Monday, May 18, 2009

Spring Break in Vegas






My Baby...6 months old!
This post is long overdue, my only excuse is that my camera broke on this trip. Four siblings, my parents and my friend from Kansas made the trip to Las Vegas. We had a really great spring break thanks to my sister Liz... thanks for everything! I wish I could have recorded Taylor's reaction when we pulled up to Excalibur, it was priceless! She started clapping and yelling it was so great. When I made it into the room she was looking out the window staring at the castle. Who knew $36 a night could get that kind of reaction? After a couple of nights we moved over to Mandalay Bay to take advantage of their great pools. Living in the Northwest requires a trip like this once a year. I just need to see the sun for a week or so during the long rainy season.

Harry Potter

We are on Harry Potter overload here at our house. We are on book Seven and I asked the kids what they wanted to read next ... they both want to start over and read them again! Taylor really loves it and thinks about it a lot. She has even been pulling her hair out of her braids during the day to look like Hermione. Out of the blue she comes up with the funniest things, here are a few quotes from her.

"Why won't anyone believe Harry that he didn't put his name in the goblet?"

"Look Mom I just apperated."

"I saw a red haired kid at school today, do you think he's a Weasley?"

"Dad, your just like Draco Malfoy......you both hate Harry Potter."

Monday, March 16, 2009

The Space Needle

I took the kids to Seattle this weekend to visit my sister Jayne. She is moving to Seattle and I am beyond excited!!! I will have 3 sisters in the Northwest....amazing.


Sheldon REALLY wanted to go up to the top...so here we are!

We took the monorail a few times... the kids loved it.



This mini vacation has me dreaming about Spring Break...just two more weeks to go I can hardly wait!!

Monday, February 23, 2009

Kiddos





Kyle is growing so fast, sorry I haven't updated this blog for a while. I love the picture of him in the car seat, poor kid. At least four times a day he goes in and out of this thing, I think it just goes along with being the youngest of three.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Timberline Lodge


The back of the hotel.

We arrived during a snow storm, so Sheldon didn't get to go night skiing... instead he went swimming.

We went up to Timberline Lodge last weekend for the first time. My sister met us up there and she took Sheldon snowboarding. I really didn't take very many pictures...sorry Matt. This is the hotel that is from the movie The Shinning. I wanted to find the shot of the hotel on youtube, where they pull up to the hotel...but searching for clips of The Shinning turned out to be not very fun.

The Fancy Nancy Tea Party


Becky invited Taylor over for a tea party.

She spoiled Taylor with all of her favorite things.

She had a lovely time.

I guess at some point during the tea party Taylor decided that the hostess was wearing a better dress (yes, Becky answered the door in this) and Becky graciously let Taylor borrow her dress....what a great party!

Photographer

Taylor loves to take pictures, she is so funny! I just realized that she has loaded down my camera with tons of pictures.