Some fun we've been having..

Saltwater State Park

We have so many amazing days with my mom's group, and though I don't have time to, I just feel like I want to post everything! The kids have so much fun together and they learn so much too. I just love it.

Thanks to Jill and others, I have these wonderful pics, because I just can't seem to ever bring my camera! LOL!




















It was great to check out the water and see what life we could find and after we got changed and had lunch on the grass near the little cafe. They have really good smoked salmon chowder. Yum!



We also had lots of rainfall lately, so I decided to let Thad get out and have some fun in the parking lot with his rain gear on. He had a blast!

Thad's first sleep over!!

Last weekend Thad had his first sleep over..well, the cousins visiting, but that was family ;-) I wish I'd gotten pictures of them the night before- what little monsters! They had a blast. Daniel really likes the train table in Thad's room and they both love to put together the huge track we have that the train goes around and around on.


I set them up to the counter with their waffles in the morning and then it occured to me that I should probably snap a pic of this memorable occasion.

















I can't wait to have sleep overs for Thad in the future. I have some really great memories as a kid- wow, we're making memories!!

After the house demo, we went to the zoo for a while

Thad really enjoys our visits to the Woodland Park Zoo with our membership. He enjoys most going to the big play area that has the "spider web", the wolf caves, the slides, and the turtle shells you climb into; and I can never get him away from that waterfall!





















Thad has sort of made friends with this goat. He has all but named it and even tried to kiss it!

...and the house came tumbling down

These pics are from when Grandma and Grandpa's house was torn down to build the new one! This has been almost a month...we just today, finally got the pictures out of the camera..LOL!























The boys entertained themselves pretty well. We were there for more than two hours, and not really any tantrums, yippy!!

Keira's visit

My sister came up this month for a visit from Texas. I have not seen her since she was barley pregnant with my nephew Ethan, so it's been a while! We had a great visit with her and her family. It was really nice for them to meet Thad and we got to meet Ethan who turned 3 years old on the 10th during their visit.


We went out to spend some time with them and some other family over on the Hood Canal. My sister has a brother with a home out there, so we stayed the weekend. It was really beautiful out there on the water.

We went hiking up to Lena Lake, which was very long...I carried Thad just about the whole way up. In the first picture it looks as if David carried him the whole way, but I had put him down because he asked to get down like our friend Raquel's little girl, Sunday and then he threw a huge fit to get back up and I didn't want to give in, so David carried him for a bit.


The hike to Lena Lake out at Hood Canal
























On the trail



















Since Ethan had a birthday while they were here, we had a little party for him. It was fun for the kids to have a reason to eat cake!



A little party for Ethan's 3rd Birthday











My sister with Thad and her two, Ethan and Kayla...they are showing off their muscles.



The kids had fun sleeping all together in Thad's bunkbed. Don't they look so cute?! We got up early the next morning and headed to the airport :( Sad to see them go, but glad that we got what time we had together :)