Talk about a little stress...

Man…what a month it's been. Almost exactly a month ago, we left for an awesome two week vacation to South Carolina & Utah. It was a great trip, but of course it's stressful preparing for a trip (not to mention packing up most of my house to move). Traveling is stressful, and then moving the day after we returned home. Add to that managing/organizing my club coaches 8 hours a day at camp (the very same day we officially moved), and then getting ready for the camp I really run the whole weekend and now 13 hour days of working on/at camp. Man! I'm beat…and totally complaining on here. I finish at 9pm tomorrow night with camp, and then have to come home and pack up everything to go camping the next morning! I seriously have no idea how it all will work but it will be great.

So during this month, I have been really neglectful of myself. My health, my eating, my stress levels, and just making any time for me. I've been sleeping really bad, and am not happy with a lot of things in my life right now, I need a routine again, and as much as I love doing special things, I'm always ready for a little normal in my life. So here's to normal and getting back control of my life…after I let loose again one more time this weekend…

Thanks for listening to my rant! I'm sure this makes very little sense but I am hoping that getting all of this out will help me sleep now…

We're back!

We made it back from our trip, moved, and are now full swing back into life! As you can see my kids didn't have any fun while we were gone. I now have two weeks of volleyball camps and then tryouts, so that means my summer is mostly over, and these two weeks are some of the hardest of the year for me as I work 12 hour days and have so much stress to handle. We always make it through, but add to it the stress of moving and trying to get organized, it's just not happening how I want it to. But it will and I will make sure and post pictures from our trip soon! We had a great time with both sides of the family in South Carolina and Utah. Thankful to have such great families!

Current Happenings...

We have been busy packing up our house the last few weeks, we leave on a trip Sunday for two weeks, and then come back and move the next day, and I don't want the last day to be stressful. So a few boxes a day has been great! Our house looks like this: bare walls, empty closets, and the minimal stuff in our house.

We just got back from a trip to Great Wolf Lodge again, the boys had a blast! We went with an awesome friend & her son. Here they are doing the wolf howl in their wolf den in our room;)

I swear the next iPad will have a much better camera…this one stinks! But here they are in their pi's ready for our late night drive home. They had a blast, I however was exhausted! :) One can only take so many hours in a water-park…although it was great getting to take Noah on the water-slides finally that he was tall enough, they were actually pretty fun!

Summer TIme!

I love summer. I only work 12-15 hours a week, we live up at the pool, and get to spend a lot of time together! My boys are at fabulous ages, and are such a joy to be around and do things with them. It's been a big week so far around our house, Noah learned how to read, Jakey can now float in the pool (and almost swim, give me another week), and he can ride a two-wheeler.

We've spent our days swimming, golfing, hanging out with friends, and enjoying the sun. Looking forward to the rest of the summer!

Stuff...

We always think more stuff will make us happy, let me tell you I am much happier with LESS stuff right now! I hate packing, but having so much less around makes me happy! Our storage & closets are now officially done with what we don't really use, and that feels good! Less really is more…

Eagle Crest

We enjoyed a weekend in Eagle Crest last week. I've never been before and it was definitely a place I would go again. Beautiful views, nice weather, and family time made for a nice weekend. We went with Colby for his race, the Pacific Crest Triathalon. That is a crazy event…1.25 mile swim, 56 mile bike, and a 1/2 marathon. insane. Here are some pictures!

Colby finishing the race…

Me and my boy…

Enjoying the splash pad…

Brother's swimming…

One of the beautiful sunsets…

Riding down the bike path...

Fishing...

A few weeks ago, Noah really wanted to go fishing. So, Papa took the boys to a little lake by our house to fish. We knew by the time we drove somewhere else they would have lost interest, so we tried our luck there, and of course didn't catch anything. It would have been so fun to see how excited they would have been. We'll get more adventurous this summer and take them out to catch a fish! Thanks for taking the boys fishing, Papa!