An Autumn Day

When it's mid 60s and a little overcast....

it's an Autumn day.

Because when you wear an eternal fur coat, you prefer the cooler temps.  

We packed ourselves into the car and headed out to the park.  The highlight of her day besides running as fast as she could for as long as she could?

Discovering the three foot tall grass.   Oh man was she pumped about that!  But I can understand her excitement...if I was only two feet tall, I would have been bounding through it right alongside her.  

Life Lately

I've been on a bit of a hiatus...you know, work, life, and such.  But I'm back!

Here's some of what we've been up to lately...

Some good Bloomsday ones I missed last post :)

Golfing at last!

6 hour car rides with this Peanut on my lap.

Hidden owls in Ellensburg. 

Reunion with my fave coffee.

Almost-summer nights eating al fresco at Cancun.

Sunny days at the Farmer's Market. 

Stopping along the Hannegan for some baby pygmy goat gazing.   

Sunsets at Anthony's...

while enjoying this.  An amazing lava cake recipe is now on my must find pronto list!

A peak inside our new rental house!

We.are.so.excited.  

T-21 days until we're back home!  To say Autumn is excited to be living by Uncle Buck would be the understatement of the year.  :)

Bloomsday Weekend!

This past weekend was so much fun!  Mom, Dad, and Buckley came over on Friday night and we got to spend a wonderful weekend with them!  On Sunday my Mom got to check off a big event on her bucket list - the Bloomsday run!  The course is 7.42 miles (my Garmin GPS showed 7.57, because it included all the weaving around people we had to do).  I am SO PROUD of her for running this race!!  She completely rocked it and blew us all away with her time!   I'm so glad that she beat her personal goal time and that she got that shirt she had been wanting so badly!

The weather was perfect -sunny and mid 60s.  About 50,000 runners ran this year!  We had a blast!

Autumn and Buckley had the time of their lives playing together, too.  :)  They are seriously best friends!

This was taken right as we got to the race and were trying to warm ourselves up!  It felt cold while we were waiting, but it warmed up perfectly as the day went on!

I love my Mom's headband! We picked that up for her at the Expo the day before.  :)

Just a tiny glimpse at the amount of people.  People wear sweatshirts and sweatpants before the race to stay warm, and then right before the start they throw them into the trees.  These are called "throwaways" and everything is collected after the race and donated!  The trees and fences of downtown are covered by the end of the race! It's pretty cool.

Right after we finished!  Feeling pretty pumped about our run!!

Our congratulatory dinner on Sunday was nachos and zeppolis from Ciao Mambo!  A perfect way to end the weekend.

Congrats again, Mom!  Who knows, maybe a year from now we'll be celebrating another 7.42 together. :)

I Can Officially Say...

We're moving back home!!!!!

Last week Conor officially accepted his job offer to work as a Marketing Associate at Logos Bible Software in Bellingham, Washington!!!!!  We are so blessed for this and incredibly grateful that God made a way for us to move back to where we both want to be!

Neither of us would have predicted that we'd be living in Spokane for as long as we have, but I can see now that it was where we were meant to be at the time.  Conor's job at Whitworth was a saving grace.  We were recently engaged and quickly realizing that finding a job for Conor suddenly had an approaching dead line.  He applied for an Admissions Counselor at Whitworth, we crossed our fingers, prayed, and tried to be as patient as possible for two months while the application process was unfolding.  And just like that our worries were over as Conor was offered the job!  Not only did he have a job, but it was at the school where I was finishing up my last year.

As this school year began, I accepted that substituting was where God wanted me to be.  I wasn't excited about it, but I wanted to teach and so I took what I could get!  Now, as the school year is coming to a close, I can honestly say this past year of substituting has been so good!  As a teacher, I learned how to handle so many different environments and students.  My mom keeps telling me I need to write all my "teacher moments" down, because they're too good to forget.  :)  Oh man have I heard some goodies.  There's no way a year ago that I would have thought I'd actually say I'm glad that I had to substitute, but it's true!  I'm so glad.


As a cherry on top, I was offered this high school ESL job, which is where I'm currently working.  Again, God had it all planned out!

Conor begins his new job at Logos Bible Software this June and we'll be moving back to the Lynden/Bellingham area the beginning of June!

We cannot wait!