Glimpse

A peek into our lives...

On a Mission...

...to the Mission. One of the staples of 4th grade is the California Mission Report. I remember doing it many, many moons ago. Here we are now doing it with Iain. He chose Mission San Luis Rey which is about an hour from our house. With our crazy, crazy schedule right now, there was only one weekend day we had to go visit. As Mother Nature would have it, it poured! O'well, on we went! Getting pictures proved to be a bit difficult. We had to make sure we were under an awning at all times.

The grounds were beautiful! We all learned a lot about the Mission and it's history. We all agreed the cemetery was BEYOND creepy. I'm not a big fan of any cemetery (is anyone??) but this one was just...ICK!! We all got an uneasy feeling and were very willing to move on to the next site!

Mission Boy!

His travel companion #1

and #2

Click on this picture to see the amount of rain that was falling.

Once the rain passed...View of Church and Cemetery Door

Close up of Cemetery Door. The architecture was amazing

The only original structure still standing since it was founded in 1802. (bet you didn't know you would get a history lesson too)

Tomorrow

Ready and waiting!

Watch out Little League, here they come!

Revisiting

Today I took on the task of cleaning out/organizing the kids bins. You know the bins that have all the mementos that I want to save forever. Iain's bin is completely overflowing from all his reports and fun artwork over the years, along with lots of baby things. Sean still has room in his but it is filling up at lightening speed and Sara's is just starting. I will say I did not cry going through it all, but it did really remind me how fast it all goes. Iain's first pair of shoes, first time he wrote his name, and also several reports and presentations he's done. I think his bin was the one that was the most emotional. Seeing his preschool art and the sweet, sweet notes he's written to us over the years...just can't believe he's almost 10!

Here are some of my favorites...

Iain's

The first hat Nanny knitted for him

His first shoes and a piece of his blanket that he slept with for years.

A self portrait: he was 4 years old

Iain made this for Sean

Love this one. He signed it when he was almost 5 years old. He has since told me he can not honor this contract!!

Sean's

Sean's first pair of shoes size 5 Extra Wide :-) and his first Nanny hat

Kindergarten - Drawing of a pig

Love the spelling of "pumpkin" and the frog drawing

Again, contract. Notice his signature, he was 2 1/2 at the time...

Sara's

Not her first Nanny hat, but a bumble bee one. Sean was playing soccer at the time and his team was the Bumble Bees. She still wears her "first" Nanny hat!

Her family.

Note that Iain T. is bald and Sean is wearing a dress. Sara says the red on our faces was make up.

Turkey drawing - 3 years 10 months

Still here

All I do is blink and the time is flying! We are here and everything is going well! Baseball practices started a few weeks ago, which explains some of my MIA'ness. With the boys getting older, they have more practices. As of now, we have 4 practices each week. After this Saturday we will have 4 games plus 3 practices. Not sure how we will do much else but I have to admit, it's okay by me. The boys are the same teams as last year, Iain Angels and Sean Dodgers. We lucked out with two So Cal teams again! I have to say I'm quite relieved that Sara didn't want to play anything this year. I'm not ready to juggle a third child in sports! She has expressed interest in soccer for the fall so that's when the majority of the triple juggling will start.

After months and months of looking, we finally bought a trailer. The kids are beyond thrilled. Years of tent camping are now over! We took it out on a maiden voyage a few weeks ago. We had a blast! We have several more trips planned for the upcoming months. Here are a few pics.