It has hit our house ... I think Ellie brought a little cold home from school in her pocket. Claire found it but it was nothing major ... actually, I wish all colds could run through like that one did! Then Cory caught it, but it mutated and destroyed him. Now, you guessed it, this mutant virus is keeping me company! And lucky for me it came for a visit just in time for Cory to leave town today for 4 days!! Thoughtful right?
Warm jammies and hot tea are in order for the next 24 hours for sure!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Falling into Autumn!
I love Fall ... or as Ellie would correct me, "It's Fall into Autumn!"
I love the colors, the smells, the holidays, family traditions and the food associated with it!
One of our first Fall family traditions is Klicker's Pumpkin Patch! We thoroughly enjoy taking the kids there .. the wagons, the haystack mountain and giant slide, the reindeer (which we terribly missed this year), the old trucks ... and of course the pumpkins! It's really a great photo op.
This year we didn't get our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch because we grew our own! BUT ... as parental failures, we totally spaced carving them this year...???... WHAT?!!???!!? I know. We suck! BUT regardless, I've always loved Halloween and it excites me that I have kids to share that excitement with! Ellie wasn't phased at all by the lack of pumpkin carving (I will blame her for not reminding me) so we spent our time focusing on the perfect costume!
This year Ellie insisted on dressing up as Strawberry Shortcake ... who am I to get in the way of her dreams?!!? Strawberry Shortcake she was! Claire on the other hand, doesn't get to have her own opinion yet ... at least not about this ;) She was a Ladybug. Although no one asked, I conjured up a wonderful story about how the two costumes were connected (I think coordinating family costumes are THE cutest thing EVER!) ... it went something like this: Well Ellie chose Strawberry Shortcake and aside from dressing the baby up as a strawberry, we went with a ladybug that LIVED in Strawberry's strawberry patch. I didn't even get to explain it once. Oh well ... maybe next year it'll be a little more obvious.
Next we get to move onto raking leaves into big piles and jumping into them!!! We JUST, last night, had a crazy wind storm that blew all the neighborhood leaves into our yard (I want to take this opportunity to add that we have ONE tree and it's a medium sized Dogwood tree) so tomorrow after school will be spent playing in the leaves! (Pictures to come, I promise!)
Happy Fall everyone!
I love the colors, the smells, the holidays, family traditions and the food associated with it!
One of our first Fall family traditions is Klicker's Pumpkin Patch! We thoroughly enjoy taking the kids there .. the wagons, the haystack mountain and giant slide, the reindeer (which we terribly missed this year), the old trucks ... and of course the pumpkins! It's really a great photo op.
This year we didn't get our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch because we grew our own! BUT ... as parental failures, we totally spaced carving them this year...???... WHAT?!!???!!? I know. We suck! BUT regardless, I've always loved Halloween and it excites me that I have kids to share that excitement with! Ellie wasn't phased at all by the lack of pumpkin carving (I will blame her for not reminding me) so we spent our time focusing on the perfect costume!
This year Ellie insisted on dressing up as Strawberry Shortcake ... who am I to get in the way of her dreams?!!? Strawberry Shortcake she was! Claire on the other hand, doesn't get to have her own opinion yet ... at least not about this ;) She was a Ladybug. Although no one asked, I conjured up a wonderful story about how the two costumes were connected (I think coordinating family costumes are THE cutest thing EVER!) ... it went something like this: Well Ellie chose Strawberry Shortcake and aside from dressing the baby up as a strawberry, we went with a ladybug that LIVED in Strawberry's strawberry patch. I didn't even get to explain it once. Oh well ... maybe next year it'll be a little more obvious.
Next we get to move onto raking leaves into big piles and jumping into them!!! We JUST, last night, had a crazy wind storm that blew all the neighborhood leaves into our yard (I want to take this opportunity to add that we have ONE tree and it's a medium sized Dogwood tree) so tomorrow after school will be spent playing in the leaves! (Pictures to come, I promise!)
Happy Fall everyone!
Friday, October 21, 2011
Claire is ONE!
Our baby ... she's officially a toddler and we just celebrated her first birthday!
Such a bittersweet day ... I'm really having a hard time with her growing up, probably because I have "that" feeling she's our last. Makes me sad. But MAN is she CUTE!!!!
Such a bittersweet day ... I'm really having a hard time with her growing up, probably because I have "that" feeling she's our last. Makes me sad. But MAN is she CUTE!!!!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
With out shedding a single tear!
Ellie has successfully finished her first week of preschool ... and as the title reads, I did it with out shedding a single tear! The first day was perfect! Cory was home so he was able to come with me to drop her off. I attribute my dry face to him =) We stayed busy all morning. Ellie couldn't have been more excited to go to school. We got there and she chose a cubby to put her things in, then took off for the play room. I had to remind her to hug us goodbye, so she came back but was off again instantly! At pick up time she didn't really want to come home, which I think is a good thing!! Today was her second day (she only goes 2 days/week) and it was even better than the first! She actually cried today because she didn't want to leave. I can't wait for the art work to come home so I can fill up my fridge!
Here is Ellie on her first day, the first picture is before school on the front steps and the second is after school with her cousin Lily!!
Here is Ellie on her first day, the first picture is before school on the front steps and the second is after school with her cousin Lily!!
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Picture Post!
Cory is gone this weekend, at a friend's bachelor party, fishing on the ocean! The girls and I are having a blast with out him! LOL! Yesterday we (Sam, Evan, Ellie and I ... Claire stayed with Grammy) went to the MF pool with the neighbor and her grandson and today we just hung out, played outside and went to visit Nona! I also decided it's a perfect night to go to the Drive-In! Kung Fu Panda 2 is playing with Harry Potter (8??) so we are going to get into our pj's and head out around 845 ... we'll only stay for KFP2 though! I had a free minute while I have friendship bread baking so I thought I'd jump on and post pictures (FINALLY)!
First ... here is Claire at her Baptism!
These were taken about a month ago at the park. (Not sure why Claire's is so big. I resized all the pics the same)
This is at Lake Joy (in Carnation, WA that Cory grew up on) at Aunt Margie & Uncle Jerry's!
This is at Snoqualmie Falls.
And here is my entire world ... sharing a Rootbeer popcicle!
First ... here is Claire at her Baptism!
These were taken about a month ago at the park. (Not sure why Claire's is so big. I resized all the pics the same)
This is at Lake Joy (in Carnation, WA that Cory grew up on) at Aunt Margie & Uncle Jerry's!
This is at Snoqualmie Falls.
And here is my entire world ... sharing a Rootbeer popcicle!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Lovin' Summer
Well it's about time! Summer finally decided to grace us with it's presence! Although it was quite abrupt, going from 55 to 80 in a matter of 2 days, I'm not going to be the one complaining about it!
June was fairly uneventful. Lots of rain. Cory's little sister, Tiffany, graduated high school on the 13th so we made a trip up and over the mountains to see her get her diploma! I cried a little, not gonna lie. It's hard to believe she was only 10 when I first met her and now she's gearing up for college! Gah! We stayed at Cory's Aunt and Uncle's house on Lake Joy. It's the lake Cory grew up on. It was cold but we were able to let the girls play in the water long enough to get pictures! It makes Cory feel so good that his kids get to play on the same beach he played on as a kid! Aunt Margie gave Claire her first hair cut! Poor baby was desperately in need of it! Her bangs were always hanging in her face and she could never REALLY see. All taken care of! Not only can she now see the world ... the world can actually see her face!!!
Since it's warmed up we have spent most days outside! Ellie is loving the freedom of the backyard. She's become friends with the two 6 years old girls and 4 year old little boy down the street and spends a lot of time with them riding bikes between our houses (4 houses)!
July is looking to be a busy month for us! We have a few weekend adventures coming us, as well as a wedding and our annual family vacation to the Oregon coast! This year we will be accompanied by our new camera! As I requested, Cory made sure we purchased the digital SLR in time to go on vacation! Yaay! I'm trying to find time to mess around with it so I know how to take perfect pictures on the beach, but there's just so much to do! We've started scraping the neighbor's house so we can paint it for them. This is funding our recreation while on vacation ;) We do that in the evenings when it's cooler and I get out while the girls (or at least Claire) nap during the day. Shouldn't take much more than another week!
Ellie is currently in her first session of "Turtle" swim lessons! We signed her up for a 2 week class so it wouldn't interfere with our chaotic July schedule. As usual, she loves it. It's OUR opinion that the class she is in, isn't quite advanced enough for her and I'd like them to move her up to the next level. They do things with the kids below what she was doing in the parent/child classes. They have to assume that the kids starting "turtles" are entry level and have never really been in the water much, as they're only 3. Understandable ... I just don't want to waste my money. We'll see if they move her up after this session at the end of next week. Until then, we are getting ready for the 4th of July! Not sure exactly what we're going to do, but whatever it is we're gonna rock it AMERICA style!
June was fairly uneventful. Lots of rain. Cory's little sister, Tiffany, graduated high school on the 13th so we made a trip up and over the mountains to see her get her diploma! I cried a little, not gonna lie. It's hard to believe she was only 10 when I first met her and now she's gearing up for college! Gah! We stayed at Cory's Aunt and Uncle's house on Lake Joy. It's the lake Cory grew up on. It was cold but we were able to let the girls play in the water long enough to get pictures! It makes Cory feel so good that his kids get to play on the same beach he played on as a kid! Aunt Margie gave Claire her first hair cut! Poor baby was desperately in need of it! Her bangs were always hanging in her face and she could never REALLY see. All taken care of! Not only can she now see the world ... the world can actually see her face!!!
Since it's warmed up we have spent most days outside! Ellie is loving the freedom of the backyard. She's become friends with the two 6 years old girls and 4 year old little boy down the street and spends a lot of time with them riding bikes between our houses (4 houses)!
July is looking to be a busy month for us! We have a few weekend adventures coming us, as well as a wedding and our annual family vacation to the Oregon coast! This year we will be accompanied by our new camera! As I requested, Cory made sure we purchased the digital SLR in time to go on vacation! Yaay! I'm trying to find time to mess around with it so I know how to take perfect pictures on the beach, but there's just so much to do! We've started scraping the neighbor's house so we can paint it for them. This is funding our recreation while on vacation ;) We do that in the evenings when it's cooler and I get out while the girls (or at least Claire) nap during the day. Shouldn't take much more than another week!
Ellie is currently in her first session of "Turtle" swim lessons! We signed her up for a 2 week class so it wouldn't interfere with our chaotic July schedule. As usual, she loves it. It's OUR opinion that the class she is in, isn't quite advanced enough for her and I'd like them to move her up to the next level. They do things with the kids below what she was doing in the parent/child classes. They have to assume that the kids starting "turtles" are entry level and have never really been in the water much, as they're only 3. Understandable ... I just don't want to waste my money. We'll see if they move her up after this session at the end of next week. Until then, we are getting ready for the 4th of July! Not sure exactly what we're going to do, but whatever it is we're gonna rock it AMERICA style!
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