August, where did you go?

Well, I promised to be better at getting the posts up quicker, but what can I say? First I had no Internet for almost a whole week, then we went on vacation, then the doctors appointments, OK enough excuses.
We have had a pretty good month, we started out the end of July with a visit from Rick's sister Michelle and his nephew Dayton. We took them fishing and to the Snake River Stampede among other things and had a great time.

We then headed over to the Oregon Coast with Rick's mom Connie, and our friends Kevin, Angie, and Laney, for a week of vacation and to get out of the hot weather here in Boise (of course it cooled down when we left and warmed back up when we got back). It was a bit chilly and grey there, but we caught lots of crab, collected agates, relaxed and of course visited the Tillimook cheese factory for ice cream.

Rick, Josh, Jacob and I also took a day to head down to the Newport aquarium and stopped at Yaquina Head lighthouse, where we actually saw the sun for a little while.

Finally on our last day there the sun decided to make an appearance, (and we actually even put our shorts on). We went down and made sand castles on the beach (except Jacob decided to just eat the sand instead) and went over to the Cape Meares lighthouse and one last trip of crabbing.

All in all we had a great time, except that Jacob started the new medicine the doctors wanted him to get his eyes checked out for, so he was a bit grumpy and tired for the first few days of our trip. Now we are back home and settled in and getting ready for our trip to Seattle for more testing on Jacob. He is doing all right, the new medicine seems to be helping, but the seizures are not gone. They just raised the dose, so we have had another few days of being tired and cranky, but hopefully they can give us more ideas when we are in Seattle.

Right before we left for the coast though, Josh learned how to ride his bike without training wheels. He was very proud and excited, so we went out and bought him a new bike (he was getting a bit big for his old one anyway).

Now that August is gone, we are getting ready for a long weekend of doing some Huckleberry picking, and whatever else comes along. Hope everyone else has a great Labor day weekend!