An Easter Blessing

Lis and Bobby had baby Robbie blessed on Easter Sunday. We were so happy to be there with them on their special day.  

 

Living in a hotel

Hallie and Maddie were playing with a suitcase pretending to go to the hotel. 

Hallie said, "let's go live at the hotel." 

Maddie asked, "why are we going to live in the hotel?"

To which Hallie replied, "we are going to live in the hotel because we don't have a house."

So true Hallie, so true. 

4 1/2 Interview with Micah and Hallie

Interview with Hallie
How old are you?
What is your favorite Color? Pink
What is your favorite Food? Quesadilla
What is your favorite Toy? Princesses
Where is your favorite Place to go? To Tri-Cities, to the mall.
What is your favorite game? Duck duck goose
What is your favorite Snack? uhhh... fruit!
What is your favorite animal? uhhh... a horse and a pony.
What is your favorite thing to drink? uhhh... juice
Who is your best friend? Rylee at church.
Who are your other friends? Maddie and Rylee- Rylee the little baby. 
Who is your honey? Micah
What are your favorite clothes? uhh a dress.
What is your favorite movie? uhhh... Cat and the Hat
What is your favorite thing to do outside? uhhh... jump on the trampoline.
What is your favorite thing to do inside? Twirl like a princess.
What is your favorite song? Twinkle
What is your favorite book? uhhh... Tangled.
Where do you want to go in the car? I want to go to the ball.
What is your favorite candy? candy cane!
What makes you happy?
What is your favorite TV show?
What are you really good at?
What do you and your mom do together?
What do you and your Dad do together?
What is your favorite sport?
What do you want to be when you grow up?




Interview with Micah
How old are you?
What is your favorite Color: Green, I like 10 colors. Green, blue, pink, purple, brown, light blue, dark blue, and light green, and red and orange.
What is your favorite Food: Umm. Umm. Chicken nuggets! Dinosaur chicken nuggets.
What is your favorite Toy: Trains! And airplanes.
Where is your favorite Place to go: Spokane.
What is your favorite game: Thomas.
What is your favorite Snack: Strawberries and bananas, the hard ones, in the begs. (bags)
What is your favorite animal? Crocodile.
What is your favorite thing to drink? Umm... juice.
Who is your best friend? Evan.
Who are your other favorites: Madison, Rylee, Jordan and that's all.
Who is your honey? You.
What are your favorite clothes? Train clothes.
What is your favorite movie? Umm... Thomas the Train.
What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride my bike. 
What is your favorite thing to do inside? Play with toys.
What is your favorite song? A funny song. Fonko star.
What is your favorite book?  Cave book.
Where do you want to go in the car? To a puzzle place. Where you buy puzzles.
What is your favorite candy? candy cane and chocolate covered strawberries
What makes you happy?
What is your favorite TV show?
What are you really good at?
What do you and your mom do together?
What do you and your Dad do together?
What is your favorite sport?
What do you want to be when you grow up?

Over the mountains and through the woods...

To Grandma's house we go.  One of the best parts about living in Yelm was being able to take back roads and White Pass home to Prosser whenever we needed to go.  Such an enjoyable scenic drive especially on a sunny day.  Here are some pictures from the drive, mainly from the Skate Creek area between Ashford and Packwood. 

Highway 7 towards Mt. Rainier National Park

The mountain from Skate Creek Road. 

Skate Creek Road

Skate Creek

Dear Dad

Dear Dad,

What am I doing? I love daddy, and I love animals and trains and superheros and I have a poster and I love playing outside. And I love playing in the snow and in the dirt too. I like playing at beaches and on the trampoline and that's all. That's what I love to do, that's all that I love to do.  What did you have for breakfast?

Love Micah

micah

Dear Dad

Daddy, it's fun to go to ballet. When we go to ballet tonight, when it's Friday I go to ballet, and when I have a dress and butterfly wings, and when I go to sleep it is fun. You will be far away and when I get to the airport I will give you a big hug.

I had cheerleader pompoms and that's all I want to say. We went to the basketball and when I got in the car when we went home we went tonight. I ate pizza and juice aaaand that's all I want to say. Maddie and Jordan were there.

Love you Hallie.

Mini Adventures

When we were in Virginia, we started a tradition of going on drives every weekend and ever since then we've continued that tradition. This past Sunday I took Micah, Hallie and Maddie for a drive. We ended up at Crow Butte this week. The kids had a great time playing in the sand and searching for treasures. I entertained myself by taking pictures. :)

A few weeks ago, we ended up on the Canyon Road outside of Yakima, we played at a campsite, checked out the river, and went on a short hike. To Micah's delight we even had a train pass us and honk at us.

 

 

Micah, Hallie and I drove to Dayton several weeks ago and explored the area some. They really wanted to have a picnic even though it was FA-REEZING! I found a place to pull off and we braved the wind for a few minutes and had some cheese and crackers.  It was a fun day, but we greatly missed Tyson.  We explored the town of Dayton, had cookies at a little bakery and browsed around some cute shops.  It was the first time that all 3 of us legitimately enjoyed browsing together in a store.  It was so fun! After our romp around town, we headed out towards the mountains where we accidentally went mud-bogging which was a blast until I realized how stupid it was for me to be by myself with 2 children in the car.  I eventually made it back down the road safely, but learned my lesson- no more solo back road mud bogging!

Sharing sprinkles... Makes me smile :)