad to leave our friends(they are moving to Utah) but we are excited to come visit them in the fall!

Happy Birthday Again

In honor of my mom we did lots of her favorite things...

We wore birks

We ate at roadhouse

Molly loved getting her picture taken

WE ate doritos and cream cheese


And we love you! Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Mom

Happy 49th...we love you.

Lake Idol

Now try not to be jealous of our family talent...this takes years of practice and some good ol fashion genes.

Bad Day

SOS

Lake vs Lake

Our Trip to Utah

Where oh where to start. First of all I'm feeling a little blogged out...that is why you may have noticed my blogging in spurts...it takes so much time and the pressure to keep the best blog is getting to me! I still love it, don't get me wrong I'm just loving it in moderation. Matt and I just took a two week trip to Utah so Matt could do some training and I could do some crafting. We had so much fun and took so many pictures so here are a few highlights.

We drove...for a long time and along the way we had to make a few little stops...


Grandpa Lake came to visit...

We made lots of crafts...even though it took us forever to decide what to do...

Parker became a photographer...

MyKenna tried on lots of pretty shoes...only the prettiest will do for her...

We ran outside in a blizzard...well sort of...

We said goodbye!

Let the Festivities Begin

I am going to have to blame my lack of blogging on Sara...it has nothing to do with the fact that I find it impossible to blog without pictures(and I couldn't post any pics because Sara was going to surprise her family). So...sorry for a blog/picture overload. I feel like there is too much to get caught up on so the pictures will have to speak for themselves.

Happy B-Day

Why are we so great?

Kids Table


Cool People's Table

Mom and Dad

Give me my food

Snuggle Bunnies