The Coombs Family

Shelby has been counting down the day for preschool all summer. She never mentioned school last year, but this year she has been begging to go. She is going to Sprague High School where they have a little tots program. It's great because the high school students are obsessed with the kids. They are almost as excited to play with the kids all day as the kids are. Shelby couldn't get ready fast enough and we were 15 minutes early to school. She argued with me over her clothes because she wanted to wear her Halloween costume and I didn't want her to. We settled on an outfit that she got to pick out. She rarely matches and doesn't care at all, and I'm trying to be better about not caring too. Caleb for sure doesn't care if she matches and that's probably because he doesn't even match half the time either. Anyway, she did really good at school except for one thing. She really had to go to the bathroom. And not #1. She had to poop so bad but she didn't wan

This year Shelby decided that she wants a My Little Pony party. So I looked up party ideas online and found a lot of rainbows. She helped me pick out the food and decorations and we spent a day putting it all together. She mostly bossed me around.  Our first project was easy, the main cake table. We used construction paper to make her name, paper tissue for the flowers, tulle for the rainbow, and of course some pony decorations.  We made our own rainbow marshmallows that look and taste like peeps. Absolutely adorable and horribly disgusting to eat. You just wet the marshmallow, then wipe it down, roll it in sprinkles, and eat! Shelby and Calvin both got to help make them and mostly make a huge mess.  Shelby wanted me to fill the house with rainbows, but I managed to talk her down to just these flowers and rainbow back drop.  Both of the kids helped fill up the piñata with candy. Funny enough, this thing barely holds any candy. I guess it's just the wrong shape. So we had

We love to hike at Opal Creek and this year we actually found a warm, sunny Saturday that we could go. Rare this time of year, so when we woke up and saw the sun, we packed up and left. We went with our friends, Peter and his kids. His wife Anne was busy coaching volleyball, so she missed out this trip. The kids took about 2.5 hours to hike to the end (about 3 miles). There was a lot of stopping, playing, pictures, and adventure seeking. On the way back, we ran almost the entire time. We were hungry and tired and the kids wanted to run. It was pretty awesome to watch the kids run that far around all the rocks. There were a lot of crashes too, but it was so fun.