A new adventure

Life is an adventure.

This new year Josh and I made the decision to embrace the adventure of everyday life as well as seek out new adventures. For Josh this meant pursuing two life long goals, running a marathon and climbing a mountain. So he's currently training for the San Francisco marathon on August 3 and he's climbing Mt. Shasta with Bay Area Wilderness Training and the money he raises for the trip will pay for inner city kids to go out into the wilderness and learn survival skills. Josh is particulary excited about this because its right up his alley and something he is passionate about.

That's a lot right? What am I pursuing you might ask? Well, in February we found out we're about to embark on one of the biggest adventures of all, parenthood. (Needless to say this process will be my adventure for the year and that's just fine by me, no marathons needed here.) We are currently 12 weeks along (we're calling baby plum this week as that is the size he/she is). We're due early October and I just have this feeling this baby might be born on our anniversary. We are ecstatic and looking forward to this special time. I had my first ultrasound last week, I wish I'd had a camera for Josh's face his jaw dropped and he couldn't believe he was seeing a little baby. It was precious, of course then baby starting moving around and kicking legs and arms and Josh was like, well, looks like baby is taking after me.

So stay tuned for continued updates and more adventures, there's much more to come.

"But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever! Amen. "2 Peter 3:18

The Punkin Patch

The punkin patch was actually the brain child of my sister. I still don't know if Josh is a fan of the name but I guess its a little too late now. So the punkin patch it is.

We've had a couple little punkins with us in the past few months, punkins of the four legged kind. First were rescue kitties Ben and Stuart. Josh found them under a bridge under a creek at work. They were between 2-3 weeks old. Ben and Stuart lived with us for five weeks before going to their permanent home with my newlywed sister and brother in law.

After Brieanne and Brandon picked up the kitties we brought Lola home to live with us. Lola is a 10 month old border terrier and loves being a crazy girl running around the house with her squeaky ball and playing with puppy pal Ruby at the dog park. So for me, going from a no pet home to three pets in six weeks was a little crazy.