Seth, Shannon, Piper and Quinn Dunlop
The story of our little family and our modern day journal

Friday, June 7, 2013

Dunlop family update

Quinn is sleeping and Piper and Ronan are rearranging furniture, so I have a moment to update our family happenings. 
Piper had her first dance recital. It was a fun first dance experience. We liked Miss Julie. Sweet sweet lady. Fun little girls. Piper was incredible in her recital. She knew all the steps. She loves tap and ballet. We are going to try out Virginia Tanner this summer. Hoping they won't ask us about our religious preference in front of the whole group. That was my only complaint about Miss Julie. Totally inappropriate. But enough of that. 
Piper graduated from preschool. This was really hard. She has blossomed during preschool. She loves her teachers and friends. She will do her kindergarten at the U next fall, so we get to be there for one more year. I truly love the CFDC program. It is wonderful in every way. I am so grateful we get to be a part of that family. I highly recommend it. 
Quinn turns 2 in 3 weeks. Holy cow. How did this happen. Oh and he's finally sleeping thru the night and we are almost done with the binki. I feel fabulous and rested. 
We are listing our house this weekend. Houses are selling like hot cakes in our neighborhood and for a bundle, so even though we don't have something picked out we thought if we could sell our house and make some money we could afford to move into our next phase home. We are so out of room, and we need to move into a better school district. 
We are excited and nervous. If our house sells quick, which houses in our neighborhood are selling in days, we are going to be in a scramble. Hoping we don't have to move in with my mom while we find something, but if we do we will make the best of it. 
There is an element of excitement in the unknown. Life is about risk and change. Yikes!!!
I am loving my job more and more all the time. I am getting the hang of teaching my prenatal classes and absolutely love teaching. They just asked me to teach another class, hypnobirthing. IHC is going to pay for me to get certified in hypnobirthing. This is in my opinion the most effective method of natural childbirth. I can't wait to start doing this. 

This summer we are going to take it easy. We are going to swim as much as possible, eat lots of popsicles, go on long bike rides and enjoy every day like it's our last. 
We are taking a trip to northern Idaho to ride the Hiawatha trail in July. Look it up. It looks amazing. Great family trip idea. Seth's brothers family did it a while back. Seth has always talked about doing it so I booked a trip and we are going in July. 
The older I get the more I realize how important it is to just have fun. People that have that figured out have it made. 
 Quinn napping with his best friend

 Piper ready for her first dance recital

 Piper wanted to celebrate with pancakes at Blue Plate diner after. 
Our regular Friday night family date spot

 Best date ever. Vampire Weekend at Red Butte

 Lunch meeting with daddy at the Pie Hole

 My favorite flower and plant in our yard

 Miss Tammy. We love you

 Miss Mary. We love you

 U of U Preschool graduation party at Laird Park. Treats, water balloons and tons of kids and awesome parents!!

 P, Bears and Christine. Our family

Thank you Sugar House construction for making my son's day. We came home and found this machine in front of our house. Quinn though he had died and gone to heaven.