Done and done.

Ok... I think have a few posts that appear quite similar to this one, but I assure you, this is the real deal. Jefferson is officially done with school forever! Classes, tests, finals, national exams, clinic hours, clinic visits- it's all DONE!!! He checked out of his clinic at 10am and was home an hour later, never to return to WSCC or the CIC as a student. This has been the weirdest "lasts" of them all. I am sure the reality of it all will sink in sometime next week, or next month, or maybe not until next year. But, it's officially official, I would like to present to you

Dr. Jefferson Harmon (and fam):

(This is the first time that it is legal to call himself a doctor, I think.)

Last days of Portland

We have been filling our days with as much play time with friends as possible. We have managed to have some good times between all our packing.

Last week we went to 'Out of this World Pizza and Play' with our playgroup friends. It is a huge warehouse pizza place filled with blow up bounce house/slides, a little 'bike' course, a huge climbing jungle gym, and tons of other toys to play on. We had a great time.

And it was Nicholas' birthday so we got to end with cupcakes!

We squeezed in one more playdate with Carolyn and her beautiful kids; Isaiah, Ava, and Eli. This was the best that I could do:

Our last playgroup. We have been playing with these ladies, Carolyn, Jamie, and Rachel, one day a week for over a year. These playdates have been sanity saving some weeks. All of our kids get along so great and we have enjoyed rotating houses each week with them. Thanks for all the good times ladies!

We had a little dessert and playtime at the park last Sunday with the Trujillos and Cards. We had ice cream and brownie sundaes and played soccer with all our kids. Again, why weren't we doing this once a month for the last three years?! We had a great time with the families, even when my competitive husband took out Kirstin, who apparently is equally competitive busting out her cleats! :)

And for just over the last month or so, Rachel, Kirstin and I have been doing date nights once a week. We went bowling the first week and laughed really hard. I have to wait for pictures from Kirstin for that one and maybe a video or two. You will want to see our impersonation of the monkey man bowler. We also hit up some yummy dessert joints, Bumpers, Applebee's, Papa Hayden's, Pix, or I mean, Claim Jumpers :) . It was a lot of fun to spend some quality time with these girls before we move away.

On Monday I made it to one last, what I lovingly dubbed the Old Lady Stamp Group. It's just because I am the youngest one there by a good twenty-thirty years. I have met together with these ladies once a month for a long time. It has been so much fun to mix and mingle with these "seasoned" ladies. I find that I get along with them better than most girls my age. Maybe I have an old soul? It truly has been a joy to know these ladies and share our love of crafting/stamping.

On Tuesday I had one last hoorah with my girlfriend Robyn. She has also been an integral part to my experience here in Portland. We have enjoyed many a card class together, not to mention recipe exchanges, helping each other move, and just some good old fashioned girl talk. She took me and the kids out to lunch as a goodbye gift and we said our "see ya laters." Thanks for getting us out of the house Robyn! You knew just what we needed. :) Photo courtesy of Carter:

And in case anybody is missing my 10 for $10s, Robyn has taken over as official card class guru and is holding 10 for $10s in the Hillsboro area. Let me know if you are interested in getting her emails.

I love you my Portland friends! Thank you for all the fun times and good memories. We will be expecting visits just down the 84 in Boise. :)

Popcorn Popping

Jefferson adjusted Carter today, which he thinks is hilarious by the way, and laughingly said, "It's like popcorn popping!"

Boise or bust

We made a trip over to Boise last week to try to get everything lined up for our move in just over a week. It was an eye-opening experience, but we got our housing lined up and are figuring out the business part of it all. Jefferson had the chance to shadow his dad. It will be nice to have Jon close by to learn some of his adjusting techniques.

Yes, Jefferson looks very much like his dad. So much so in fact, that while we were in Taco Bell with just our little family of five, we noticed some lady looking at us rather frequently and after we were done eating she came over and asked Jefferson if he by chance was related to Jon Harmon. She was a patient of Jon's about a year ago. We just had to laugh.

After a couple of days we headed down to Twin Falls and stayed with Jefferson's Aunt Diane and Uncle Dave (who somehow escaped being in any pictures). Jefferson shadowed his uncle (who is also a chiropractor) and we played around Twin.

Aunt Di (aka Jefferson's second mom):

We went to a Bruin's football game (Jefferson's high school alma mater). Carter loved watching them and would not take his eyes off the field. We might have a future football player on our hands. Both Carter and Andi would stand up and dance every time music came on over the loud speaker. They kept us and everyone around us entertained.

We went down to Burley for an afternoon to visit Jefferson's Grandma and Grandpa. There is never a shortage of delicious food, and this time was no exception. We ate a delicious meal with homemade wheat bread with homemade jam with homegrown veggies, topped off with homemade apple pies. This is Great Grandma Berna with my kiddies:

Ali came over from BYU-I and Ashlee and Emmett came down with their kids. They spent a lot of time here enjoying Aunt Di's home baked goodies and treat drawer:

We also got to hit up the fair. All the kids loved the animals and tractors and mac trucks:

Tiffanie and Taylor did a lot of children herding for us. It was so great to have them around. They are awesome girls and I wanted to bring them home with me!

When it got too late Jefferson and Emmett took the kids home and put them to bed so the ladies could have an evening out at the rodeo. (sounds like such a selfless thing right? and it was, but who are we kidding, there was college football on). The rodeo was awesome. I decided that I really want to ride around the arena on a horse as fast as I can. It looks like so much fun! We got a good laugh over Ali hitting on one of the clowns... No, she really did. She went up to him after the rodeo to tell him that she thought he was "attractive." It was hilarious.

All the ladies minus Taytum, Kaleeya, and Aunt Di:

Then, the main purpose for all that family in one place was the blessing of our niece Kaleeya. It was a special day topped off with... you guessed it- more food! My kids enjoying their meal on the patio:

GB and Great Grandma Berna with their newest great grand daughters:

Kaleeya and Taytum, only 19 days apart:

We had a great time with everyone. Ashlee took some great pictures on the blessing day, so we'll be posting those as soon as we get them. There will be more to come on the Boise move soon...

Aunt Sumo stops by

Let's see if I can remember all the fun things we did when my sister (who we lovingly call Aunt Sumo) came to town. She originally booked her flights for a week after my due date assuming that she could help me with the transition at home with three... Taytum, however, had other plans, so it ended up being a fun week of playing. It was perfect timing, right before we move; it made us get out to see all the sites we wanted to see one last time before we move from our beautiful city of Portland.

Monday after Summer got into town we headed down to Salem to see my brother and his cute little family. My mom and little sister came up too.

We made it to a delicious shortcake stand for a little dessert pre dinner. The kids:

Then was dinner. Amazingly there were no spills at this table!

Tuesday we hit up the zoo with everyone, but not before we stopped by Voodoo Doughnut to pick up a delicious breakfast of bacon maple bars. To die for!!!

The zoo train is always a hit.

Wednesday we made it over to the coast. We loved playing in the sand and Reece ate her fair share of sand. We finally are at a stage where none of my kids ate any! Hooray!

Then to get halibut fish and chips at Dooger's. They were the best fish and chips I have ever eaten!

The next few days we spent shopping and hanging out. We went on a walk and picked blueberries.

Saturday we met up with Ben and Sharon and their boys at the Saturday's Market. The kids loved playing around together.

The girls:

The guys:

And then we grabbed a quick lunch and Summer and Reece had to go home. It was so much fun to have her here and have adult conversation throughout the days. My kids love their cousin and it was fun to get some quality time with her. It was sad to say goodbye, but made slightly easier knowing that we are going to live five short hours away from her in just a couple of weeks!

Thanks for coming up to play Summer and Reece. And a special thanks to Uncle Josh for giving up his family for the week!! We love you guys!

We're back!

I know so very many of you have been worrying/wondering where we have been. Okay, so not that many of you, but for those curious, I will be returning to the blogging world shortly with many updates. Just not now because my kids will be waking up from naps shortly.