HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANNY!

Dear Nanny,

I love you, thank you for being such a good nanny. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Love,

Edwin

sorry the video is so dark.

I'm so crafty; I make people!

Yes it is official, my mother crafting gene is in work as Edwin is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his baby brother. Yup, it's a boy! This wonderful second boy is due to arrive June 17th, 8 days after Grant has finished his Masters, wahoo! Let's hope the baby doesn't come early! Anytime this sweet baby comes we'll make it work. We are SUPER excited to have an addition to our family.

In this photo, I'm 20 weeks pregnant and holding a 26 pound boy. Don't they say I shouldn't be doing that, lol. Well I don't hold him as much anymore but it is impossible to avoid, and to be honest I like holding my Edwin, he's still my baby boy.

Also, in the picture, in the background is an elephant seal, drawn to scale. Edwin and I went with our very close buds, Lana and Ava, to go see the Elephant Seals with their new pups (the small black seal in the picture). It was AWESOME, if any of you ever vacation to the San Fran Bay Area, I strongly recommend this, Edwin walked most of the trail, and I held him on the beach. This tour takes you right on to the beach, 10 feet away from the 5,000 pound male Elephant seal. We didn't get to close to the moms because they are with their pups, and you know how protective moms are.

Edwin had an awesome time and really really wanted to go pet the elephant seals, it was quite the work to keep him from petting them, but it was also really cute to see how much he wanted to. Below is a picture of Edwin holding hands with Ava on the way back from the beach, this is unique because Edwin really does not like to hold hands.

They are such good friends whenever they see each on the playground they run to each other, it is super cute!

I hope you all have a wonderful February.

I have no title

Yeah to the New Year. To start off the new year I read "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller, and I strongly recommend it. It is a great non-fiction about a man, Donald Miller, who writes books and one of his books is going to be made into a movie. Through the process of making a "good" movie, Donald, looks at how to make a "good" life, how to live a "good" story. The book is fun and it definitely has a lot of good stories in it. If you like to read I think you may enjoy this book. It has motivated me to try to live a better story.





That book was one of my Christmas gifts, among other wonderful gifts. For this Christmas the Jackson family went to Washington. I have to be honest it is really hard for me to vacation anymore, it doesn't necessarily feel like a vacation, it kind of feels like more work. It may have been easier if Grant was healthy (he was sick for our stay in Washington), probably, but still vacationing is hard. Do any of you guys feel that way, and what do you do to make it easier, or more enjoyable.










Anywho, not to complain too much; it's always a treat to go home and see family, and Edwin loves it. He loves to see his long lost family, especially his cousins (we're sad we missed the Jackson cousins). This year we had two Christmas's, which was awesome, we visited the beach, Tillamook Cheese factory, ate food, went to Crown's Point, a lot of Burgerville visits (local YUMMY burger joint), had snow, walked around a Historic National State Park (the one my parents live on, Fort Vancouver), played games, ate food, watched a lot of youtube, and enjoyed one anothers company.



Overall it was great, and now it is great to be home. Edwin was sooooo excited to play in his backyard, and see his friends, and I was sooooo happy to let him run free.






By the way I'm a horrible blogger and I do not know how to work with my pictures and text, so if you know, please tell me.

Happy Thanksgiving

Things I'm thankful for:

• how strong Edwin is
  

• how smart Edwin is

• how curious Edwin is
  

• and how helpful Edwin is