Sienna's First Apple Pies!

One of daddy's co-workers has apple trees and brought some into work to share. Daddy brought a bag full home so while Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Holly and Abbie were here Sienna and mommy decided to make apple pies for Aunt Holly's birthday. Sienna had a lot of fun baking with mommy and she did and excellant job rolling out the dough for the crust as you can see she had a lot of fun.

Gotta love all the beautiful flour makeup she has on!

Here is the finished product ready for the oven and they turned out really yummy everyone enjoyed them alot including Austin who decided to take the last two pieces to school with him one morning.

Puyallup Fair 2009

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While Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Holly and Abby were visiting just a week ago we all went to the Puyallup Fair and had a great time the kids got to ride alot of fun rides, eat all kinds of great food, and see animals and hold a real human brain. The kids all got tatoos as well which was fun for them. Sariyah even surprised us and went one of the bigger rides and had a blast.

Puyallup Fair with the Older Kids

Steve and I took the three older kids to the Fair so that we could move around with out having to worry about the little ones. Sariyah, Savannah, Austin and I took the shuttle bus to the fair from the mall close to our house and met Steve at the fair. Steve was already there because he had to run a booth for work for a few hours. Savannah had never been on a city bus before so this was pretty exciting for her.

Sariyah on the bus being a goof!

Savannah enjoying the bus ride!

Savannah by a big fish carved out of wood.

Savannah holding a real human brain.

Steve holding the real human brain.

Steve and Austin on the Ferris Wheel.

Savannah, Sariyah, and Cheralyn on the Ferris Wheel.

Savannah and Daddy having a sweet moment.

Sweet sister moment.

Savannah riding a carosel horse this is her favorite ride always.

Savannah and Mommy on the Giant Slide!

Sariyah and Savannah always like the twisty bear.

Austin and Sariyah love the swing ride and Savannah decided to try it out this year. She was tall enought to go this year. She did really well and wanted to go again after she got off even though she closed her eyes and held on tight more then once. Mommy went on the swing ride with her the second time she went. The swing is normally one of my favorites too but I got a little dizzy this time but still had a good time. All in all we had a lot of fun with the older kids and hope to do this again with them next year.

First Day of School 2009

Savannah going into 1st grade and Sariyah into 4th Grade both have an apple for their teachers!

Savannah is very excited about 1st grade and being able to go to school all day and take lunch to school.

Sariyah is really looking forward to seeing her friends!

Savannah getting on the bus!

Sariyah in the bus too!

Have a great first day at school girls. Austin also started Jr. High today he is now in the 7th grade and therefore to big for pictures according to him. He is going to learn to play the Alto Sax this year I hope he has a great day as well and know that he will enjoy going to many classes during the day instead of just one. Mommy too is excited for the first day of school now I feel I can get back into a routine and spend more one on one time with the little ones before they get to big to want to spend time with mommy. Definitely quieter around here and I am loving it but I also can't wait til they all get home and tell me about there first day!

Beach Fun August 2009

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We took a little day trip to the Washington Coast before the kids went back to school it was about 2 hours from where we live. We had a lot of fun. We took our kites and wagon and buckets and flew the kites and built a sandcastle. Daddy even lost one of the kites to the wind because he let Blaize hold a kite for a minute and turned away helping Sienna and then Blaize let go and the wind took it away. Daddy tried to run after it but it went to fast and the went into the water and just kept going and going further and further out. It was quite the adventure for us all. Lots of fun!

Zoo Geocache Contest

In August I took the kids to the zoo and during one of their shows they talked about family outing that you could do to learn and see more around us in our very own area. They put together a geocache contest which is like treasure hunt and you get to see all kinds of fun new places. They gave us a map of the three locations and clues as to how to find them. We love to geocache as a family and decided to take the challenge.

Sienna really enjoying her ride on daddy's back.

Blaize enjoying the trees and warm weather.

Blaize trailing along

Sariyah opening the treasure box of the last find. In it there was a pin to ware that says I love nature and a slip of paper with a password to enter your names into the contest. You had to have the secert word to enter which would prove that you actually found the cache.

The kids having fun. It wasn't that dark outside yet it was just a bad picture.

This was the first treasure box we found. Can you see it in the tree's (it's a green rubbermaid box)?

Sariyah logging our names that we were found that perticular box. You write your names on each log book when you find a cache not just for the zoo but anytime you geocache.

Savannah is wearing one of the three pins we got when we found the treasure boxes.

The grand prize for doing the geocaching contest was a years membership to the zoo. With each cache you found you could enter everyones name that participated once, so for us we got to enter 6 peoples names each cache. We weren't in it to win just wanted to do it for fun and spend time as a family seeing new places. We had a great time doing it too. (Fast forward to November 2009 )-Just recently I got an email stating that Sienna's name was drawn as the contest winner for the free membership. I was so surprised and so excited because we could not afford another membership this year and was a little sad that we would have to wait probably until next year to go to the zoo again and here we won a free membership. We are very excited and can't wait to go to the zoo again.

Yeah!!!

Lots of fun!

Summer Zoo Trip 2009

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I took the kids to the zoo one day to get out of the house. We had alot of fun!