I Finally Updated This!!!!!

Well it has been forever since I have updated my blog. We have been a little busy this summer. Glen finally got home (which was

when I stopped updating this thing) and than we went to Washington (Coreen is too cheap

for Internet) and so now we are back home, and life is getting back to normal. We had a blast in Washington. We could have stayed forever, but somebody had to go back to work. I think that if they deploy, that they should get equal time off afterwards. Of course the military does not see things my way, so back to work he went. Our schedule is still a mess, the kids have a hard time going to sleep at night still, but

on the upside they are sleeping in until 8 or 8:30 which is good, except that by the time they are ready to go it is quite warm outside. I have started training for another half marathon that is this fall.

Thankfully Glen makes sure that the bikes are all in good working condition for me, so that the kids can hop on their bikes and ride along with me a couple of days a week. Yes, I am sure that it is quite a sight to see me trying to run with 3 kids on bikes and 2 in a stroller, but after about 6 years of attempting to do

anything, I have come to the conclusion that if I am going to accomplish anything, I better find a way to do it with kids in tow.

On the upside, after training with me last year and getting up to 5 miles before they got to go back to school, when I told them that it was only 3.5 miles the next 2 weeks, they thought that was great that it was such a short distance. Anyway, back to our vacation, it was great to see my family. It has been about 3 years since we have gotten to see my Aunt and Uncle and Grandma and Grandpa. I also got to see my niece finally. Roxanne is just a doll. I did make sure not to hold her too much because her parents can barely

stand to part with her long enough for anyone else to hold her. They are so

cute with her. Anyway, it was tons of fun to see my Grandpa, I always love hearing about his time in the Navy and about when they were younger. We also had a great time seeing Aunt Becki, Uncle Ron and Grandma. It is so much fun to go hang out at Manchester State Park and BBQ, it is just always so much fun to see everyone. We got to spend a day and go up camping

and hiking with Coreen and Tracy. They even managed to make it through the whole night with Roxanne, for her first camping trip. Maybe someday we will get stationed up there so that we can go hike all of the cool places that are up there. Right now we

are stuck in Nebraska which to the best of my knowledge has no place to go hiking, but if there is I would sure be excited to find them. My sister also set up a tour for me at the Washington State Patrol Crime lab, since assuming that I ever finish my degree that is what I will be doing, and that was the coolest thing ever. We spent the morning in Seattle, the kids

always love the ferry ride, and had lunch and walked around the waterfront before hand. It was really cool to get to talk to someone and actually see the lab and the kinds of things that they get to do. We did end up making 2 visits to

the emergency room while we were there. Life is always so eventful with 5 kids. One day the

boys were throwing rocks into the sound (every boys favorite past time when the tide is up too high to find the crabs) and since Aaric couldn't skip the rocks like Jayson, and he was too old to be content just getting them to make it into the water like Jeremiah, he decided that he could throw his far enough to hit the buoy out there. Well it ended up in the back of Jayson's head instead,

giving him a concussion. Thankfully he was just fine, although he did have a really bad head ache. I guess that the buoys don't really look like they are that far out

there, and it is

perfectly rational to think that you can throw that far when you are 7. Our second trip was

because Elly managed to tip a stool over while reaching for a crayon (she wasn't even standing on it), and she managed to be on top of the stool with her foot underneath her and the stool. We thought that she may have broken her foot, and that the toe

might need stitches, but after a few x-rays and a good cleaning of the toe, which by the way was disgusting, they decided that it

was OK with out stitches, although it is going to be a nice big scar. It sure was a long drive, recently the kids had been asking us why we don't go up to Washington more often, but after the 23

hour drive back to Colorado, they decided that they now understand why we don't make the trip more often. We ended up staying a few days in Colorado before coming back home. It was very difficult to

make ourselves get back in the car and drive the last 7 hours home. Well that about covers everything and than some.

This Week

This week we did lots of fun stuff. We took the kids to the funplex a couple of times to go swimming, Gracie had her 1st birthday, and we went up to the mountains and went hiking. We finally had some decent weather to get outside. Most of the time I have been in Colorado we have had stormy weather and hail. It has been nice to be outside. We spent a lot of time at the parks around town. The deployment is almost over!!! Glen gets home on Friday, so we are very excited!!!!

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I am doing two posts this week, so that I can put some pictures from Glen's trip to beautiful Doha on my blog. It is such a colorful area. I am just excited that he come home in 9 days. Yes I know that I all ready mentioned this in my other post!!!!! I will also post a blurry picture of his re enlistment.

Another Week

We actually did stuff this week. We took the kids down to Island Grove to see some friends show their cows. The kids haven't really seen cows too much, so the were pretty interested for the first little bit. They got to pet one of the cows, so they thought that was pretty cool. Jeremiah absolutely loves animals, and he was just so excited to get to pet the cow. I have pictures from Aaric's birthday too. He turned 7 last week, and we had a birthday party for him. He thought it was super exciting. He finally got his own MP3 player, and was so glad that he is finally old enough to have one of his own. He has been asking for one since Ashleigh got hers. He had most of his cousins over so we got a picture of them when they were over. We took the kids to the park today, and they had so much fun. All they did was play in the sand, they were so dirty when we got home, that they had to get another bath. They buried each other and built castles. Elly's favorite thing to do was to destroy everything, so the other kids, finally gave up trying to build elaborate castles and started building mountains for her to destroy instead. She had a great time running around and stomping out all of them. We have been trying to go swimming since we have been here, but for being summer we have not had weather good enough to go yet. Maybe this next week we will make it. Glen's re enlistment was this week. I have pictures, but they are too blurry. He also got to go into Doha this week. He went to a mall, and got to go out to dinner. He was very happy to eat something besides chow hall food. He comes home in 9 days, so that is also exciting. We are down to single digits finally.

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Today was Aaric's birthday, he turned 7. So we invaded Palomino's for dinner tonight. They were very excited, I'm sure. Chris and Sara, and Kyler and Shannon, and Mom and Dad, and most of the kids (all of mine) were there. Te'a and Elly had a lot of fun coloring, they were very excited to show the camera their pictures. Jayson and Aaric spent most of their time playing a game on their gameboy, and Ashleigh and Madelyn were playing the games on the kids menu. Aaric was super excited when they sang to him and brought him a special dessert (I'm not really sure he cared about the song, but he loved the dessert). He was also very happy that his Dad called to tell him Happy Birthday. He sure didn't say much to him, but he was very excited that his Dad remembered him. We really didn't do a whole lot this week, the kids helped Grandpa put his garden in. They were very helpful for the first little while. Mostly we just hung out. The kids were having fun seeing their cousins, since we they don't get to see very often. Maybe next week, I will do something exciting.