Monday, July 30, 2012

Addison’s big show

June 4, Addison finished a fun semester of Little Gym. Just for fun, let’s compare all my girls at the same age (4) doing little gym:

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How much do Symantha and Addison look alike??  Such fun memories of each of them. We love Little Gym.

Here are some pics of Addi’s big show:

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Memorial Day… a couple months later

I just loved some of these pictures, so wanted to do some backtracking.  A few days in Cle Elum relaxing, a good time as always. The mosquitos were pretty bad though, so Addison’s eye was almost swelled shut by the second day. Sad, but still cute:)

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Check out the size of that leaf she found!

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

July ten on ten

Busy day today. Symantha’s birthday party was tonight, and it’s still going strong at 12:30am (although everyone is in sleeping bags and it will be over soon… hopefully:)) The little girls went to hang out with Nana for a few hours and now are camping out in our bedroom. Today also included some early runs of the new zipline, which is pretty fun.

Here is our day in pics.

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I love summer and being able to have a party on a TuesdaySmile

More ten on ten fun HERE

Monday, June 11, 2012

June 10 on 10

Missed last month, back at it this month. Tenth of the month, ten pictures over ten hours. Here goes:

Sister Visit

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Church

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Scrabble spelling

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Enjoying sunshine

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Catching up on the blog

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Mom taking a break (taken by Hailey)

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Pretty

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Mickey Bouncy house

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Eating watermelon in bright sunshine

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Cupcake monsters

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

An Adventurous Mother’s Day

I loved Mother’s day this year. The weather was awesome, sunny and warm. I got to spend the whole day with my family on an adventure from 8am until bed time. We had great food, hit a couple of different parks, explored, hit the beach, ate more great food, and ended the evening with all of the Edwards’ clan at our house for dessert. I was thoroughly spoiled by my husband and girls. And I got to take lots of pictures. Perfect. Here are some highlights:

Symantha made a scavenger hunt for me in the morning, leading to my gifts. Pretty cute.

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This is the coolest park we found in West Seattle, Camp Long. Lots of climbing and exploring.

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I love my family and great days like this.

Our new pets

Doing some serious blog catch up, here. I have been MIA for I think the longest ever on  my blog. I miss it. So I am feeling motivated and am actually going to get some things posted, hopefully over the next few days. If I say it, I will have to do it, right?

The big girls have been begging for a pet for a long time, and our two outdoor dogs are not cutting it. After doing research to find some sort of pet that is not smelly, messy, harmful to our house, or requiring a lot of work for me, we decided to let them get some gerbils. Because gerbils are social creatures, they prefer to be together and we could get three in one cage – bonus.

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So the next day, we headed to the pet store. What an adventure for each of them to pick one out and get everything we needed.  They were SUPER excited to put this altogether and have them home. All I could think of was these little creatures look very similar to what I was afraid of in our temporary home while we built our house. Mouse, gerbil, it’s all the same. But the girls love them, and I have grown to kind of like them too.

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Meet Symantha’s gerbil, Cicely:

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Hailey’s gerbil, Rocky:

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And Addison’s gerbil, Makayla.

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Don’t you love these names? They have changed a number of times, but I think they are settled now.

So far, so good with the new little pets.