New Job......

So Aaron put his Resume Out there for a part time job to help us in saving for our long term future goals and he got a call from a company he couldn't not interview with. The wait was a long one but well worth it. Aaron now works for the portland office of: 

That's right.... 

 

He works in the finance department of the office off the warehouse.  

Its Funny, when we've told family about his new part time work the first thing they ask is.. "does he get samples?" 

We are happy to say..YES! Guess who's gained 5 pounds this month? The kids now ask Aaron when he gets home? "Where's the icecream?"  I prefer a man who brings home the icecream vrs. bacon! :)

Beach!

 We had had very busy week this last week with work, kids and ... and you know, everything. So we decided friday night that we would take an impromptu trip to seaside the next day to spend the day there just us. It was fabulous! I came away thinking "why don't we do this more often?" We are only a few hours drive away. 

I took a few pictures of the kids, Aaron took a few of me, but I have graciously not posted those bloated white pasty pictures. The kids had such a fun time! We played on the beach for 5 hours.

 Evelyn with her little bucket, we made a sand castle. Do you see Egan in the background running full speed into the ocean? The temperature was perfect, a warm sun, cold ocean and cool breeze.

 For some reason the kids wanted to help the ocean bring the water up to the beach, here they are taking bucket fulls of water up to the beach and dumping it out... Silly kids.

 We packed a picnic of yummy sandwiches, chips apples and cookies. Of course sand was everywhere, but we did our best. Here is Evelyn enjoying her Doritos.

 

Egan knew this was his opportunity to get real good and dirty, and boy did he take advantage of it. Every time we turned around he was literally rolling in it. He took a nice long bath when we got home. Here's hoping we don't find any more sand in his ears. :) We plan on taking this trip much more often. We had a blast. A much needed short vacation.

First Lost Tooth!

Egan came to us the other day with a suprisingly very loose tooth. Upon inspection, we noticed a big tooth growing behind the loose one. It took another 2 days to loosen enough to have it pulled out. Aaron, Egan and I were all too chicken to pull it out, so we tied a string around it thinking we could yank it out, again no one wanted to do the pulling. With the string around the tooth Egan just stood there looking like "now what?" Inpatient and irritated with the whole scene, Evelyn walked by in her sneaky way, rolled her eyes and grabbed it hard, the tooth came right out! We laughed so hard, Evelyn was one to finally do it. Egan didn't think it was funny at first, but then when he realized it was over and he could finally put it under his pillow he was happy. 

That night the tooth fairy left a dollar under his pillow. We promptly went to the dollar store and he chose to buy a package of ring pops which he graciously shared with his devious sister. :) 

These kids keep getting older and reaching new milestones. I can't keep up! This fall they will both be in full day school!