McKenna

It's hard to even know where to start with my McKenna.  She is such a sweetheart and is so helpful to me!  She has a lot of responsibility as the oldest but she does a great job shouldering the load that I need her to! And she is always (usually) happy! 

Pretty much everything about McKenna's world revolves around gymnastics these days.  Saying she LOVES it is a bit of an understatement.  And she is getting pretty good at it to I might add.  Sometimes we have to ground her at home from doing any gymnastics because she can't even walk from one spot to the next without doing a hand stand or cart wheel and one of us has been kicked more than once!  But I am glad she has found something she loves so much and is good at.

McKenna is also so great with helping her sisters and playing with them.  It's so fun to watch them become friends as well as sisters!  She is a great helper with her brother as well!!!

McKenna does great in school and is reading 175 words per minute!  She loves to read all kinds of books!  She has some really great friends in her class at school and church and could pretty much make a friend anywhere she goes.  I don't know what I would do without all of her help!  We love you McKenna and are so glad you are in our family!

Megan

Then there is Megan!!  This little two and a half year old keeps me on my toes!!  She is very spunky! Her hair is always crazy because she won't ever leave it in!  We will do it in the morning and she will look so cute and a half hour later she has it all ripped out and she is looking like a lipnicky!!  But I will still keep her.  

She is really into dressing up in all of our princess dresses too!  She is a pretty princess even with that crazy hair!  I also can't pay her to keep her shoes on so even though you can't see in the picture I would bet money she has no shoes on!

She is very thoughtful and always bringing me flowers even after I have asked her not to pick my flowers about a hundred million times, but it is still sweet she wants to bring her  mom a flower so I don't get too mad.

I mean how can you get mad at that smile!  haha

Oh and most of all, this girl loves sippy cups more than ANYTHING!  I don't know how I am going to get rid of those babies!  But for now she is still just two so I let her use them.  We love Megan and her little spitfire personality.  

Madison

So I wanted to do an update on all of my munchkins and what they are up to as of late.  And since it was just Madison's birthday I am starting with her.  It's crazy to think she was this tiny baby and now she is a beautiful five year old!  

Some of the things that Madison likes to do these days is playing outside, playing learning games on the computer, catching caterpillars, singing and she loves to do crafts.

She is so funny and is always playing jokes on her dad!  It's about time someone teased him back!

But most of all lately she is over the moon about her new brother!  She can't go a day without having a good snuggle session with him.  She is such a great helper for me and I am so glad she is in our family.  That smile and those pretty blue eyes just melt my heart.  Love you Maddie!

First Day of School!

I have been so lame at my blog the last few months and it has come time to get back in the swing of things!!  There is too much that I want to not forget and when I don't blog it just disappears into the past so here we go!  I am not going to try and play catch up at the moment so I am just going to start with where we are in life right now.  (thanks Stacey for moving to Japan so that I had a good reason to start back up)

September 4th was the first day of school for the girls.  McKenna started the 2nd grade with Mrs. Kamau.  She is in a great class with a great teacher so we are happy about that.

Madison just barely missed the Kindergarten deadline because she turns 5 on Oct 2nd.  But the White River school district has a great program called early Kindergarten.  So if  your birthday falls between the deadline and December 31st they can go to early Kindergarten for free!  It is just like Kindergarten, every day half day.  So she is loving that and has a really nice teacher named Miss Murphy.  

Megan wanted to take a picture with the girls as well so we couldn't leave her out.  But getting a picture with all three of them looking at the same time is ridiculous so this is the best we got. haha

So now hopefully there will be many more posts to come and much more often!  I will try and post some summer pictures soon.  Also our newest little addition will be making his debut in 9 days!!!  So watch for pictures of him!  We are so excited!

Yes I am still alive.....barely!

So I know I have been super MIA for the last 6 months, but hey life is busy right? So from a little prodding from my dad here is a new post for you all if any of you are still even looking at my poor blog.

A few weeks ago some of our very dear friends from Idaho came to visit us, Tyke and Tina Marostica! We LOVED having them even though it was a quick trip.

While they were here we took them to one of our favorite spots....the Seattle Flight Museum!

Madison looks like she is getting ready to soar off into the great wide open!

And McKenna looks like she is scared to death that it is really going to take off! haha

All of my little astronauts!

Then the first week of April we got to go to Idaho. We went to go take care of our house and to switch renters, but we got to have some fun while we were there too. The kids loved playing with their cousins and they got to have lots of Easter festivities with them so that was fun!

This was Madison smiling away even after she had already fallen off the horse once at this point haha. That's my girl to just get back on and smile!

This was before these two fell off the horse and there were alot more tears from them, but they eventually got back on as well! They all had quite the horse experience.

Then we had a little Easter egg hunt.

Then there is this little gem that I couldn't resist putting on for everyone to see just how hilarious this was. I told all the girls to go and get their pajamas on and this is how Megan came down the stairs. She had gotten into a pair of McKenna's pajama bottoms and put both of her legs into one! It was seriously hilarious and she loved it!!! She makes me smile!

4 months and 80 pictures later....

Well July started out with a bang but blogging sure ended with a thud! I feel like I haven't had two minutes to sit down and catch up. So I actually had an afternoon when I had nothing to do and my two youngest girls are upstairs sleeping. So here I am catching you all up on what has been going on in our lives for the last four months.

First of all my youngest sister, Whitney, got married in August! It is weird to think that she is married being that she is the baby and all, but we are so happy for her. So here are a few fun ones from that blessed event.

I love this picture of McKenna and my Grandma.







Then that same weekend some of our dearest friends from Idaho, the Youngs, came up to visit us. We went to the zoo......



...then we went up to Bremerton to meet Travis at the Naval Base and then ride the ferry boat across the water to Seattle. It is so fun seeing all these beautiful and interesting places. I LOVE Washington and all it has to offer!





Then once we met up with Travis we hopped on the ferry boat for what was my little family's first ferry boat ride! It is so fun taking them to do things that I did as a kid.

This picture makes me laugh so hard. I was trying to get a picture of all of them together and poor McKenna looks like she is getting choked. haha

The kids thought it was so fun to see all the water and trees and the city in the distance. They weren't however to sure about the wind.

On the ride over we saw a bunch of seals playing in the water and lounging on this buoy. It was so fun seeing them out in the wild!

Oh man I am in TROUBLE!!!! Already kissing boys!

Then when we got to Seattle we went to my FAVORITE retaraunt, The Crab Pot! Our friends wanted some real seafood. In the hallway where you wait there are a whole bunch of these guys carved out of wood. My girls thought they needed a picture by every single one of them. Here are just a few!















Then we walked down to Pike Place Market and that is always fun to see all the shops and people.


Then we just walked around and went through different shops along the piers. It was so fun having them up here. Travis and Troy have been friends since they were kids so they go way back. They have 3 boys and we have 3 girls. Kind of funny.



Then after they left it was time to get back in the swing of things. McKenna started the first grade! It was a crazy first couple of weeks for her because we were in the middle of moving to Buckley so we had to get ready early so we could make the 45 minute commute to drop her off to school in the mornings. But she loves her new school and her teacher and is doing very well. Her first month in school she got two awards. One called a REACH award and one a PE award.

Then on Sept 15th we moved to our new house in Buckley. We LOVE it! We love the ward, the school, the area and the house. It has been so great living here and everyone is happy to be out of the ghetto where we were haha.

Then it was Madison's birthday party. She wanted to do a drive in movie party but it had to have a zebra cake. haha. That girl cracks me up. So we had a concessions stand and all the kids decorated their car and they lined up to watch Gnomeo and Juliet.



















Then the next day we went to the pumpkin patch with some of our really good friends the Tubbs.











Megan is always so serious.







Then on that Sunday we had a family party for Madison and can I tell you how happy this made me?!?!?! It was somewhat nostalgic for me with everyone because it reminded me of when I was a kid and having birthday parties with all the Aunts and Uncles, cousins, Grandmas and Grandpas. It was a lot of fun.


Then last Fridaythe Tubbs' over to decorate cookies and carve pumpkins.

This is the funniest picture ever. Look at their faces! Think they have had enough sugar? haahahaha.

Then it was time to get down and dirty.

My friend Sadie and I have been teaching a little preschool out of my home. This is pretty fun because Sadie and I have been friends since I was two years old. And now 2 of our daughters are only 2 weeks apart. So it's fun to watch them play. We took all the kids (-3 that day) to the pumpkin patch.



This is Madison with Sadie's daughter Bella. I seriously love being around old friends and having our kids be friends. It is one of my favorite things about being back in Washington.







Then last Saturday night we went to a Halloween party at our neighbors house who also happens to be a childhood friend. Travis and I were a cowboy and indian.

We played minute to win it games. This one is called junk in the trunk and you have to shake ping pong balls out of a kleenex box and Travis won!







Then on Halloween we had a little party at preschool that day. It was fun seeing all the kids in their costumes.



Then the long anticipated Halloween night arrived! McKenna was tinkerbell, Madison was a fairy, and Megan was a frog.







Some of our good friends the Diddy's came trick or treating with us because they live out in the country and our neighborhood is a perfect spot to trick or treat. (Their mom is also a childhood friends LOVE IT!)

Well there ya have it folks. The last four months in 80 pictures. Hopefully it will be sooner than later when I post again!