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. ;)
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