Family Fun

School is officially back in session (bummer!), but we are on the last year homestretch and the end is in sight!!  We can survive one more year, right?  Well in order to do so, we’ve been trying to fit in as much family time as possible to keep us sane, and we’ve had a lot of fun!  One weekend we went to Fern Ridge reservoir and the girls had a great time swimming with their dad.  That is another thing I can’t believe we didn’t discover until now!  All this time we have been living 15 minutes away from a beautiful lake with awesome playgrounds, campsites and swimming/boating opportunities and we had no idea.  Guess we’re going to have to make up for lost time now!  We also went to a Eugene Emeralds baseball game.  My work was giving away free tickets to employees so I signed up and we took the girls to the ballpark!  We ended up not making it till nearly the 8^th inning, but it was still really fun to be there.  (And to be honest, I don’t know how long the girls would have lasted anyway.)  Other than that, we have just been enjoying family time at home and getting together with great friends.  Life is really busy with Nate going to school full-time and continuing to work for the law firm part-time. He continues to serve on the Moot Court board & is the tutor for the first year’s Torts class.  Since coming home from our Lake Powell trip, I’ve been working 3-4 days a week covering a nurse’s maternity leave and the girls have been rotating between daycare & their friends’ house while I’m gone.  They’ve been unbelievably patient with all the bouncing around and, as always, are so easy going.  I think working has been harder on me, as I hate leaving the girls so much and am still learning how to balance work, managing all my duties as a wife & mom at home and trying to spend quality time with the girls.  I also got called to be the first counselor in the Primary presidency which has been fun, but occasionally time-consuming. Thankfully Nate has been super supportive even though he is overwhelmed with things to do himself.  Our lives are crazy right now, but we’re trying to keep our priorities in balance hopefully we’ll be able to get through it!  Wish us luck!

The girls in their weekly game of tea-party in the hamper-turned-fort while I sort laundry :)

 Great friends Logan & Keadon

 Swimming at Fern Ridge (Yeah, they were topless) :)

 Sage slept through the baseball game...all 30 minutes that we made of it!