Wednesday, November 4, 2015

More Disney


Hotel Pool






Airport before we left

Pretty proud of her purchases.  She got exactly what she wanted and never had buyer's remorse after seeing other things in the park.

Ryker said we needed to put our arms up.  Clearly, he didn't hold up his end of the deal and I wish mine were down so you could see the terror in Kya's face!


Dr Seuss birthday week!  Let the fun begin.

Spring Shenanigans

I promised the kids that I would let them participate in the kids garage sale to bribe them into parting with some of the crap they never play with anymore.  We boxed stuff up of about a year.  They were much more willing since they knew they'd be getting money. Since we are marketing geniuses they dressed up to attract attention to there stand.  They set stuff up and played with it too and the kids flocked to us.  Anything remote operated brought them running and we would sell it almost as fast as they got it set up.  At the end of the day they had almost $400 which they split evenly because it was too difficult to keep track when things got really busy.  I promised them they could buy one toy after the sale.  Ryker went to the store and bought Legos.  Kya was content to spend $4.50 at the garage sale on some pet pals.
Seth rolled in and took our stuff that didn't sell and we headed to a birthday party in Sedro Woolley.

Then to Adrianne's to dye Easter eggs.

Cosmos still hasn't adapted to us being back from Disneyland because we found him in the Perry's yard when we got home.  Guess he though since we were gone all day, we'd abandoned him again.  Poor old guy.

Guess what this is?  Yep, Splash Mountain!  Haha, we'll be talking about that vacation for months.

377 calories, 50g of sugar, 16g of fat, 11g of which are saturated.
The recommended daily value for kids between 4 and 8 is 12g of sugar, saturated fat is 20g.  There is a reason kids are sicker, fatter, and have higher rates of illness and diabetes than ever before and it's partially because their own parents and friends are poisoning them 2 nights a week after baseball and soccer.  I'm not the biggest fan of wrestling, but love watching Ryker and I'm happy that their team doesn't encourage bringing snacks for the kids. 
 
Ryker brings home the best stuff from school.  He often draws on the back of his paper when he is done as he waits for others to finish.....mostly treehouse designs and plans.  This was a Kindergarten assignment though, to write what he would take with on vacation.  "I would take my dog Chacon and my stuffed Chacon."  (I corrected the spelling in case anyone was confused as to what is says)  That's the south side of our house, (extremely accurate) with a hole in the wall where is bed is so you can see into his room and of course, that dog in the clouds above is his buddy Chacon in heaven.

Red Robin after baseball one night that we didn't plan ahead for dinner.  We are at the fields 4 nights a week with games.  Ryker asked if I could be unorganized more often so we could eat out more. 

I'll spare you the rant, but here's the contents from another bag of garbage!  Last one, I promise!
 




Static in the slide

Kya and Abby ended up with the same dresses and for some reason Audrey had an extra for some other little girl.  Ryker is a ham and will do about anything for a laugh.  He even thought he needed a girly pose and duckface.

Spring Sports

Kya's first year of Tball.
That's waaaaaay too many Tballers to keep on track.






Ryker moved up to coach pitch this year and loved it!



He was a hitting machine and I'm not just saying that because I'm his Mom.  They were K-2nd grade and he was one of the best hitters on the team, I might even rank him as 2nd best.  He was consistent and hit hard.  That's what hours in the yard hitting and a competitive drive will do for you.  He couldn't think of anything but baseball last spring.

Coach Dad

Seriously, who thinks this is an acceptable snack?  Are we at a birthday party?!  Maybe the orange and one piece of garbage if you must, but 4 bags of crap?  Ugh, my least favorite part of these kids sports.  I'm not just picking on this one snack bag either.  The majority look like this.  I get that some people have to bribe their kids to come to the games and be involved in a sport, but it can't end soon enough for me.  Ryker and Kya pick one thing and we toss the rest every game.  I'm sure most people that read this will think I'm a crazy lady and overreacting, but we are teaching our kids to fuel their bodies for athletic performance, with garbage! 


Hawks in Glendale

Seth and I went to the Superbowl in Glendale AZ.  Well we didn't actually get into the game, despite our best efforts, but we did get to partake in the other festivities.

Yes, I made him do this.

There was a lot of cool stuff going on at the NFL experience.  If my kids aren't involved though, I've found I don't take too many pictures anymore.  I did get this one of the indoor flag football game.  I had one of a bunch of old dudes running 40's too, but it's not that interesting if you don't know them.  It was pretty entertaining to watch the mix of people that were racing each other.

The reverse of Ryker's haircut.  Haha.

We had a great trip.  First one without kids since Ryker was born.  I got to hang with two of my besties from high school, Kerry and Kasey, and of course we hooked up with Clayton for a day of fun as well.

We came back to this kindergarten marvel.  I love when they write words themselves!

Family Pictures

These are a couple years old, but I never got around to posting any so I figured better late than never.
We had to pretend we were going to dip these two in the pond to get smiles out of them towards the end of the shoot.  It ended up being my favorite photo when we pulled them back onto our laps.

Then things got squirrely.