Julianna's Joy: I may be the worst blogger ever

How is it that my last post was almost 5 months ago now??? That is like an eternity when your kid is nearing 21 months old. Sigh...how to catch up on the last few months. Well I will write a few separate posts on things that have happened in the last few months and hope that will suffice. I will also have to set an alarm on my calendar to remind me to post more often. It is so hard to not just get sucked into the every day life stuff and take time out to document it. At least I have been doing decently with taking pictures and videos.

So back to February...at the end of January my whole family met up in Union, Washington. My parents booked a place through their timeshare and we were able to book an additional unit for the time we were there. With the kiddos there are now enough of us that there is no way we were all fitting into one place. On this trip, my brother and his fiance Kristin announced their engagement so the family continues to expand. The trip was lovely and didn't scare me away from Washington in the winter at all. It did rain some, but not excessively. We were able to go on a hike in what I felt like was an enchanted forest. It was gorgeous. Unfortunately Courtney wasn't too happy with being cold so she and daddy didn't hike as long as the rest of us. She also caught a cold from cousin Caleb on the trip and then I caught it from her, so we were slightly miserable by the time we came home. However, the time we were there was great just spending time with family. Makes us miss them all the more once we come home.