Still Hiking

Well I'm hoping that this last Sunday wasn't our last hiking trip, but I think that it may have been.  We took the boys to what they call the beaver park(a beaver lives there), but it is this gorgeous park that the Spokane river runs through and it was so beautiful.  The boys did some rock climbing, stick and rock collecting and Josiah even managed to get in the water.  It was tempting him and he gave in and got wet.  We hiked a few miles and really enjoyed looking at all the leaves turning.  It was a wonderful Sunday afternoon, I sure am going to miss hiking and being outdoors.

Loving Fall

We made our first trip to Green Bluff this last weekend and the weather was absolutely beautiful.  We ended up getting 10 pumpkins(white, green, red and orange).  We also got 10 pounds of apples that we attempted to make apple dumplings with. Thanks to my baking soda/powder mix-up they were the most disgusting dumplings ever!!!!  Sorry guys, I tried. However, we did have fun making them and that is all that matters, right. 

 The pumpkin carving was a better success. Jonathan, Joey, Patrick and the boys each carved one.  I think Joey won the award for the most creative, after all his pumpkin's brains were coming out of his head.  We had a great time, I just love all the things that come with fall.  We hopefully will make a few more trips up to Green Bluff for Octoberfest, it truly is an amazing place to go during this time of year.  There are apple orchards, pumpkin patches, cider houses, corn mazes, every farm has something different. On top of all that, all the trees are changing colors and it is so awesome to see the bright colors they all change into.  Then they'll all fall off and we'll be raking leaves soon. Oh, I just love it!!!!

Football Fun

I Love Family Pictures

All The Big Boys

Jeshie and Uncle Chris

Jonah, Josiah and Jonathan

Jonah and Mommy

Congratulations Uncle Joey!!!

  We celebrated a very special event a couple of weeks ago. Joey, Patrick's brother was honored at the football program for Eastern Washington University where he played for four years. They were celebrating 100 years in football and Joey was honored as the top linebacker in the last 100 years.  We attended the events that honored him and it was pretty amazing to see all he accomplished while playing for them. Congratulations Joey!!!! What an honor. 

This last weekend we were able to see Chris, Patrick's other brother, at the EWU-Montana game. Eastern lost but it was fun to visit with everyone and even though  I froze we still had a great time. 

My Baby is 4

My baby is officially four years old and I am so sad to see him get older, you think he'll want to hang out with me and Patrick forever.  Anyways, we did have a whole lot of fun with him for his birthday weekend.  We started off having dinner with uncle Jake at Red Robin, followed by a movie night... For his birthday we took a train ride through the mountains and were able to see the beautiful trees turning colors, and our train even got robbed by a few bandits.  Jeshua got lots of wonderful gifts from family especially his own oversized chair (just like brothers). Thank you everyone!!! He also enjoyed having peach pie and ice cream, twice!  It is so hard to believe that all the boys are getting so old, I guess that means we are also.  It is amazing how much joy they bring to our lives and I am constantly reminded how much they bless my life.

Gearing up for Fall

Well Jeshua has decided that fall is officially here. He has broke out the boots, hats, scarves, and gloves. However, he's not quite ready to put away the shorts and t-shirts, brothers would also agree. I don't know if they're ready to put away the flip flops and actually wear shirts. I, on the other hand, am so excited to start watching the leaves change colors and fall off the trees and finally get out those warm clothes of mine.

We just got to visit a week with Grandpa Pete and we were able to take him to our favorite place (Manito Park). We had a great time with him and we look forward to more visitors from California. Hopefully in the near future we can see Grandma Nana, we miss you sooo much!!! We hope you all are getting excited for the fall weather and all it brings, I know I am. Have a Blessed Day!

Here I Go

Well I decide since I have lived in so many different places and have met so many wonderful people I thought I would do some blogging to keep you all updated on our busy and crazy life. We are finally winding down from the summer and all the activities we did.  We had a family camp out or I should say Patty and I and a ton of boys. All the big Cwik boys, our nephew and our 3. We really had a great time and we could have stayed out there forever.  We also did a lot of hiking, canoeing, kayaking, hanging out at whatever lake we could find and I was blessed to visit with a lot family from California. My dad's business has expanding to Spokane now so we are blessed to see someone from down south every week. We have just had a really busy summer and we are so sad to see it end.

The boys are enjoying home school and looking forward to the fall weather and all the activities that come with it.  The boys go one day a week to school at Northwest Christian where they study Botany, Spanish, Art, Choir and Creative Writing.  They love it and they are enjoying every minute of it, and I enjoy being alone with Jeshua for one day a week. Josiah just celebrated his 6th birthday and we are coming up on Jeshua's 4th birthday here in October, and who could forget Jonah who is now 7 and a half going on 10.  

As for Patrick and I we are keeping up with the boys and enjoying all the new things that come with the boys getting older.  Well I'd sure like to hear from all of you.  I'm just getting the hang of this so I apologize if it is not up to par. Blessings to you all and I hope that you all are doing well.