Fun Filled Friday!

The holiday continued throughout the weekend! Not only did we eat yummy left overs all weekend but we also had some fun family outings!

On Friday we went to the Garabaldi Maritime Museum.

Ty loved taking apart the puzzle boat and putting it together again! He also liked the cannon!

Mara had fun trying on the hats and just running around!


But the most fun at the museum was playing dress up and putting on the costumes!

After the museum we headed up the Trask River in search of the perfect Christmas tree! We went to the tree farm to cut down our own Christmas tree. Who knew looking at pine trees could be so fun? Not to mention the yummy hot chocolate and apple cider we enjoyed!

We searched high and low for the most beautiful noble fur Christmas Tree and we found it! Well, it looked like the most perfect and beautiful tree...until we got it home and tried putting it in the stand!

We found the most perfectly bowed Christmas tree on the lot! You can kind of tell, but there is a definiate bend in our tree! Oh well, it's still pretty. Oh and another thing...trees look a lot smaller in the tree farm than in your living room! Let's just say there is plenty of room under this tree for a lot of presents!!

Our Day of Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today was perfect! What a wonderful holiday! We think Thanksgiving should be once a week--or at least once a month!

Our day included:

Playing games together--yatzee! "Come on big bunny" as Ty would say!

Doing a puzzle--the kids even love big hard puzzles!

We also watched a couple movies, read stories and took it easy... it kind of sounds like every other day of the week, but we had our daddy with us and it just felt like a special day!

One of our favorite things this holiday was making the pies together. Nate's favorite kind is pecan, but since this family can't eat pecans we tried a new kind: Almond Pie! Boy was it a winner! It was delicious! We also made a pumpkin pie--nothing says Thanksgiving like pumpkin pie!

Some of the things we were thankful for were:

Family
Friends
The gospel
Being together
Cell phones
Plenty of food including turkey
Dishwasher
Laughter
Good health


This was our fifth Thanksgiving away from family... it's crazy we've had more Thanksgivings away from family than with family! It seems to be getting a little easier for us each year to be away, but hopefully next year with any luck we could see the family for the holiday!

Lucky #7!!!

Good things come to those who wait,

GREAT things came when I found Nate!!

I am so thankful I didn't have to wait too long to meet this awesome guy!! WOW! Seven Years! Can you believe it?
When I think back to that cold January day in Logan when for some reason I had a crazy urge to go running in the field house at 6:00am how grateful I am that I got myself out of bed and went! It was the best surprise in the world to meet the man of my dreams running there as well!!

Our dating months were fun, we look back with fond memories, good times, and a lot of love!

I'll never forget the most beautiful day in November, when I thought for sure we would have snow and ice, but luckily it held off and we had a gorgeous wedding day!

Now seven years later (seven wonderful years I might add) we have sure had an adventure together, and it truly has been a great adventure! Seven years ago I would have never imagined me moving to so many states, seeing so many places, and doing so many things--but I would do it all again in a heart beat if it means being with Nate! I love this man! How could I have deserved such a wonderful guy? I'll never know! But with each year he keeps getting better and better!! He is perfect in every way! He is the best dad in the world, a great handy-man, I think he can fix about anything now (except for cars)! He makes me laugh, and he is my best friend-forever!
Love ya Nate!

A few photos from the past seven years together:

Bring on the rain!

When it rains...it pours in Tillamook! Yesterday we had the first (definitely not the last) flood of the season! It rained more than 5 inches yesterday, and with the high tide levels and over-flowing rivers we woke up this morning to flooded streets. This is the main drag--101 North!! No getting through this street! Highways and other roads have been closed due to mud slides and washed out bridges. For the past couple months we've had Emergency Preparedness Night for Family Home Evening. We never know when we are going to get hit with a natural disaster: flooding, tsunami, hurricanes...!! So we've been working on getting our 72 hour kits ready, and other emergency procedures in order. Now we need to work on our food storage, food storage food storage!!! But hopefully we will be prepared and not have to worry when a disaster hits! It was a little scary driving to mutual last night with the rain coming down in buckets! But we were all safe and grateful this storm has passed! I'm sure we will be seeing another storm soon!

Oh so yummy!

There's just something fun about licking the beaters (or spatula) after making a tasty treat--just as my husband and kids! This is one of their favorite things! On Sunday for dessert we made brownies--yum, the kids (and that includes Nate) loved licking the batter from the bowl and utensils! We especially liked seeing Mara's face after such an experience! How can one little sweetie be so messy!

Baby Update!

Baby Lewis #3!!
I know it's hard to see anything in ultrasounds, but here you can see his head, nose, mouth, chin and little hand there on the right

Yesterday I had an ultrasound to check and see if our little baby boy is growing properly and to give the doctor a better idea when he should join our family! (The last ultrasound I had done he was measuring two weeks earlier, so my doctor was hesitant to deliver too early.) So after having the ultrasound everything looks great! He is right on track where he should be. The technician said our baby weighed about 3 lbs which is exactly what he should be at right now. He said if he gains 1/2 lb a week from now to delivery day he will be around 8 lbs when he's born, which would be perfect! The funniest part about the ultrasound was when he was checking everything out on the baby and found his little tummy. He started to laugh and said "Look at the rolls on that kid! He's already chubby!" Oh great! He's taking after his big brother! Although if you knew Ty as a baby he really wasn't chubby around his tummy--it was all in his cheeks! In the ultrasound the baby looked just like Ty, but maybe all babies look the same on the ultrasound screen! All I know is I can hardly wait for our chubby little guy to come to our family!