I am a terrible blogger...

I am so bad at keeping up with my blog. Maybe I need to *gasp* give up Farmville so I will have more time to devote to it. Farmville has become like a second job lately anyways with all the missions and things I need to beg my 'friends' for. It is turning into FrontierVille and that is why I ended up blocking that app on Facebook. UGH.
So, anyways. I was thinking of actually adding my 3rd kid to my blog. Then I was tossing around the idea of blogging at our family website instead...
So, I will just post some pictures of the cute new addition and see where that leads...OK...

Is it Winter, yet?

Wow, I haven't blogged in soooo long...
Ok, so we are in Texas...and of course since we moved here, the state is experiencing it's worse drought like since the Dust Bowl years. No joke. We have had almost 100 days of 100+ degree days since May. We are miserable and the A/C is almost always running w/the thermostat set to 80 degrees. So we still break a sweat in the house.
Next week over night we may even have a couple temps into the low 60s. Wow. I can finally air out the house...LOL
Anyways, just wanted to update the blog. I am going to post some green cleaner recipes shortly, if anyone is interested. And then in the next few days, actual blog posts w/pictures of the third King baby. ;o)

Oregon/Steiner Family Reunion

My Mom's family had a family reunion last month, June 25th-27th. It was up in Bend, Oregon at my Aunt Marji's. I followed my parents' motor home up I5 and I97. It was a long drive, but I have been on longer. It was great to see some family I haven't seen since the reunion at Yellowstone National Park in 2000 and some I last saw at my sister Nicole's Las Vegas wedding in September 2006.

I am posting some pictures I took of the kids and the scenery. We had an amazing time and I always love seeing my family. The kids really enjoyed themselves and they didn't watch one second of tv. Lol

The kids in the motor home…cute.

Some of the family sitting in the backyard.

 

Uncle Paul offering to help Maddie, but she has heard the story many times of when he dropped me when I was a little Girl. LOL

The kids loved playing in the snow in their flip flops.

All the above pictures are from when we took a picnic lunch to Paulina Lake and spent the afternoon exploring along the shore picking up pumice stones, obsidian, frogs, and pine tree saplings. We then went over to Obsidian Lava Flow, which is where we took the pictures of the kids playing in snow (IN JUNE)…and we went and saw Paulina Falls. We also stopped to take pictures of the volcanoes, also covered in snow. It was all very amazing and I think we all had an interesting time. The kids were climbing all over all the lava rocks and forest. They really wanted to go everywhere and see everything. I am glad we got to go, but especially I wanted them to experience time with a small portion of our VERY large family. And that is just my Mom’s side. ;o)

Thanks to Aunt Donna for the ONE group picture she posted on Facebook…Here we all are…

And here is a good one of Abby.

And another of Abby showing the kids a frog…

And more to come of Maddie’s camping trip w/her grandparents on Father’s day weekend up at Ice House reservoir.