Momma to five, a Wife to one and a Friend to many.......: July 2011

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Part 4 of 6 week update.......

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY TO OUR ZACHARY!!!!

Zachie at about 5 months old....yes a tank.....

crazy face of now our 5 year old Zachie....where has all the time gone, I'll never know. As a family along with Grandma we went and watched Transformers 3 for his birthday. He was a sleep before the half way point....LOL

May all your wish come true little man!!! We love you so very much......momma's baby boy!

TOYS!!!!

Grandma & Trinity

BBQ, Fourth of July, Housewarming, Homecoming, Anniversary & Birthday Party

Momma, Me & Lala

Alexis & Alicia

Savannah & Mary (Lala's BFF) from Kindergarten

Dave on the left, nephew Ryan on the right

Me keeping a close eye on my doggie who mind you everyone was falling in love with!! LOL I was making sure he wasn't going to come up missing.

Savannah was doing a car wash while we were having the BBQ and earned enough money to buy her skateboard and safety equipment to boot!!!!! Than you everyone that donated to her cause!

Lala & Savannah

(left to right) Deb, Mary & Tammy

Lala & Alicia

Savannah all decked out!

Trisitan & Savannah at Mary & Deb's house for a fish fry thanks to Herb!

Zachie

Happy Birthday Mary!!! :)

Happy 6th Anniversary to us!!!

After going to the Lavender Festival I came home to these beautiful flowers & beautiful card from the hubby. I love you & Thank you and pray for many many more!!

Us......

Day at the River!!

Miss Karsyn (a friends little one) few from WA. We haven't seen her since she was 2 months old. Now 16 months and such a sweetheart!

Zachary just a little cold at first but soon warmed up to it.

Dana, Karsyn, Trinity, Savannah, Zachie, Sierra & Tristian

Miss Savannah

Sierra & Zachary's favorite spot on the river......the beach so they can build sand castles

Our boys......

Tristian taking a break.

Miss Trinity

and yes the two little ones back to playing in the sand. I think we need to have Daddy build someone a sand box, they LOVE it!!!!!!

(Left to right) Sierra, Karsyn, Zachary & Savannah

please excuse the blurry pic....but it's the only one I got with the two of them. She loved Dave!!

If any of you are ever in this area there is a little store w/ produce stand called "Sharon's Country Store" in Newport WA off of Hwy 2/Newport Hwy. It is my new favorite place. They have great produce and lot's of Organic & Gluten Free products. As well as good solid wooden "older style" toys and other gifts and handmade wood furniture all made in the U.S. mind you. Anyways they have these little kid carts so Zachary & Miss Karsyn had a great time doing some shopping. They didn't know if they were coming or going and Zachary got this really cool airplane that you build so his big brother helped him with that when we got home. It's a great store I go there weekly and am working on getting new kitchen decor from them.....one piece at a time.

I see one of these chicken coops in my future.....I don't know if my husband knows but I'm sure he does now.....lol!

Newport Lavender Festival 2011

So peaceful and smelt oh soooo good. Left with a few goodies and will definitely be back next year with the whole family. This year I only took Savannah so she got some one on one time with mom....dad wasn't to excited to go.....

Savannah's Splatter Art Work

My sissy...aka....Aunt Lala made it to town just in time for our big family/friend BBQ July 3rd.....that was originally her idea, I really really wanted her here. Let me fill you in on a little story about her getting here. For those of you who don't know her boyfriend Herb is a long haul truck driver from coast to coast but rarely and I mean rarely gets to the Pacific Northwest. I get to see her about every 6 months and I'm lucky if it's that soon. It's not the easiest to get her home because of the job. So she was suppose to be here June 30th (giving her enough time to get her for the BBQ etc.) well that day came and went. Our dear momma made it here and that was GREAT!! Meanwhile we are texting back and fourth. The last text I got from her was Saturday the July 2nd and that she was stuck in Portland Oregon. Then comes Sunday (day of party) and at 10:30am ish we text and it's clear she isn't gunna make....... I cried, my momma tried to calm me down....I was just really bummed. So I text her best friend Mary who happens to live in Spokane and was coming to the party and asked if she heard from sis. She was bummed too and I told her that my mom was going to be leaving in a few hours and I know they wanted to see each other. So Mary texts back and says to have my mom wait that she (Mary) was on her way and wanted to see her. It had been decades since they last saw each other. An hour goes by and one of the kids says someone was here.....I looked out the window of our living room and there was Mary......then I saw someone else and I knew it wasn't her other half....looked closer and it was my SISSY!!!!!! Mary and Deb drove to Portland to pick her up so she could make the party!!!!! We cried and cried and cried some more. Dang I love those girls!!!! So Herb didn't make it this year to see the fireworks, he got here on Tuesday and we did nothing but bbq all week. So our plans now are to go to New Orleans next Feb. which is where he is from. We are super excited and love the fact that there are such great people in the world like Mary & Deb for getting my sister here in time......love you guys more then you know!!

Lala & Karsyn

Lala being silly

Herb & Lala at Riley Creek Campground on the Pend Oreille River

Lala & Trinity saying goodbye

Lala w/ Lala from the teletubbies......LOL Had to get a pic!!

I hope I didn't put ya' all to sleep with this very long blog ......but this wraps up the last 6 weeks of updates and what we've been up too. Onto our next adventure to Silverwood in August and loving all the friends that have been out to see us this summer and to those who are still to come!!!!! God Bless!!!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Part 3 of 6 week updates.......

And we get to move in earlier then first thought!! Yeah so June 13Th we got the keys. Here is some pictures of home and family fun in "our" perfect backyard.

The kids favorite play set....and yes that's Tristian's 6'2" frame on that toy......we set the rules! LOL In the background to the left is part of my garden that I had to straighten up and get to planting.

The backside of our house and the nice big ol' deck for lot's of entertaining. Which we love. There has been many mornings of sitting out there early in the morning soaking up the sun before the kids all wake up.......so peace and quiet.

Living room before getting settled in.......can't wait to use the 2 new pellet stoves. One here and one on the bottom floor!!!

Sorry for the picture quality....not that good but you get the drift. We're finally getting all settled in and all the boxes are now unpacked and out of the house......we actually found a nice lady and her son looking for some at a store and had her follow us home and gave everyone to them. Ugh I never want to see a brown U-haul box again!

and then there's Dave's "doghouse". It's quite nice and friends and family that have been here always say they could stay/live out there. Dave says, "not so much!" It's a true man dream of a shop with tools and all and a wood stove! He hides from the kids, until they figure out where he is and gets to start working with wood again which he loves.

Did I mention he gets to hide.....until a kid finds him??? Well here's Savannah finding him and helping him clean up his mess from building me a small table for a upcoming BBQ gathering. (Future posts)

Dad building my table......

Backyard Play

Tug-a-war

5 against 1

Miss Savannah

Partial pic of our front yard. Dad is already thinking about how he's gunna get Christmas lights on this huge tree.....and I mean all the way up.....

Sierra helping momma garden

Mr Max got stung by a bee......poor little guy

HOOP FEST 2011

This was the first year Tristian has ever played in Hoop fest in Spokane. He played on a local team of friends from Worley. Since we had to move sooner and all of that happened after we signed him up to play, he ended up staying with his coach for about 10 days so he could get practice in and everything. He had a lot of fun but I missed him like crazy! They didn't end up doing to well but they had fun playing. For some reason when all the paper work was done and filed they were put in the wrong bracket. This team was a beginners team but yet they played an experienced team...who knows oh well.