Well, it's been just about forever since I've written on here.

WE ARE MOVING OFF THE MOUNTAIN!

We bought a house in a town called Port Orchard. It's closer to everything, (work, stores, school, ect.) has cable internet and cell phone service. We are joining civilization again! Hopefully we will be moving our stuff by the end of the week. Who knew buying a house was such a pain in the butt. Months of doing this and that and signing things and the WAITING. Good gravy, the house buying business is NOT for impatient people (like me). Mitch picked the house. It's got a really nice back yard, the inside can be redone over time and it's not going to snow and trap me up on top of a mountain with unplowed dirt roads so that's awesome.

As for family summer updates:

I haven't been doing rugby this summer because we've just been busy and stuff. I'll start in the fall again because we'll be MUCH closer and I wont have to drive an hour there and an hour back to practice. I went to a Navy wife meeting thing to try and make some friends to hike or go out with and that didn't work out, kind of as expected.

Eden is riding her bike with no training wheels! It took about 3 days of whining and falling but once she got it she lovveddd it. She rides every day now and calls her bike "the cheetah bike" because she goes so fast ha! It was super frustrating for Mitch and I, we almost pulled our hair out saying "pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal....." and then she wouldn't. It was worth it haha. (Ignore the baby grunting and my old lady laughing in the video lol)

 She's also in swim lessons again. She got to advance to the next level. She's a super pike now :) School ended in June and now she's driving me crazy without having other little people to run around and play with on a daily basis. She is writing letters to people to keep up her penmanship and spelling. If you would like a pen pal, send her a letter! She reads a book to me every day too.

The baby took his first steps the other day! He was going after my ice cream...go figure. I'm pretty sure he didn't even realize that he was walking because he was in a "must get sugar" trance. As my mom says "he is most definitely the product of two sugar fiends." He will be 1 next week. Holy cow, time flies. He can do some more tricks now too. He can brush his hair when you ask him too, he shrugs his shoulders when you say "I don't know," He will head butt you if you ask him too (dads trick haha), If you say "awww" he'll give you a cuddle or cuddle the toy he's holding, he will go get a ball if you ask him to and he'll give you what he has in his hand or mouth if you ask him to. He has 8 teeth now and eats pretty much everything :)

Mitch is still not liking his job. He rides his bike to work most days, which is 17 miles each way UP a LOT of hills. It's crazy.  His chickens started laying eggs the other day and he was SO stoked. He made an egg sandwich for breakfast the other morning and said it tasted like success :-P


Hmm... in other fun summery news we've been camping  a few times, Mitch's mom and and brother came out to see us and we have been trying to enjoy the sun as much as we can!

OH, and WE ARE GOING TO NEW YORK!!! In a couple weeks :) I wish we could stay longer than we are going to but, the Navy of course doesn't think that's cool. I Caaaann'ttttt WAIT :) Woo Hoo!!!!

TTFN xoxo