A very fun morning!

You would have thought it was Christmas at our house this morning. Today was Emma's first day of swimming classes, and she was SO excited! She came into our room at 4:00am, and asked me if it was time for swimming yet, and then she came in again at 5:00am...oh, my.....she did great and loved every minute of it! She loves the water....And then, to top it off, we went to Target and lo and behold, a brand new Fancy Nancy book was there! Emma loves the Fancy Nancy books, this one if Bonjour, Butterfly...so all in all, Emma had an absolutely stupendously, wonderful day (as Fancy Nancy would say :-))
Here she is right after swim class...

As promised....our new kitchen tile pictures..

Here are the pictures of our tile backsplash...it turned out pretty nice, and we've got all the stuff now, so if anyone feels the urge to tile, we can help ;-)

Here's a before picture....

And after......

Just hanging out

Emma liked playing ping pong in the backyard...but mostly she liked to hide the ping pong balls and play "Easter Egg hunt" :)

A quick picture before we headed to the airport

Me and Benny hanging out in the car

Emma loved every cactus, and found one she wanted to take a picture with on the trail by Grandpa and Grandma's house...

Colossal Cave

Arizona Wildcats Basketball Game

Here we are at the womens basketball game...it was very fun to watch and they were playing the Washington State Cougars, so we cheered on both teams :-)

A couple more...

Getting ready to ride the train around the park!

And there they go.....

We're back!

Well, we're back from Arizona and we had a great time! I took lots of pictures but I don't have much time to put a lot tonight, so I think I'll put some on here and there when I get a few precious seconds :-) Emma and Ben had so much fun at Grandpa and Grandma's house! Here's a couple pics, and I'll add more in the next couple days!



Emma in Grandpa and Grandma's backyard

A VERY happy boy!

Off to Arizona!

Well, we're off to Arizona to visit Dave's dad and mom, and we're very excited! Emma has been counting down the days until she can ride in a BIG airplane and go see Grandpa and Grandma. And we're excited for maybe a little sun :) Anyway, we just got a new camera because I couldn't get our other one to work, so now I will be able to post pictures again! So, I'm sure we will get some good one down in Tucson, and when we get back I will also finally post pics of the new kitchen tiling!! Hope everyone has a great week! Oh, if you read this and think of it tommorrow morning around 10:30 to about 2 or so, pray that Benjamin will PLEASE be quiet on the plane :) (Am I being too hopeful???? :))

Happy Valentines Day!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Valentines Day....I love this picture of my nephew Austin and Emma...it was taken two years ago on Valentines. It was before either of them had little brothers...boy, how times have changed....They will always be the best of buddies, though....

What's new with us??

Well, I've been slacking a little on here because my camera hasn't been working, so no new pictures. But, I can update everyone on some of the fun, some of the crazy, and some of the plain old boring stuff going on in our house :-) So, in no particular order, here's some highlights:

....Dave and I have tackled another home improvement project (for those of you who don't know, Dave loves to work on our house :-)). We have been wanting to do a tile backsplash in our kitchen, and so we just dove right in. Dave learned how to do it and we saved a lot doing the work ourselves. I wouldn't say that the tiling itself was hard, it was doing it around two little people running in and around our legs, and asking for food, crying, and scrwaming that threw us over the edge :-) But it looks great, we're almost done (pictures to come soon).....

....I have finally gotten into the groove of my new diet, and I figured I might as well tell everyone on here so that you can all hold me accountable and stop me if you see me reach for the M and Ms or cookies ;-) As I was telling my friend Amanda, I can't use Benjamin as an excuse for this extra weight anymore...though I will as long as I can :-) But I must be talking more about healthy stuff and dieting because we went to Fred Meyer today to get some groceries, and Emma got to pick out a toy. She picked a Barbie swimming pool, and she turned and looked at me and said, "Hey Mommy, you can even play with this pool too, because its fat free!" Oh, my....

....Rosco is depressed...we are pretty sure he has the seasonal disorder....poor guy...it rains so much that he just stares outside or gives us this look like he saying "Are you kidding me? I'm inside the house all day with these loud kids who tackle me and try to dress me up with hats and blankets, you could at least give me a little love.....sorry rosco :-)

.... kids are good....Emma's favorite foods right now are grapefruit, pancakes and pizza....Ben loves turkey hot dogs, pepperoni, granola bars and NO VEGETABLES! :-)

Hope everyone is doing good....lots of stuff going on, but you are all in our thoughts and prayers! Love to you all!!