On the Bandwagon!!

Finally my sister Amber has hopped on the blog wagon and started her own blog. You can check it out at www.whatsonemorekid.blogspot.com

I know it is exciting!!!!

Beautiful Princess

Meet Lauryn, our resident Princess!! Lately she has had this thing for princesses. I know most little girls do. Lauryn has a set of Disney's princesses that she packs around and talks to and teaches things to. Well Lauryn wants to be one of the girls so she needs a beautiful princess dress. I get her up in the morning, get her dressed in her own cute clothes and almost immediately she is downstairs in my closet stripping and getting on one of my shirts aka a "beautiful princess dress". She then finds a pair of my high heels and prances around the house with her princess dolls in toe. If we have to go anywhere during the day I get her dressed in her regular clothes and as soon as we get home she is back into her "dress". She also likes to change her wardrobe a few times a day, so by the end of the day my closet looks like a tornado has hit. She is so funny. She also has her own names for some of these princesses. Ariel from the little mermaid is "Princess Lea", Belle from Beauty and the Beast is "Jingle Belles", and Snow White is "Snow Wipe". What a kid we have!!!!

Blessing Day

Yesterday was Wyatt's blessing. We were fortunate to have family come to be here with our family. I was really worried that his outfit wouldn't fit but it did, but probably wouldn't for much longer. He has put on the chub!!! He wasn't really in the mood to take pictures so he got the binki, but I wanted one without it and this is how it turned out...... Not so happy but definately handsome!!! We sure love this little guy.

Everyone who was there for Wyatt's day. Amber and six of her kids. Aaron and Lana and their four kids. Ryan's mom (who happened to be taking the pictures-sorry Margaret), and Ryan's grandparents Ralph and Ann. We have the best family!!! My Mom and Dad were home sick and weren't able to come and I believe Ryan's Dad and Step mom were on their way to Oregon for a vacation. We missed you guys!!
This is a picture I know I will come to treasure. All of the kids with one set of their wonderful Great-grandparents. My kids love Nana and Papa!!!
We are grateful families are forever!!!

Ocean Shores

We had family come over from Idaho this last weekend for Wyatt's blessing, and we decided to show them what Western Washington has to offer on a beautiful September day. We took all the youngins' and went to the coast. It was a perfect day, sunshine (rare this time of year), low 70's and a slight breeze. The kids loved it. Here they all are tallest to shortest!! If you will notice they almost blend into the sand because they are covered in half a beach worth of sand. We had to strip them all down to their skibbies before they could get into the cars, it was that bad.
This was their other favorite thing to do, Chase the Waves!!! We kept telling them to only go in as far as their ankles, but that lasted about 5 seconds. Who can resist the waves? Us older people who thought the water was entirely tooooo cold!! So they got really wet and then they....
Flew some kites. There wasn't enough wind to really keep the kites up. You had to start at the top of the beach and run toward the water, if you turned then the kites would fall. But they had a good time trying. This is Andrew (Amber's) flying it all by himself.
And here is where we collected lots and lots of sand. Lots of wet sand!!! I had to clean my washing machine after I washed the clothes twice. I also had to vacuum out my dryer because of all the sand collected.
What a perfect day to spend a Saturday!!!

Had to Post

So last night I was sitting on the couch talking to Meysa about how she likes preschool and her two teachers.

Mom: Do you like Miss Laura?
Meysa: Yes, she is nice!
Mom: How do you like Miss Jane?
Meysa: She is old...has bumps on her face...a flat nose.... and grey hair!"

I tried so hard not to just bust up. She was dead serious and didn't even miss a beat when she was describing Miss Jane's flawed features. The funny part is Miss Jane, may be in her mid 50's and I think the bumps Meysa was referring to were Miss Jane's freckles. As for her flat nose, I don't know where she got that.

Kids are hilarious and honest!!