September 2025

 

Mia's Senior Pictures-Rooster Rock

Love how these turned out!

Love my girl!

Maco made her take a pic in her basketball jersey!

Courts For Kids Fundraiser! 

My handsome hubby!

Bffs and Co founder of Courts for Kids!

So fun having the Mcgrews come!

Mia and Kingsley! Serving food from Asia! All the food was amazing!

Fun times!

Yaya came to town! Took Nay for an early birthday shopping trip!

Dinner and Left Right Center fun with Yaya! Mia was the big winner!!

Maco representing on the GFU website!

Cheering on Uncle Quinn at his race!

GFU Serve day! Maco's yearly meetup with our former high school teacher, Mrs. Gourley, at the community the team helps at every serve day!

Enjoying "Some Like it Hot" with Jeryln! Apparently she held the wrong side of the playbill up! ;)

Seniors traditional painting of the rock at Doc Stadium!

Reading time with Maco!

Storytime! I got to watch the Mcgrews this fall due to the Evergreen strike!!

Nyla wants to be just like Big Sis!

Enjoying the last hot days of the year with some water fun!

This girl thinks she's funny!

Cuties laughing it up!

Bff's!

Love my sister pedicure time!

Prep Hoops Washington camp! 

Kyrie was selected as one the top 15 players at the camp! He has worked very hard the past year, and I'm hoping it will pay off with the high school season starting soon!

Prep Hoops Oregon camp!

Kyrie had his first two babysitting gigs at our house this month. I was here to help with Trace, but I made sure he changed all his diapers!! :)

Dutch Bros date with Mama!

Bad picture, but had to include it because the hat was Aunt Linda's old hat she gave to my kids for dress up!

Littles pushing the Bigs!!!

All this girl wanted to do is climb up and down this over and over on her own!

"No School" sign for the picket line since Marli is not ready for the strike to end!

Marli picketing!

Naomi working through her OCD through exposure therapy! She has the most amazing therapist, and Naomi is thriving in therapy!

We love our library and storytime!

These two have been together weekly since Nyla was born!

Thank you song/message Nay made up to thank Clare for the awesome chair she gave her!

"Thank you!"

Walking the dog with 4 kiddos!! They loved it!

Precious!

Outdoor movie with our neighbor!

Helped out at the Camas Street of Dreams for Camas Grad night with my friend, Jen! We have been friends since our girls met in 1st grade! And now they are still besties about to graduate together!

These houses are amazing!!!

Date night on the Vancouver waterfront!

So excited to celebrate Britt and for Baby Boy Oslund to arrive next month!

Kyrie making his HOCO proposal sign!

The girl he asked likes fall and is a volleyball player! I thought it was pretty creative! Paired the sign with Crumbl cookies and flowers!

Friends captured the moment! ;)

Kyrie waited outside of the locker room while she got ready for volleyball practice!

Naomi reading Nyla's yearly birthday letter from Daddy!

Reading of the letter from Daddy!

Our last outdoor story time in the park! The sun was amazing!

Treat with these cuties!

Cheers!!

Found some old photos of the kids!

Kiddos getting their exercise on!

Indoor playpark at a local church

Naomi loves to write! She wrote a story and then wrote out scripts for everyone!

This is how Kyrie rides home many afternoons from school!

Nay's new bed! I love our local buy nothing group! I posted that we were looking for a bed for Nay and the next day had this all set up for Naomi by the time she got home from school!

Surprise!

Surprise!! She was so excited!

Auntie on TV at the Savannah Bananas game!

She got picked for the karaoke contest! Unfortunately they forgot to turn on her mic! :)

Becoming a big girl!

Nay and I watched Freaky Friday together this summer! We were so happy to finally see Freakier Friday this month!!

Such sweet friends! Helping each other put on shoes!

34-27-Hike!

Nay loves to put Nyla down to sleep anytime she can!

Shhh!!! This was a secret photo! 

Gone are the days of snuggles and cuddles with my boy, so when he asks me to brush out his hair each night, there is no hesitation! I'll take any small bit of affection I can get these days!

Mia's 5th college visit! She looooves Oregon! 

She will have all her apps(About 12 schools) in by November 1st, and then we shall wait and see!

First sub day this year! PE at Woodburn Elementary!

Love having friends' kiddos in class!

Naomi's 2nd grade class on "Favorite color" day!

Art time!

Go, Ducks! 5-0, Baby! And #2 in the country!! Lets Go!!

Dancin' with Bub!

Obstacle course!

Date weekend! 

Started with a walk on Lacamas Lake!

Next stop: Cheering on the Ducks in their overtime win!!

Next stop: Salt & Straw on the Vancouver waterfront!

Next stop: AC Hotel on the waterfront The hotel was so fancy, we had to partake in the bathrobes! ;)

Next stop: Ondus restaurant! It was amazing!!!! Highly recommend!!

Last stop: Vancouver Farmer's Market! Loved partaking in the local

My camera didn't capture this well, but I love all the art around downtown Vancouver!

Nyla & her boys!!!

Besties!

Chillin' at Sittee's shop!

Family mosh pit!

Happy 2nd birthday sweet girl! 

September 12th!

First stop: walking the dogs in the sun!

Just reading a magazine in downtown Camas!

Special birthday treat!

So loved our time together! We just strolled around Camas like I used to do in the old days when I had less kids and working less! It was super special!

Ready for Nyla to wake!!

September 13th! Since no one was home in the am when Nyla woke up on her bday, we postponed the actual birthday decorations and celebration until Saturday the 13th! ;) We may have done the same thing last year! Maybe next year we will actually celebrate her birthday on her actual b-day!:)

Birthday breakfast! Monkey bread!

The birthday girl is awake!!!

Loving her new b-ball hoop!

After she took the picture with the entire monkey bread, she was not having it when I took it away to give her a small piece on a plate!

Loving her new kitchen!

Family birthday celebration for N & N!

Gift from Yaya!

Thank you, Yaya for the signed book!

Thank you, Posners, for the doll!

Nyla opening gifts!

Yay! A Tonie from Yaya!!

Ice cream cake as requested!

Sittee

Posners

Happy birthday to our favorite little girls! Couldn't get a pic without Nyla crying, but that's how it goes!

You would think girls would be happy when getting sung to! ;)

Last night as a 7 year old!

Blurry, but had to include it!

Squishmallow birthday!!

This is what the birthday door looks like when I am doing it at 1 am! :)

The 8 year old is awake!!

Let her sleep in, and she was so happy!

Surprise #1: Stay home from school for the day with Mom & Nyla!

Squishmallow blanket from Big Sis!

Sleeping blanket from the Gunters!

So excited for this gift!!

Lego mall from Papa & Grandma Cusack

Spent a lot of the day putting together the Lego mall!

Gift from Little Sis!

Headphones from Nyla!

Lego time!

Surprise #2!

Surprise #2: Dutch Bros!

Monkey bread breakfast!

Naomi loved the honks from our neighbors for her birthday!

Surprise #2! Birthday drink from Dutch!

It's normal for 8 year olds to put pajama set on their birthday wish list right?:)

Surprise #3-Bike ride while Mom walks the dogs!

It was a beautiful sunny day!

Surprise #4!

Surprise #4: Movie-Gabby's Dollhouse that came out today!

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She did it! 1237 pieces in a day! She is all about Legos these days!

Skirt from Big Bro!

Pizza-Outdoor movie birthday party with friends!!@

Marli-Brielle-Raidyn-Enid

Presents!

These two play with Legos for hours every day! Enid got her a movie theater Lego set! Perfect for the birthday theme!

Fun crystal creating kit from Raidyn! These two met in Kinder!

PJ set and birks from Marli! She was so happy!

BFFS since birth!

Popcorn and candy! Must have snacks for the movie!

Gift from Brielle! They met in Kinder also!

Happy 8th birthday, Naomi!! 

Ice cream sundaes!

Finally got to open her big gift from Mom & Dad! Her first tablet!!