Much like our Anniversary, I don’t have any recollection of what we did to celebrate my 29th birthday. That doesn’t mean the day wasn’t at all special, we just have a lot happening in our world right now. I do remember the night ended with the most delicious cheesecake. I also remember eating way too much of said cheesecake in the days that followed. I singlehandedly took it down.
Thanks to Cameron for taking this awesome picture! He’s a natural :)
Honestly, I have no idea what we did to celebrate our Anniversary on August 23. I do remember we ended the day as a family at the park with a take out, gluten free pizza. It was no frills and we loved it.
I’m a big fan of our #6 anniversary post. I put some pictures up there that bring back some good memories :) It’s true when they say things only get better with time! (I’m pretty sure they do say that…it’s a real saying, right?! Whatever, it’s true!)
Our boys LOVE each other. Jackson’s face lights up when Cameron walks into the room. Cameron loves to hug and wrestle with Jackson (that wrestling part isn’t that awesome). Jackson is starting to hug Cameron and give kisses. Just precious!
Each boy has such a different personality! Cameron is just super wild. I’m not saying badly behaved (though he has his moments) but he’s 1000% boy. He has no fear. He wears capes and loves Power Rangers. He always has a chocolate ring around his lips.
Just a few weeks ago we found ourselves at Urgent Care: 3 stitches in the back of the head. You wouldn’t have known he had a gaping, bloody wound in the waiting room. He was running around crashing into things, making sound effects and everything. Energetic. I know it’s just a matter of time before he jumps off the roof trying to fly. He’s totally that kid!
With his preschool buddies at Jaden’s birthday party
Jackson wants nothing but love. And freedom to roam. He just FINALLY cut his first teeth, 2 in the same day and it seems there are more on the way. So we’ve been eating a lot of purees. He’s not walking, but cruising along anything he can get his hands on. Gives such cute kisses, loves clapping and signing “all done”. The bottle is gone (he had NO problem with that, unlike his stubborn brother) and he’s just along for the ride. So laid back and relaxed. God gave us exactly what we needed with this little guy, I can’t imagine our crazy life with a high-strung baby. He’s also pretty photogenic if I do say so myself
I didn’t get a chance to post my favorite non-detail pictures from Jackson’s party. So, even though this is really late…well, I don’t care. I’m doing it :)
We got lots of “help”from the bigger kids during present time. Oye!
Grandma Jennifer made him a personalized rocking chair. He crawls up in that thing every chance he gets. Such a great gift!
He just really wasn’t too interested in his cake. Touching was pretty much out of the question…
Perk of having the party at Cuppa Yo: Threw him in the sink after cake. Genius idea, K!
We had family staying with us after the party, Cameron was STOKED to have a backyard campout. Here he’s helping G-pa get the tent stakes in.
On Jackson’s actual birthday (Aug. 30), I wanted to take some pics. There were MANY super dysfunctional ones, here are the best I could do.
*We are without a working printer, I pulled this out of Cam’s memory box. He took a picture with this same paper, see the date on the bottom?*
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY JACKSON!
Summer in Central Oregon is the best. It was short this year and I miss it already…
…okay I admit it, I lured you here under false pretenses. There’s no announcement.
But I had to. You see, I’m afraid our little blog is no longer relevant since I only update …well, pretty much never. I started wondering why I even keep it up at all when I have such a problem making time to do it. I realized because it’s more for me than anything! I love looking at old posts and reading about memories we’ve made these past 3ish years. I have problems remembering what happened yesterday so this blog is almost completely for me. So, even though I no longer had the time for it, this blog is around for the long haul. If you’re still here reading, thanks :)
So…what’s new? I have no idea. I think my approach will be to post a few pictures and spread the posts out over the next few weeks. I will say it was a busy summer. I haven’t cooked a complete meal in months, Keith and I work mostly split shifts – “single” parenting has been a challenge, and we are just trying to juggle everything. We are sooo blessed – this season of our life is all about transition with a capital T. Transition. As in, not forever. I hope.
I did find 503 pictures on my SD card from the last 2 or so months. I promise I will not post all of them. Just some of my faves :) It might be best to start with the most recent and work backward…
Last weekend we went to our one and only OSU football game for the season. It’s going to be a tough year for our beavs but you won’t find any fair-weather fans in this family. Our team is bad but we still wear orange :) We’ve taken Cameron 3 times now, it’s becoming sort a tradition – we took Jackson when he was just a few weeks old last year too.
I like this picture because all three boys are here. And Keith looks happy :)
We went’with some college friends, they have a 6 month old posterchild for colic. They call him Screamy. Anyway, it was super challenging to keep Cameron from hurting himself/jumping on me/jumping on our friends/jumping on everyone in our section…you get the point. In his (and my) defense, we did drive 2.5 hours to the game and then he had to stay still and watch a game he knew nothing about. Either way, it was super hard and exhausting but Keith assures me these memories are worth it. I believe him but DANG I think I can wait another year before trying that again.
More interested in the treats at the concession stand than the game. It’s all good.
What you are looking at here is an “owl”. Sort of. The theme was owls, okay?! I guess it turned out more like a balding man with psychedelic eyes. I tried.
yeah, I had MUCH to catch up in blogland. This should be the last of it (I think I did 7…SEVEN!?). Sunday we hosted a BBQ for Keith’s family. He had family in town from Arizona and Texas, sounds like a great reason to have everyone over, dontchathink?
L to R: Keith’s dad, Grandpa and Uncle
Back row: Keith, sister Lindy, brother Neil, Grandma Evelyn + Dad, Grandpa and Uncle 
I forgot to count how many cousins there were at our house but it was A LOT. Our couch got a lot of use. They had so much fun jumping all over one another.
Many of our relatives hadn’t ever been in either Cuppa Yo. The new one has plenty of space for large groups so we had a Pow-Wow over there. It was pretty much a Clayton invasion.
Grandpa + Jackson 
The whole family. I had to go to work at the other store. Lame. 
The cousins. 
I’ve got some bad but exciting news. Jackson started crawling tonight (July 12). It’s the cutest little army crawl. Oh man. Lots of work ahead of us! He’s still toothless, but I’m pretty sure one of those isn’t far behind either. It’s about to get interesting!
