October 2012

Warning!! Lots of pictures!!!  

 This past month has been a busy month!!  I haven't updated this blog and I don't want to get behind.  So this will be a recap of the month of Oct.  We traveled down to Medford, OR to visit Marks family. 

Here we are at the original Harry and David store.  This was a really fun place to visit and shop.

 Then we had to stop at Black Bird in Medford. It's a sporting goods store that has been here since Mark's mom was a little girl.  She used to go here.

 Here are some cousins.  Ava (on the left), Haley (in the middle) and Lulu.  

 We took a day and went to Ashland where Mark's mom grew up, it's about 10min from Medford.  

 Ashland is famous for the Shakespeare Festival and we got to tour the outdoor theater. 

 Sitting in the seats.

 Back in Medford we stayed with Mark's dad and he helped Mark put an awning on our trailer.

 Here's Lulu standing in front of the awning that is halfway put up.

 Then we left Medford and spent our first night in a Walmart parking lot!  This was very exciting.

 We then made our way to the Oregon coast and drove north on highway 101.  Here we stopped at the sand dunes.  Behind Mark and the kids is all sand, no water.  The water was a ways out.  

 Here we are with our travel trailer aka home.

 We spent the night at a 1000 trails park one night, thinking we might stay a while but there were these warnings all over and the dumpster just a few campsites away was ravaged over night and garbage was everywhere.  So we headed north to another 1000 trails in Seaside, OR. 

We had been using Mark's dad's house for laundry so now was the first time I got to use the laundromat. This was a fun adventure.  Not one I love but a good memory.  

 Here the kids are at the beach finally.  They were so excited.  This was at Seaside. 

Dinner in Seaside.

 We spent a day down in Tillamook, OR to visit the cheese factory.

 Here we are watching them package up the cheese we buy.  We only buy Tillamook because it's that good.  

 Then we spent some time in Cannon Beach, OR.  My favorite place in the world.  

My parents came down and spent some time with us in Cannon Beach.

 Our month was busy!  It was fun but also hard.  I'm just finishing up my first trimester and this pregnancy I have felt so sick.  So as much fun as it was I was sick the entire time.  Being gone a month is very odd.  We left when it still felt like summer in WA and returned to Fall.  

First Trailer Birthday

 Yesterday was Levi's 3rd birthday! This was our first birthday in our trailer.  We stuck to our normal tradition and had birthday cake and ice cream for breakfast.  I even baked the cake!  But not in the trailer.  I went into my parents house and used their kitchen.  I still haven't used the trailers oven.  It's small.  But I bet a cake would have worked just fine. 

 After we just purged so much the last thing I wanted to do was get a bunch of gifts for Levi....but we couldn't not get him something.  So we got him his first set of Lego's the 2-5 year old kind and they fit into a clear shoe box!!!  He got a new pair of jeans and a foam sword from Lulu. 

 Here is our annual mommy/son birthday picture.  I wonder how many more years I will get to hold him??  Boohoo.

 Daddy/son picture. 

 So now the ages of our children are: Lulu 5.5, Levi 3, Ila May almost 16 months.

Mark's mom got us a family pass to the Children's museum.  There are two in our area that we can go to for free now! And there are many as we travel that our pass allows us to get into for free also!!!!  This is such a perfect gift because for $100 (not much if you think about how much we will use it) we can get out of the trailer and the kids can burn energy playing and learning.  We had a great time.  

 Even Ila May had fun!

 Mark took a half day to come play with us on Levi's birthday.  Then he took us out to eat at Red Robin for lunch. 

Happy Birthday Levi!!

Garage Sale!

Check out our Trailer Blog to read more about the sale and what we have been doing.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday my mother in law put on a moving sale for us.  We had it indoors and sold just about everything we own.  We did keep some things but basically we got rid of everything.  It feels so good!  Here is a progression of pictures of the living room and dining room from beginning (just sorting the things) to the middle (during the sale) to the end (when all was sold and gone).