It's just been too long

My Little Rockstar

This is him posing for the camera. He was LOVING it.

I don't really have anything important to say. Life has been good and full and busy!

Last weekend was Jeff and Heather's wedding and it was beautiful and amazing. They are so in love and it was so sweet to be apart of. Grayson was the ring bearer and pretty stinking cute in his little suit. It was so fun to see old friends as well.

It snowed today in Williams. Weird weather. I just couldn't bear the fact that I hadn't updated my blog in 5 weeks. It felt wrong. So until the next time that I have nothing important to say...

And we're alive

Jon and Grayson at the top of Cloud's Rest. It was an amazing rewarding 14 mile hike, and the view was all of Yosemite Valley.

Well we are officially back from assignment, back from vacation, all the guests/nannies are gone and life is back to "normal", whatever that means!

Our month on assignment about killed me in every sense of the word. It was amazing but one of the harder things Jon and I have tackled. It was hard for all the obvious reasons, and on top of having an exhausting job (head leader) Jon and I also found out the week before we moved onto camp that we are pregnant! Baby number two is on it's way and is due to be here around March 17th. We were surprised and excited to say the least. It did make for an adjustment to our JMT hike. Jon and Adam went on the hike and then me, Emily and our friends the Kopicky's met up with them in Mammoth Lakes and then Yosemite. We spent a whole week camping, hiking and just hanging out. It was amazing. I have to say a week of camping with Grayson was hard. I was ready for a nice relaxing night in a king size bed. So for our 5th anniversary (yes, 5 glorious years) Jon took me to Sedona to an amazing bed and breakfast, the most amazing dinner ever and a massage at one of the spas! Amazing.

So much has happened in the past two months. I feel like we dropped off the face of the earth and here is my little attempt to reconnect!

I will post pictures and more details of all the fun events that have happened in the past 2 months when I have a little more time.

Off to our Assignment we go

So Jon and I move onto Lost Canyon property for the month tomorrow to start our assignment. I am thrilled, exhausted and thrilled all at the same time. I most likely will not be updating this blog, or facebook, or emailing or calling much at all this next month. One, due to complete lack of time (our schedule is insane) and two, trying to fast a bit from our slight addiction to technology. We shall see. That said I just want to make sure that all know they are not being ignored or slighted, but we really will have fallen into the abyss known as an assignment at Lost Canyon.

Your prayers for health and rest will be most coveted as both are so important for our month to be enjoyable!

I look forward to updating you all with pictures from the month and hopefully some fun stories!

Custom Gear by Glam

Glam left today. Sad to see her go, but it was a great visit! We spent a lot of time in the garden and at the house just being. It was so nice. Here are just a few pictures.

The girls out by the sunflowers.

Grayson eating one of our first strawberries! They taste SO good.

Glam and Grayson in the garden.

I told Jon I had promised my "readers" pictures of the finished products! So here they are...

Down Baby Sleeping Bag by Glam and Custom Sun Shade, also by Glam.

Another day on the farm

We had our first produce last night for dinner! A yummy delicious fresh mesculun salad. It was amazing. Seriously, it was so satisfying to eat. And pretty to look at too!

 Pam (Jon's mom) has been here since Wednesday and has been helping us in the garden as well as making some custom gear for Grayson for our hike (like a baby down sleeping bag and a serious sun shade for his back pack carrier). I will post some pictures of those finished products...when they are finished!

 In the mean time here a few snapshots of the garden improvements (fence for squash to grow up and tomato cages), my salad and of course an updated picture of Oreo and her amazing Vegas showgirl do....

The Kitchen

I got home from Michigan to this! I wish I had a before shot handy...but where you see a dishwasher and sink there used to be a couch (which we miss, but I love my dishwasher more). You can't tell but it is washing dishes in this picture. Amen.

Jon definitely wins a prize for thoughtful husband and undertaking large projects in short amounts of time. He is pretty much amazing. I love him.

Grayson was very insistent on trying to help dad mow the lawn. It was ADORABLE. 

It's been nice to be back at home with the garden and the chickens. We are down to FOUR chickens. I KNOW! We finally made their fence taller, it is now 6 feet tall and so far has been keeping them in! We are finally getting some veggies in the garden. They are still too small to eat, but it is so rewarding to see things actually growing. 

These are some strawberries...

Here is a bell pepper. About as small as the tip of my thumb but hopefully it will keep growing!

I love the mesculun greens. They are so green and pretty. I just want to eat them now!

And here are the girls in their run. You can kind of see how high the fence is now. We let them out when we are in the garden and Wilco is now their shepherd. Seriously, he will bring them back to the coop if they go past our fence. It is amazing. He doesn't try to eat them any more he just wants to corral them!

And that's just a little up date from the farm. Jon's mom (Pam) comes tomorrow to stay for a few days. We cannot wait to see her! Then next Friday we move up to camp for the month so that I can serve as a head leader. Then the following week after that Emily (my sister) will be moving here for about 6 weeks to be Grayson's nanny, help us take care of the house, garden, dog and chickens while we are living at camp and then Phil, her husband, will join and we will all head out on the JMT at the end of August. It will be here before I know it, but in the mean time I plan to enjoy the last day of June!

Back from Michigan

The kids at Otter Creek.

Grayson eating snacks on the boat (that we rented on Father's Day).

He LOVED being naked and in the water. It was adorable.

He also loved his Uncle Jon Michael.

And he loved throwing/eating the sand.

Grayson and I got home late Wednesday night from our week in Michigan. It was great, the only things missing were Jon and Jordan. But we did have a great time. Grayson LOVES the water. He could not stay out of it and did not care how cold it was. It was real fun to watch him play! And mom's new house is two blocks from the bay so we pretty much went every afternoon.

We did miss Jon terribly though...and to my great surprise came home to a newly tiled kitchen floor AND a dishwasher, new sink and countertop. Jon worked all day on both his days off to finish it before I got home. I was SO surprised.

I am tired, Jon is tired but things are great. It's been a great summer so far and we are not even half way through it!