Tate's 1st Birthday Party!

We joined Trent and Steph, and their family and friends to celebrate Tate's birthday today!  We had a yummy lunch at Shanghi Garden and had fun catching up with friends.  Thanks for a great party and happy FIRST birthday Tate!  

Playing peek-a-boo with the birthday boy!

Nathan and Emi, two peas in a pod.
They didn't have to be asked to smile or put their arms around each other for the picture.

It's near impossible to get a picture of these two where one of them is not blurry...

Enjoying some yummy lollipops!

Tate and all the kids that they could round up at the moment for some pictures before cake.

Ski Lesson #5

Here is the latest from Emi and Nathan's ski lessons...they are skiing together, hand in hand.  Corey and Marc took Emi up with them this weekend and they captured this cute couple on the magic carpet.  It's really sweet to see these two giggly friends having so much fun together!

"Dace and Kenny"

Kenzi and Kasen have had a handful of playdates where it's just the two of them, today I dropped Emi off at Nathan's so they could go to Kidz Bounce together and I brought Kasen home to play at our house.  These two cuties had lots of fun and they reminded me of Emi and Nathan at this age.  Kasen called Kenzi, "Kenny" and Kenzi had a hard time saying Kasen, so she called him "Dace."

Kenzi wanted to get the balls and basketball hoop out for Kasen, some how she just knew that he would like it.

A playdate isn't complete until you have played in the tunnel!

Kasen:  Just you wait, we are going to be just as cute or cuter than Nathan and Emi.  Kenzi gazes in agreement.

Time to READ!

Yay for books!  They actually did sit quietly and read/look at several books while I got lunch ready.

Lunch time was productive.  Not only did they eat, they had to stop and tickle each other.

Chowing down!  Kenzi offered to feed Kasen a few bites of food, and he had no problem with that. 

After lunch they went back to playing...

One happy boy!

Can't wait until we get these two buddies together again!

Story Time

Almost every Tuesday we go to story time at the Fall City Library.  We love Ms. Paula the Librarian, she always has fun stories and activities for us each week.  We also see our friends Nathan and Kasen there too, which is a bonus!

There's Melanie {18 months} Emi {4 1/2} Nathan {almost 5 yr} Kasen {19 months} and Kenzi {2 yr}  

Cousins

I figured it was time for some random cousin pictures...

I snapped this random shot of Melanie and Kenzi one morning as we were running some errands.


The sun was shinning on Tuesday afternoon so we decided to bundle up and take a walk to the Scholastic Book Fair at the neighborhood elementary school.

Melanie was on a roll and did not want to stop.

Then she realized I had my camera out and was ready to smile {cheese!}

My Little Painters

I love quiet mornings with my two artists.  Emi and Kenzi both love to paint.  Kenzi likes the feeling of paint right now more than creating a master piece.  She should not be left unattended with paints :)

Emi has learning to keep her colors more separate and can paint people and animals.

Art for the gallery!

Little Gym

Kenzi and I were doing Little Gym with Kasen and Auntie Corey on Wednesday. Melanie joined us on our last day this month. They all had fun as usual but we are going to take a break from the gym and hope for dry weather so we can go play outside while Emi is at school.

Melanie {almost 18 months} Kenzi {2 yr} Kasen {19 months}

I know this one is blurry but Kenzi really likes hanging on these rings.

Melanie and two balls!

Kenzi and Kasen, running for it!  They were doing this over and over, Melanie was just warming up to the gym so she wasn't ready to go run free yet.