SUMMER

Lots to update being I have not been on here for a while.. a long while.

Lets rewind a little bit. as far back as March...

To start, we are enjoying the camper allot. and have done a couple trips since buying it last Jan. It's great to camp and stay dry:).. Even though the 1st official trip I was the sickest I have ever been in my entire life. Need less to say I am still fighting the Asmaha(how the heck do you spell this?? LOL) and will probably always will unless I resort to allergy shots.That is one of the tedious things I have to take care of this summer(getting my allergies tested)..I am still running though and ran a half marathon in April while still sick, didn't do too bad either(1 hour 52 min. tough terrain)..I am up to 40-50 miles per week and my max miles per day at 16 once a week.. once I get my breathing under control at mile 3 I am pretty good..
I plan on to PR at the Suave half in July 1 hour 40min. we shall see it is a flat run. I am planning on doing allot of road biking as well maybe a little Mtn biking with Dax. We do run together a couple times a week but would love to start riding with him.
Work is still work.. It's fine I get it done and get home. glad to only have AM classes.

We had such a fun garden last year so we are hoping to have a even better one this year. we have some Fall landscaping plans and I am really liking the work we have done so far..
The yard took a beating with all the snow this past winter and some of our bushes didn't survive, strawberries too:(. but we got it all back on track.
We have done so much yard work and I am excited to have a pretty yard this summer to enjoy since we decide we were staying Stateside this summer and "Explore Oregon" This will be a fun treat being this will be the 1st summer ever we didn't take a long vacation... I love to travel but need a break as well as the rest of the Family.. So if you want to see us you have to come out here.. I know we are going to Crater Lake, the coast, and Bend most likely. I want to hit the McKenzie as well and some Hot springs.. Me and some Girlies(tom boys too LOL) are taking a Backpacking trip up in the Mt's in August I am excited for that as well..
For our 16th Wedding Anniv. we went and got the NIKON D90.. We have wanted a Great camera forever and finally got one..I have been playing around with it allot and cannot wait to get some pictures posted. Since it's been nice here I have avoided the computer at all costs... I did spend a week getting ALL of out digital pictures organized to one computer and saved on Disc. now I can start fresh with the new camera.. I want to take some photography classes online and hope to do so soon.

The BOYS:)
Both our still exceptional students! Both boys are good about doing there homework the second they get home we rarely have to get on them. Jakie is the top of his class and has had such a wonderful year..( I realize I have been really lucky in this Department so far) his teacher and the neighborhood he is in his wonderful. I am so praying he stays in the neighborhood (or god help the principal). LOL. he is a total number kid and does some crazy stuff with math.. he comes up with3 and 4 digit sums.. Our summer goal is to have him multiplying all the way up to 12 (he's up to 9 now) and mastering the carrying over 3 digit problems . I am hoping to have his old private school teach to teach him over the summer. Tanner again is a 4.0 student. the class he is in our all exceptional students or the school system is really failing us. they had over 60 students 4.0 i think they have 400 on the class... so I am hoping the kids are being challenged I guess we shall see.
Both boys are doing great in TKD. Tanner will test for Red belt next month Jakie is a white/black stripe now.. we are done with the tournament season and Tanner placing GOLD in sparring was a great way to end the season. Next year we decided to go to Orlando for the Junior Olympics if he qualifies.. His Track season was what it was.. nothing exciting , running may not be his Forte but he loves the social part and i love the visiting of friends I don't get to see.. I think he could be a great sprinter but being running is my Love I don't want to be that parent to push my kids just because I love it.. so I let him do his thing and i sit back and watch ALL the events.. I know someday I will coach(if they ever need a non-teacher) it's a given.. not sure what school but I will be coaching track and field somewhere someday. I just want to wait until Jakie is older and be home for the boys for there things that is way more important to me right now...

Jakie is also in baseball this season and again has done really well... A shaky start but now he is hitting like crazy (they have pitching machine this year) and is a great fielder, still working on the catching pop flies though.. He Loves it and wants to get better. Again not my favorite sport but I love watching him and he wants to play fall ball as well as soccer(we will have to see).. Starting to wonder if he'll be that kids that with a little practice can accomplish any and everything... He's so funny.. His reaction to everything is so laid back for the most part.. It's fun to watch him and I am sad that my BABY is growing up so fast... I really got to enjoy every moment with both of my boys but realizing he is growing up so fast I just want to hang on to every moment. We have maybe 2 more years and Tanner will officially want to be more or less doing his own thing with his friends.. I really hope we still spend allot of time together but I am also realistic. He keeps doing well in school we want to give him more responsibility..
He takes on summer jobs wants to make money, he treats the younger kids well. he is so respectful to the grownups. he's just such a nice young man.

we are going to try to get allot of family vacation time before he goes through the I don't want to hang with the parents thing.. I had always hoped we would and could be the COOL parents with the fun house and have kids over but that doesn't seem to happen very often because we are never home.. We have a huge game room with Wii, PlayStation, pool, ping pong, Foosball, darts.. anyway maybe we will maybe we wont we can only try right... Dax and I are hoping to golf allot and take the boys at times as well.. and then there's fishing of course. Speaking of which Dax and the guys are "Sturgeon" fishing as a type this.. This being the reason for this LONG update...

Hopefully I will post pictures of the highlights of the last few months this week. I still have to install the NIKON program to this computer. I like that we keep all of our photos on a non Internet computer.. we are a little over cautious but that's the way we roll:) anyway I think I pretty much summed things up.. We are enjoying life and each other. Lots of culd-a-sac fire pit nights. Dax and I are getting out allot more together(since the boys are growing up) went to a comedy night, some nice dinners.. I Love Portland in the early summer months.
Been having my girl nights out monthly. making jewelery with some great gals once a month. Dax and I are making some very good wine with some friends..(another new hobby of ours)

we plan on lots of trips in Oregon.. we are Happy and "Living life" as i like to say the main reason I am horrible about my blogging. I will try and I will try hard...TAKE CARE..