Updates

Well, I got most unpacked and sorted!!!!! There are still some boxes left but it isn't stuff I'm going to unpack in this place. We decided to get a storage unit here and have the rest of our stuff moved down from Idaho..... In Idaho we have a unit that still has our yard stuff and all of Eric's tools and some furniture...... We're gonna get that shipped down and combine that stuff with the stuff we have here that we don't need here...... (china, and stuff like that)..... Out of the boxes I unpacked only two things were broke, a small fiesta plate (turquoise) and a fiesta dinner plate in pink..... Not too bad for coming 1,400 miles in a uhaul! ;) side note: it's been really hot here! We've been swimming most every day after school which has been a wonderful treat! The dogs have loved having air conditioning! They seem to have adjusted really well and haven't had an problems with them! Yay! They are happy puppies! ;)

Psalms 61:2

Hawaii day Friday's

Aloha Fridays is every Friday at school! Guess we'd better stock up on that stuff! Makes it fun each Friday to not have a uniform day ;) here is Riley with her other teacher ;)

1st day of school

Here are a few pictures from the first day of school.....(yesterday). Riley is in a team taught 2nd grade class, and Caelan is in a G.A.T.E. program in her 4th grade class combo with a couple of 3rd graders in there. Their principal is also pictured here with both the girls.

Date night. Soon.

Eric is on his way back from Idaho. He left at about 2 o'clock today to head here with a very very full 26' uhaul truck! He even has one of our wingbacks on the front seat, yes, did I mention how full he said it is!!!! He had the help of 7 Guys from our church! Wow what a blessing they were to us to be there to help today! It's amazing how much the church and the people of Real life Ministries has blessed us! Anyhow, Eric and the guys loaded the truck as full as they could and there is still quite a bit still in one of the storage units up there. We are happy we were able to only have the one unit full now instead of the 2 units..... We will hire a moving company when we buy a house to bring the rest. For now I'm happy the beds and dressers are on the way, the living room stuff, my decorative items and the girls' toys, books etc...... Sadly though all of Eric's tools are left in Idaho and there is nothing more amazing than designing and creating
Things with Eric and having him make things..... But it will be a good season for us to just hang out and focus on building our life here in california again. Eric loved the HungerGames books and I bought the movie today..... First date night in our new house, coming up soon! Can't wait to set up our room and our tv/DVD system and snuggle in with a movie..... Can't wait. Counting the hours till my Eric gets here. Love
That man, with all my heart.

Far more

God is good, He provides more than we deserve or imagine. Life isn't always easy nor is it glamorous but life is good with God in it. I cannot imagine life without Christ. He has provided peace in the storms of life. Life this past year has been the worst year by far, out of any other year in my life..... But with Gods grace and the mercy He provides, we get through the storms. I am so thankful God gives me strength in the hard times.....

Off to Idaho

Eric flew out yesterday to Idaho..... He's got a LONG few days ahead of him as he sorts through our storage unitS, and packs a uhaul with what he is able to fit in one truck.... We will leave the rest in Idaho for now until we buy a house..... Gonna be hard leaving so much behind for a while but hopefully what he brings will be enough to make us comfortable here..... We will miss having a garage to do our many projects and refurbishing jobs, as well as the frames..... We may be able to find a place to do those..... It will be different having a large patio instead of a yard, but the simplicity that it brings not having a yard right now is inspiring. Simplicity is our year this next year. The school year will be made very simple. Everything we are choosing in our life right now is for simplicity sake and it's a beautiful thing.....

Part two

Wise women of fallbrook book published

My mother-in-law made it on the front cover of the "wise women of fallbrook".... We went to the cocktail party for all the women featured in the book.

Spa!

Soaking in the spa at our new place!

City life

Living in the city. It's different than the country in Idaho, but we are liking it. ;)

Especially made by nana

Nana made the girls dresses for their birthdays with matching American girl doll dresses to add to the dolls clothing collection ;) now they have several sets of matching clothes with their dolls! So fun! Thanks nana!

Our new place!

An afternoon swim for the birthday girl!!! Walked to rubios for lunch..... This is awesome! Then we can cook in our place starting Monday! Yay! For getting our stuff here. It's quite odd living in an empty place sleeping on our camping gear.:(

Seven

Seven years old today, our Riley Rae! Hard to believe she is seven already..... We have had a tradition since Caelan turned a year old to have cupcakes for breakfast on your birthday..... Well moving into our new place last night didn't quite make cupcakes a possibility for the morning since I don't have the stuff to do all that. I borrowed a pan from Mary and never got the ingredients with all the chaos of the day yesterday..... :( but, starbucks sells cakepops and starubucks is downstairs from our place so that worked great walking downstairs and enjoying a breakfast treat! Eric started work today so he wasn't able to join us ;( later we will celebrate with dinner somewhere..... Goodness I'm anxious to get the rest of our stuff here from Idaho so I can cook! All this eating out isn't too exciting :(

Bye fallbrook / San Diego county

Thanks nana and papa for having us all those nights! We packed up our stud yesterday and headed to our new place in orange. We moved what stuff we drove down from Idaho with..... Eric now has a flight booked for Friday to Idaho. He'll then drive a
Uhaul back here with half our stuff and we will leave the other half up there, for now. We are just renting this place for a while and we don't need all that stuff right now in the place we have. We love the place we are at. I have a feeling this is gonna be a really really good fit for us!

Riley

Yesterday in the car with a sick little girl. The heat maybe? We aren't sure but a whole day of throwing up and feeling achy is no fun. :(

Family from Japan

My aunt Mayumi, uncle jan, cousins Kai and koe were here from Japan for a visit! It was the 3rd little vacation reunion we've had with them. It was so nice to see them and get the kids together! We went to goofy's kitchen for dinner Thursday night, then to disney's California adventure Friday, all day! It was a blast seeing the new Disney Cars land that had just opened up! The rides and attractions in cars land was amazing! So thankful for the time we had with them. Thank you for flying all the way here to see all of us! Thank you for an amazing dinner at Goofys Kitchen! And Thankful for Don, my moms boyfriend who got us all into the park with all those tickets. We are very lucky to have been able to do that with everyone. Can't wait to post all the photos. I'll blog them all later.... For now it's off to house hunt. We hunted all day yesterday!!!!! Sadly Riley got the flu and was throwing up all day so it made for a very hard long day trying to get her well enough to make the drive back down to Eric's parents. We've been in and out of hotels all summer, at Eric's parents, my sisters, hopped all over. Hoping we finalize a place to call home.... We have a pretty good chance on a place in orange and we go today to see about making it final!!!!! If so we'd get the keys Tuesday!

Cousins

Yesterday we took the kids to aunt Katie and uncle mikes to play with their cousins. Riley officially fell in love with Legos!!!! Gonna have to remember that for gift ideas for her. She sat for a couple of hours building!

Campland, mission bay, San Diego

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Today we went over to mission bay to visit with everyone from our old church that was having family camp. Kelli and Jason were also down there visiting everyone so it was fun to see them! The warehouse had close to 90 people at the camp!!!! Kurt and Robin had a full camp! So cool to see people we haven't seen in a while. Wish we could have visited longer. There will be lots of opportunities now that we are back in Cali. ;)

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Dinner time on the wooden Swing

Riley at nana and papas on the swing hanging from their big big tree

Balboa park part 2

The girls worked on marble roller coasters, rode the carousel and enjoyed a day of learning lots!!!!!

Science museum. Balboa park

We love San Diego balboa park free tuesdays for residents! Yesterday we visited the science building and the horse exhibit!