Random June Fun ... Catching Up 2014

June! June was a great month. Why? Because at the end of the month we went on our wonderful trip to the Coast and to Seattle! Ahh, June ... I love June ... :)

We did do a few other things too ...

June was the month that we committed to DHS that we would begin taking the Foster Parent Classes that were scheduled for the following month ... that commitment was a HUGE one (especially with where we're at today), but we are SO grateful that we did it ...

I had an embarassing moment at work where I wore the same shirt as my co-worker, so naturally, we had to take a picture ...

 

We went for dinner and drinks at Taprock to celebrate the life of Nate's wonderful Uncle, who passed away. We love you, Kent!

 

We signed the contract on our new place (incidentally, we LOVE living here) ... I was going to post a picture but I'm too lazy to edit out our address from the front of the house ... if you want to see where we live, just come and see us!! :)

We snuggled LOTS ...

And I got this love note from the sweet little girl that I was mentoring at the time (who just happens to live with us now)!!

 

Through my job I experienced another first! I attended my first Bachelor Auction. To be clear - I was not attending as a guest ... just as a Club representative!! :) It was pretty hilarious to watch and it reinforced just how much I love being married and how much I love Nate!

Random May Fun - Catching Up 2014

Wow! All the way back to May? Is there really a point in playing catch up? Probably not to anyone else, but my OCD brain will go crazy if I just skip to now AND someday, I'm going to print this blog to a book and how will it look if several months are just missing? ;)

So, all the way back to May we go ...

If you recall, May was the month that I took my big trip to San Francisco for the BGCA National Conference! While I was gone, Nate did A LOT of this:

We grew our first of two strawberries ... the rest didn't grow so well - the plant was crazy huge, we just didn't get any berries on it ... maybe next year ... this one, however, was DELISH!

 Condoleeaza Rice spoke at our National Conference and she was A M A Z I N G! I purchased this book at the Conference with every intention of reading it ... several months later I'll admit that I'm still only a few chapters in ... but I maintain that I'm SUPER busy ... so that's okay!

I spent some time at my favorite park taking some pictures for a friend ... this was intended as an Instagram "I'm lucky I get to spend my morning here" post ... I'm not sure that it ever made it ...

At work I've been mentoring 3 kiddos, to girls and one sweet, sweet boy - who wrote me this note:

I discovered Babes Bakery. One one particularly frustrating day at work I decided to treat myself to lunch. I drove and drove deciding where to go and remembered that we had been wanting to try out Babes - I gotta say, it was a wonderful decision. The Plain Jane sandwich was divine, as was the German Chocolate Cupcake that I had that day ... it is now one of our favorite places to grab lunch!!

We had Mentor/Mentee night at the Club and played a little Hide & Go Seek. My hiding spot wasn't very creative, but it had the most beautiful view!

There is our May in a nut shell. I'm sure that other things happened, I just don't remember what. I do remember getting home from the conference and being so exhausted but SO, SO happy to be with Nate. I sure do love that guy a lot!

... Alive ...

This blog has definitely taken a back seat in this crazy thing called life! We've had A LOT going on the last few months and my every intention is to keep this blog alive and going, but it might be a few months more before I get all caught up.

In case you haven't heard (if you know us, you've heard), we have become Foster Parents to a beautiful 9 year old girl! She is giving us a run for our money, but we are surviving! If we're not at work our time is centered around what is happening at home. The only reason I'm able to think about this blog tonight is because I took a few blessed days off of work in the middle of the week so that I could focus on some other things that have been neglected (like sleep, a pedicure, paying bills and apparently this blog)!

Anyway, we're still alive - just in case you were wondering! Hopefully soon I'll get caught up because we had a visit from our BFF's in August and we just had the best time ever!!