Charleston Battery

The kids and I were lucky enough to go up to Charleston with our friends the Allens. They're brother in law works with the Charleston Battery soccer team and the team was in the finals of their division. It was a nice weekend and a fun time hanging out with some friends. I think the kids had a blast too!!!

Caroline and Sarah


Nicholas & Jack


Molly....

First Day of School!!!

So we missed the first day of school being back in WA....

The kids look "thrilled" in this pic... oh well! Hard to believe that Caroline is in 1st Grade, Nicholas is in 1/2 day Kindergarten, and Molly is in 3 year pre-school.... Thankfully they all have wonderful teachers and hopefully this fall will be a great experience for everyone!!!

Seattle

We decided since it's our last day here to take the ferry to Seattle and go meet Joe and all my sisters and husbands and kids and go have dinner at the Spaghetti Factory. Sadly, the weather did not cooperate again with our plans, but we all had fun anyway.....

Nicholas on the ferry..


Kids with Nana on the ferry. Just as we got on, it started to rain :(


Molly and Caroline


Having fun and playing...

The City!!! Looks like a winter day... not the beginning of August!

We met Joe at Pike Place Market.... Caroline & Nicholas on the market pig..

C & N checking out the clams and fish...

Molly and Uncle Ryan

LOVES!

Molly & Aunt Kendra

Watching the train go by.....

It was nice to be able to spend one last dinner with my family before we go back to Georgia and then on to TX. We had such a wonderful trip that flew by way to quick! I keep crossing my fingers that we'll be able to come back next summer!!!!

Another one...

Another post with no pictures..... What a weekend it has been! So not the way that I thought it would go down! Joe was late, and I mean LATE getting in to Seattle. His plane was supposed to arrive at 6:30pm and he didn't make it to his hotel back in Seattle until almost 3 in the morning. Needless to say, I was on pins and needles ALL night long as to what the news would be..... it was NOT good! My nerves got the best of me and I was in for quite a shock. We had given the Army a list of 5 places we would like to go, and our result was one that was not on the list... Looks as if the Karhan family is moving to El Paso, TX! AAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!! As I tried to make sense of all of it, I had to pick myself up and put on a smiley face, for it was going to be a good day regardless of the bad news. We had a Forest Ridge Neighborhood reunion at my parents house. There were about 15 adults and 20 kids (rough estimate) and it was a blast. The weather could have cooperated a little bit better, no, a LOT better, but regardless, it was awesome to catch up with all the people I grew up with and to see all of our kids getting to know each other and play together. There were even 3 sets of twins among the group. I was fortunate enough for Joe to have been able to catch a ride down with Katie and Ryan and come try to console me. I was also lucky enough to have my parents keep the kids so I could go back to Seattle with Joe and spend some time with him. What an adventure this army thing has turned out to be!!!!!!!!!!

No pics :(

I never managed to upload the pics that my mom took for a couple of days while we were home. The kids and I headed up to Seattle on Monday for a couple days to go hang out with Courtney and the Twins. The weather was decent enough to take the kids to the eastside to go hang out a spray park. They had a lot of fun running through the water and climbing on the big orca. We had dinner at home one night, and out another night. My kids really enjoyed being able to hang out with the twins and see Aunt Courtney and Aunt Kendra. It was a sad reminder of how much it stinks to live so far away!!!

Thursday was my birthday... big 35! So not exciting this time around! At this point, I don't think they really need to be! Court and the girls met us at the zoo for the afternoon with Nana. Another decent day in the NW and the kids enjoyed seeing the new tiger cubs that were on exhibit. We had a nice dinner with Nana & Papa and then Court and I met a few friends down at the Green Turtle for a couple drinks and then off to the Tide's. It was nice to be with friends on my birthday... Later today is the big day for news! Joe is flying in to Seattle and we should find out when he gets here where our next "home" will be!

More fun with friends

This trip just keeps getting better and better! Another wonderful day with friends! Saturday was filled with pedicures, beer, and live music in the sun and fun running into long ago friends that I haven't seen in a while. (it would be a ton better if Joe were around too, but he'll up on the 6th for a few days in Seattle)

Me, Sommer, Becky, & Julie!


Mike, Paul, Becky, Sommer & Julie

Today we went to the new Sehmel park in GH... such a wonderful park for the area... wish it had been around while we were there. I also got a great suprise when Curtis and Janelle decided to swing through GH and come say hi!

Caroline giving her favorite boy a hug!

"the gang"