Seng's Wedding

Matt, the kids, and I went to Portland at the beginning of September for my friend Seng's wedding. Seng is one of my best friends, we have been friends for 14 years. The trip to Portland for the wedding was a whirlwind trip, but we had a great time.

Here is Seng getting ready for the big day....

Here is a picture of Seng and I at the reception

Amy and I at the reception

The happy couple, Seng and David

I love these pictures of Seng and David....

After the wedding and reception, there was a Chinese banquet. It was quite the experience! We had a great time and I ate some things I never thought I would (like abalone and octopus!)

Camping fun!

We went camping back in August and I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures. It was Christopher and Jessica's first camping trip and they both had a great time. We went hiking and hung out by the reservoir. It was a blast!! Here are a bunch of pictures.....

Busy, busy, busy

I have been so incredibly busy since I started internship! It's crazy, but I'm totally loving my internship so that makes it easier to deal with. I work about 45 hours a week and it has been quite an adjustment. I think the kids are doing ok at the new daycare....Christopher LOVES it there and is always excited to go each day. I think Jessica is slowly getting used to it, but she is still annoyed that she has to be in daycare all day. I feel guilty about that, but I'm managing ok.

My internship totally rocks! I love my supervisors and the people I work with. I'm getting fantastic training and I've already learned so much. I have about 10 clients so far, but will need to carry about 16 or so. It takes a while to get our schedules filled up. I get to work with a range of ages, from preschool age up to adults. I haven't started running groups yet, but will start in the next month or so. I have also been doing assessments, which is cool.

Anyway, I just thought I would update the blog since I hadn't done it in a while. I have been horrible about keeping up with it and e-mails and everything since I started work. I will post some new pictures soon, though.

I started internship!

This is my first week of internship and so far it's going great! I really like the other interns (there are 4 others). Our supervisors and the other counselors seem really cool too. I think it's going to be a great year!!

It's just orientation so far this week. I will see my first clients starting next week. My schedule is slowly filling up with clients...7 so far. I also have my first assessment client scheduled. If you don't hear from me much in the next week or so it's probably because I'm tying to get used to working full time. The kids are doing well in daycare all day, so that is good.

Anyway, I'll keep you posted about how it's going!

Kids and dogs

My babies Christopher and Jessica.

Jessica just adores Christopher

Jessica has been pulling up on everything. Here she is standing at the gate we have up to keep her from getting to the stairs and front door. She really wanted to get through.

Let me out!

Cute!

She was pretty happy about playing on the couch.

A random picture of Cassie. She is about 10 years old now and her face is getting all white.

A blurry picture of Toby. He and Christopher are still really good friends.

Fun in McCall

We went up to my parent's cabin in McCall this past weekend. We had a lot of fun!

We went for a hike up to Duck Lake. I had Jessica in the pack and Christopher walked some and was carried by Matt some. There had been a forest fire at one time and you can see the bare trees.

Here is a picture of me with Jessica in the pack.

This is Duck Lake.

Matt sitting by the lake.

A couple of pictures of the trail.

These pictures are of Christopher hanging out at the cabin. He kept putting on my brother's helmet, which made him look kind of like a bobble-head toy. It was pretty funny!

Jessica's 1st Birthday

Jessica turned 1 year old on Wednesday July 16th. I can't believe she is a year old already! Time really flies by! Here are some pictures of her little birthday party.....

Her birthday cake.

Jessica watching me light the candles on the cake.

Mmmmm.....cake.

She was pretty happy about the cake. :)

Christopher was pretty excited about eating cake too. He had been talking about it ALL day!

Christopher helped Jessica open all her presents.

She really likes her pig slippers that Aunt Alli and Uncle Brandon gave her.

She also likes her new sippy cups.

It was a good birthday and she had fun. Christopher continued to play with her new toys for the next several days. We had to keep reminding him that they were Jessica's new toys and to please let her play with them too.

Wahoo! It's done!!

I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday! It went really well. My committee only wanted to make one tiny change (adding 3 words to a sentence in the abstract). I got everything submitted to the grad school yesterday and I'm officially done (other than internship). I start internship on August 18th and I will walk in graduation next May. I'm so excited to done with my dissertation!! I'm still in Oxford right now. I'm hanging out in my hotel room and listening to a fabulous thunderstorm. It's great!

Seng and Amy's visit

Two of my best friends, Amy and Seng, came to visit us this past weekend. They came for my 32nd birthday, which was June 29th. I hadn't seen Amy in almost 2 years and it had been 5 years since the three of us were together. It was fantastic seeing them and hanging out!!

Here are the three of us with the kids.
(From left to right--Christopher, Seng, Amy, Jessica, me)

On Saturday, we went and had a picnic in Julia Davis park. It was a beautiful day!
Christopher did not want his picture taken, though. (Notice the grumpy face)

Jessica, on the other hand, did not mind having her picture taken.

Here are Seng and Amy.

The three of us...

There is a beautiful rose garden in Julia Davis park. I took some cool pictures of some of the roses.

The three of us again....

We went out to dinner (A Girl's Night Out). We went to a great Thai restaurant. It was fun!