Fun Times in Washington

James at Multnomah Falls. He was so happy to be out of the car.

This is actually the night we got home. We went to the KC and the Sunshine Band concert on Labor Day. We had fun, but it got really cold, and a little boy(who will go unnamed) spilled pink lemonade all over one of the blankets. We cuddled up close for a little bit, but the kids were pretty cold, and Emma didn't like the female dancers and she asked to leave. So we went home. It was fun while we were there.

On our drive home we made a quick stop at Multnomah Falls. Emma was kind of grumpy and didn't want her picture taken, Geoff snuck a few while she wasn't paying attention.

Emma did want to take pictures of us though(her new hobby is to grab a camera and start shooting), she did a pretty good job with this one of us.

Emma and James love to play duck-duck-goose. They played it for awhile at Geoff's parents house. We got a kick out of watching them take turns.

Geoff's parents and the kids in Long Beach

James in the giant frying pan

I love this picture of James playing in the sand. He wasn't sure about the sand and water at first, but he loved it once he got going.

We were really lucky and it was a pretty decent day at the beach. The kids played for a long time. I don't think I've ever had such a nice day at a Washington beach before, it usually rains.

Emma was determined to make a sand castle...as you can see, my castle building skills need a little work...but she was still happy. Grandma later helped Emma decorate it with sea shells and bird feathers...I thought I got a picture of it, but i can't find it, so I must not have.

Emma also really wanted to fly a kite...but once Geoff got it going she was ready to move on to the sand castles...but James had fun with it.

There were some giant seaweed the first day we were there. Geoff picked one up and started playing with and James found one of his own to play with. It was pretty heavy, but James got it figured out. My camera battery died so unfortunately I didn't get too many good pictures of this...he really had a blast with it.

Emma picked up a lot of sea shells the first day. she thought that was pretty neat.

James just liked to pick up the sand

We took the kids to the Chinese Gardens one of the first day. Emma had fun with a map they gave her. It had different things on it that she was supposed to find, like a little treasure hunt. She found most of it on her own. This is one of the things she had to find, and as you can see, she had to make some funny faces.

James having a melt down on the way there...he did such a good job until about the last hour of our 13 hour drive.

Lunch at Dairy Queen came with ice cream of course.

This has nothing to do with our trip, but I just wanted to get it up before I forgot. I made this cake for a princess tiana birthday party. It's the first "barbie" cake I've made.

Our trip to Washington was a lot of fun. The kids loved playing with their cousins...and their cousins were so good to them while we were there. It was great to see our family and a few friends(sorry to those we missed). We were so happy that we got to go have fun for the last little bit of summer. Wish we could see Geoff's family more often (hint, hint--come visit).

Thanksgiving Point Gardens

Every August Thanksgiving point does $2 tuesdays...which means that we get into the gardens for super cheap. I like to take the kids every year and do my own little photo shoot. We had a rough start getting them to cooperate, and I don't think that James ever really did, but I was lucky to get some good pictures. This is a long post, but well worth it, all the pictures turned out great, and this isn't even half of them.
James loves to run, everywhere!
Emma is actually getting fairly good at posing, although some of them are silly. I love when she gets silly like that, it's fun to watch her little sense of humor and see her funny faces.

James likes to make funny faces too.




I love this picture! James loves his daddy so much and they have a pretty good relationship. He is always asking me where's dad? I'm just not as much fun.











They had a lot of fun with the fish. I don't remember the fish from the last time we went, but there were tons of them! luckily I had a few quarters so I could buy some food to feed them. They thought it was great.


This is one of my favorites. Emma and James love each other so much. They play pretty well together too. James is always sad when we drop Emma off at preschool, and very excited when we pick her up. Emma misses James while he's asleep and often asks when he is going to wake up.






One of her silly poses.
James wasn't trying but he was doing a pretty good job at posing too...not sure what this one is about, but I love it.



He's trying to learn to jump. My fear is that when he really learns how we will be spending a lot more time at the pediatricians office for broken bones and stitches. The kid has no fear! The pediatrician did tell me at one of our last appointments that he see's stitches in my future...so do I! but I guess that's what you get with little boys.

The kids have been having so much fun. Emma has started preschool again and she is loving it. Her teacher is Miss Wendi, and I think Emma really likes her. She is learning her numbers right now and she is doing great with them. She has also been coloring like crazy, her pictures are looking more like pictures than just blobs of color. She can write her name, but insists that there are 2 a's a little a and a big a. I also taught her to write mom...we are still working on dad.

James is starting to say more and more words. He is very energetic, he loves to climb and make lots of messes...I thinks he makes them just because he can...oh well, he keeps me busy!

We have just a couple more weeks till our long awaited trip to disneyland! we have been planning this trip for over a year and we are very excited for it. It might be extra fun because some really good friends of ours(curtis, nicole and benjamin) might be going at the same time, the kids would absolutely love to have their best friend there. We can't wait for a fun trip.