Just another smattering

From new parks to poolside playing, here's a picture tour of our week. ;)

 

(Happy Father's Day!)

love, 

m

Week in Review

Wow! What a whirlwind of a week! Remember my post on things we were hoping to buy? Well, we've checked most of them off!  We bought a van, for starters. She's new-to-us and midnight blue. Kiel and I have nicknamed her "Little Blue" after a favorite storybook character, though little she is not! Matt went to the local car dealer on Saturday while his dad was in town, and in a matter of hours it was goodbye to our trusty hybrid and hello family wagon. I've been grieving and rejoicing ever since. I'm going to miss that little car, but I am so in love with our new one. I'm still swamped getting our house in order, and as such, I haven't gotten a chance to take a photo yet. A stock one will have to do so you can get the idea. 

Exact model right there. She's loaded...leather and heated seats, DVD player for the back, 8 passenger seating, separately controlled air/heat, storage EVERYwhere...totally smitten. She's going to serve our fantastic four well, and hopefully be with us for quite some time. So come visit, and we'll take you for a spin!

Here's the last photo I shot in our Civic. (insert the smallest of tears here)

One cool cat.

Oh, and Kiel got a sweet ride, too. His very first bike.

As I said, I'm working on making our house a home one picture and unpacked box of books at a time. It's slow going though, with sunny days and a pool at our disposal. Here are the only two pics I have. Our master bath... 

and a bit of our bedroom wall... 

  

Squamish-ites, does that mountain peak look familiar? Yep, that's Mt. Garibaldi blown up in full glory, presiding over our humble bed. It was my hope, even before moving, to have a Sea-to-Sky pic above our bed. So, a week before we left, Matt ran about the town snap-happy and came back with a memory bank full. We're glad to keep that giant beauty close (and all the memories that go with it).

Hope to post more soon, as things begin to settle, but no promises just yet. Drop us a line and let us know how you all are faring. 

Much love

The Sarge Fam

Are WES and MAX friends?

   

One thing I truly value in a city is public transportation -- specifically, trains. They just make everything so much easier. No parking, no traffic; just easy-breezy, smiling travellers (especially when you run into the funny, drunk ones! But, that's [usually] just during late-night rides through run-down areas or festival/concert venues, and in my opinion, it just makes the ride better. Lessons in humanity, kids!) Anyway, Portland has an excellent system and since our new apartment is just two blocks from the Tigard Station (see it on the black line?), I hope to use it a LOT. On Friday, we took the fam down to the free night at the Portland Children's Museum (Washington Park on the Blue/Red line), but mainly...we fed Kiel's stoke for trains. ;)

Does this kid looked psyched out of his mind, or what?!

Old train exhibit in Washington Park

I should mention we missed our first train, due to traffic, so I was a bit miffed as we started our journey. Maybe that's putting it mildly. I was mad! If you have kids, you may understand my feelings here. I had it all mapped out perfectly. Pick Matt up from work, get to the station, eat our packed dinner en-route or soon after arrival, and have plenty of time (an hour usually does it) to explore before our kids devolved into crazy-little-tantrum-throwing-lunatics. You see, after 5pm we have a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde thing that happens. We can usually handle it, especially at home, but even then, there's no doubt that by 7pm our beautiful, fun children turn into crying, disobedient delinquents. It's just fact. They need a bed. Pronto.

 So, when we missed that train, my breath started coming in gasps and my heart started palpitating, while my mind was racing with all the possible consequences. In the end, we obviously decided to still go, but not until after taking a detour home to nosh and shake the cranky mood. The ride went great, the museum was cool, but shall we take a gander at Kielster's expression waiting for the train home?

Um, yeah. 

In other news, we are settling in well. We hope to find a church home soon, and will be checking out Colossae Church this week!

Hugs,

m