the kids

these are just a few of the pics we took while in seattle.

surprise trip to seattle

what a day we got up early went to bainbridge for breakfast and took the ferry to seattle where we went to the science center to watch cloudy with a chance of meatballs at the imax then to the science center to see what there was to see. then to the space needle for a view of the town ( it was great blue skys everywhere ) then back to the water for dinner at red robin on the water front then we ran back to the ferry to go back home phew .

school days are here again

well we started a new school this year. We are now at sunnyslope in port orchard, the kids are loving it . Even Matt who started kindergarten this year is having fun. The neighborhood we are going to be living in has its own bus there are 74 kids that get on at one stop its CRAZY but the kids love it.

at the fair

we were able to go the kitsap fair this year. It was so fun for all of us , the kids got to ride lots of rides, Wes ate fair food, and I got to see a rodeo (with the family ofcourse). Are day started early and went very late but there was lots of smile to be had by all

Elizabeth is now "9" what a blessing she is to us

Colton and Elizabeth cheering their brother on while he attempt
s his first ever tractor pulling contest. Kitsap County Fair-Aug. 09

progress

we got our building permit back last week so today we drove by to see if they started and....... we we so excited to see......they have.... maybe soon we will have a time frame of when we can move I might just have to pack a box or two now!

its been a long time

okay well its been so long and there has been so much change. Since my last post life has been busy. We got an offer on our house on Wes' birthday signed papers on the 24th of July. Our move happened on the 19th (thanks mom, uncles and the Millers for all your help). So now we live in Port Orchard where Wes works. For a short time we are in an apartment while we wait for our house to be built (the permit came in today) hopefully we will move into it in December... a great Christmas gift for the whole family.... everyone will have their own room... Wes will have an office and I will still have a shop at home .... for now Ive been doing hair in the apartment though.....I registered the kids for school today all of them WOW......and we have had many trips to the parks and the library (no tv so the kids are doing a lot of reading). I will try and post pictures soon but first we need to get them to the computer.

Olympia Christmas Parade

a fun afternoon with the millers first we went to the olympia santa parade . it turned out to be good weather a little cool but nothing a cup of hot chocolate could take care of. the kids had a good time and then we all went home for dinner and some more visiting .

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving was great we went to Wes' aunties house in Packwood. It was a great night spent with family. We were able to stay the night, so that evening we watch a movie then the next day we went for a walk to the river its so beautiful there.

I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving too!!!

Cookies

Auntie Racheal and her family came over so we decided to frost some cookies. after matt helped to make them. it was a fun night, Aaron was home from school and brought his sax to play we had a concert going on in the living room Colton and Aaron both played sax Biz on the piano and Matt well he play a little drum then the guitar and the piano what a night the talent was great.

takeing a walk

we decide to take some time to enjoy the beauty around and so we went to Tumwater Falls . It was a great afternoon cold but good

MISS SEATTLE

last night my neice was crowned MISS SEATLE this is a journey that she started 2 years ago to get scholorship money for colledge. she competed for MISS AURBURN first and won then MISS WASHINGTON there she won the talent portion, and this year was asked to compete in MISS SEATTLE and she won. Now she again will compete in MISS WASHINGTON. It is so fun to be able to watch and support her she truely is beautiful inside and out. We also will be watching my youngest neice in January as she competes for the first time for her chance at MISS AUBURN. (this is the largest scholorship program of its kind in the states ). and hope to watch then both at MISS WASHINGTON

a morning with dad

matt was quite happy to have dad home for just a bit this morning to play.... him and dad stayed home while I took colton and biz to school and made a pretty cool tower out of lincoln logs ( matt want it to stay up till schools out .....we will see its starting to lean a bit now )

A Special Surprise

I have to say my husband is great and I do hope my kids learn from him how to treat their mom ; )

A couple weeks ago he found out that bill Cosby would be in town.... well his mom really likes the Coz so.....he purchased tickets for the 3 of us to go not telling her what was going on I called and asked if she would be availible to watch the kids for us to have a date nigt.... I also called Eileen to really watche the kids and told her that we were going to surprise Wes' mom she was happy to be in on the plan...... so his mom got here first then Eileen got here and I said I must of over booked then Wes gave his mom the ticket he said it would be fun then he told her she was going too it wass GREAT!!!!!! The night was truely wonderful

alpacas with grandma

on our anniversarry Wes' mom watch the kids and they all went to see the alpacas of america. It was quite the outing and the kids came home with lots of things to tell us about and also some alpaca fur. and did you know that alpacas breath is minty fresh just in case you needed to know.

laughter in the leaves

as we started racking up the leaves in the yard I decided to take some pictures of everybody. This is such a fun time of year the colors are so pretty and everyone was having fun.
I hope your family is enjoying all the great colors of fall too.

Elizabeths new look

finally after being told by the school and the doctors office and Elizabeth asking many times over I made and appointment for her eyes to be checked........low and behold her eyes are bad......and yes she did need glassed.......such a good mom am I.... so she picked out these oh so cute sponge bob glasses that we will get on saturday for her veiwing convience.... Im sure she will be amazed at what she can see... I know I was when I got my glasses and her perscription is stronger than mine...oops

never to young to sing in the shower

last night when Matt was in the shower I was hearing this singing so I checked it out just to make sure all was okay well this is what I found/heard.

On Bug Hunt

we went in search of snakes and crickets this afternoon. Kianna was the catcher Matt was the carrier of the jar Biz was the searcher... they were quite the team they had three but one got away

Colton was of on his own looking for snakes.... he told of one that was huge but it too got away ...... : }