Another fun trip to Texas in the books. There are a ton of pictures, so I’ll keep this short and just say we had a blast as usual!

Avery made a ton of progress in the pool on this visit. Nicole taught him to dive to the bottom of the deep end. They spent a lot of time over there fetching dive sticks!

Volleyball!

When Jonathan gets in the pool, he has his work cut out for him! The kids love being blasted off his shoulders into the pool.

Kieron got more comfortable jumping and swimming to encouraging arms

Love this grin!
  


The kid table
  


Silas loved being dunked!

At In-N-Out Burger

No, he would not eat a burger. :/

Cute sleeping baby photo

At the park

Me and my mama

Right before we left for the airport, each of the kids got a ride in Papa’s convertible. This was a big hit!




Nicole flew home with us. Here’s the kids studying the emergency manuals.

And here they are by the time we landed. They were all very good, but Silas never did fall asleep. Glad that flight is behind us!

In June, Jonathan and the boys went camping on what has become an annual father/kid excursion with a few of his buddies from work. This year they camped at Shaw Island, in the San Juans. They had a fabulous time! I’ll let the pictures tell the story:

On the ferry

Beth grinding coffee

Kieron found a caterpillar

Costco chocolate chip cookies, nom nom nom

Water fight!

I didn’t want to say anything until it was all said and done, but we moved (YAY)! We had an offer pending on a short sale in the neighborhood since January, and it finally all paid off when we moved in at the end of May. Our new home is just a block away from where we rented for the past two years. Same great neighborhood, same fabulous neighbors, same school and bus route – and no goodbyes!

It’s been a busy few weeks – packing and unpacking, patching holes and hanging stuff, mowing, weeding, pressure washing, etc. We’re pretty settled at this point, and are enjoying the new digs.

Casa de la King

Avery’s moving advent calendar

Playing in the back yard

Strawberries! (Or as the boys call them, stwabewries)

A water bottle sure makes a great toy

Nana and Grandpa came to help out (can’t say Si helped much)

Playdate with Hayden

Salmonberries

Our favorite thing about the new house: the woods in the back yard

As the boys say, “our house leads to the wild!”

We took the boys to Salmon Days the first weekend in October. It was fun, it was crowded. A challenging place to be with three little ones, but we managed to enjoy ourselves.

Mmmmmm, honey straws!


Avery’s got another loose tooth, and is trying desperately to get it out. He was so funny eating his corn on the cob. Why turn the corn when you can tilt your head?







Jump salmon, jump!