April 09

Let It Snow!

March 2009!

Start Your Engines!

A day at the zoo

Presidents Day was beautiful. The sun was out, the air was crisp, and the kids were out of school. Harold was also off so he packed up the kids AND their friends and headed to the zoo. They had a great time. I wish I had taken the day off!

Kyle's Table Manors

If you have had dinner at our house you know that Kyle feels very stongly about NO ELBOWS ON THE TABLE WHILE WE ARE EATING. It is the one table rule that he watches for every time we eat. We were eating dinner one night and I couldn't believe it when I saw that he had his elbows right up there on the table. He was pretty embarrsed that he had been caught! The next thing we know he hikes his leg up on the table and starts munching away. When we ask him what the heck he thinks he is doing he simply states "feet on the table isn't one of our dinner rules" You can bet it is now!

Congraulations Nickie!

Here is Nickie and her freinds on February 10th getting thier Honor Role awards for having a 3.5 or higher GPA for the first semester. Great Job Nickie. We are so proud of her!

February 2009!

Go Lady Pilots!

Here is Nickie slammen down the balls at the Volley Ball jamboree! Her team came in 3rd Place!

Funny Faces!

Christmas 2008

These are a long time coming but I wanted to get them posted anyway. We had a nice quiet Christmas this year, with everyone going in different directions it is getting harder and harder to get everyone together. We had a great time regardless. Uncle Dave spoiled us all as usual and we had lots of good food and lots of fun!

January 2009!

Happy New Year From Our Family To Yours!

Our House in 1915

Now here is a something you just won’t believe.
An envelope came in the mail today and it contained two pictures of our house and a very nice Christmas card from someone we have never met.
A lady who lives in Lakewood was looking thru her grandmother’s photo albums and came across pictures of our house. She believes the photos were taken in 1915 when the house was owned by her great grandparents. Her grandmother was the one who took the photo along with another one of her children sitting on our porch. Carol, the woman who sent us this information gave us a brief history of her grandparents and who they were and also left her email address and told us she would be happy to talk with us about any history of the house that she know of. I can’t wait to call her after the holidays to see if she has some more photos. We have been trying to get some old photos of our house for some time thru the historical association in Tacoma but with little luck. Just in case you didn’t know our house was built in 1902 and from what we have gathered has had very few families who have owned it.

Lila & Kyle playing in the snow!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Wow, what a birthday present I got. It started snowing on December 18th around noon and just kept snowing and snowing and snowing. It was coming down so hard our office closed at 4:30pm, our Anchorage office had a good laugh over that. It took me one and half hours to get home; it usually takes about fifteen minutes. When I finally did get home we went out to dinner with Scott and his mom. It continued snowing throughout the week-end.The kids had a so much fun sledding and playing in the snow and Baily was so funny, the snow was deeper that she was tall so it was quite a site

Kyle's Thanksgiving Play

Kyle was in his class play for the Thanksgiving holiday. He was an Indian chief and had a very important line "I am the Chief of my Tribe" he did a great job. Big sis Nickie was there to cheer him on along with Mom & Dad. We were so proud of him. After the play we had a feast at school with all his class mates.

A big day is fast approaching

Just a reminder: We have a Birthday to celebrate on Friday December 5th! Kyle is turning 6 years old! can you believe it? He wanted to thank Grandpa John and Nana Lydia for the book, we have been reading a story every night since it arrived. We will be having a birthday party on Saturday December 20th, more info to follow on that.

New addition to our family

After the sad passing of Lucy, our cocker spaniel of seven years who developed breast cancer I was convinced that we shouldn't get any more animals.........then came the trip to the pet store where Baily Jean with her big brown eyes and waging tail was just too irresistible. So now we add one miniature dachshund along with our cat Blackie, Kyle's turtle (who he named clam) who came all the way from New York with me on the plane, and our new squater cat who has moved into our garage (without our permission) and who we can't get rid of and of course the fish. Baily has turned out to be a great little dog if you forgot about the fact that she pee's and poops on the deck if its raining, she digs under the trampoline until she's black, she escapes out of the yard and is impossible to catch, she nips at anyone she doesn't know, she bites Kyle, growls at Nickie and piddles when she gets excited. Ah life is great.

Rest in Peace Lucy, we miss you.

Halloween 2008

It was a great day for pumpkin hunt! So we loaded everyone up and headed to Puyallup. We checked out the animals, corn maze and I, once again took first prize at work at our annual Halloween costume contest.