Is anyone out there?

For the first time in about 7 months, I hopped onto my blog to catch up! I could promise as usual that I will be better about it, but who am I kidding! Life is always busy for us and about to get even busier in the next few months when 3 of our 4 littles head back to school, soccer season starts, the playschool will be in full swing for the school year and holidays and other sports will be taking up all of our time! I'm not sure anyone even reads or cares about this poor little dippy blog anyways, But, at least my kids can read it someday and see what we were doing during different phases!
This summer we have had lots of fun (although I wish we had time for more). Jasper and I both have BUSY jobs so our free time is limited. Add to that remodeling our house and it has sucked most of our time! We have had time to head to Reno for a short family trip,

                                 we made a day trip to Capitola to have a family day at the ocean

                 
                   We celebrated Father's Day with a day on the lake! Jasper's choice of course!

                                        The girls had their annual dance recital and did amazing!!

                                                   We made time for a little water park fun!!!

So many other things have gone on in 2013! Jasper started a new job in February and he absolutely loves it! Peyton played her first year of Farm softball and she had a blast! Reagan had her first year of tball. The girls continue to love both ballet and gymnastics. Peyton finished first grade and will soon be a second grader! Caiden is now 2 and SO full of life! He keeps us on our toes! As for me, I have been having a blast running the playschool, living my chaotic bliss and with the little free time I do have. I run. I finished 2 half marathons so far this year and hope to do at least 2 more in 2013, a few 5ks and "possibly" my first full marathon in December.....We will see how that goes!;)

In may, this handsome man and I also celebrated 8 years of wedded bliss! I love him so much more today than the day I married him. 

Here's a little look at what has been going on to our poor house to....

                                        And then the time came to put it all back together again....

We still have a long way to go and lots more to be done but it is coming along just as we dreamed it! We were up in the air on renting our little bitty house out and purchasing larger but it just didn't seem to be the right time for us right now. This house is where Jasper and I started life and I'm not ready to move on! So, maximizing space has been a must with 4 kids and 2 adults in a 3 bedroom house! Simple changes has made life even more organized for us and helps us all fit!:)) I am so thankful to be married to a man that can build a house from the ground up (or at least most of it and call on his handy subcontractors to do what he can't/doesn't want to;)) He has worked his usual 12-14 hour work days and then gets home and works on our house until 11-12 at night and gets up at 4:30 and does it all again. He's pretty much superman!

Well, although this post is very jumbled and only bits and pieces of our 2013, I'm glad I could finally sit down and share a bit! I hope that 2013 has been fabulous for all of our friends and family so far! Our first half was great and I am looking forward to an even better second half of 2013! Blessings to all and I will post more when I have some "free time" hahaha, wishful thinking!;)