Best Buds

Griffin is so in love with baby Don! He loves to hold him and kiss him (and kind of poke his eyes and ears in such a loving way...)!

Ocean Shores with the Wyckoffs

A few weekends ago we drove out to Ocean Shores and spent two nights with with Kim, Zach, and Abigail. The kids love each other so much and get a little crazy at playtime!

The weather was beautiful, a little overcast in the morning, but sunny by noon every day we were there. Probaby the best weather I've experienced at Ocean Shores!
My kids LOVE the sand!

Abigail wasn't too sure about that messy sand, it took her a while to want to play in it. Kimberly is pregs in this pic with Baby Ty, due this November!

Kyle is quite the swimmer when we are at the ocean. He was even body surfing!

The little guy off to the side in this picture is my best friend, Sandy's little boy Evan. They were at the beach for the day and found us for a fun little visit! We will be going back to Ocean Shores for labor day weend with Sandy and her family for 2 night. I'm really hoping to get that warm sunshine again! On the way out of town we stopped and did a few rides on the bumper cars! So fun - I don't know who enjoyed it more me or the kids. :o)

Pictures from July

Day Out with Thomas (not as great as I hoped... but the kids had fun)
After visiting Thomas, we went to Snoqualmie Falls. So beautiful!

Then we ate at the Salish lodge, not very kid friendly, but gorgeous view of the falls.

Day at Summit Lake with my friend Joy and her family. So much fun and SUNNY!!

Sometimes a boy just wants to be nakey-nakey, what's the big deal?! ;o)

And finally we made the apple pie that Sophia always asks to do at inopportune times. Best crust I have done yet. I took the time to brush with egg whites and sprinkle with sugar, which formed the thinnest layer of crunchy goodness!

July was fun, it finally felt like summer! Hopefully I will get all my pictures uploaded to Kodak later today. The album from Day Out with Thomas and Snoqualmie is already on my links list.

Alderbrook & 4th of July

The first picture isn't actually at Alderbrook, but I just threw it in anyway. This is what happens when I try to do step aerobics before naptime. I have my little helpers to workout with me...

These are pictures of our 4th of July stay at the Alderbrook with all the Husseys. It was a lot of fun. The kids liked the rocks in the pathway the best, I think.

Griffin couldn't take it any longer and had to take a little snooze with his baby cuz, Don.
Breakfast time in our room.

Sophia was getting so mad at me when I would hoist her in, after she was the one who counted to 3! Silly girl.

We like to attend the 4th of July parade in Tumwater every year. It's pretty cute and the kids have a good time watching the muscle cars and cowgirls.

Sister Love

Sophia had a little something to say to her brother last night on her way downstairs to bed...

"Griffin, do you know how good I love you? More than anyone in the whole world. Even more than Santa."

Hot Dog, Hot Dog, Hot Diggity Dog!

Proud New Daddy

My brother-in-law, Richie, is the cutest new daddy. He's always been in love with babies and now he finally has his own to completely dote on. Father's Day we were all at the Hussey household and amongst all the chaos, I look into the living room and Richie has set Baby Don up for a little photo shoot. It was so cute.
Then Richie asked someone to take his picture with Baby D on his phone so he could have a picture of him and his boy on there to show people. So cute!

And this last picture is a very common sight nowadays. Richie loves our Griffin very much and is always packing both boys around with him now!

Happy first Father's Day, Rich. You are too cute.

Family Time on Father's Day

Kim - are you sure you don't want 3?!

Sweet Cousins

Nick and Kora gettin' some practice in... ;o)

One Big Crazy Family!

See the rest of this completely chaotic and silly photo shoot HERE.

"You'll shoot your eye out!"

Kyle finally showed Griffin the Red Ryder that Papa Dan got him for Christmas when he was one. He's obsessed. Notice the stick lighter on the ottoman... that's what he's been using as a gun since Uncle Justin babysat him months ago. The day after this picture, a commercial came on the TV and Griffin went running into his room and right back out with the gun. I didn't know why so I hit rewind on the DVR and there was a deer on the commercial. He had to go get his gun to shoot it, I guess. Boys...

Take a guess...

Very interesting, isn't it?

A Little Composer

Sophia composed her first masterpiece and it sounds beautiful! (She doesn't really read music, but she took this up all on her own and surprised me with her skills in drawing some sheet music.) She's composing another piece as I sit here doing this post. Can't wait to hear her play it!