Happy 6 years !

Today me and my hubby have been married for 6 fun, happy, fabulous and loving years! I am so lucky to be married to my best friend, a great daddy, a hard worker and the absolute love of my life. Here's to many, many more happy anniversaries together. I love you babe!

Sunland Fun !

So we tried, I don't think we'll ever get a family picture with both the kids looking at the camera!

I love this guy ;-)

I still haven't got all the sand off of them.

My dirty boy!

This is Sunland. and what an appropriate name it has! We had beautiful weather, especially yesterday. Sundland is right on the Columbia river and right by the Gorge. One of Casey's old bosses has a vacation home there and he let us use it for the weekend. Casey and I packed up the kids and my sister came along and we headed there Friday night. We spent Saturday relaxing, playing at the park and watching and listening to a wind storm outside. After the kids went to bed we enjoyed some beer, wine, movies and board games. Sunday we had amazing weather hitting about 80 degrees without a cloud in the sky! We played on the beech for a few hours, came back had lunch and the kids napped while we picked up the place and enjoyed a little more relaxation time in the sun.

Some of my favorites......

.... my favorite people, flowers and pictures!

Tuesday evening Casey and I took the kids to a local dahlia farm for a little running around and some picture taking! I love all the beautiful pictures my talented husband got. I also love these flowers! This was the same place we got all of our wedding flowers from, so I'm a bit sentimental about it. The kids had a great time running through rows upon rows of flowers, and Casey and I were in awe of all the different shapes, sizes and colors. It was a fun way to spend a beautiful late summer evening.

Yay for Preschool !!!!

Norah on her first day of preschool

Art time is her favorite!

Playin outside in the sun

She absolutely loves her teacher Ms. Virginia
and sits by her every chance she gets.

Today Norah started preschool. She went last year too, and it's the same teacher and a lot of the same friends, and she was so excited! She has literally been asking me for a full month now when school will start. It is a co-op preschool meaning that a few times a month I get to go and work in the classroom, and that's lots of fun for me. She will go 3 mornings a week for a couple of hours and I am going to enjoy the time I get to spend with her in the class as well as the time I get to spend alone with Nolan while she's at school. Speaking of Nolan, this is what he has been up to......

Climbing anything and everything is sight!

Playing with sissy's baby dolls, a lot!

And giving coloring a whirl!

Mommy & Daughter morning!

I LOVE this girl!

Norah and I spent a perfect mommy daughter morning together! We headed to target, then to Starbucks, I think it's so cute to see her little hand wrapped around a Starbucks cup full of hot cocoa. Then we made our way to the farmers market where she played a little with her friend, colored, and cuddled with momma while I sat at her preschool's booth. After we put our time in at the booth we perused the market for the best fruits and veggies(most of which she still won't eat). She will however eat the mini donuts covered in cinnamon sugar that I let her get, they're tasty! I love getting to spend alone time with her, it doesn't happen often but when it does I LOVE it!

Weekend Trip

Norah & Nolan with Great Grandma

Norah & Nolan taking a walk

Norah "teaching" Nolan about all the plants

Norah with Grandma and Grandpa's kitty

Playing by the river in her jammies

Just hanging out

"say cheese"

We had lots of fun this weekend at Casey's parents house. We drove down on Friday when Casey got home from work, had a quick dinner and some visiting and headed to bed. Saturday Casey, his dad and his cousin drove to Mt. St Helens and scouted out a possible hike to Castle lake on Sunday. While they were gone his mom and I took the kids and another one of Casey's cousins to the Portland Zoo. I have a few pictures from the zoo but my batery ran out not long after we got there :-( We had so much fun there. It was pretty crowded but the kids enjoyed it! We saw lots of fun animals, had good food and walked and walked. I think between the 2 kids I spent at least an hour carrying them. We decided to skip the hike on Sunday because it would have taken up the majority of the day, but Casey and I decided to take his Dad's canoe out instead. His parents live on the Lewis River, and his dad said we should have no problem paddling back up stream so that was our plan. We headed down river and were having a great time, we decided to start heading back and weren't having any problems going upstream.....at first. Once we were in sight of the house the current started to pick up and the wind pushed us sideways and we tipped over! Yikes, that water is cold. We got the canoe back up and walked it past their house then were able to get almost to shore just as we were almost there we tipped again :-( It was still fun even though we were soaking wet and cold. We decided next time we would take it to a lake :-)

Birthday Camping

Happy Birthday to my fabulous hubby I love you!!!!
This past weekend we took our first camping trip of the summer to the Satsop River. My aunt and uncle have a 5 acre chunk of property there right on the river, so it makes for great camping! It's becoming a tradition to go there over Casey's birthday weekend, and overall it was a great trip, the weather could have been a little better but the sun did manage to show itself on Sunday! We had a great time with our family and friends and kept busy chasing around little ones, hunting for frogs, hiking up the river, making yummy smores and hot dogs, crashing Satsopaloosa, opening birthday presents, enjoying yumyy pie brought down by Casey's mom and much more. Thanks to our friends and family for coming with us to help celebrate Casey's birthday and for making it a fun weekend :)