Packing fun...

Hallie making sure she's not forgotten...Breaking up the packing blues

Happy Halloween

Here's Phil and Lil...

I think we did pretty good... (we weren't completely accurate, drew the line at the romper and spared him from the pink onsie!)

Can I just say how difficult it is to get pictures of these 2 now! They are all over the place- looking here, looking there, going here, and going there!

We had a fun weekend, hitting up dinner at the church, skipping out on the trunk-or-treat to head up to Spokane. Saw some friends and "practiced" for our cross-country drive with attempting naps in the car... should be interesting!

Fun Site

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Our "mini-adventure"

I have to share how awesome my husband is... Ty earned extra bonus points a couple weekends ago by planning and arranging a night away for us minus the babes! It was our first night away from them TOGETHER. We dropped Micah off with his parents and Hallie off with mine and headed out for "dinner in Yakima," or at least that's where he told me we were going... after telling me we should just stay overnight at our parents house cause the babies would be asleep (such a sneaky fella) I kinda thought something was up, but we continued on with our plans for "dinner in yakima."

So every 10 miles he gives me a letter in the name of the place we were going... A E R O N and by this time we were past the Yakima exits...

"we're not going to Yakima are we?"

and with a cheesy grin on his face, "he says noooo..."

"ummm... are we going to Leavenworth?"

"hee hee, yeah"


"YES!!!!!!!!"

K, I really didn't scream YES in the car, but that's what I was thinking! We had an awesome time, hitting up the exercise room in the hotel, watching the Boise State football game, soakin in the hot tub, getting some snacks from the store and yes of course... SLEEPING!!!!! The Inn where we stayed has an awesome buffet breakfast complete with an Alphorn for entertainment. We walked around town, bought some funky sunglasses, and headed home... it was a perfect night away. I was a failure though and forgot my camera in the diaper bag and sad times his phone was acting up and we didn't get any pics!


Just so you all know how truly awesome Ty can be, the reasons he planned this were... I mentioned in passing that I really needed some fresh mountain air, I've told him how cool the Enzian Inn is on several occassions over the last 11 years :) (and now he totally agrees with me!), AND he noticed I was getting stressed and needed some time away! Now how's that for being a good hubby?!?

What I really want...

What I really want to do tonight is forget the election, forget the DISASTER in my house and curl up on the couch with my nice comfy blanky, sip some hot cocoa (with marshmallows of course), and read my new splurge from costco...

Our Big Adventure!!!

I know you guys haven't been able to think of anything else all week, wondering what our adventure is so I'll put you all out of your misery... we're going to Washington DC for 4 months!! How's that for an adventure!?! It gets even better let me tell you... we're driving the whole way! with 2 one year olds! and we're leaving the 1st of December!

Who? When? What? Where? Why? How? you ask... well I already told you the who, when, and the where so as paul harvey would say... "here's the rest of the story"


What: Tyson has always dreamed of doing something with the military around the DC area, something came open, he applied on a whim and got it! He will be the program manager for mortuary affairs/honor guard at the Federal Guard Bureau- not only an awesome opportunity for his military career, but for his civilian career as well! double bonus there


Where: we'll actually be living in Alexandria, VA he'll be working on Andrews AFB


Why: well I answered some of those above, but it also pays twice what he makes now, and is an awesome opportunity for our family to see and do things that are pretty difficult living over here


How: We'll pack up our bare necessities in the good ol tahoe (and maybe a trailer) and head on out! K maybe not that simple but I don't want to think about everything that has to be done in the next couple weeks! and yes if you didn't catch this at the beginning I think we are OFFICIALLY NUTS for driving across the country... so if anyone has any traveling advice with little ones let me hear it PLEASE!!!

1 year pics

One year later I FINALLY made it in to get Micah and Hallie's pics done, with the advice of Lisa and with the last minute help of erica I headed down to JCP's and got them done! So here they are!

if you made it this far which I'm sure you did- cause they are so FLIPPIN' cute! HOPEFULLY TONIGHT I'll fill you all in on our "Adventure" cross your fingers we'll get our answer today!