So I've been a terrible blogger lately and decided I need to cut it out. Really... these are precious memories!!! I also decided that if I try to catch up on everything we've experienced since I last blogged... I'll give up before I get going again. So while I recognize we had a trip to the Olympic Peninsula and 4 birthdays and Christmas and Thanksgiving and Halloween and lots of sporting events and a few trips to Utah and a few visitors from Utah... I'm starting with the most recently uploaded pictures and hope I won't forget those precious memories I'm skipping.
Here are some of my favorite pics from over the last month.
This one. Because Andrew was really scared to fly on an airplane for the first time. He did great by the way.
After our airplane trip and getting the rental car and driving for awhile we stopped at this beautiful temple. We kept asking the kids to be more reverent, but I guess I can't blame them too much because it was the first time they could really run after a long day of sitting.
This one just makes me laugh because Lizzy wasn't quite thrilled by this ride and wasn't exactly keen on me taking a picture of it. LOL!!
I like this one because it reminds me that Lizzy really has this very quiet, introspective part of her personality. While the other kids were digging and playing on the beach, she spent a long half hour at least just gazing out... like this. Not that she doesn't enjoy all the play, but she's a thinker too. I like coming to know all the sides of my kids.
This one is just because yep.... that's where we went.
Grayson loved the Star Wars stuff. He is pretty into Yoda and pretty into weird smiles lately, so these two pictures fit the bill.
We all really liked this picture because when you zoom in on Sam's face... it looks like his head is floating. That's fun... right?
Ninjas.... awesome.
This isn't the best picture with the sun in our eyes, but I wanted to show how close we actually got to be to these sea lions. Seriously it was awesome.
Like I mentioned above about Lizzy, this is the other side of Sam. His goofy, hamming it up side.
Grayson and I did some yard work and he wanted to climb a tree, and he kind of got stuck, but also asked me to take a picture... so here it is.
Our Japanese student Kaho. Grayson called her Eastin almost the entire time she was here. No one knows why. We worked pretty hard on it and finally on the last day, he started calling her Ha-Ho. He and Kaho had a pretty cute relationship. We were sad to see her go.
Spring. In our yard. Yay!!
Kaho pretty much did whatever Grayson wanted her too. Meaning... she sometimes played blocks for an hour at a time. Nice girl for sure. :)
The gum wall. Really really gross.
We discovered the troll under the Fremont Bridge recently. Who knew? This was seriously awesome. So many things to do and pictures to take with a giant troll under a bridge. Like this one..pretending to pick his nose...
...or you could climb on top of his head....
....or pretend to be caught under his giant fingers...
the possibilities are endless..
