I Love This Guy

A couple days a couple I was feeling pretty humbled. I am reading this book Stepping Heavenward and it is rocking my world. It makes me want to be a better wife and mother and love Jesus more. Hence the humbling after a long day in 100 degree heat and trying to get Abbey to nap for 3 hours and me not reacting the way I want to toward anyone. So, since Abbey was determined not to sleep we had to get out of the house. And when we got home Kevin, my amazing husband had made us dinner. It was a gourmet meal: mac and cheese, corn for the can and pot stickers. He pan fried the pot stickers so he went all out. All joking aside I was so thankful. And besides dinner we had left me a surprise: my favorite ice cream (Ben and Jerry's coffee with health bar), my favorite wine, my favorite candy (Toblerone) and a chick flick, all with little love notes. What a guy! Right?!

Berries, Pumpkins and a Pool Party

Today we did something that I am so excited about. We went to your usually berry patch and while we did pick some berries and eat a lot more, we craved pumpkins! Not the Halloween craving with mushy squishy insides and seeds. We went into the pumpkin patch while they were still green and craved a personal message in them. So as they grow and ripen our message scares the pumpkin and it comes out looking so cool. I've seen this in fancy antique stores around here in the years past and was in love. So I am so excited to see how our personal pumpkins turned out. One says "Welcome" and it will sit at our front door to greet all our visitors. And our other pumpkin says "Lamb family". I will post the finally results in October.

After that wonderful outing we joined some really good friends for dinner and a pool party. Well, it was more of a pool party for the girls. Wow if that was Friday evening, what does the weekend hold?

I say yes to CSA

Ever since I started doing weekly meal plans thanks to Adrienne we eat out less, waste less food and eat better. I have been wanting to join the Cal Poly Organic Farm CSA for years. Every week you get a box of fresh beautiful organic vegetables. Now that Abbey is older see loves farm animals so the weekly trek to the the farm is now an invited treat instead of an annoyance.
This was our first week and we received this abundance of gorgeous veggies: tomatoes, blue potatoes, eggplant, basil and more (except those peaches- they snuck in the picture). See those cherry tomatoes in the front. They were from the up-pick section at the farm for free! Free and delicious, i couldn't pick them fast enough for Abbey to eat and it was so fun. Besides the fun with Abbey on the fun we joined this CSA because it is organic, in our price range and we will be eating local. If you want to find a CSA near you can go to http://www.localharvest.org/csa

Family on the Go

It has been too long since I last posted. Since San Diego we went home to SLO for a couple days then back in the car to Tucson where we survived the 110 degree heat but had a great time with friends and family. Then to Prescott to visit Kevin's family. Next to Telluride, CO where we marveled at God's creation in this gorgeous mountain mining ski town and after this mini vaction we headed to Ft. Collin Co for our national staff conference. Now we are home and oh is it good to be home. I'll post some pictures from our visits tomorrow but for now eher are some pictures of Abbey adoring our boss's baby kitten.


Following the kitten at all costs :)

Family Beach Day

On our day off we headed to the beach and had fun as a family. I must be crazy cause I am actually posted pictures of me in a bathing suit. Brave I know with those bad tan lines. But I just love this picture of Abbey and I: holding my hand and with the other dragging her wagon. She has been going through this phase where she has to hold our hand where ever she goes. I just love this phase. Please don't let it end.
Fun in the sand.

Kevin sufing.

Playing in the water with Kevin.

Abbey tasting the salt water. yuck. But she kept going back for more.

This smile sums up our day. FUN in the Sun

Elephants are scary

We are in San Diego. Actually we have been here for a week and a half. We are living in the Univeristy of San Diego dorms with 2 other familys, a couple others staff members and 19 students from Campus Crusade. It has been a fun but busy time. Abbey has LOVED having 4 friends to play with just one door away. It does get a little crazy with 5 kids running around in a little hallway so to burn off more energy we went to the world famous San Diego zoo. This zoo is huge so we only had time to walk to the elephants and the mini petting zoo.

Abbey's reaction to the Elephants was quit unexcepted but so cute. She won't even look at them she was so scared. She would turn her head away and cover her eyes. No crying or wining just quietly hiding from the elephants.

DAD: Happy Father's Day!

Everyday I think that I am so blessed to have you as my dad.

I love you dad and miss you a lot.