I have been spending quite a few nights working on posts to try to catch up again. I keep falling behind since our summers are super busy, and then once fall kicks in, Robot season starts, then school starts for Darrell and things just get waylaid. I think I might make a new years resolution to try to update the blog at least once every other week. We will see. So for now, here are the August posts with September and October coming as they will. 🙂
Category: Updates
My plan this weekend was to go through photo’s and get some posts up since I am a month behind (which I figured since we had a very busy month). But on Saturday afternoon, a big windstorm swept through our area knocking down trees and power lines. We lost power sometime between 11am and 1pm on Saturday 8/29. Since the storm was so bad, there were transmission lines, substation lines and all the little neighborhood feeder lines down. Unfortunately for a lot of people, their power was out for quite a few days. Ours was out until around 8:30pm on Monday night (9/1). As of right now, there are still about 800 customers in our PUD area that is without power. They are saying it was the worst storm they have seen since 1993. Over 175,000 customers in our PUD area were out and the estimates were almost 700,000 customers in the entire Puget Sound area were out.
All this basically to say that I spent my weekend outside (before the rain came) and then went to bed early. There was no way for me to do any of it. But now it is back and as soon as I get some of the other stuff I needed to get done this weekend done, I will be back with lots of updates. 🙂
So. I have finally finished updating. I of course backdate so that I can kind of keep them in order. So to make it easier for you, I put all the links here. 🙂
Those are the ones so far. I will have a few more posts in a couple weeks with the Family reunion, Seattle Aquarium, hanging with Jenni & Chad, Edward’s first camping trip, and the Enumclaw Highland Games.
This poor blog. Many months forgotten only to be slammed with posts. I promise that I haven’t forgotten, we have just been really busy.. Edward started the “2’s” a little early, so by the end of the day, I am exhausted. I just finally got all of my pictures organized from the last 4 months. I am ready to sit down and post and then I realize that it is almost 1am and I have to drop the car off at the mechanic at 10am. So.. off I go again. There are 29 posts ready on my desktop. Hopefully I will have them up here before Friday. We have a busy 6 weeks ahead of us, so I will see how things fair.
Wait for it….. 5 more minutes. 🙂
Now that I have finally caught up again, I will immediately fall behind. 🙂 Our month of July is pretty booked and I might not have a chance to update this until late August. We are going to be hosting an exchange student from Spain for the next 3.5 weeks. So we will be busy with group activities, we are planning a trip to Vancouver, BC to visit family there, there is another Highland Games that Darrell will be a part of and we will be camping there from Friday to Sunday, and we have a lot of birthday parties. Our exchange student will be 16 shortly after she gets here, my cousin’s little one is having an early birthday bash while they are out here visiting, and a few of my mom’s group kiddos are having their birthdays. Plus we still have the normal stuff of Robots and different mom’s group activities. So, we are prepared for a busy July and possibly a busy beginning of August. I will try to get on to update more, but I seem to mostly do it when I download photos. Enjoy the posts from the last few months!