Family of Five

Things have been busy around the Polson household for the last eight months... has it really been eight months since you've heard from us? People ask how life is with three kids. My response is, "It's great! Not really difficult, you just have less time to do things." We love being a family of five and Abby has brought so much joy into our lives! Here is a little bit of what has been happening in our lives recently...

We got a new computer just after Christmas (which we spent in NY again, three days in the car there... three days in the car back) and we didn't switch over any of our picture files so my pictures only go as far back as March. I know that I'm missing a few months where I just didn't take any pictures, poor Abby will be like many other third-born children, there just aren't a lot of pictures of her. I'm hoping that trend won't continue, especially since Jer replaced our small camera for Mother's Day. The picture above is our family of five on a trip to the mountains at the end of May. All of Jeremy's immediate family went up to Carbondale to a house for several days and we hired a photographer to take pictures, since it was the last time we would all be together for a while.

Here are Bryce and Abby back in March. Her hair was finally long enough for me to get a bow into it! She has really fine hair just like Bryce, so I have a feeling it is going to be a few years until I can do much else with it.

We celebrated Bryce's third birthday in March and my parents got him his first bike. As you can see, he is so excited to be learning how to ride...

On our way home from Carbondale in May we stopped by the Maroon Bells, just outside of Aspen. There was still quite a bit of snow, so we weren't able to do any hiking, but it was beautiful! Most areas of the mountains had record snowfall this past season and when we drove over Independence Pass the snow was still higher than the roof of our car.

My three wonderful kids. Abby started crawling at the end of June and now that she is mobile she loves to be in the middle of whatever the boys are doing. Her brothers are definitely her favorite people. No one can get Abby laughing like her two brothers and when they come into the room her face lights up and she often squeals in delight.

Jeremy and I celebrated six great years of marriage on July 10th. Jason and Lauren graciously stayed at our house with our kids and we snuck off to the mountains to stay in a B&B in Winter Park and the next day we drove Trail Ridge Road to Estes Park. I highly recommend it if you are ever in CO! Everything was so green, it reminded me of back East. Unfortunately, it takes the mountains getting 200% of their annual snowfall to get them that green, but it was breathtaking!

The boys accompanied Jeremy on our church's Annual Men's camping trip. The boys were so excited that "no girls were allowed" and that they were going to fish for the first time. The fish weren't really biting so Kyle said he never wanted to go fishing again, but they really enjoyed the rest of the trip.

Last week we did our first family adventure of the summer together and took the kids to the local aquarium. The boys thought it was pretty cool to see fish up close and even Abby enjoyed watching the sharks swim around the large tank.

Jeremy starts back to school in two weeks, so it feels like the summer is quickly coming to a close. Kyle will be going to Belleview's pre-kindergarten this year and Bryce will be attending preschool a couple of days a week; it's amazing how quickly they are growing up. Hopefully we'll do a better job of taking pictures and updating everyone as changes occur!