More March Snow...

Easter 2008

For Easter this year we went to service at church and then to Brunch at the Maplewood Golf Course in Renton. Since it was pooring down rain, we came home and had an indoor easter egg hunt. The day before Easter I took the boys to a couple local egg hunts. The boys saw the easter bunny, got their faces painted, played carnival games, got LOTS of candy, and we stood in line for 35 minutes for balloons from the balloon man- only to have Landon's pop on the way to the car. He was grinning from ear to ear for the 2 minutes he had it, and then there were lots of tears. Next year I'm going to have to tell the Easter bunny to ease up a bit on the candy flow. The boys have turned into little candy monsters asking me for some no less than 10 times a day.

Keepin' busy

OK, so I'm finally updating this thing. It's been awhile and we sure have been busy. Since my last post we have been to Louisiana and Mississippi for 2 weeks. We had a great time. I also started watching a 4 month old baby girl during the week for some extra income. Her name is Chelsea and she is a really good baby. In February, Landon turned 3. We are still working on potty training. I can't decide if he just doesn't really care or if I'm just not trying hard enough. Maybe a little of both. So that brings us to March. Crazy March. As of tomorrow, Aaron and I will have been married for 10 years. It's been a wild ride. The best 10 years of my life. Over the past ten years we've moved 6 times, owned 4 houses, at least 9 different cars, had 2 kids, and I lost count of how many jobs Aaron's had. But he's finally settled down at the County. He will be transferring next month from the Star Lake pit to the Renton division. This will bring more opportunity for overtime and more importantly a better avenue for networking and crosstraining and therefore moving up the ladder. Later this month, Aaron turns 33 on the 11th, Levi turns 5 on the 15th, and our niece Lacey turns 7 and nephew Carter turns 9. Lacey had been sick with the chicken pox last week, so we are waiting to see if the boys will get it. Landon has shown some signs, but we are just waiting it out at this point... just adding to the madness of March... The video below was taken in New Orleans, the birthplace of Jazz music. While enjoying some beignets, the boys were diggin' the music. Pictures at top: 1)At the Louisiana Purchase Zoo, 2)Oak Alley, an antebellum plantation we toured, 3) In front of the Mississippi River

Christmas stuff, Children's museum, kids & friends

Mommy & the boys at the children's museum. The boys with friends Eli and Alaythea.

Our Christmas tree We made Gingerbread houses with cousins Carter and Lacey.
The kids at the Children's museum.
Bamma and the boys making a pit stop.
Our little construction workers. They wanted to dress up just like Daddy.

Christmas Tree Hunting 2007

Well, we hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and took time to praise our Creator for all the blessings he has given us. We made our usual rounds and ate too much. The day after Turkey day, I had a momentary lapse in sanity and got up at 3:45am to hit the sales- first stop Wal-Mart. I did live to tell about it. The employees were armed with blades and mace. Pretty crazy. I was done shopping by 9am and we were off to cut down our tree by about 10am. Our tree now sits in its stand, undecorated. We have high hopes to get that done tonight. The small patch of trees at the bottom of the picture on the right is where we cut our tree. You can see Mt. Rainier in the background. We wish you all a wonderful start to the Holiday season. ~A, S, L, & L

Our first blog!

Okay, okay. I'm gonna try this out instead of myspace so more people have access to it. Here's a recent pic of us at the pumpkin patch last weekend. Aaron is currently recording a solo album, hopefully to be finished by Christmas. I am getting ready to go on a much anticipated girls scrapbooking weekend away on Friday. Levi is enjoying one day of preschool a week and loves to read books, play with superheroes, and play games. Landon is growing up way too fast. He can often be spotted with a bat or some type of whacking device in hand, and has plenty of energy for the whole family. He currently loves Batman, Buzz Lightyear, and Tom & Jerry.