Fabulous Fabian Four

Basketball

2010-02-07T20:01:00.000-08:00

Well we are on week 3 of our 5 weeks of basketball in a row. They have taken first the last 2 weeks, but they weren't the best wins. I guess the most important thing is that they won. They took first at the Desert Hoop Classic in Moses Lake last weekend and this weekend at the Lake Chelan Apple Classic. For the most part Levi has played good, he had a couple games that were rough, but they all do. He is pretty much a defensive player and doesn't score a lot, but does stop the other team from scoring. I haven't got any pictures of him playing so I took the pictures of him in his uniform and shooting shirt and pants. He thinks he is a big stud :) I have to say thank you to Darcy for the use of her stadium seat! Without that I would have a sore rear end! Boy I am getting old, those benches are sure hard. Just a little update to keep everyone in the loop.

2010-02-07T19:57:00.000-08:00

Back to work...

2010-01-29T23:17:00.000-08:00

Well after a lovely 6 weeks off from my hysterectomy, I went back to work last week. It was so awesome to be off for those 6 weeks with my family. I got the chance to be off during the kids 2 weeks school vacation and that was the best. We got to do a lot of stuff we haven't had time for the last couple years, like going to look at lights (even if the car broke down during that) and baking lots of goodies. Working Mommy's just don't have a lot of time to do extra time during the holidays. Seems like you do what you can just to make it thru them, but this year was different. I felt so relaxed and enjoyed every minute. Levi has had 3 tournaments so far. They played in Ellensburg (don't remember what they placed there), Yakima (they took 3rd) and the Wenatchee tourney (they took 2nd). He enjoys it so much and it is good for him. Like I said back to work last week and got a really nasty case of strep throat. It was so embarrassing to go back to work for 2 days and then miss the last 2 days of my first week. This week has been good though. The first couple days last week I was pretty sore during the middle of the day, but that could be my body couldn't handle being sick too. Get a little sore during the middle of the day but other then that I have healed really good from the surgery. I would really recommend it to any woman that has any sort of problems. It is an amazing feeling of freedom from pain. Well time to wrap it up, getting late.

A few pics

2010-01-07T20:09:00.001-08:00

Me and my special girl.
Brody waiting for the party to start. Ok guys where is the good food!

Chillin!

Wait I am still getting my cards ready, Mike says.

Just one more Sean says, I am not done parting yet :)

Happy New Year!!

2010-01-07T20:00:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to all! Hoping that 2010 might be a little bit better then 2009. 2009 wasn't the best year for us, but at least we always have each other! We had a very nice New Year celebration. Spent the evening with Mike, Patsy and the kids. We have spent New Years with the Craddocks for the last 4 years. It is so nice to have a tradition and great friends to spend the holiday with. We played a new game called solitaire frenzy. It was a lot of fun and was a frenzy. We ate snacks and the kids played the wii. I hope that everyone had as good a celebration as us and as wonderful friends to be with.

2009-12-31T18:02:00.000-08:00

Getting up to see what Santa brought.
This was actually the number 1 movie on her Christmas list! She was very excited.

Looks like those are his favorite Christmas present too :)

Christmas

2009-12-31T17:43:00.000-08:00

Despite some negatives things happening, our Christmas was really good. Thankfully I have been off, because our car has broke down twice in the last 2 weeks. Even as much as it has all sucked, we had a great time together. It has been so nice to be here with the kids while they are off from their school break. We actually got time to make all kinds of Christmas goodies. Christmas Eve was really nice, but we did miss the Craddocks loads! It is so nice to get to spend the evening with our family. We started Christmas day opening presents and spending time with the kids then headed over to my parents. Christmas dinner was nice at my parents, but again we had missing people. We were very sad that Sean's Mom wasn't feeling good, so they didn't get to join us. Kim and Mike did come with the boys. I got out the old picture albums and shared them with Sean and Kim. Its always so much fun to look them over and get a good laugh out of our old clothes and hairdo's :) Can't believe that 2010 is already here! I remember the days that getting to even the year 2000 seemed like a big deal. Of course I also remember thinking how old 33 was, but boy I don't think that anymore. I am so glad that it snowed today, it makes New Years feel fresh and clean, like a new year should be.

Addition to the Family....

2009-12-28T19:17:00.000-08:00

Well its taken me a while but here are some pictures of the new addition to the Fabian family. Welcome to the family Mason Ryley Baker, born on Nov 21 8lb 5oz and 22in long. This beautiful miracle belongs to Sean's sister Kim. And he truly is a miracle! Kim and Mike have been married for 18 years and unable to get pregnant. 4 years ago they got Brayden and 3 years ago they got Bryce, both boys were finally adopted a couple years ago. They are a wonderful addition to the family and Kim really didn't think about having anymore kids, they already considered Brayden and Bryce wonderful miracles given to them. Then last spring a new miracle was given to them and Kim got pregnant with this beautiful baby boy! God is wonderful and when we forget how wonderful he is we just need to look at a baby and we will be reminded. Enjoy the pictures.

1 day old at the hospital.
3 days old, his first visit with Aunt Tabitha, Uncle Sean, Levi and Danielle

2 weeks old, visiting Auntie after her surgery.

This one is out of order, he is 6 days old in this picture.

1 month old, first Christmas pictures.

Decorating the Tree

2009-12-19T22:46:00.000-08:00

Well we haven't got all of our Christmas decorations up, but we did get the tree up before I had surgery. We have a tradition of eating pizza and watching The Grinch that Stole Christmas (the Jim Carrey edition) while we decorate the tree. We also like to take pictures of each other while we decorate the tree, some of them follow.

Yes Mom I am putting it on the way you want.

Sorry I didn't realize that this one was sideways :)

The finished product!

Thanksgiving pictures

2009-11-30T00:06:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving... a little late

2009-11-29T23:54:00.000-08:00

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday! We had a nice time and had one more family member to be thankful for! Mason Ryley was born on November 21st to Mike and Kim! What a blessing to all. We went to Sean's parents are usual Thanksgiving ritual. As usual Sean had to work the night before at midnight and Thanksgiving at midnight, so it makes for a short day for us. I did have to get home and prepare for black friday shopping. Scan the adds and we had to decide where we wanted to hit first. We decided to head to Old Navy first and they opened at 3am, so we headed out at 2:30. When I say we I mean my friend Patsy and me, it is our yearly fun time. Since I had to stay up to get Sean off to work I decided that it wouldn't even be worth it to go bed. I am not as young as I use to be. It took me all the rest of friday and saturday to recover from that adventure, but it was all so worth it!!! We have so much fun and get to spend some wonderful Mom time together! Then kids enjoyed thier 4 days off! We spent alot of time together watching Christmas movies and they love teasing Mom because she cries during all of them. Now its time to get the Christmas stuff up!

Just the news...

2009-11-14T23:47:00.000-08:00

Well we are pretty much settled in the new place. Have the usual few boxes left in the bedroom to figure out what to do with, but other then that all good. Feels like home! Didn't get settled in, in time to decorate for Halloween, but excited to get the Christmas stuff up. Not really sure where it will all fit, we have a ton of stuff. Went to see Mom and Dad's new place, it is a really cute older home, feels like home for them.
Its that time of the year again kids sports. Danielle is bowling and doing decent this year. I would post pictures but it is really hard to get good ones at bowling. Especially since you can only take pictures from behind. Levi is getting ready to start basketball. He has been having school ball and AAU practice. His first AAU tourney is next weekend and first school game in 2 weeks. Oh the fun begins :)
Sean and I are bowling also. I have been doing an okay job this year. Except for one bad week I have been uping my average. Sean is good as always. I did pull a good one and ended up on the ground this last week. I slid over the fowl line and hit the oil and then hit the ground. Not as sore as I thought, but not as young as I use to be.
Getting ready for my surgery (ok no freaking out). I am scheduled for a Hysterectomy on December 7th. After much discussing and praying I have decided that it is the best idea for me to feel better. I have lived with a lot of problems over the years and will be relieved to have an end in sight. I am excited and nervous, but a little excited for 6 weeks off :) Plus I get all the good holidays off haha.
Well that is about it for now, but I am going to work harder on keeping the blog caught up.

Company in the yard

2009-11-14T23:40:00.000-08:00

So I was taking a nap a couple Sunday's ago and Sean came running in saying to look out the window. Well they had already moved a bit and I couldn't see them from the door, but I grabbed the camera and headed out the door and these two were right there. They found the neighbors bushes very tasty. They didn't seem scared at all. I can't believe they were in town this early. I guess all those big bad hunters scared them to town.

Cute pumpkins...

2009-11-10T23:12:00.001-08:00

Aren't these the cutest pumpkin carvers you have ever seen! :) We had a blast carving the pumpkins this year. We had a pumpkin slime war and there was pumpkin guts all over. Plus the best part, eating the pumpkin seeds after you are all done. The kids had so much fun coming up with the faces and cuting them out! Happy Fall!!

Pumpkin slimed!

Oh Dad you got it in my mouth!!

Get it on Mom and you will have a rough rest of your week :)

Singing and Trumpting

2009-11-10T23:04:00.001-08:00

The kids had thier first concert on Oct 15. Danielle is in the choir and Levi is in band playing the trumpet. It was very fun, but I think that Danielle was scared to pieces. Look at her face in the first picture and she didn't even move during the concert. She was stiff as a board. Danielle was in another concert the next week, but I couldn't get any pictures cause it was too dark in the building and she was facing away from us.

More pictures of the party

2009-10-03T01:12:00.000-07:00

Kortland and Levi, one of the few moments they were sitting.
I just want don't understand why I can't pick all the flowers!

Hannah going down the slide. Thank you Carla for having such a kid friendly yard.

Braydin going down the slide

Got to have one stuffing the face.

Danielle, Isabelle and Nikki

Dad's Birthday

2009-10-03T01:00:00.000-07:00

The surprise moment! The little stinker stopped out side the gate and visited with Leonard cause he was making the hamburgers. Leonard finally pushed him through and he walked into a yard full of people.

Hugs all around!

A dear friend of Mom's made the birthday cake with her Mom and it was AWESOME!! It looked and tasted so good!

Cute Cousins!

Come on we know you have enough hot air to blow it out. Truthfully the wind was blowing so hard we couldn't keep it lit.

Moving....

2009-10-03T00:47:00.000-07:00

Holy cow I can't believe that it has almost been a month since I have written anything. We had a pretty busy September, what I am saying life is always busy :) We did have a surprise birthday party for my Dad's 60th birthday party at the end of September and my Brother and Isabelle also surprised him by showing up. It was so nice to have them visit! We did miss having Raegan come with them, that work thing really sucks! Dad said that he was really surprised, even as many times as I tried to blow it. :) Thank you to everyone that came and made it special for him! Now we are getting ready to move. We are suppose to get our apartment on the 8th and then we can start getting things moved over there. Should give me enough time to clean this place, although the only thing around here to clean up is the cob webs. It is amazing how fast those things can pop up. I think we are excited to move, even though it is a smaller place. I guess that just means we will have to enjoy each others company more! The kids have had a few moments of being a litte upset they have to share a room, but they are excited about other things. Danielle is thrilled that there is a pool in the complex (even though she can't swim until next summer). I know this will be a good move for all. We have to be out of here on the 15th so it will be a very busy upcoming few weeks.

Grown up kids!

2009-09-10T21:15:00.000-07:00

Time flies.....

2009-09-10T20:50:00.000-07:00

Holy cow how fast the days go by! The kids started back to school last week and are enjoying it. They both got the elective classes they wanted and are happy about that. I am just in amazement how the time flies by. Before we know it, it will be Christmas and then summer again. Even though the summer was fast we had a nice one. Busy with the usual baseball, softball and time together. At least we were able to get one camping trip in. Even found a new camp spot we liked. Hope everyone else had a nice summer. I think it is getting close to getting ready for fall. This fall will be a busy one too, since we need to get moved here soon. Looking for rentals is a challenging thing though! Well we will find what is right at the right time.

Baby time....

2009-08-31T22:02:00.001-07:00

We got a little baby time last night and Daddy got some sleeping time :) I couldn't resist posting the one of Noah, it is too funny and he will really appreciate it. We gave them some rest while we spoiled Sky. She is so sweet and some of us just love hogging her to ourselves :)

Bowling

2009-08-31T21:46:00.000-07:00

Well its hard to believe it is that time of the year again. Time for bowling to start. Sean and I start this week and Danielle starts in a coule weeks. So we decided to take the kids to practice. Who knew that you could get sore from bowling. I didn't realize I used my shoulder muscles that much during bowling. I didn't do to bad, at least I kept it over a hundred and the kids didn't beat me :) The pictures aren't that good, but you get the idea.

Danielle's Birthday

2009-08-29T22:43:00.001-07:00

We had Danielle's birthday party Friday night. I can't believe that she is already 12. We all had a lot of fun. The usual suspects (Sean's family, nana and papa and the Craddock family) showed up plus a couple extra giggling girls. It was a nice visit. Danielle got money (the best part of your birthday is your own spending money), jewlery and we got her a digital camera. After everyone left the girls headed in the room to play and we headed to bed. They didn't keep me up to late and I think I only told them to be quiet like a dozen times :) I think they finally fell asleep about 1am. They actually were very good and we enjoyed having them over.

For those of you that aren't in the know, the cake and decorations are High School Musical.
The giggling girls Paytin, Danielle, Amanda and Jessica.

Oh boy MONEY!!!

Make a wish.

sThey are all partied out. Reese and Skyrah sitting on Nana's lap.

Our Camping trip..

2009-08-27T23:33:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we headed up the Entiat and spent a couple nights camping. We ended up at a really nice spot. It was a really big spot and right across from the creek. We had a nice time just relaxing and playing around. I did have to come back to town on Saturday for Skyrah's baby shower, but had a really nice time there. Hoping that i didn't smell too much like camp wood smoke while I was there :) We did have a lot of bee's around. Something we don't usually have up there, but we lived with it. I guess while I was down in Wenatchee on Saturday afternoon, Sean said they had to make their sandwhichs in the car so the bees would not attack them. Thankfully they went away at night while we roasted our marshmellows. We didn't want to share those with them :) So happy we got out before this summer was over.

Roasting marshmellows! Yummmmyyyy!!!!

Relaxing around the fire before it got dark.

Kicking Sean's butt playing Yatzee. I picked the wrong picture of me. I was actually smiling in the other one.

Our little outdoors "living" space.

My Birthday

2009-08-26T22:53:00.000-07:00

Just a few pictures from my birthday. Sean had a nice little party for me. On my actual birthday, i got to work all day and then watch Sean play a double header. I am 33 this year. I remember the days of thinking any thing over 21 was old :) Now I understand you are only as old as you feel. Some days my body feels 80 and some days i feel like a teenager.

Catch up...

2009-08-26T22:28:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't been on in awhile. It's been a busy couple of weeks. Getting ready for the kids to go back to school next week. I am so excited I actually have everything bought and ready for them to start. I am usually a last minute shopper, but i was tired of not being able to find everything I needed. It's just hard for me to believe that they start already next week. I am pretty sure last week they just got out of school. We are going to have a 7th and 8th grader this year. It also seems like they were just learning to walk and talk. Time goes by faster then I can believe. Besides getting ready for school, we have had my birthday and gone camping. I will get some pictures posted soon.

Our little nesting family...

2009-08-12T23:06:00.001-07:00

I can't believe it, but I was going to knock the nest down from our little spring family and our friend was back. When I first checked she had 4 little eggs and now there is 4 little furry birds in there. I didn't know that birds reused nests but this one must be a good one. This probably isn't that exciting, but we think it is fun to watch the little birdie's grow. They will probably be out on their own by next week.

State Tourney

2009-08-12T20:53:00.000-07:00

Sean team went to the State Softball Tournament this last weekend. We had a great time. Sean and I headed over on friday afternoon and got settled in early. We were close to a Krispy Kreme Donuts, so we had to go get some of those then Sean realized he didn't have any softball socks so we had to find a sports store to get some. After a little winding in and out of different strip malls we did find a Big 5. We also were able to find a Safeway so that we could pick up the necassary drinks for the weekend, water and gatorade and such stuff. For dinner friday night the team decided to try the Hooters that was next door to the motel. The food isn't the greatest, but I guess that isn't what they are actually known for. The help on the other hand was exactly like what you picture :) The boys played 2 games on Saturday with a 5 hour game break in between them. They won both of those, which was awesome, because as long as Sean has played with this team they haven't been able to make it past the Saturday games. They got to play their first game at 8am on Sunday morning, no sleeping in for me. They lost that one, then won 2 and lost the fourth one of that day. They ended up taking 5th out of the 50 teams that played! We are so proud of them!

Travis, Tyler, Sean, Chris, Ben and Tanner getting there pictures taken with the Hooters girls.

We are number 5!!!!

Welcome Skyrah Marie

2009-08-06T07:48:00.001-07:00

Sean's baby brother Noah and Breya had their baby girl on August 1st. Skyrah Marie is the new addition to our family. She was 7lb 5oz and 19.5 inchs. She is so beautiful and we are all enjoying her so much! You forget how little they are. It seems crazy these big kids I have now were that little at one time. But they are so much fun at every age.

Sean's Birthday

2009-07-26T22:20:00.000-07:00

Today was Sean's 41st birthday. His wish for his birthday was to go play mini-golf, so we headed up to Leavenworth and played a round of 18 holes (that sounds official doesn't it), we were joined by Dean. Of course Sean won :) but you should on your birthday. After golf he picked La Fuente as his birthday dinner/lunch. It was good, but as usual i couldn't finish my food. We had a cake and ice cream party tonight, joined by Sean's family, my parents and his friend Dean. The kids and I got him some nice Wizard of Oz figurines for his present. He actually picked them out himself because we are filling out one of the collections he has. One of the many little knick-knack stores in Leavenworth has some really cute Wizard of Oz stuff.

Free Concert!!!

2009-07-19T10:48:00.000-07:00

Saturday night Sean, Levi, Danielle, Aunt Kim and I got to go to a free concert in Ephrata. For those of you that don't know where Ephrata is, it is about an hour southeast of Wenatchee and maybe population 5000. Anyways they have a festival there called the Sounds of Summer. It starts on Friday and concludes with a big band on Saturday. We got there about 5:30 on Saturday and got to listen to 3 bands. It was such a pleasant atmosphere. We had packed our cooler and chairs and just hung out and listened to music. Of course the big band at the end is what we went to watch, but we were pleasantly surprised by the bands that were before them. We got to see Flow Motion and the Patrick Lamb Band. They were really good! We really enjoyed the Patrick Lamb Band, they were a jazz band and so very excited to be there. The kids also got to meet Conner and LaTasha, they are local Wenatchee celebreties! That was exciting for Danielle. You have to look at the pictures to find out who we got to go see last! It was a blast!

Danielle hanging out enjoying the music.
Levi as usual can't get a non goofy picture out of him :)
Just chilling!

Aunt Kim and Levi eating there sandwiches. You can see how close the stage we are by this picture. And check out the crowd. It will triple by the time the last act comes out. It was wild.

Patrick Lamb and his Jazz band.

So for those of you that don't recongnize this singer, it is the lead singer for SmashMouth! We couldn't believe that SmashMouth came to little old Ephrata and played for a free concert! They were awesome! There was so much energy flowing thru that place! Again the only way to explain it is awesome! We all had so much fun. What a great experience for our kids!

July 4th

2009-07-07T07:25:00.000-07:00

Hope that everyone had a wonderful 4th of July! We had a very nice dinner with everyone. Can't really call it a barbeque cause we didn't have burgers, we had fried chicken. Lots of good food and family. The kids got to play in the water and slide on the tarp. We also celebrated Bryce's birthday. What a awesome day to have your birthday, you get fireworks to help celebrate your special day. We ended the day lighting our fireworks and then watching the city ones from our deck.

Careful Uncle Noah soon he will be as big as you.

Cute kids!

Sean's Tourney

2009-06-26T22:19:00.001-07:00

Sean had a tourney the weekend of the 13th. They took first place after 2 very tense games. They lost 1 on saturday and then swept everyone the last 2 games of that day. They won the first game sunday morning easily and then put us thru the wringer the next 2 games. Winning them both by 1 and 1 of them in tie breaker. Then in the game for first place completely killed them. It was great, makes spending 2 days at the park worth while.

They ever faithful crew. The Stud hitting :)

The women behind the awesome men, or should I say the awesome women that support the men! Tab, Wendy and Molly. The 3 Musketeers!

The big win!!!

Braydin's visit

2009-06-23T00:05:00.000-07:00

Just a couple cute pictures from Braydin's sleep over on friday. He seemed to have tons of fun. I am pretty sure we wore him out, cause he asked to go sleep on Levi's bed on Saturday night, before his Mom and Dad got home to pick him up :-) Those older cousins are hard to keep up with. He got to watch movies with Levi, sleep over in his room, play video games with Danielle and Levi, play Levi's DS on his very own and play slip and slide with them. And if you ask him he beat the big kids a couple times on the slip and slide. We took him to La Fuente for dinner and he was so funny eating the salsa. He told us he really liked the cabbage (salsa) so he is grabbing chip after chip eating salsa when the heat finally hit him and I noticed he was guzzling his drink. He decided that was a little too hot for his mouth.

My turn all by myself!

Ok let me show you how real men do it.

2 "white" boys getting some sun and warming up.

All worn out!!

Water Fun

2009-06-22T23:48:00.001-07:00

On Saturday we had a nice warm day and we had Braydin over for the day. The kids wanted to play in the water, so they got creative and made a homemade slip and slide. Levi found a tarp and drug it out and hooked everything up. They were pretty funny, running sliding and enjoying the water.

Ready, set, slide. Levi won.

Let me show you how to do it Levi.

Our nesting family

2009-06-20T22:40:00.000-07:00

This cute little bird made herself a house outside of our front door. It was fun to watch her and the babies grow. And every once in a while get dive bombed cause we got to close. Its amazing how fast they grow. The first pictures were taken on 5-18 and the last ones are 6-13. The nest is all empty now and it is kind of sad. Check out the pictures of our feathered family.

They are almost the cutest as eggs :) You will see what i mean.

Little piles of skin and feathers.

Not real cute yet.

Getting much cuter. Looking more like Mommy.

Danielle's new hair cut

2009-06-20T11:25:00.001-07:00

Danielle got her hair cut last weekend. I think it is absolutley adorable. It makes her look more grown up. She was so upset about getting her hair all cut off, but now loves it so much she wants it shorter.

Before
After

The back is so cute all she has to do is put a little gel in it and go.

Levi's Birthday Party

2009-06-20T10:05:00.000-07:00

We had a little birthday cake for Levi on June 7 (June 8th is his real birthday). I just still can't believe that he is 14. It just sounds so weird to me. I took him to the Dr the other day and he is 5'4" and weighs 97lbs. Still hasn't quite caught up with the amount of food he eats :-) Boy will we be in trouble when he does. There is a bonus to being a teenager you get money for your birthday and make out like a rich man.

There is a funny story to the above picture. We couldn't find Bryce anywhere downstairs and this is where we found him. Well the kids were playing outside and apparently Bryce wasn't doing what Danielle wanted him to do, so she put him in time out. After explaining to Danielle she wasn't a parent, we all got a good laugh out of it.

Levi's Birthday Gift

2009-06-07T14:16:00.001-07:00

Yesterday for Levi's birthday gift we went to Spokane. He wanted to play Lazar Tag, so we took him to Wonderland USA. It is a fun place with all kinds of stuff, like arcade games, lazar tag, go karts, mini golf and bumper boats. It was a lot of fun! He got to take a friend with him, so Dakota joined us. We spent about 5 hours playing games and having all kinds of fun. Oh yeah 5 hole-in-ones for Mom in mini golf! I am so awesome :) It was suppose to rain, but thankfully the weather cooperated and everything was perfect for him. I took the memory card out of the camera to load some pictures on the computer, luckily the camera holds some pictures internally, so I was still able to get a couple pictures of them having fun. I have done that before, but usually catch it before we get out of the house. What a goof ball I am.

They spent 5 dollars on this game trying to beat it.

The boys in the lead.Yes that is Mom ahead of Dad, not him lapping me :)

Soaked after Bumper Boats. I think Danielle got the brunt of it.

Levi's 1st pitching in Babe Ruth

2009-06-02T23:19:00.000-07:00

During Monday's game Levi got his first chance pitching in Babe Ruth. He did really well! The pitching mound is an extra 15 feet from home plate then he is use to, but he adjusted really well. He only faced 4 batters (only got to pitch 1 inning, but its better then none) and one of them he struck out, one of them was a pop up to the in-field and he was the one that caught it. I was so happy to see him adjust to the 15 feet length difference. He was a really good pitcher in Little League, especially since most boys aren't used to facing a left hand pitcher, but this is more like the big league's.

Noah and Breya's visit

2009-05-31T23:50:00.001-07:00

Last weekend we got a surprise visit from Noah and Breya. It was Noah's birthday on the 22nd, so Breya asked him what he wanted for his birthday and he wanted to come home to see his family. They showed up at Levi's baseball game on thursday to surprise us. Wow what a surprise, since we didn't except them to come home for awhile. We had a barbeque on Memorial Day (Breya was spending that day with her family having fun up there). Here are some of the pictures of everyone together. Just in case some of you don't know Noah and Breya are having a baby girl in August. Yahoo i am going to be an aunt twice this year (Sean's sister Kim is due around the end of November)! This is going to be a fun baby filled year.

Danielle

2009-05-31T23:33:00.000-07:00

It has been brought to my attention that the last couple blogs have consisted of things with Levi, but Danielle hasn't made it in alot of them. Here are a few pictures of our princess, as she to deserves her moment in the spotlight :) We are just up to the usual around here. Having a hard time believing that the kids only have 10 more days of school. Also hard to believe that by next week we will have a 14 year old. Boy do i feel old :) A little over a year and we will have 2 teenagers. Where does the time go. It seems like each day goes by faster then the one before. I tried to take some pictures at Sean's game last week so i could put those up, but i ended up keeping score for both games, so no pictures. Oh well there are more to come.

Levi's Monday night Baseball game

2009-05-20T22:43:00.000-07:00

Yes we have a busy life. After our fun barbeque at Sean's parents we got to run to Levi's baseball game. They again won. YAHOO! We were joined at the game by Kim, Mike, Brayden and Bryce. The boys had fun watching Levi and Brayden enjoyed running around with Danielle. As all of you know Danielle doesn't like to sit and watch the game, the fun of going for her is to run around and play with friends.

Brayden saying hi to Levi. Too cute of a moment not to miss.

Watch the ball go by
although I thought the point was to hit it :)

Bryce

Monday night Barbeque

2009-05-20T22:35:00.000-07:00

On Monday night we had a barbeque with Sean's family. His Uncle Rick was in town, so we had a nice little barbeque to visit with him. It was a nice visit as always. He is so much fun and you totally understand who Sean is like when your are around them together.

Uncle Rick
Aunt Becky, Uncle Rick and Mom

Mom and Uncle Rick

Levi's first Babe Ruth game

2009-05-11T22:07:00.000-07:00

Well Levi had his first Babe Ruth game today. It was like he was playing with the high schoolers. He is one of the littlest kids on the team. It is kind of funny. He did okay, he got a fielders choice and a walk. They won by ten runs, so it was a really good game. They also got to play at the college which is nice for us parents, cause they have stands with real seats.

2009-05-06T22:51:00.000-07:00

Pool shark watch out!

Future pro, look at the way she measures up that shot :)

Computer troubles

2009-05-06T22:38:00.000-07:00

Sorry i haven't been on in awhile. We got a virus on our computer and it has pretty much crashed it. Thankfully Mom and Dad have a laptop so i can get on the internet once in awhile (after i pry it from Sean's hands). Hopefully I will have everything up and running soon or a new one in its spot. We did take the kids out to the Icicle juction a couple weeks ago and played a little mini golf and pool. There will be a couple pictures of that to follow. Not too much else exciting around these parts.

Track videos

2009-04-26T11:12:00.000-07:00

Levi's Track Meet

2009-04-23T22:51:00.000-07:00

Today was Levi's first middle school track meet. He really enjoyed it and is happy to be in track. As a parent it was very exciting to watch him participate in his events, but wow there is a lot of empty time in between events. He did the High Jump, Hurdles, 50 meter dash and the 4 x 200 Relay. The relay and high jump i think were his best events. He is the only 7th grader doing the high jump which is really neat! It was so cute to watch him and his friends walking around like they think they are the "Stuff"!

50 meter dash. He tied for 5th place.
High jumps. His highest was 4.4 feet.

Scary pictures (not)

2009-04-22T18:13:00.000-07:00

These pictures are too funny! Danielle is doing her best mummy impression. She decided to do this face on her own, it was hilarious. Levi was just posing with the other mummy, but they kind of have the same shaped head lol. These mummy's are at the freak store on the pier in Seattle ( i can't remember the name of the store).

Easter Trip

2009-04-22T00:41:00.000-07:00

Cute kids!

Slimy things to touch.

Pretty fish.

For Easter we decided to go to the Zoo in Seattle. We surprised the kids Easter morning and headed out. I had checked the weather the day before and it said that it was suppose to be overcast and showers in the evening. Well never believe weather.com. The passes looked a little worrisome, but that was just the passes, so we figured it wouldn't be too bad in Seattle. Boy were we surprised. It wasn't even a steady rain, it was a downpour! Well we rearranged our plans and went downtown to the aquarium. It was a nice time together.
Just a little side note, we now have to pay 3 adult prices now to get into everything and in a year and a half we get to pay 4 adult prices to get into stuff. Wow hard to believe that the kids qualify to have to pay adult fees to get into fun stuff. A little silly that for most everything else in the world you have to be 18 or 21 to be classified as an adult, but by golly that amusement park gets to charge a 13 year old as an adult :)
Well we ended up at Red Robin for dinner and hit a couple of the shops down on the pier. Running in between shops to not get drenched. But overall a very nice family time together. Enjoy a couple of pictures from the aquarium.
Okay I am still learning how to do this and somehow got the pictures stuck at the beginning of the post, plus forgot to turn some of the pictures before i loaded them, so you get to look at them sideways. Hopefully i'll get this figured out soon.

New Blog

2009-04-19T22:34:00.000-07:00

Hey there everyone. After quite awhile reading my Sister in law's (thanks for the inspiration Raegan) blog I decided this would be a good way to keep in contact with people. It might take me a while to get everything set up and going so have a little patience and I will get some pictures and blogs going. I am excited, this will be a fun way for family and friends to keep up with what the kids are up to (i guess what Sean and I are up to also :) Well i will be back soon with more fun stuff.