Summer Vacation

Summer vacation is here! The kids had a fantastic year and worked really hard.  They had fantastic grades! Cooper finished elementary school and will be headed to junior high.  He's pretty excited for 7th grade.  Charlie will be going into 5th grade and Emma into 2nd.

Issac and Emma doing the fun run on the last day of school! 

Here comes Cooper!

Here comes Charlie and his friends!

Here comes Emma and Issac!

We are excited for a busy summer of camping trips and fun! We have already been on two camping trips.

Ephrata, WA for soccer games.

Happy Mother's Day!

First place for the season!  Coop just finished his 20th season of soccer. 

Nate resigned from WSU a few weeks ago after working there for 9 years.  He now works for A10 remotely, which is so awesome for our family.  Megan is busy working in the Emergency Room as a Registered Nurse and Outpatient Heart and Vascular.  Nate just passed his EMT test and is really enjoying going on calls.

We are so proud of him!

He has already been on two car fire calls.  That is him in the middle breaking open the hood.

Nurses week 2017!

A fun day in the ER.  :)  I love working in the Emergency Room.  Hard to believe I have been working as an RN for almost one year!

We still have our foster baby that we brought home at just six days old.  He is now 13 months old and almost walking.  He brings joy to our lives everyday.  Here is a picture of Charlie and D watching the piggies one morning.

Wishing you all a wonderful summer! 

Life

Well now that I have graduated from nursing school, I have some extra spare time to post some pictures.  I feel like I have not been on here for so long!   I have taken my boards and I am officially a Registered Nurse.  YAY!  It was one of the hardest things I have ever done, but such a great accomplishment.  I could not have gotten through nursing school without the support of my family and friends.  Thank you all so much!  I had a job lined up, but I felt it was best for my family to not take it at this time.  I am enjoying the rest of the summer off with my three children and our foster baby.  Yes, we took a baby in at just 6 days old during my last quarter of nursing school.  We love him so much!  It is so much fun having a baby around the house again.  I got licensed for the State of Washington, so I am in the process of getting my RN by endorsement for the State of Idaho.

The class of 2016!  I can say I miss seeing friends and faculty, but I do not miss all the studying I had to do.  :)

This was taken after graduation.

Megan Owen, RN

Fast forward to today and we are still as busy as ever.  Emma just finished her T-ball season and had a great time.

 She is gonna love her sports as much as her brother does!  Last year of T-ball complete for this girl.  It is hard to believe we have been watching our kids play T-ball for at least 8 years.


Emma and Anna being silly.  :)

Charlie continues to enjoy theatre and just finished up with Mary Poppins.  He took a couple vocal lessons, practiced really hard, and auditioned for Oliver.  He got the part he wanted.  He has over 70 lines and is in he says 7 songs.  He has a lot of hard work to do.  The show will run mid September through the end of the first weekend in October.

 Charlie is doing 4H this year.  It is fun to watch both boys take care of their pigs.  

 

Cooper and Charlie went to Camp Lutherhaven for a week this summer.  Always so much fun!

Cooper played baseball and soccer at the same time.  It was tough, but he managed.  He is now just back to soccer and loves it!  He is in a Soccer Storm tournament this weekend, which is  3x3 and then next weekend is playing in the Palouse Cup.

Cooper loves to garden and mow the lawn for us.  He is the best helper and still the hardest worker.

Nanni Vicki drove with us up to Sandpoint for soccer.  Long drive, but it was beautiful and a little stormy.


Cooper and Derek had a blast at Camp Lutherhaven as well.

All three just finished up with swimming lessons and my goodness how they have improved.  All three passed their levels.  The boys are swimming the full length of the pool multiple times doing four different strokes.  They just need to work more on endurance.  Emma even started swimming on her own.  Our foster baby turns 3 months old this Friday.  I can't believe how much he has grown.  He coos, is starting to smile, has rolled over, and is starting to grab things.  He is such a delight to have in our home.  Nate is still working at WSU doing mobile app development, working on his boat, can't wait to get his new Kayak, and has been amazing caring for our family when I was so busy with school.  

 I can't share too many photos when fostering, but I think these are okay to share.  This one is from the day we picked him up at the hospital at just 6 days old.

 It took Cooper a few hours to warm up to him.  He was not too sure about this hole experience.  Cooper later asked us if he could hold him.  He loves him and is such a good helper.

Bella loves him as well and loves to give him kisses.  :) 

 This is our new ambulance!  Megan continues to volunteer on the department.  She has been an EMT for 3.5 years now.  Nate filled out an application and was just voted in.  He is excited to join the department and plans on taking the upcoming EMT class as well.


These two helped clean streets for community days for a little bit. ;)


We made it down to Boise for a few days this summer.  We got to go spend one of the days with Grandpa Owen.  It was so nice seeing and visiting with aunts, uncles, and cousins.