My weight is lower than 3 years ago. I was as much as 20 lbs lighter at points but now only 10 lbs off my max weight. My goal is 155 (and less).

First video showing Zach starting down a run.

Second video showing the second half of Zach skiing down the run.

We are hoping to go again this weekend.

Sitting on the back patio smoking a cigar.

Sunset over the olympics.

As for the old home…most things accept for a few car loads and my garden stuff are moved. Steph spent time today cleaning and vacuuming so it should be ready to show.

Did I mention the view from our deck? Sitting outside now at 9:10pm enjoying dusk with a beer – it doesn’t get any better.

We closed on our new house on July 7th.  I moved 30 boxes of stuff over on July 8th.  We flew to Kauai for our big summer vacation on July 9th.  Flew back on July 16th.  Moved stuff all day today.  Packing and moving small stuff after work this week.  Going to the Seattle/ManU game on Wednesday night and our big moving day is Friday.  Oh, and we still haven’t sold our current home, thus our stress levels are tad high.  The Kauai vacation helped that a lot.

First, our new house…very excited to finally have the keys.  Good thing it has a roomy basements cuz we are filling it.  Fortunately, we are probably 2/3s done with moving all non-furniture stuff – so we’ve made really good progress.  We need to box and move things all week so the movers can quickly get our furniture over there.  Since the house closed, the last owners obviously didn’t do much work in the yard so I’ll have plenty of weeding and clean-up to do once we move…just realized I’ll have to do this at two homes…guess I’ll be walking our lawn mower back and forth.

Now for the Kauai trip…one of the most relaxing vacations I’ve ever had.  Now that the boys are older it is easier to hang with them as they are pretty self sufficient when they play.  Our routine was get up, some mornings I went for a run, walk down to Poipu Beach, swim in the water and snorkel, get back by lunchtime, eat, the boys would take naps, then we’d go to the pool for a few hours, then have dinner, and the boys would generally go to sleep early.  On two days we did excursions – one day to the north side of the island where we spent a couple of hours at Tunnels Reef/Beach.  I got to snorkel with sea turtles – one of the coolest things I’ve ever done.  We had a good lunch in Hanalei Bay.  Another day we took a drive up Waimea Canyon and to a viewpoint on the Napali Coast (think Jurassic Park).

We stayed at the Villas at Poipu Kai - awesome place.  We had a 4 bedroom 3.5 bath penthouse poolside villa with it’s own elevator.  Very luxurious – probably the nicest placed I’ve stayed in.  The pool was a good size (not resort huge which was good) – roomy enough to play around but easy enough to keep an eye on the boys.  Nate and Zach are getting better at swimming.  Zach depends on the floaties but he isn’t afraid to jump in the water or go under water.  Nate didn’t like the floaties – he preferred the inflatable tube and he didn’t like going under water.

On the beach the boys loved sitting in the shallow water and letting the little waves run them over – they thought that was the coolest thing ever.  They also enjoyed riding the boogie board on the little waves.  For me, the coolest thing was the snorkeling – I couldn’t get enough of it.  Next time we are bringing more than one snorkel set so we can go out in pairs.

For the photos – all of them are located here.  Below are some of my favorites.

Nice shot of Steph, Jan, and their mom.

Tunnels Reef/Beach where the snorkeling was awesome.

The boys acting out Lord of the Flies.  Nate used cheetos to paint his face!

Looking south from Princeville.

Our cool pool area.

I have lots of these photos…the beach and pool seriously tired them out…it was awesome.

Poipu Beach – this is where we played most of the time (and ran into my parents neighbor’s daughter and family)

In the Grand Hyatt grounds near where we stayed.

Cool clouds south of Waimea Canyon

Nice shot of Jan and Mike.

My beach girl.

Vivid colors of the Napali Coast

View from the starting line.

http://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/3539-SW-Webster-St-98126/home/470028

We will stay in West Seattle – only moving one block.

A few are shown below if you don’t have time to look at the rest.

View from the master.

Looking at it from the backyard.

The kitchen.

The entrance.

View from the deck.

In front of the space needle.

Getting situated downtown near Harbor Island.

A little closer.

Very cool to watch. It was slow…I was down there for over an hour waiting for this thing to arrive.

Steph not so happy about the rain but loving our awning.

Great picture of Steph and the kids.

The boys playing with the surf. First time they’ve experience any form of a wave.

Non-camping photo…Nate crashing one afternoon – he fell asleep sitting at the computer desk.

Our next trip is the American Heritage Campground south of Olympia for two nights over Memorial Day weekend.