The Easter Celebrations

We celebrated Easter over a couple of different days with the kids this year.

It started first with the Snoqualmie Easter Egg Hunt on the Saturday before. It is always entertaining to see the frenzy of all of the kids running to get the eggs. It lasts all of 30 seconds and is then over...but is so much fun.

Alliya was able to get 10 eggs...Wade helped with the strategy and told her to run to the middle to get the eggs. When it started she ran and just kept running but was able to get 10 eggs which is an accomplishment with all of the kids running around.

Easter morning we had an Easter basket and Aunt Susan gave her a special Easter present.

Her new favorite stuffed animal from Aunt Susan for Easter, she sleeps with it every night.

We finished the Easter festivities by dyeing Easter Eggs with the kids. This is always fun, but can get very messy. To our surprise all of the kids did a great job keeping the dye on the eggs and not on themselves, the furniture or the floor.

Thank You Grandma Gayla!

Alliya loves her new birthday barbie and loves changing their clothes so all of the barbies have a chance to wear the birthday gown. Thanks again!

I Love My Daddy!

Such a cute picture of Wade and Brennyn at one of the trips to the zoo, I had to post it.

The Kids Bounce

We took the kids to the kids bounce to burn off some extra energy on a rainy day. What a great thing to have, especially this extremely wet and cold spring.

The obstacle course and big slide are a favorite of Bronson, Emory and Brennyn. They convinced Alliya to come with them and they all headed up the big slide at the end....

Here is what it is supposed to look like before they come down the slide...all smiles and happy to be playing.

Here is what Alliya experienced...the realization that she really didn't want to go down the big slide, but since she didn't know how to climb back down I had to go in after her. Lesson learned, I think we will be avoiding big slides in the near future.

Dinner with Friends

We had our friends over for a BBQ when the kids were in Washington. All in all we had 9 kiddos running around the house.

Becky made the night by bringing cupcakes with candy and frosting to decorate.

Great Wolf Lodge 2011

Since the kids enjoyed it so much last year, we took them to Great Wolf Lodge again this year.

The girls also celebrated an early birthday with one of their favorites...barbies. They play with the barbie houses they got for Christmas and have such a great time pretending. It is so cute to watch them and see what types of stories they come up with.

Bronson and Emory were much braver this year and went on everything that their height would allow them to go on. Bronson wasn't limited much and loved the water slides this year. Brennyn even went on a couple water slides. Alliya is a little more tentative and hopefully after some swimming lessons she will be on the water slides with them next year.

We also spent a lot of time in the wave pool. They loved trying to jump over the waves or kick them as they came in. As they get a little bigger I am sure body surfing will be next.

Thanks to Grandma Lorna for helping out for the weekend and being an extra set of eyes for the four kids in the water.

Late Snow

We had a few big snow storms this year and we have loved it. Another storm hit us the end of March and we got 9 inches and it stuck around. I couldn't believe we had 9 inches at the start of April.

We received an awesome snowman kit from our neighbors the Frasier's and with the multiple snowfalls this year it was put to good use. Alliya wanted to build a snowman so Wade and I helped...note that Wade is in his usual attire (no matter what time of year) shorts and gray socks....he makes me laugh!

Our Valentines Day

So obviously I am really trying to catch up on some of my posts...at least I am up to mid-February. We celebrated our V-day the weekend after this year and it was my turn to plan it. I decided to spend the day doing all of the things you don't do when you live somewhere...see all of the touristy sites. We started the day with Dick's hamburgers (Wade loves hamburgers and these are some of the best) and then headed off to find the Ballard Troll.

We then walked around the Ballard Locks and the gardens around it and spent some time in the sun (one of the very few sunny days we had this spring...although it was freezing).

We then went to the waterfront and found the original Starbucks. The line was out the door and was crazy busy.

We ended the tour with Pike Place Market. We walked around, ate and once again just enjoyed the beautiful day.

We finished off the day going to dinner at El Goucho Steak House and stayed at the Marriott in downtown Seattle. That made for an interesting evening as the international drag queen gala was being hosted at our hotel that night. I think the people watching of the day was Wade's favorite part.

Valentine's Day

Alliya and I made her own Valentine mailbox to store all of her Valentines in and then filled out all of the cards for all of her friends at preschool (yes, this year I was less than motivated to make homemade valentines so we ended up with store bought).

After the hard work she decided to treat herself to a pedicure and an outfit change. This is what I came down stairs to find.

Girls Weekend

So I am really late in this post, but we had an awesome girls weekend in February thanks to my neighbor Karen. They rented out a cabin for the winter and all of our "girl" neighbors went to Cle Elum for the weekend. We even ventured out to Roslyn to hear a band at the "brick". What a fun weekend with awesome women spent chatting and relaxing. Can't wait to do another one!

Karen, Tonya, Michelle, Kristen, Gina, Sandy, Stephanie and me

Stephanie, Karen, Michelle and me at 4am...yes that's right, we made it all the way to 4am. If you get a bunch of moms together for a weekend they will take advantage of every moment.

Toothless Bronson

So Bronson is at that age when you start to loose your baby teeth. This is how he looked last weekend.

His front tooth was so loose that he had "Hillbilly Tooth"!

He was playing with it all weekend.... I even talked him into trying to pull it out on Sunday night.

He went off to school on Monday and this is how he came home. I guess you have to go to the principals office if you loose a tooth at school. I am sure it has something to do with lawyers.

He wanted to keep the tooth and take it to his moms so he wrote the tooth fairy a letter asking her (in this case him) to keep the tooth. The tooth is in the envelop they gave him at school and you can see the letter he wrote the tooth fairy.

The tooth fairy granted his request and when he got up the tooth fairy had left him $5. (The night before the tooth fairy did not have anything smaller than a $5) Bronson was very excited the next morning and came into show me. He asked me.... "Dad why did the tooth ferry not leave me a note back? At my moms house I got a $1 and a note." (This tooth fairy had no idea I need to leave a note) I told him.... I am sure the tooth fairy was in a hurry and then asked him.... Would you rather have $5 or $1 and a note? He was quick to answer $5.