Christmas 2011 photo shoot

Our Christmas photo shoot with our friend Rachel!!  Love them

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Spring photo shoot 2011

Our cute photo shoot with Mimi!  We love them!  Spring of 2011

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And another......

Yup we have another one the way...it's going to be a GIRL!

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Emma odd sleeping place

 Emma kept saying she wasn't tired and didn't want to go to bed. We, of course, sent her to bed anyways. I went to her room and noticed she wasn't there. Checked Bryce's room and nope...went to check our room and BAM there she was!!! She was asleep in 2 (yes I said 2!) CLEAN laundry baskets of clothes in hallway! Scared me for a sec but couldn't stop laughing!!  She had to been there for about an hour cause if you look closely her head is purple from the bottom of her eyes to the top of her head.  That laundry basket had less clothes in it!  Poor thing!

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Blue man group

       Um, ya this is REALLY Donnie! heehee, this was his Halloween costume....so much fun!

He even made his own instrument and played it in this video.

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Bryce's last day of preschool

 Bryce is now a BIG boy attending Kindergarten.  But He had to say goodbye to Preschool first.  He sure loved going to Joyful Noise.

                                     Huge rice krispie kisses for the teachers!  We sure loved them.

They had a wonderful closing program to mark the end of preschool.  They gave out Bibles to all the graduating kiddos.  Such  a sweet gift.  He sure love his.

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Our Garden

When we purchased our house, there were many things I was looking forward in doing.  Starting a garden was literally at the top of the list!  But I have never gardened before and wasn't quite sure how to get started. So I enlisted my my friend Jamie for the veggies and Laura for the flowers and Wow, what a successful garden.  

                                             Our front yard, the daffodils are starting to bloom.

 We had maybe 2 red tulips out of 180 bulbs planted!  We had all yellow and white flowers of all kind...crazy

                                                                         Potatoes!!

 Donnie was so sweet and built me 2 large garden planters.  Also painted them so they would last several years.  Here is the start of my garden.  Luckily we get tons of sun so our garden grew insane crazy wild!

                                                  Very tiny but super sweet strawberries

    Our garden progression! One thing I learned...plant the white onions deeper!  We love the  lettuce!                          Potatoes are growing!

    We cheated and bought tomatoes starts.  I was worried at first, but now...wow we have        TONS of huge juicy tomatoes!

Some broccoli, carrots and potatoes.  If you see our carrots now, they are HUGE...Our cucumbers didn't come in, but really I have to say this was a huge success.  We were able to share so much of it with our neighbors...it was a wonderful experience.

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Time to catch up...it's been forever!

 The end of first grade. Our big girl is moving on up!  Here she is with her 1st grade teacher Ms. Mitchell

The whole class on the very last day of school!  What a fun year!

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Pirate Hunt with a Disney Cruise Surprise!

Music time with Emma and Bryce

Now we can be as loud as we want!

Green eggs and ham!

...plus strawberries!

Bryce

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Bryce said the cutest thing just now...we were walking home from a friends house.
"Mommy, I was good, so can I be in charge?"
Me:"Sure"
"So if the floor is dirty can I sweep it?"
Me: "of course"
"If the counters are dirty can I wipe it with the sponge?"
Me: "of course you can"
"Really?!!  Yeah!! I am in charge!"
Me thinking: Sweetie if this is what being in charge means, you can be in charge everyday!
LMBO  he can be so stinkin cute sometimes!!

Our First House

Our First House

Wow, we are so blessed!  We have a friend who lives in this neighborhood and loves it.  She recommended us to take a look at the model homes they have when we were heading over to visit them.  Donnie and I have always known we wanted new construction as well...it's NEW! 

It took 3 months to build and 2 weeks of hair pulling loan process and Whaaaa laaa! It is OURS!

 David and Melissa spent the ENTIRE weekend at our new house helping us paint!  As Melissa would say..."you are very ambitious!"  I wanted to paint the entire downstairs and upstairs in 1 week.  Yes, I know I am crazy...hahaha.  We were able to get the entire downstairs done though.  We had a painting party with some of my friends from Federal Way.  Had a great time.  Donnie and I love color so we had fun picking them out together.  Seriously though...it turned out great!  I am so thankful that I have such an amazing Brother and Sister in law and sweet friends!

 The Great Room....(above)

The Entry....(above)
I have more pictures that I will post soon!  We sure do love having a house that we can be noisy in and not care about having downstairs neighbors.  Also love the fact that if someone is at our door...more then likely it's for us and NOT looking for an apartment and has a maint. request!!

Mario Saves Peach

Credits:

Starring

Princess Peach ... Emma

Luigi ... Bryce

Bowser ... Daddy

Storyboard Artists

Emma

Bryce

Camera Work

Daddy

Emma

Mommy

Stunts

Bryce

Costumes

Emma

No turtles were harmed in the making of this feature film.

Daddy, wanna see my tooth wiggle?

That tooth must have been loose for a month. We'd check it daily. Then one night, Emma hops out of bed and says "Daddy, aren't you going to check my tooth?"

"Yep, that's getting pretty wiggily. Do you want me to yank it out?"

Just as Emma says "Sure" while wiggling the tooth, it pops out in her hand with no further effort.

One visit from the tooth fairy later, Emma is one tooth poorer and one dollar richer.