Lazy days!

Marc is working CRAZY long days, 7 days a week! So today was a rare occurrence! He came home early! He got home at 11:30 and then worked for a few more hours! Then he sat down to watch a race that he found out wasn't even on! Then Maddy joined him. Sophie soon followed! After a few, "Don't touch me's" this is what I found!

He even naps with his boots on!! He cracks me up!

I love these days!

No school Friday!

It was Friday the 13th and school was out! So I decided to take the kids to Olympia to the Hands-On Children's Museum! We have been to the one is Seattle a bunch of times, so I thought it would be fun to see how this one was! The girls loved it and it was very inexpensive! YAY for military discounts!!

Madeline really liked the little vet area!




All three of them LOVE to be center stage! They had a lot of fun with the stage and puppet theater.

Maddy was loving the water table!



Emily is going to be an engineer! Every time we go anywhere you will find her in the building section! We walked in and she saw this section and bugged me the whole time to go there! I saw it was right by the snacks so I put off going to that side for as long as I could! Once we made it over there she was right at home!

She was having so much fun with the push pins! I have to admit they were pretty therapeutic.

Whoops! She said, "Why am I wearing this hat?"

How may I help you today?

They were having so much fun doing this!!

Sophie really liked being a doctor! She said she needed a nurse and before I could step in, Emily offered to do it! Sophie said, "I really need a nurse!" It was really cute!

They had a dentist office too!


There were a lot of different centers here! This is really a wonderful place.

There was a garden, apple orchard, restaurant, market, ambulance, and lots of other areas! If you have the time you should really check this place out!

Emily has a "boyfriend" these days! He calls all the time and he even called as we were driving away from the museum. It was really funny! She told him, "My Mom and I took my little sisters!" I just laughed so hard! She looked at me and said, "What?!" I just looked at her and said, "Yeah right, because you are just too big to enjoy a place like this!"

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmm!!

So here I am finally updating our blog for our families who live far away and anyone else who comes across it. Marc comes in and sees that I am fixing a picture and he asked me what I am doing.

So I answer, "updating our blog."

He replies, "WE HAVE A BLOG!"

I said, "yes."

His response, "don't you have anything better to do with your time!"

I didn't answer him!

After he walks away, I start to wonder! Well it is 11 o'clock on a Sunday night, I guess I could do some laundry or go to sleep! I have to tell you that it really annoyed me that he asked me this! What do you think??

hmmmmm............

Spending the day in Seattle!!

So Saturday Marc takes a day off! He has been working a lot lately and we wanted to do something as a family! The girls LOVE to go to Seattle, and we hadn't been to the aquarium yet so we decided to hop in the Jeep and go!! We get on the ferry and everyone wants to go upstairs except Daddy!! So he stayed in the car and we went upstairs!

When it was time to go back to the car Sophie had a meltdown! She didn't want to go back to the car, she wanted to go to Seattle! I tried to explain to her if we didn't go back to the car we wouldn't get to go to Seattle we would just go back home!! I eventually got her back in the car, and she finally settled down!

When we got to the Aquarium and got in line to go in, Sophie had another meltdown!! She didn't want to go to this place! She wanted to go somewhere else!! We hadn't told the little ones where we were going, because we wanted to suprise them! I guess that didn't work out to well for us! After we got in she settled back down! Until she had to go potty! Since Marc refuses to take them in the men's room, I took her. She was fine until I told her to wash her hands! Yep, you guessed it ANOTHER meltdown!! So I picked her up and washed her hands and took her back to Daddy!

After that we had a nice time!

They even went and rode the carousel!

Here are some pictures from Octopus week at the Aquarium!

Even with the fits we had a good time and we will miss our Seattle trips when we move! We look forward to what Chicago has to offer for our day trips this summer and fall!

District Champions!!

Emily has been a Wildcat for 3 years! This 3rd year was the charm!! The girls played so well together this year! They didn't lose 1 game during the season! They even won district! Emily played goalie and sweeper this year!!

Here are the girls after winning district!

Here is Reagan, Emily, Kaitlin, and Hailey!

They came in 4th in state!!

Sledding with Daddy, Mommy, Grandma, Grandpa, and Nonie!!

The girls were so excited Grandma, Grandpa, and Nonie were coming in for Christmas!

When the girls would talk to them they would ask are we gonna go "sledboarding" again this year like last year! They were also excited to make snowmen and have tea parties!

Well Grandma told the girls they would only get to make a snowman and go sledboarding if it snowed! Well we got snow! Lots of snow!!




I couldn't resist posting this picture! Look at Grandma Paula's face!!

Sophie is so brave! She was sliding down so fast, and she just loved every minute of it!

Maddy was loving it too!!

I just love this picture! It is my favorite one!

Emily was having a ball on the little ramp they made out of snow!

It was cold, but we had a ball in the snow!

So much for a small Christmas!!

Ok, so I know this is a little late, but better late than never!

We said this Christmas was going to be small! I think that is an impossibility at our house!!



This was before Santa came!!

The biggest hit was ...........
The Rose Petal Cottage!


Even Emily loved it! The best part is I got it for 29.99 plus tax and free shipping on Amazon.com. They have the best sales right before Christmas!


It came on Christmas Eve and I was worried because of the storm it wouldn't come on time, but Santa made sure his big gift for Sophie got there on time!


Notice my poor treadmill stuffed in the corner with stuff piled on it! HAHA!!



Daddy and Sophie trying to take a nice picture before we went out to dinner with Grandma, Grandpa, and Nonie! Grandpa's work treated us to dinner!




In the end, I got no good pictures of them, so silly ones will have to do!! Aren't those more fun anyways?!