Latest Accomplishment

Yup, she figured out how to crawl!  She kind of got around for a little while by twisting her body while she was sitting and that would somehow move her bit by bit.  We noticed she was getting pretty close to really crawling last week and within a few days has it down like a pro.  Thankfully, though, she's still fairly slow - though she gets faster everyday.  This is a month younger than Kason crawled and two months younger than Asher crawled.  I don't know that I was totally ready for it!  Now, I am vacuuming even more and trying to find the little toys and crumbs before she does, which does get harder with each kid, imagine that! It's too cute to see her crawling, though, and she's happier.

 Now she can get right in the middle of her brothers' games and try to eat their army guy camps.

I've been playing around with the camera and Emry has been my model in the clothes Kellie sent.  So, here's  a  few  whole lot of pictures of her.  I'll never get tired of looking at them though!

 The boys LOVE to ride their bikes.  That's all they want to do.  I love that we live in a place where it's really  pretty safe for them to go ride to their hearts content even if I don't get out there for a minute or if there's some sneaking out involved.  They prefer to ride around and around even to playing on the playground.  We've gone on quite a few little family bike rides and I think it's their favorite activity.  Asher makes quite the sound effects as we go along too.

Summer Times

We have been keeping busy, mostly it's just keeping up with all the things that need to happen with 3 kids.  Here are some more of the fun things we've done this summer. I love summer and I love summer in Oregon.

At the All Comers Meet at Hayward Field.  The kids get to compete in certain track and field events divided up by age group.  This was the 60 meter dash.  The poor boys didn't really know what was going on, they just got rushed onto the track.  Isaac wasn't there, but thankfully our good friends helped me out the whole time. 

Asher checking out his competition with Jim at the start line.

He was dead last.  He kept looking back at Jim multiple times during the race like "where am I going??? What am I doing?"

  

Kason at the start line

The long jump

Softball Throw

The 200 meters.  That's Kason in the gray shirt...in the back.  When I zoom into this picture his face is a mix of emotions from determination, to anger, to despair and agony that he is almost last.  He has a competitive streak in him. He was zig zagging all around kids instead of staying on the inside.  They had alot of fun though.

 Intense concentration to pick up a cracker

After church

Kason has been loving swim lessons and is getting quite a bit better at swimming.  It has been fun for the boys to ride their bikes there everyday while I push Emry in the stroller.

Asher and Emry were great about waiting for and watching Kason.  But, Asher was ready to get in the water this day.

Ready for us all to get in after Kason's lesson.  I'll admit I was slightly proud that I took all three, none of whom can swim completely on their own, into the water by myself.  Granted, Kason has grown alot since last summer and he can usually touch the bottom of the pool and Asher has his floating thing...but still.

8 months old! 

She's getting closer to crawling.  Isaac is ready for her to crawl, I don't know that I am.

She has turned into a major mommy's girl.

She's sleeping alot better at night

She's still as cute as ever!

The Castle

We had a family reunion on the Oregon Coast at Lincoln City.  It was so much fun and the kids absolutely love their cousins.  We are going through withdrawl now.

We stayed at a rental that is appropriately called "The Castle".  It was awesome.  There were games and Asher was infatuated with the arcade game downstairs.  The kids would always ask, "Are we going back to the castle now?"

Fogarty Beach

Isaac, McKay, and Oliver climbing the rocks

Wade, Kason, Maren and Payton braving the chilly water.

Every single time we go to the Oregon coast, I think how majestic it is.  

I love these 3 together

Asher played right here for so long.  He'd put water in the bucket and then haul it up to the sand...over and over again.  He was so exhausted the next morning.  (Summer has just gotten to Oregon, we're still getting used to the sun).  In the morning, we couldn't get him to wake up, we got him dressed and he'd just keep flopping down and falling asleep.  He slept until 11:00!

The beach down from our place

This was Emry's first time to the coast and first time in the sand

We went clamming and crabbing one day and had some good luck.  Some of us got pretty sunburned, but no complaints because it was fairly warm for the coast and sunny.

Clamming

Isaac throwing the crab pot back into Siletz bay

I think the biggest catch of the day

We thought these two looked alot alike

Grandkids minus 3