This weekend the family along with my mom headed to Chewelah, Washington for a Lucas Family Reunion (my mom's fam). It's been years since all of us have spent time together.

We celebrated Grandma's 80th birthday! Fun times catching up with one another on hikes and around the campfire.

It was fun to see so many of my cousins' kids. Most I hadn't met or seen in a long time!

Grandma's B-day celebration...the kids decorated planting pots with their pictures it was a hit!

Kylie had fun playing horse shoes, crawling after the other kids, and roasting her first marshmallow. No smores for her yet! Unfortunately our time ended with her getting an eye infection (which I recently had) and an ear infection. We made a pit stop at the Kennewick Urgent Care on our way back to Oregon. She's doing much better, just a day later! What a blessing it is to be healthy. Now we're resting up at Sunriver...more tales to follow.

Our Weekly Routine

Kylie and I have started getting our weekly groove on... this
is how it goes. We started a "side job" helping
an older lady with some basic needs. We make her lunch and
help her with a little foot care and housework every
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a couple hours each day.
On the other days we spend time with friends either jogging,
walking, eating or playing at the park. One of our friends we
see each Thursday is Breann. She's been such a blessing in our
lives, and Kylie looks forward to seeing her! We usually hang out
at Willamette Park, a beautiful park next to the river.


We definitely make time for baths each week!
Kylie loving her bath out on the deck in the nice summer
weather. Unfortunately, over the weekend I got
conjunctivitis (yes gross I know). I almost posted the
pic of Kylie and me for proof, but my eye is red and puffy- not
my best pic ever!


Kylie is crawling everywhere; exploring all the places
we go each day! And putting everything, I mean everything
in her mouth to taste-test. Tiff can attest to this. I won't
disclose what she put in her mouth while I let her crawl
on the concrete at a nearby shopping center, as many of you
may doubt my mothering abilities. I will tell you that today
she found a dead bug to eat. As I realized this, I saw the legs
hanging out of her mouth and tried to retrieve the winged bug.
It was mostly down the hatch, and I could only get part of it!

Summer Fun

We spent a couple hours hanging with the Yarborough's
over the weekend in the lovely warm weather.
No, we didn't have another baby- that's Jonas.
By the way, if your kiddo is a crawler... we'd recommend
Baby Legs (featured in the pic above) $12 at New
Seasons, or check them out at babylegs.com
Thanks Aunt Anne, Kylie loves them!


This morning Kylie and I went to Blue Lake Park to
meet up with my sister and her kiddos. The park
has a fun sprinkler area for the younger kids.


Kylie's roaming around on her hands and almost
calloused knees, despite the cool spray of water from
many directions. We've been trying to get her
accustomed to water at our community pool.
She's such a happy girl, and seems to love the water
thus far!

Kylie's First Zoo Trip

A friend Lauren and I took our girls to the Oregon Zoo this week.
I'm always in awe seeing the animals in the Africa exhibit, like
this beautiful giraffe.
Unfortunately, we picked the $2 Tuesday and lets just say not
all the "animals" were in cages!


By the end of our Zoo trip, Pili was zonked!

Disco Fever

Our friend, Oscar, recently turned 30...to celebrate
his wife threw a surprise birthday party disco style. Matt
and I, well ok me, myself and I rummaged through our closets
in search for anything 70's or disco to no avail. A mini skirt for
me and a Napolean Dynamite outfit for Matt, wig included, were
as good as it got.


The attire worked out perfectly as you can see. Here's
Matt with Pedro, oops, I mean Oscar!

Fairview Park

As a committment to health, Matt and I have been
trying to walk more regularly in the evenings together.
We opted for the local park recently to take time for fun
and reflection.


As a side note....Matt wants you all to know that we don't
always dress this casual (ie sloppy)! We've realized that
we don't have many pics of us looking "goood." We'll try to
work on that for our future postings.