Recent Going Ons

What have we been up to you ask?? Now that the 3 boys are sleeping soundly I shall tell you. Mostly with pictures.

James, my practically 4th brother, flew down for a visit and while he was here

we took a ferry over to Victoria Canada.

And visited the Buchart Gardens...the most beautiful place in the world

Kiel and James spent a day sailing around Orcas Island

And walked Pike Place Market in Seattle while stuffing our faces with donuts the size of our faces

And went to a Mariners baseball game

while, again, stuffing our faces with nachos.

Caleb started swim lessons yesterday. I snagged these two pictures when he was just kicking...not kicking and screaming

Isn't my little Parker Love looking so grown up??

We inherited a grill with our house and I have been putting it to use grilling up anything and everything I can find! These tex-mex stuffed peppers were MIGHTY FINE.

The past few days have been dedicated to getting Kiel ready to start law school. Orientation starts next week and school starts the 27th. He's just a little excited.

In addition to all this evidence of fun, some of my favorite people- my family - came up for a visit and a family wedding. Although things didn't turn out exactly as planned, we had alotta fun! Like always!

And there has been something else exciting and taking up a lot of my time lately...but I don't have pictures yet so I will blog about it soon!

Although we miss our Monday, Friday, and Saturday game nights with Joseph and Mindy and Sunday dinners with Kiel's family and seeing our friends here and there, we are absolutely loving it here and are excited to start this new era of our lives. Kiel is going to do great in law school and I am enjoying every moment with my boys. Life is good!

Parker's first photoshoot

My week has been total chaos and its not even about to end. We have been packing like mad, packed up the truck today, cleaning tomorrow and driving to washington saturday and then unpacking. But even with all the madness I just couldn't wait to show the world these precious pictures of my little sweetheart.

Enjoy.

Special thanks to Parker's Aunt Natalie for capturing these sweet moments!

The happiest weekend. Ever.

That's what you get when you go with your whole family to the happiest place on earth! Disneyland! We had our first ever Petramalo family reunion this past weekend and made the very fun drive (8 people-4 kids in carseats no less- in an 8 seat minivan) from Provo to LA to attend it.
The drive was totally worth it.

Thursday
Here we are headed to Disneyland. Our hotel was literally a 2 minute drive so we just crammed 28 people into a 15 passanger van. That's a new record for the van.

My bro-in-law even got to sit in Caleb's carseat

Toy Story! Caleb's favorite ride EVER.

How cute is my family??! I just love them to death!Although I got to spend a few fun hours at Disneyland, I spent most of my time at our hotel just lovin on my baby

Friday
A fun day at the beach

What would be a post without one of Kiel's classic poses?

Swimming at our hotel

Swim lessons

Aren't family reunions great? ANY excuse to get together :)

We are moving to Seattle WA on Saturday and we won't have internet once we get there so if I drop out of the blogosphere for awhile you know why :(