Wintertime 2010

Winter is in full swing here! The kids continue to stay active and keep us busy. Here are some new pictures.

The annual Gingerbread house decorating at Teri Harwood's. Ken got to join in the fun this year too. I decorated most of his little house, he kept busy by eating a ton of candy:) Emma, as usual, wanted NO help. She did a great job as you can see from the picture.

The kids each have a little 3 foot tree in each of their rooms decorated with their ornaments. Emma's tree is pink of coarse.

And this is Ken's little tree. He doesn't have quite as many ornaments as Emma yet, but he's getting there.

The kids posing with grandma Marilyn.

Ken and Emma dressed up in their Christmas outfits.

Happy Halloween 2010.

Just some more fall/Halloween pictures. Winter is approaching fast and it is getting cooooold!

Emma in her Kindergarten classroom. I went and helped out for their Halloween party. The kids had a lot of fun.

Emma and Ken scooping out their pumpkins. Hard little workers they were. Mommy still had to do all the carving tho. Ken was so funny. Instead of calling them pumpkin seeds, he called them "nuts" and when he accidently missed the bowl and scooped some out onto the floor he started yelling, "oh no, my nuts, my nuts!" Hilarious.

The end results. Mine was fall leaves, Emma's a cat and Ken's a dog.

Just Ken making a silly face.

Oooo, spooky.

Emma dressed up as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz (one of her favorite movies) for Halloween.

And Ken was the Scarecrow.

We did the Ellensburg downtown trick or treat again this year. And then went to "Haunted Halls" at the Kittitas High school. It was great. The highschoolers do such a great job decorating and they gave the kids lots of candy. Poor Ken couldn't even hold his basket up by the time we got home.

Fall Festivities.

Having such a busy fall, wanted to post some new pictures and videos.

Here is Emma in her silly hat. She went to a friend's birthday party where the theme was "a mad hatter's tea party." It was a really cute party and Emma and the other kids had a lot of fun.

Ken is doing great. He is such a "boy." Very rough and tumble, like to climb on everything and is not scared of a thing. He continues to amaze me with his funny and infectious personality.

I've had the kids out for many fall activities. Here are some pictures from the straw maze out by Quincy. The weather was a bit drizzly, but we had fun anyways. The kids played games.

And splashed in the mud puddles.

Then we made our way through the straw maze.

And picked out the perfect pumpkins in the pumpkin patch.

Grandma Marilyn helped Ken with his.

Then the kids painted their pumpkins, here is Emma with her pretty pumpkin face.

Ken just kindof mixed all the paints together then gave me a big proud smile and said "Look momma, I made dirty!"

Just yesterday we went to a straw maze/ produce stand in Zillah, Washington. The weather was much more cooperative for this outing.

This place had a big straw pyramid with a slide built in it. Emma and Ken had a blast climbing up there and sliding down.

Then we picked out some more pumpkins and also some butternut squash, apples and melons.

Just some new pictures and videos.

We are all doing good. Emma is LOVING kindergarten and Ken is loving being the only child while she is gone to school. I'm good, I am so happy that I don't have to wear glasses anymore, the lasik worked great!Here are just a few new pictures and videos I thought were cute.

Ken and his friend Dora.

Cute little guy.

Swinging.

Silly Ken video.

Ken and Daisy.

Emma and Ken playing outside.

Emma sliding. Wheeeeeee!

My pretty girl.

Silly Emma dancing video.

Emma playing.

Emma upside down.

Looking forward to falling leaves:)

Hello friends. Fall is quickly approaching and the mornings are "crisp" here. To wrap up the summer I went over to Bellevue last month and had Lasik surgery on my eyes, so I am now seeing great without my glasses! I just love it! Emma started here first day of Kindergarten at Kittitas Elementary School a couple weeks ago.

Here she is for her first day of school photo.

It was raining outside that morning so she accessorized with her rain coat and boots:)

And Ken, not to be outdone by his big sister, promptly went back to his room and picked out some rain boots and a hat and was ready for his photo to be taken. What a little character!

And here is my little Emma lion. She got to be in the Farmer Consumer Awareness Day parade in Quincy this year. My mom is in the Lion's club and since Emma has been to a few of her Lion meetings and functions, they made her their mascot for the parade. She even made the Quincy paper!! So cool.

Ken is starting to show "a little" interest in the potty lately, so here he is wearing his big boy underpants. He was so proud wearing them around the house! Unfortunately they didn't really help him to use the potty when he needed to.

We went pinecone collecting up on Blewett pass the other day for a homemade bird feeder project we were working on. Yes, we could have just went to my mom's house and got tons of pinecones out of her yard, but it's so much more fun to go walking around in the woods in our rain boots:)

Big smiles while collecting pinecones.

My sweet girl and I.

Well that's about all for now. I'm off to bed early these days, as I have to have Emma to the bus stop by 7:15am.

Summer's coming to an end.

Just a few new pics and videos of the kids. This summer has been good. Looking forward to the fall time. Everyone is well; Emma sleeps so much better now after her tonsillectomy and Ken is doing great also. I am having Lasik done next month. Woo hoo, no more glasses!! I'm so excited.

Our sweet little Emma. She is so excited to start Kindergarten next month and very very excited to ride the school bus.

Ken and grandma relaxing. Probably watching the movie "Cars," Ken's favorite.

Emma posing on the cat walk.

He loves to play dress up with his big sister.

What a ham!

And here's a video of him in a home fashion show:)


Emma showing off her play dough creation.

And a video of Emma rolling some pizza dough.

He's our little comedian.

Emma having fun at a retirement party/bbq for a friend of mine from work.

The kids practicing their dancing skills.

New pictures of the kids.

Took the kids to get their pictures taken last week. They turned out pretty cute. Ken wouldn't smile in the pictures where he's by himself unless that little race car was in the picture, but that's ok, turned out cute anyway. Emma of coarse, loves to smile for the camera! Had the pictures done in Bellevue, so went to the Woodland Park Zoo afterwards. It was a good day. We were tired when we got home. Be sure to check out the new pictures on the side bar too.