The Karate Kid 5

Staring........

This is what Casey and Norah do when I am at work. She told me it wasn't her doing karate, it was Karate Norah. Apparently she's developed an alter ego. There were a couple of other pictures of her "doing karate" that look down right scary! Well enjoy, I sure did when I got home from work and he showed me this.

Our weekend, in pictures

Friday

I got my nose pierced!!!!

We had a BBQ at Papa's,
aka my dads.

Saturday....no pictures taken. Casey had fun kayaking with his friend Josh durning the day, I enjoyed time sitting out on the deck reading while the kids napped. Saturday night the kiddos had a sleepover at Papa's house, and Casey and I had a night out with our friends Tiffany & Kory and Keja & Aaron.

Sunday

Norah helped me wash my filthy car.....

...... and make yummy cookies.

Later that afternoon we had a BBQ with Jenny and Matt at his place.

Notice the fork in Norah's hand and how it's nowhere near any food,
and that she's putting on a show for all of us when she should be eating:)

Nolan's first try at corn on the cob,
not so sure he liked it.

Dylan (Jenny's son), Nolan and Norah
just CHILLIN!

Last but not least the kids swimming in the pool,
I just had to post this one. Norah's little wedgie is too cute to pass up!

Farmers Market & Mother's Day

My 2 favorite little people, at Pioneer Park
Puyallup Farmers Market

My sweet little girl....

.... and my handsome little man

Norah trying to carry my BIG bouquet of flowers

These flowers are so pretty I had to take a picture of them,
and it doesn't even do them justice.

My new necklace :-)

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This morning we all slept in, then headed down to the Puyallup farmers market. The sunshine was amazing and the market was packed! Since I work tonight and tomorrow night we celebrated Mother's Day today. We got some yummy locally grown veggies, and I got my Mother's Day gifts early, the beautiful flowers and cool new necklace, thank you to my hubby and great kids! Before we left we ate a really tasty lunch at an organic comfort foods cafe. It was delicious and we will definetly be going back there. Happy, Happy Mother's Day to everyone, I hope you all have wonderful days!

Why I love that my cousin watches our kids......

Nolan with his new hair style!

Norah's beautiful butterfly face!

This is what my kiddos looked like when they came home on Monday from my cousins house. Nothing special was going on she just likes to have fun with them. She painted this elaborate butterfly on Norah and her 2 nieces faces and couldn't leave Nolan out so he got a super cute fohawk. I feel so blessed that she is close and watches them for me so that they don't have to be cared for by strangers while Casey and I are working.

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Here are some pics of our newest family member, Paulie. We got him about 2 weeks ago when he was just 7 1\2 weeks old. He is super cute, playful and feisty! And, becoming good friends with our 2 dogs. He might think our smaller dog Abby is his momma cause he's tried to nurse from her a couple of times, and she lets him.....kinda strange I know. Anyway enjoy his cuteness.

Dash Point

Yesterday we spent the morning at Dash Point state park at the beach. There are lots of mountain biking trails there so I dropped Casey off at the top to ride then headed to the beach with the kids to play! When Casey was done riding he joined us for a little while then we headed home. We had to stip Nolan down to just a t-shirt and diaper for the drive home because he was covered in sand and water from head to toe! Norah didn't get quite as dirty she spent a lot of the time looking for shells and rocks. It was a perfect day for the beach :)

Doin' the Puyallup !

Today we went to the Puyallup Spring fair and had a great time. We got there early before it got too busy and barely had to wait in any lines at all. Norah went on 7 rides and had lots of fun. There was a roller coaster she tried that was a little fast for her and she was a little shaken when she got off but, was ready for another ride quickly. She also played a fishing game and won a pink blow up dolphin that squeaks it's great.......not! The squeaking is kind of hidious and actually super annoying. Oh well she thinks it the best, and she won it so she's super proud of herself :) Nolan was pushed in the stroller by Daddy the whole trip and he didn't mind. He got to share Daddy's Elephant Ear with him and he was in Heaven with a big cinnamon sugar grin to prove it! He fell alseep at the end and missed out on more fair food, I had to have just 1 Krusty Pup and Casey wasn't satisfied with only an Elephant Ear and had to have a Fair burger and curly fries too (okay we shared the curly fries) . We came home and put the kids down for a nap and they both slept for 3+ hours, so nice!

Casey is out with the boys tonight for a BBQ and some poker. My sis is coming over and we're gonna take the kids to dinner and make a stop at Target! Tomorrow we are planning a trip to Dash Point in the morning for some mountain biking and playtime at the beach! Tomorrow afternoon we are going to a birthday party for one of Norah's friends and that should be lots of fun too. Stay tuned for some pictures of our busy day.

FUN PICS !

I seriously get a kick out of these 2 !

Watch out Dancing with the Stars, here comes Norah!

Big HUG :)