Abbie decided to just focus on high school cheer this year. With starting her junior year along with working and cheer, one cheer team is plenty. Abbie is working at a local coffee shop called Coffee Republic and works before school. She loves her job and we love all the yummy drinks she makes us.
Last “first day” vibes all around!
📚 Preston is kicking off his 8th grade year, and last year of middle school!
🎒 Abbie’s first day of junior year, here she comes!
🎓 Noah’s last first day of high school. Here
comes his senior year!
Proud of each of them as they step into this new season. 💙
Earlier this summer Hunter was at Walmart and as he was driving out he saw a puppy in a cardboard box that someone had abandoned so he rescued in and brought him home. We encouraged him to give him up for adoption at the Humane Society, but he wanted a dog. We have all fallen in love with him. You will notice how he has grown over the past few months!
Holly and Duke get along great. I think Holly has lost weight keeping up with a puppy. (biting her ears and tail all the time).
Abbie and I headed down to California for a last quick trip before school started. We got to be there for Charlotte’s 10th birthday, which was really special. We also got to see California Baptist University. This is the year we will be looking at colleges for both Noah and Abbie. While we were there, we got to see Bob and Nancy and Colleen who were visiting and also Jamie and WanYe, who are right up the road from CBU. It’s always so fun going home and getting to see family.
When you get a few clouds in the evening sunsets can be spectacular.
The first set was from July on our back deck. The second set was late August when Kelly and I hiked the trail just outside of our neighborhood.
What a fun week we had with Erin, LuLu, Charlotte and Anna. The girls signed up for a horse camp and loved every minute of it. It was so fun to all be together.
We told Noah he should take up diving in college. He says he doesn’t do diving boards. Only cliff’s and bridges :)
Birthday, license the following day and friends over for backyard movie the 3rd day after. Busy week!
She took over the Dakota from Hunter and made it her own.
PJ has been going to see an eye specialist in Portland (Casey Eye Institute, at OHSU) since 2021. He was diagnosed with pediatric uveitis. Its been slowly getting better over the years, and we were only taking him up 1/quarter. We almost decided not to go for the appt this august but Kelly decided that it would be better. Thanks goodness we took him - they discovered that his retina had detached due to an infection in the eye that may have been there for years (They don't believe this has anything to do with his Uveitis). Good news is that they were able to get him in for surgery to reattach his retina. It is healing nicely and he will be going up to Portland often for check up while it heals. We thank God for brilliant doctors and modern medicine.
Hunter’s girlfriend, Adalynn came for a visit. Hunter can’t take off any time with his apprenticeship so we got to spend a lot of time with Addie during the day. We had lots of fun together, going for coffee, getting pedicures, going shopping and just hanging out. We look forward to the next time she gets to visit. We feel blessed Hunter has her in his life. She is such a gem!
