October with kids isn’t complete without a trip to the pumpkin patch. Here are our four little pumpkins picking out some of their own:
Jonathan chaperoned Silas’ kindergarten field trip to another pumpkin patch. Here is the class with their teacher, Ms. McDonell.
After going back and forth over whether to rent or sell our house in Snoqualmie, we decided to sell. The new owners moved in in October. Here are a few pics from our final goodbye.
Layla taking one last look out her window.
Avery in his room for the last time.
One last peek at the playroom
Kieron with his good buddy, Louis
Ben & Layla
Layla and I stayed with Caroline that weekend
Visiting Rooster Valley Farm School. They got two new sheep!
Mommy selfie
I think this was on the drive down
If there’s one word I can use to describe our August, it’s “smokey”. Wildfires in Eastern Washington and Canada brought us a ton of smoke and haze. Many days we had to keep our windows shut, and days at the lake often looked like this. We didn’t let it stop us from having fun though!
Sitting on a mole hill. Happy as a clam.
Here are a few more pictures from the days following our move. It was an exhausting, emotional roller coaster, and a ton of work, but we got through it!
The boys eating breakfast in the unfurnished family room on the first morning.
A deer visitor wonders what happened to all the tall grass
“Yay! The piano is here!”
I felt sorry for the poor movers when they had to carry the play set around the back yard and set it up. Here’s Layla supervising.
I’m glad we had them do it though. The boys were on it in a hurry.
Unfortunately, not everything fit in the moving trucks, so we had to make a couple trips back up to get our remaining belongings. Here’s the kids last meal at the old house.
Buddha was belted in the U-Haul.
Back at the new house. Avery’s inaugural jump in the lake!
Jonathan with his coffee before departing on his 15 minute commute to a real office! No PJ’s today!
Our sweet neighbors hosted a s’mores party to welcome us to the neighborhood
Layla with the tiger
Playing in the backyard
Best toy ever and we had a house full of them!
“Organizing” her clothes. Love the ruffle butt.
Jonathan has had his heart set on moving back to Bellingham for a while. I was very happy in Snoqualmie, but he finally found a house that piqued my interest – it had enough bedrooms for our family and lake access. I decided to take a leap of faith. One thing led to another, and by the end of June the moving truck arrived and we headed north.
The truck at our old house
I got pretty sentimental taking my last tour through the boys’ tree fort in the back yard
Look at all their cute little primitive tools and work stations
Ethan stopped by to say “see you later”.
So did Charlotte.
Meanwhile the big boys were at their last day of Camp Invention. They said goodbye to Timber Ridge Elementary.
Then they came home and we had pizza in the house on the empty floor
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Hayden, Brooklyn, & Jacqui stopped by with a gift for Avery
Matching photo collages of their memories together. These two!
We dropped by to see Louis, up the street
And his mom, Emily
Here’s Silas & Bode (who also moved about a month later)
And Caroline and I had an evening out together. Not gonna lie, the boys and I had a tough time saying goodbye to our friends. I see many visits in our future!
Here’s Kieron on his first night at the new house
And here’s Jonathan mowing the grass that had grown very tall before we became owners. More pics of the new house to come in future posts!
