SO! My goal for writing once a week has been totally busted less than two months into this project! But I'm going to blame it on having a baby and moving from Wyoming back to Oregon for the summer...and being exhausted! From wonderful things!!
Since I last posted Ryan has finished a great year in Greybull teaching, we packed up our house, said "see you later" to our Wyoming friends, and driven over to Hood River for a summer of fun and grandparents! The drive with the boys went as well as I could have hoped for! (The littles and I headed over a few days before Ryan was done teaching.) The big boys did great entertaining each other and not pestering Rygby too much...Rygby did amazing for his first big trip! Only complained the very last two hours while we were making our way through Oregon. Close to a thousand miles put on our Tundra that was packed to the MAX, our storage unit is about half the size it was last summer so we brought a little extra back to Oregon.
The boys are a liiiiiiiiittle spastic right now and beyond excited about being near grandparents for more than two months! It'll take a bit for them to get used to being back by family again. Everyone's loaded up on their allergy meds and we are getting used to breathing air that has moisture in it!!! As well as LOTS of pollen, cottonwood fluffs are out and about. But we wouldn't trade any of it. Rytan is SO excited to have his puppies back! I got home from work yesterday and Ryan and Ron had the big boys on ATV's riding around the field. I took all of the boys down to my parents store and the way they run around that place you would think they own it. ;)
It is SO nice to be back in the store, shoes everywhere, people going on adventures, PEOPLE!! I have missed chatting with adults throughout the day. I love my boys and don't to miss out on anything, I hate missing moments, but I am so thankful to be able to hang out with my parents in one of my favorite places. Some pictures below of fun moments!! The pics are all about a month old...but I'll post more later!!

It's May!!!

April went by really fast!!! Welcome to May! April 2014 was likely the most exciting April the Harder family has had, opening with a BANG and finishing with some more grandparent time. Ryan's parents, Ron and Linda, are at this very moment in Wyoming on their way to the pool with our big boys and Ryan. (So bizarre that we have big boys and a new boy still.)
I wonder when our "normal" will ever be normal for more than a week, or less, at a time. I am fairly confident that it will in fact never happen and that our normal will be forever changing and God will constantly be changing our lives will always be new and exciting. Which I will forever be thankful for! Who needs a mundane life?!? I surely don't.
Ryan had a delayed spring break this year (it was wrapped around Easter) much to our delight and blessing! Since my mom left he has been able to stay at home with the boys and I, while I heal and we adjust to being a family of FIVE!! So crazy. He has taken the boys into Cody (an hours drive) multiple times to swim and to go to church each week, which is a wonderful time for the three of them and a blessing to this mama as I get a little quiet and can vacuum and clean the house a bit! He is going back to work on Monday though and I'm a little terrified!!! I feel very capable in my mommy capabilities but AH! We are going to be spending LOTS of time at the park and simply going outside, the boys have discovered that underneath the porch is a pretty exciting place. It's about two feet high and I would think would make them slightly uncomfortable, but they spent two hours under there the other day digging and burying things. Rygby was sleeping and I sat with my feet up reading a book in the sun! It was quite lovely.
The senior Harder's arrived on the 30th and will be taking off Sunday to get back to Hood River, the boys were so excited to have more of their grandparents coming to visit them! AND they brought play-doh! You can always win our boys over with play-doh. They went for a four mile bike ride yesterday (the adults walked) and went down for an easy nights sleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow. I vacuumed up play-doh crumbs and hung back to let Rygby have a solid nap. We love being in Wyoming, LOVE, but man it's nice to have grandparents around!! And over the last month we have been spoiled by both sides of the family.
Three weeks from today Ryan will be closing up his first year of teaching in Greybull, our house will be packed up and our boys will more than likely be asking every five minutes when we are going to head back to Oregon. Our house is owned by some very lovely people who own a hotel that is right down the block, they rent it out over the summer nightly/weekly for just a tad more than what we pay for rent. SO, we get to spend our summer in Hood River surrounded by family and friends! I think we are all super excited for summer weather, time at the beach, the cabin, and being around our people. I'm excited for latte's....and our dogs!!! Rytan is ready to have our dogs in the back of the truck. He gets a little envious when he sees ranchers driving around with their working dogs (he starts asking if he can have his puppies in the back of our truck and signs/says please about twenty times.)
The weather has turned again, back to happy and warm, we are excited!! Makes it a lot easier to take the boys outside. ;)