Hanging out in Seattle with Christian!!

We were lucky that it was a nice day out!! We were shocked that there were kids jumping and playing in this fountain!! It was sunny, but in the high 50's!! You can tell we aren't used to the sun coming out in Washington!! HAHA!!

YAY!! Christian is here!!

We ended the night eating Cheesecake Factory!! This place is LOVE!!

Space Needle!

We love it when family comes to visit us!

This time it was my cousin Christian! He came all the way from North Carolina!

Can you believe we have been here for 3 years and have never went up on the Space Needle!

Those of you who know me probably know why! It's because I am scared to death of heights!

But with a family member coming to visit that actually cared about going up, I had to grow up and go up!! HAHA!!

Madeline was so scared to go up! She just kept saying "It's just gonna be so scary!" We all had to talk her into going up! Even Sophie was saying "Come on Madeline, I'm not scared!" We stood in line for 10 minutes talking her into it. I finally just told her "you are going up and that is that!" She was just so scared that the "safety cable" was going to break! We talked to the security guys taking the tickets, the photographer, and the lady running the elevator and they told her it was the safest place in Seattle! That helped settle my stomach too!! I was scared! I didn't let Madeline know this.

The security guard told Madeline that each elevator is held by 6 safety straps and that it could be held by just 1 if it had to be.


When we got to the top, she LOVED it!! She was so happy she went up!

How pretty is this view!!

If you look really hard in this one you can see the Jeep!! It is white and has 3 sunroofs!!




Now, I have been there for 3 years! I have been to Seattle for day trips at least 10 times!! I always park in this same lot!!

I guess I was so excited about Christian's visit, I forgot to pay for parking! So I was sitting at a table watching the kids jump at Whirligig (I will post later about this), and I was telling him about our visit to Whirligig last week and I was telling him about what I had paid for, and I said parking!! It clicked, I didn't pay to park!! So I ran outside and found a ticket!! I had gotten it just 20 minutes before!! We had been there over 2 hours!! Talk about feeling dumb!! Then I get outside and buy a parking pass and realize I didn't even bring my keys to put the parking pass in the Jeep. So after I buy the pass and go back in to get the keys, I start to wonder if I even needed to pay the 8 dollars to park since I had already gotten a ticket!!! UGH!! Oh well!

Sophie and Emily's Spring Pictures!

I already posted Madeline's picture, so I thought I would post the other 2!

What a difference from last year!!

If you want to click on the picture and it will make it bigger, then you can save it to your computer and upload it to wal-mart.com or walgreens.com and order prints. You can also print it from your computers too!

Look at Sophie's sweet little face in this one!!

They Do Love Each Other!!

This picture was taken the night that Marc left. He is taking the USS San Francisco to it's new homeport in San Diego. Well I guess these two were missing their Daddy, because I went to check on them and this is how I found them!! They were playing possum in this one!!

AWWW!!!

They said they just wanted to "SNUG!"

Be careful what you ask/demand!!

This was Madeline's first Kindergarten picture! I think she is beautiful, but she had a cheesy smile!! So I made her retake it!





This was her re-take!! I love it, even though she doesn't have any teeth showing! This one was the keeper!






They take spring school pictures now, just another way to rip you off, because you can't not buy pictures of your kids!! Unless it is this one!! I am keeping a scan for memories, but I am not gonna pay 40 dollars for this one!!



I told her to make sure she had a great big smile on her face!! Not a fake one, but a pretty, beautiful one!! YIKES!!! This one is kinda scary!





If you are thinking I am a mean mommy that is too picky, well this is what I am used to seeing on my little girl! This was her soccer picture from this fall!! She rocked by the way!! She scored so many goals we lost count!!



She was also awarded the Certificate of Academic Excellence yesterday! There will be an open house celebration in honor of all the kids in each grade who received awards! She was so excited!! As we have always said she is our evil little genius and she is gonna cure cancer!! HAHA!!

TWILIGHT!!!

For those of you who don't know this already, I LOVE TWILIGHT!!

About 6 months ago I read the whole series all 2000+ pages in a weeks time! It would have been faster if I didn't have kids to take care of!! The 1st 60 pages I read when I got the book. Then I got busy with soccer season, which was in full swing, and put it down for about 2 weeks! Then my friend who told me about the series told me she was onto the 3rd book. So I had to restart it, because I just had to know what she was so in love with! Well, after dinner and putting the kids to bed I read for a few hours! The next day, I was really busy and had to wait until after dinner again! Well I stayed up until 4am finishing that book! The next morning I had to take Sophie to school and right after I went to the book store and got the second one! I got the next one on Thursday, and Marc went and got me the last one on Saturday morning, because I finished the 3rd one at 4am on Friday night!! I was done with the series by Sunday night! I even went online and read the draft of the first part of the 5th book!

Well I am officially hooked!! I have gotten at least 5 others hooked on them too!!

So if you didn't guess I was at the midnight release of the movie coming to theaters.

And, why wouldn't I be at the midnight release of the movie coming out on DVD!!

I have a Twilight Throw, pillowcase, and two shirts!! I'm lame, I know, and I don't care! Marc thinks they are the stupidest books, but as you guessed I don't care!!

This was the line about halfway! It was crazy!

So last night Emily and I go to the DVD release party, which was a line! There were a few people dressed up and it was kinda boring! We did have an ok time! I did win a $5 Twilight gift card for answering a Twilight trivia question! The question was, who did Stephanie Meyer dedicate Twilight to? It was her sister!! YAY me!!

As you can see my blood pressure was up from posing with my man!!

When we got home we watched the movie! She cried at the meadow scene and got really scared at the fight scene! She was like "Mom, what happens tell me, I'm shaking here! I'm really shaking!!" She was balling!! It was so pitiful!

Needless to say I will be visiting Forks before I leave Washington! Look for that post soon!

A Good Morning!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Let me start off by saying I had a CRAZY dream last night! It was about my computer being hacked into! I was on it while it was happening! So I was watching all of these things come up that said things like, "copying info, passwords, etc!" I had NO WAY to stop it! I was flipping out (in my dream, of course)! I was yelling for help, and no one was helping me. There were lots of people around on their computers, but they just looked at me like I was a crazy person. Then a little box popped up that said "erasing everything on computer!" OH NO!! There was a little box that I could click on that said "stop action." So I clicked it and my computer turned off! Then I woke up! So that was my crazy dream! It doesn't seem so crazy, but it really felt that way.

So this morning, like usual, I got the girls up, and laid Sophie's clothes out for her.

I got Emily up and sent Maddy to get dressed.

They are really good about being able to dress themselves! Madeline doesn't even need my help picking out her clothes (she won't let me anyways, so I am happy she at least can match!)

Then Sophie comes into my room all dressed and ready to go! Let me tell you this is an accomplishment all on it's own! She has HATED school since the day she started! Throwing fits daily about not wanting to go to school. Now after months and months of fits she loves it! We have a neighbor/friend who has a little girl the same age as Sophie and she is in her class now and they ride together! I thought this was the answer, a friend. So I took the girls the first day, and Sophie still threw a fit!! UGH! So then the other little girls Mom took them and Sophie was WONDERFUL for her!! So there was my answer, me not taking her!

Well, now that I have drifted from my story, I will take you back, Sophie and I are in my room and Maddy comes in.

Sophie says "Madeline wore that shirt yesterday!"

Now I am thinking the same thing and I asked Madeline if she was! Madeline says, "NO, the one I had yesterday is in the dirty clothes!"

So I asked her to go get it! She comes back with no shirt, but still says it's not the same shirt! So I sent her looking for the dirty shirt.

I turn to Sophie and tell her that her sister is a crazy girl, and Sophie looks at me and says "that's the same shirt!" It was so funny! I know, I know you had to be there! It was just so cute! The way she said it, the way her eyes looked, the way she had her hand by her mouth like she didn't want Maddy to see her say it! So that was the first funny part! Even if you had to be there, the memory will stay with me (hopefully!)

Then we go downstairs, I get cereal for the girls poured and served, talk about lunches, brush hair, brush teeth, talk about today being St. Patty's Day, and see if the girls have green on (All but Maddy do, but her pants are blue/green does that count?)

After their hair is done and teeth are brushed, I load their bowls in the dishwasher and give out the chill pills (vitamins).

Then it's time for coats and backpacks! I help zip and put on.

Then I get my kisses and huggies!!

Then it's time!!!

(this is how I am feeling!)

This is the first time all three of them have walked out of the door at the same time for school!!!

OH MAN!!!

I can feel it!!!

They walk out!

I yell "I love you, Magical to me!(lame, I say it all the time that they are magical to me, so now I just say at random ALL THE TIME "Magical to me")

Then I take 2 fingers and with a grand motion I SLAM THE DOOR!

Then it just came out a BIG GIANT WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

It just came out! There was no stopping it!!

So I immediately look out the front door and Emily is turned back at the door just laughing her butt off!!!

I started laughing and yelled I love you again and closed the door!!

So I came in and sat down and wrote this post before I forgot the details!! I forget everything these days!

Well that is my story! Hope you found it amusing!

Sophie - right after she was born!!