Just Me!!

                   Only 180 days left to go this year. We've already started out rocky with some attitudes, some fighting, some lying but heck no one said that any of us are perfect. We are all trying to do our best. My best today was creating this shuletute for Charlie! My worst was yelling at my daughter and my husband. Grrr! We are all calm now...I think. The girls are in taking a bath, Ethan just came in from playing basketball, I'm blogging, and I think Mark is steering clear of me for the time being. Ethan doesn't like it when there's fighting. He avoids having to hear us because he said he's always afraid it will be a big one that makes us get a divorce. Oh bud! We weren't fighting about us, but about y'all! We are excited for this year, and nervous! I think Val is feeling the same thing. It's nerves, Ethan. The same feeling you got when I told you you'd have to do some work after dinner and you got hypersensitive and stresse...

   Our Wing Luke Experience was interesting. The kids had fun but they weren't super interested in most of the exhibits so we wandered around with them half looking. I would be very interested in going back to the Wing Luke when we get our Burke Museum passes. Thanks Shan for inviting us. Unfortunately we missed the train going there and had to drive.          Ethan gets a day to cook us dinner! He chose Spinach Quiche, which is his favorite and mine. His recipe was perfect! It made a wonderfully yummy filling quiche that you would find in a small quaint bed and breakfast out in the country.    International Geocaching day 2016. I had to work so Mark took the kids out in the hottest day of the year to find several caches in Decorsey Park. Some of these he had to get pretty physical...wish I was there for those!          Dentis and Doctor appointments are a must prior to staring school! Charlie is cavity free and ...

                      What a fun pleasant excursion we were invited to go along on today. We went with Shan and the kids to Portland OMSI and Powells! We had a great time relaxing, watching a Dinosaur IMAX, learning about life on Mars and as a astronaut, fetal development, fossils, science, technology, rockets, robotics, and tons of hands on playtime! We ate lunch at my favorite place....Baja Fresh. It was kids eat free Sunday so turned out super cheap, which reminded me of when my mom and dad would take us to Aztecca for free Sunday meals. We ended with about 2 hours atPowell's in Portland. Thanks to this adventure we are nowBurke  Museum members and can get in at various museums in Washington and other states. I can tell what we will be doing this year.....so excited! 

                  Goliath born in November 2010 passed in August 2016. 6 years was not enough time with him. I thought we would be saying goodbye to him after all the kids had moved out of the house. I thought wrong. He was the nicest kitty. He tolerated Ethan and Charlies' shinanigans and loved Mark and Valerie to the max. Me, he loved sleeping in my underwear drawer whenever possible! We all miss him terribly🐱. He rests under our tree with Tom Morrello. I hope they are keeping each other company for the time being. Goliath thank you for being what we all needed. I will miss you poor kitty. I hope in your last moments you thought of us...we love you!