summer part 1

4th of July Camping @ Kayak Point:

did you hear?

A baby is coming to our house....a new Quigley!!! We are all so excited to see our baby in January (or February if he/she takes too long to cook in my belly). I'm 15 weeks and doing well. I have evening sickness, but it's really not too bad. I'm treated like royalty at my house, all 3 boys spoil me. It's heaven (well other than the baby growing pains and the weight gain).

summer

I get to be a stay-at-home mom for a good chunk of this summer. I love it. Life is great. Although it's hard and exhausting at times, it's my all time favorite job. We have been focusing each day on a "Quigley Quality" (happiness, helpful, etc.) and just remind the boys through out the day that "A Quigley is happy, make sure you're being happy" or "thanks for being happy guys, it makes our home such a great place to be." Happiness was the easiest quality we've done all week, gratitude was a harder for our little one to grasp. But, overall it's been great.

I also work in the afternoons Mon.-Thurs. so that is especially when life is chaos. Today, however I don't nanny. I'm just a mom and I love it. Nothing huge planned, I made fresh blueberry muffins and sent all 3 boys away for the morning. The house is quite (except for the dishwasher washing) and I love it. I feel so much peace in our home and feel so blessed to get to be a wife and a mother. I am pretending there are not 3 loads of clean clothes stacked in the bedroom to fold, those will have to wait for YET another time. I'm off to run errands and gear up for an afternoon of " A Quigley is creative." We will be getting some more LEGO'S and creating all afternoon long.



Enjoy the day, wherever you are.

my weekday job

These are the boys that I get to hang out with during the week. I have been a nanny for many, many years and this is my 4th year with these guys. Am I lucky or what? Ha. They are pretty good. Most of the time. They started to like skateboarding, it's more of an obsession (especially for the big one) than a casual interest. I have a feeling that I will be spending most of my summer at the skate park. Rad!

...We Did!

The Party did it, a 10k that is! Thanks for the support husbands, we loved having you there with us (maybe next time Travis will join us).

Andy, Emily, Nicki and the Quigleys

Before the fun!

These 2 rockstars ran the WHOLE 6 miles plus!!!

Sweaty hug! We did it!

spontaneous!

Last week we had a conversation about our schedule. We calendar weekly and more if needed. We have meeting/activities we can't miss (like girls camp meeting the first Thursday of every month, James' volleyball games every Tuesday night and not to mention our weekly activities with the boys) and things that are a little bit more flexible (like the Temple, we know we want to go the the Temple two times a month, but when we do is flexible and date nights are the same way, they are weekly but we can move them around). At least I feel our calendar is fairly flexible, James on the other hand sometimes feels too structured (Laurie Farmer, mother of 10, is there such a thing?)...Anyway, we had a good LONG talk about this the other day. We are trying to be more lax with our schedule and more spontaneous when we can be.

I had to work late last night and James came with me to take the boys home around 7pm. When I was off we headed out for a night on the town, James suggested a movie but nothing was playing that I wanted to see (I was ruining his fun spontaneity). Before long we were driving into Seattle, away from our home. I decided to not worry, we were low on gas and I still had a Seminary lesson to prepare, but I was chill and let James be in charge of having no plans. Yes, I know I am weird. We ended up at Safeco Field and there was a Mariner's game going on. James suggested we go, he says that I didn't want to, but we went anyway. We bought $10 tickets outside the field and even got given amazing tickets by the lady taking tickets. We had great seats, the M's won, the weather was great and had ZERO traffic (and found a free parking spot close to the game!). It was such a wonderful, spontaneous FHE. I love my husband and I appreciate his great attitude and his help in calming me down :)

cupcakes take two

Ta Da! The wedding cupcakes, at our anniversary party (still need to figure out how to do the frosting):

See how much better the cupcakes look after the 2nd try (Leah's cupcake, she doesn't like frosting)