Blogging

I love reading other peoples blogs. Not to say that I'm a blog junkie or anything that extreme, but it's just so fun to see what's happening with friends and family. After reading a couple of friends blogs, I'm thinking I need to write way more on my blog. I always have good intentions of posting more thoughts, it just seems as if I never get around to doing it.

Well here I am tonight, so I guess I will catch you up on our latest.

Eric and I have had almost 2 weeks off work together. Dreamy, dreamy, dreamy! We have not had time off together since last November, so we have really been enjoying this time.

We made a 4 day trip to the beach with the kids which was awesome. We really didn't take too many pictures, so unfortunately, I don't really have any to post. Whoops.

Chloe was able to bring her BFF Morgan along for the trip, which was super fun for the girls. They were like 2 peas in a pod. So fun to see Chloe with her friends - it's an entirely different side of her :)

Eric went crabbing on day with Guy - they caught like 24 crab. We had a LOT of crab at the beach and a LOT of crab when we came home from the beach. Nice work on catching us all those crabs boys, delicious!

Once we returned from the beach, we just kind of hung out at home and did some much needed projects around the house. We slept in every day, stayed up late and watched movies, took naps and enjoyed our time. It was awesome.

We also celebrated Eric's birthday on Thursday the 17th. Yep, my hubby is 38! Where does the time go? We met Eric's sister Krista at Todai (an all you can eat sushi/Japanese food buffet) for his lunch. Talk about great food. Yumm-o! Ate way too much, but it was worth it. We don't go out to eat that often, so this was really fun. We had a small family party for Eric on Friday night which was good times.

I was able to get together with one of my lifelong friends Signe on Saturday. She was in Portland for the day and we met up for lunch. What a fun time. It's great to have friends that you have had your entire life - seriously, I've known her since I was 5. We always pick right up where we left off. Just being able to have a couple of hours together was so much fun! Signe is getting married in August and I can't wait for her wedding, it will be a blast!

That about wraps it up for our vacation - Eric went back to work today. I'll be back on Wednesday. It's just amazing what a few days away from work can do :)

The kids are doing well. Tyler is Tyler - an endless bouncing ball of nothing but pure energy. I'm pretty sure he could outlast the energizer bunny, given the chance.

Chloe has braces now. Not sure if I mentioned that before or not? She is enjoying her summer - hanging out with friends, talking on the phone, listening to music on her i-pod, shopping, playing video games, and all the other things that pre-teens do. All I know is that she has to be the world perfect child. She's always such a pleasure to be with. Thank goodness for Miss Chloe - otherwise I would always be out-numbered!

Oh- this is random. We were cleaning out some boxes in the garage and I found a CD that said 7.12.03. I was like, oh, that's the day we were married. I put it in our computer and wow - tons of wedding pictures I had never seen. It was a happy surprise. I have no idea who the pictures came from and I don't even recognize the handwriting on the CD. I should post a few of them - they are old, but there are some really cool pictures on there.

Ok, I think that'll about do it for now! It's almost my bedtime :P