Some of our craziness...

This whole summer has been a whirlwind of trying to do everything we wanted before Mark started his new job...the last 4 weeks have been no exception (and that has led to me being a total slacker with the whole blog thing).

At the beginning of the month I had some friends over that had adopted through us; actually, we became friends when they adopted through us. Both families adopted from the same birthmother, so they were excited to get together. (Both have very crazy stories, and if I ever do an adoption blog I will write about them--I'll ask first, Richele.)

We had 2 preschoolers, 5 toddlers and one baby in the house--it got a little crazy, but oh so much fun.

Jess, Katie, Cambriah, Jasper, Brandon, Addy, Fletcher and Marcus
Marcus and Fletcher became fast friends and were so funny to watch together.

My kids are all still obsessed with babies

Katie has been doing great at soccer. Her last game she was a superstar. She isn't afraid to kick the ball anymore and she has some serious ball handling skills for a 4-yr-old.

Marcus is ready to play, he keeps trying to get on the field

I flew to Washington State last week to have my wisdom teeth removed (Mark's cousin did it for us since we currently don't have dental insurance.) Kris and Liz (Mark's aunt and cousin) picked me up and we spent the day in Seattle. After some site-seeing we met Emily for dinner (wouldn't be nice if I had taken a picture of us at dinner with Emily).

the 'fish market'
The next day I had my teeth removed, and the rest of the trip I was 'couped' up in Aunt Kris' house on the sound, watching TV in their theater room and getting room-service of ice-cream shakes. (thank you Kris and Phil for taking care of me!)

Sunrise on the beach in front of their house

Mark survived surprisingly well without me, and the house was clean when I got home!
We spent the last week just hanging out.

Mark used his smoker one last time... (doesn't it sound like he is going off to war or something.)
Of course he had to make this delicious food while I was still recovering so I didn't really get to enjoy it, but Mark ate enough for the both of us.

Mark also grabbed some pumpkins for us to carve. The kids were pretty excited about them.