Easter 2009

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We had a very fun filled Easter weekend. The kids and I went to my dad's for Easter weekend and got to spend it also with three of my sisters (LaVon, Shauna, and Janel). We met at a Ranch close to Portland where my dad lives and go on a Easter Hunt, a hayride, see animals and just have a good time being together. The Easter Bunny came and filled baskets but due to the lovely rain was unable to hide the eggs outside so no hunt was to be had. We had a very nice Sunday Easter dinner at my dad's and then we headed home. During that next week the kids and I colored eggs and had a hunt at our home when the weather was nice. The kids enjoyed it very much. Each child found a mommy, daddy or grandma egg and will get to do something fun within the next year with whomever's egg they found. All in all it was a very nice Easter weekend.

Puyallup Spring Fair 2009

Steve and I took the three older kids to the Puyallup Spring Fair while grandma Suzanne watched the little ones at home. We let Austin invite a couple of his friends to come along so that he could have some fun too (you know teenage boys and how much they love hanging out with mom and dad and their little sisters) His friends names are Nick (top left) and John (Top Middle) This is the only picture we got with Austin in it because we allowed him to go with his friends and check in with us every hour or so. They had a good time being able to hang out together.
The girls and I on the ferris Wheel!

Steve and the girls on the Ferris Wheel!

Sariayh and Savannah taking a break from riding rides. The ferris wheel that we went on together is the one behind them in this picture it was fun.

The girls coming out of the fun house. They came out giggly for awhile.

We of course had to visit the barn with all of the different farm animals including Alpacas.

Savannah wearing my sunglasses and enjoying herself tremendously. We all had a great time. Steve took Austin, Sariyah and Austin's two friends later that night to the demolition durby and had a blast. They came home talking about it for a long time.

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!!!

In a great attempt and being a good mom I thought I would start trying to do more activities with Sienna and Savannah while the big kids were at school. Sienna and I the day before went on a rock hunt in our backyard and around the neighborhood in search of rocks that would be worthy of becoming our new rock bugs(an idea I got out of Family Fun magazine which is one of my favorite magazines). Then came home and washed them and dryed them off with the hair dryer. After which we got paint, googly eggs and pipe cleaners and made our bugs. Above you will see Sienna with the bugs that she, Savannah and I made. It was a lot of fun.

Here is Savannah and Sienna with the bugs!

As you can see they were very colorful and bright. We used glitter pipe cleaners for wings on our butterflies and bees and used them for legs on our caterpilar. We also made ladybug and beetles in many different colrs and they all got googly eyes to complete the look.

After completeing our bugs we put them on the steps of the front porch on each side so that they would welcome anyone who came to visit.

Savannah is always wanting to take pictures and you can see that to go along with our bug rocks Savannah also wanted to make some bug anteni for her head as well with a headband and pipecleaners. She is my very funny girl but soooo cute!!! My own little Savannah Bug!

Sienna loves pictures too but did not want to have anything to do with having to make something to put on her head she just wanted to put her bugs out on the porch and take a cute picture.

And that she did!

I have been able to do more with the girls and hope that you will see more fun and cute projects in the future.

Daffodil Parade

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Sariyah's Art

Sariyah was one of only two students selected from her school to have her art displayed at an art show. The art show consisted of Elemenatary thru High School students from every school in the Puyallup School District. Sariyah and her friend Sarah in her class were the only two from their school in this art show. Sariyah made this snow flake around Christmas time last year in class. Her teacher was very impressed with how Sariyah was able to make the shapes and edging that she did in her snowflake.

Sariyah at the art show in front of her art.


Sariyah very excited about her artwork!

This is her friend Sarah's artwork that was put into the show.

This is Sariyah and her friend Sarah after receiving their awards for participation in the art show. The art show was done at one of the local museums. The Karshner Museum.

We were very proud of Sariyah. She loves to draw and make things so this was a real honor for her to be in this art show.

Good job Sariyah!

Savannah's first attempt at no training wheels

Savannah wanted to learn to ride her bike with 2 wheels. It was time for her to move up to the next size bike so we decided to try her out on Sariyah's bike. She was very nervous but daddy was their to help her everystep of the way. She was doing pretty good and kept trying but then she had a pretty good fall and the rain decided to start so that stopped the lesson for this time but she will get it sometime soon I'm sure. Now that the weather is starting to get better we should be able to get out their and try again. Her little heart was broken that she fell and did not want to try again but I think she is about ready to give it a go again.

Austin's Skateboard Incident

Austin was having fun with his friend outside on his skateboard and decided it would be fun to try and go down his friends front porch stairs on his friends skateboard and fell and hurt his hand. He tried to hid the swollen hand for the first hour and then finally had to ask for help because his hand was hurting and of course he did not tell us the real story about going down the stairs until a few days later. He initially told us that he hit some rocks and fell. Anyway we took him to a couple doctors and finally ended up at the orthapeic surgeon and he told us that he did not brake it but that he did move some bones around that should not have been moved so their was a lot of brusing. They put his hand in a cast for about 3 weeks so that it could heal without having to be moved alot. He got a black cast and with in one day had colored it all metalic blue. I guess that's what happens when you send your 12 year old son to school with a metalic marker to have his friends sign he got bored and colored it. Anyway he made it look pretty colorful and about the last week or so wore an ace bandage over the top of his cast to cover the artwork. So much fun!