Enjoying LA sunshine.

Out for a walk this gorgeous sunny day. Also got to spend time with aunt Priscilla and cousins joshou and Caleb this week . We are staying 15 minutes away from my uncles house.

Draft

Well we are in Los Angeles we were supposed to go to Bakersfield but on the way to Bakersfield they told us to go on ahead to Los Angeles we are parked about 15 minutes away from my aunt and uncle Tom Penner I'm enjoying some time with my relatives the children are doing really well Austin has been doing really good with eating but is now again hardly eating out he just said he's not hungry when I offer food so some days I just pretty much feed him to make sure he has a little bit of something in him and the other day to just fine on his own Austin is loving the warm weather we are parked right by some sand he is out digging in the sand and running around ariana is it quite big enough to get around but she like a stroller ride and being outside I need to get a playpen for her so she can sit and play outside she is not calling yet

Los angelos

At the beach today!!

Headed to bakersfield ca.

Well it is a rainy /sleeting day again . What can I say? A good day in Portland consists of sunny patches between rain showers.  We are travelling to California mid southern part. A 14 hr drive that we are doing in 2 days.
   We will be stopping to see Arleta's ( Dereks aunt) mom who lives right on the way for a little. We stayed a night there last September when we drove through here.
    Life has been a challenge this week for me . I felt like I was finally getting on top of things and something happened and threw me off course and I feel so behind again. Sometimes all you can do is pray snd let God handle some issues. Easier said than done. Hence Late credit card payment, struggling to keep up meals and dishes and miss arianna is running a fever again and not her happy self. I'm about ready to put a restraining order ( lol kidding)on Austin as all he wants is to play and rough house with her but everything sets her off when she's not feeling well.  Just being honest!
   We are so ready for warm T-shirt weather and pack our coats and winter stuff away.
  I caint wait to start a daily walking routine again.

Portland

Its a cool rainy day here in Portland Oregon. Austin is mowing grass and entertaining sissy. I have dishes done , camper picked up by noon and that's a good day for me.
Need to do  Baths for the kiddos yet before naps and I need to run get some milk for sissy. I have her on raw goats milk and she is doing really good on it.

Travelling

Well we are starting our trek west. We left Milwaukee wi this am and are hoping to be in Portland Oregon by sat sometime. It is -5 f here this am so we are so excited about above freezing temps in Oregon. Children are both sleeping right now . Pray for safe travels and patient children :)  
  for some of you asking. I am not working right now as it was just too stressful for the children and trying to keep up with my other responsibilities.
   We are ready to be back in our camper after 2 weeks of living in a hotel room.

Day 2 it is 6 am we are ready to head out again. Yesterday it just kept getting colder by the end of the day it was -13 f . We went past the bad lands and mt  Rushmore in the dark. I so would have lived to have seen these places. Maybe next time ( he he)   children did relatively well travelling. We travelled till 10 30 pm to the s Dakota /Wyoming line and got a hotel instead trying to warm up the camper in these sub zero tempos and arriana  was running a fever so we thought we best get a warm place to get some sleep. Day 3 it was another day on the road. Ariana running a high fever , she was hardly eating anything and refusing her bottle which for her menas she is not feeling well. shes always begging for food and her fever didn't help. shes cutting her top 2 teeth through . its just tough work. we hit a record low of minus 30 c ( talk about brutal coldnesss where it hurts to breathe cause the air freezes in your lungs. thankfully the roads were clear, we did not hit any snow on the roads till our drive from Spokane Washington to Portland Washington where snow storms are unusual. guess we just culdnt resist but to bring the cold with us. Austin was sick one day too. he never gets car sick so im not sure what happened if it was the mountain curvy road in the dark or what. I was wore out till we got to our destination. we had one icy snowy mess in Portland. the city was in shut down mode the first 2 days. the drive from Spokane to Portland should have only been 6 hrs but it took us close to 10. we hit bad roads and lots of snow but we kept telling ourselves were almost there.we got stuck in a gas station parking lot and had to use chains to get out. every body else was chaining up on the road but we didn't actually use ours for driving.praise the lord for safe travels.

arrianna 8 months

I am 8 months and I love to eat and play with my big brother. I am happy most of the time. but my mom complains about my sleeping habit at night. i like her close beside me when I sleep to give me my pacifier whenever I think I need it to go back to sleep. :) I go crazy about any food in sight. I pick everything up off the floor and try to eat it. I laugh at my brother and his antics as long as hes not pushing me around or kicking me. I play with my brothers toys . these photos have not been edited yet and im still trying tp pick my favourite ones. which do you readers think is the best one? Austin had to be in on the photo shoot too. lol

Austin conversation

I was cleaning up the room and Austin came to me and said." Mommy I want to ask you a question. " he led me to the window ." There's a truck and a bus and they are driving down the road. And there's a bridge. And the bridge broke and what is the bus gonna do? Is it gonna fall down the cliff? If it falls the wheels will be broked  off and it will crash. And another bus is going to come and have to pull it out. ".  Seriously he comes up with the longest stories. Love this kid!!!!!