6 Year Anniversary

Cirdan and I celebrated out wedding anniversary by getting away and staying in Bellevue for a couple nights. We stayed at the same place we stayed when I was pregnant with Cannon. We had fun then so we figured we would have fun again. My mom watched the kids for us which we appreciated. We relaxed, shopped, ate out at restaurants and went and saw a movie. On Sunday we got home for a couple hours and then Taryn came over to watch the kids so that we could go to the Seahawks game. The hotel that we stayed in was the hotel where the Seahawks players stay before each home game. It was a funny surprise. There were some fans out in the lobby and Seahawks players walking around all over the place.
We ordered and picked up Daniel's Broiler food one night. It was close enough to walk to. When we got back to the room we realized we had no knives which made it hard for me to eat my steak. Oh, and I will never do that again. Spend a bunch of money on expensive food to pick up. It wasn't very good! Blah.

My stalker picture of a player as I was waiting for Cirdan to load the car

love him

The night we were there we set a Guinness Book of world record. It was the loudest stadium thus far. I swear some of those guys went home with hernias or something from yelling so loud. It was intense but it was fun!

There was a ton of lightening so the game was delayed for a while. Cirdan got season tickets from Leon Washington (one of the players) and at first I was kind of bummed that I wasn't sitting down by the field but as soon as the rain came I LOVED the seats! You can actually see the whole field AND you stay dry!

Taryn had the kids make a super cute anniversary card! She is truly the best nanny! The kids love her and she is always doing something creative with them. Now that she is at college we are all super sad.

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I can't believe it has been 6 years! We have been together for 8 years now. Every year we go thru all the good things that have happened. 2 houses….a business….3 kids….well 4 since Ava wasn't in our lives when we got married….a few cars….lots of fun vacations….etc

I love Cirdan and am such a lucky girl! I can't wait to see what this next year brings us and what we can add to our 'list'.

An Interview With Kaiya

Found this in stuff Kaiya brought home last year and I forgot to scan and blog. This was an interview that one of her classmates did. Always fun to look back and see how their answers have changed over the years.

5th Grade

Ella's Artwork

Here are some paintings Ella has done in Kindergarten in the last couple weeks. I love looking at all the     creative things they have been doing.

This was a picture that she made in preschool last year. I have been wanting to scan and post and finally did it today!

Jett 3 Years

Height 91 cm - 2' 11.83" - 10.16%
Weight - 29 lb - 21.47%

Jett Goes to Preschool

I was lucky and got invited to be in a group of ladies who do a co-op preschool group. Each week we meet one day for a few hours so the kids can have a little lesson, do activities and play. There were 6 of us (now 5) and we take turns teaching. The kids have a lot of fun and the moms really get into preparing activities for them. Each week there is a letter and number that they learn. I had my 1st week teaching and we learned all about the letter C (no number for some reason).

What a big boy

He had to wear his Elmo backpack

Aren't They Cute?

More Pool and Going Home

And here we go again….with more pool pictures. We have been home a week now and it is all like a dream now. A very, good, awesome, amazing dream that I wish would have lasted a while longer. I love the way the sun makes me feel. It is hard to be mean or angry when it is sunny and nice out. Even putting on flip flops makes me happy.  We are always so busy at home. Cirdan with work….Kaiya with dance and school…Ella with school and dance and gymnastics. Its nice to take a week and just hang out as a family. I also like taking someone with us (like Kaylee) to keep us on our best behavior. We got a long for the most part and created memories.

Things we did….

Saw a movie (Cirdan, Jett, Ella and Kaylee)

Shopped

Ate at Cafe Rio - 2 times - 2nd time there was a fly in my salad. I don't know if I will ever eat there again.

Ate at In-N-Out

Met some friends for frozen yogurt

Went to the Seahawks game

Searched for Seahawks gear in Arizona :)

Explored the hotel (didn't do that last year)

Took Kaiya to her Grandmas house and picked her up one night from her Aunts house. I haven't seen them for about 9 years so that was fun to see how much the kids have grown. Nancy and Darrel still look the same.

Drove around looking at houses and areas

Relaxed

This makes me laugh every time. Kaylee is the worlds best photo bomber. She is known for her photo bombs. She went down the slide, got out and photo bombed Kaiya without even realizing it! We were laughing so hard! You can tell she realizes when she is right in front of the camera. She cracks me up.

Cropped picture around his thumbs up and feet. ha ha

Every time we would drive past ASU on the freeway Kaiya wanted to take a picture.

We drove around the campus one day to give her a look around. She is totally determined to go there for college. I did hear that it is now the #2 party school instead of #1. That takes some of my concern away…..NOT!!!

So bright on our Washington eyes

We took Kaiya to say goodbye to her Grandma and Grandpa. Her grandma was talking about coming up to Washington to watch one of her dance competitions. I sure hope she does.  They have only seen one little video of one of her dances. I don't think they realize how good she really is. They have also never been up to Washington and would be fun for them to see where their son and granddaughter live.

The sunset was beautiful

Right after the car was loaded up with our luggage the kids had to touch the cactus one last time. Jett wanted to touch a cactus every chance he got (which was frequent)  :)    This was a not so fun experience for Jett. He ended up falling on round cactus on the bottom right hand corner and was bleeding.

We took some pictures at the hotel. There was a couple courtyards with fountains. We didn't even know they were there last year. Super pretty

Now we just need to start planning our next vacation!