Free Kisses

Well, Izzy decided she wants to join the wrestling team, ( there are alot of girls on this area that wrestle, including her Aunt Ryan) so this morning we are running late for school, and she was arguing with me about taking her shorts and shirt to school with her. I told her she didn't need to, she would come home before wrestling practice tonight. So anyways Suni gets to my house to pick her up and she left mad at me. At the school when the girls were getting out of the car, Suni asked Maddy for a kiss, and Isabelle said" I guess I'll take one of those, since my mom didn't give me one this morning!" Very funny, I'll make sure to give her a bunch of kisses tonight.

Happy Halloween!

Isabelle was a movie star & Dylan was scary guy.Shawn dressed up as Mike Myers and sat in a chair by the garage with a strobe light on him- he would move just slightly, people were poking him to see if he was real, we heard a lot of screams. My Dad dressed up like a clown and passed out over 250 full size candybars. He loves Halloween. we had fun trick or treating- Dylan got to go with his friends on his own fo rthe first time.

Locks of Love

Isabelle donated 10 inches of her beautiful hair to locks of love today. She looks so cute, though a little more grown up- not quite as babyish looking.

Also Izzy & Maddy had their dance recital last Saturday, it was very cute. dance is now over for at last the summer, maybe after soccer season we will put her in something, she wants to do ballet or hip hop.- I have to admit the hip hop is so cute.

Mossyrock weekend

The kids had a few minor crashes riding their bikes down this hill.(this is the bottom half) it is much longer and steeper.

How about those ribs? They taste as good as they look, Shawn cooks these for about 5 hrs.
Blackjack & Katie 's dog Tallulah made their camping debut this year. Blackjack was surprisingly a great dog!

This year Katie & Jake joined our annual Mossyrock camping trip. We had a beautiful day on Saturday (upper 70's) then about 10:00 pm or so Thunder and lightning hit us. It was a huge down pour and we basically had a river running through our camp site and around the tents. I felt very sorry for them and for the first time I was thankful Shawn insisted on getting our camper. we packed up early sunday morning and hit Spiffy's buffet breakfast it was horrible compared to our camping breakfast.

We also took Dylan's friends Joey & Kyle with us, who had never been camping. They had such a good time and want to know when we are going again. We will have to go a few times this summer, maybe even hit Millersylvania.

Maddy & Izzy show

Izzy & Maddy got to show ahorses at the Elma Horse show , they both did really well, and loved getting ribbons. This will probably be the only show we participate in, as they are very HECTIC.-(picture my mom & Rob in a public place, in a hurry, and very unorganized) I'm sure you can imagine a little fighting.
Anyways, just got home from Dylans game, He got to play 2nd base, and they got a kid in the pickle- ( tag) i call it. They got him out and Dylan did not skip a beat, I was very proud- He also caught his first pop fly! We lost, but it was still a good game.

Izzy & I had a photo shoot a while back, here are a pics.

More Lodge Pics

Here are some more pics of the Lodge.

Also, Izzy & Maddy are all ready for coach pitch. We had our first game yesterday, they both did good and got hits, it was raining & snowing off & on so I didn't bring my camera, but when we tried on the uni's we took some. I think Izzy has a great stance, And yes -she does this through out the entire game. She's always ready right behind 1st base.

Great Wolf Lodge Fun

Ryan had her 11th birthday party at our new Grand Mound attraction, The Great Wolf Lodge. We had a great time we spent 2 days riding water slides and wave pooling it. Dylan turned into quite the ladies man, he has his first girlfriend now-Brook, the little blond girl. He started acting so cool, even giving her his tickets from the arcade,the ones you redeem for a cheap prizes,like bouncy balls & wooden airplanes, (which I might add he loves!) Then Brookbought him a stuffed animal with the tickets. My kids had fun until there toes were bleeding( literally) well, just Stone & Izzy's.Kelly of course thought we abused her son,we told her there were quite a few children that were bloody.

It was from the wave pool.

The pic w/ Shawn & the kids is of this big bucket that fills with water and dumps a huge amount of water on us.

We finally packed up & went home.

just thought I would post a pic of Suni- I know -they are BIG!

opening day

Saturday was opening day for Dylan's baseball.

It was a very, very long day that started at 8:30 am and ended 5:50 pm, we could not have had better weather though, it was beautiful and I will tell you baseball has sure gotten fun to watch, the last time D played ( he skipped last year) the kids skill level was not very high. It is down right exciting now, they make plays and steal bases. Our team was down 5 to nothing, and D got on base and stole 3rd and home and scored the first run. As you can see by the pic he was a little bored in left field, and also pre-occupied with his new "cup" he hates it and cannot leave his hands off it. any way-we lost 7 to 3 but the kids were still excited, and that was only their first game, they'll warm up. I'm looking forward to a great season- I am one of those loud, cheering mothers, I just need to get the lingo down. As I was watching the game I remembered in high school there was one mother in particular who used to yell out sayings like, "give him the high hard one!" or " make him wish he had" I thought about giving those a try, but I still don't know what they mean. we'll see as the season goes on.