Sidewalk Chalk

Dear Sidewalk Chalk,
Oh how I love you and the hours good times you have provided for my kids(especially Miss Norah)! You are the perfect outside activity on evenings when there's just a little time left to play. You also make the perfect car, truck, airplane, sword and "shoot gun" for 3 year old boys with good imaginations! You are a little messy, but dust off easily and you don't stain clothes.... a big bonus. Thanks for the goods times! We are hoping to play with you more and more as the weather gets nicer and hopefully stays that way!

Working on the beginnings of her picture!

Look mom I broke it (love the little smirk on his face)!

I love his little pudgy, chalk dusted hands!
He's setting up his "piano"

Hey sissy, wanna hear a really annoying sound!

Here's a kiss to apologize for that horrible noise ;)

It's rough being a big sister and an artist!

But, I really love him a lot!!!!

Happy Easter

Friday night we had a blast dyeing Easter eggs!
Even Nolan, who's doesn't love artsy stuff,
jumped on board and they each created about a dozen beauties!

Norah even hand painted some with a sponge,
she's my creative one!

A sampling of the colors!
Blue and green seemed to be the most popular choices of my kiddos.

I even found these cute little bunny egg tongs, great for dipping and retrieving!
No dye stained little hands for these kids ;-)

Here are the 2 eggs I created!

Eggs close up!

The Easter Bunny came and treated the kids really good!
My favorite quote of the morning came from Norah....
"Mom the Easter Bunny even knows my size shoe, my flip flops fit perfectly!"
That's one smart bunny ;)

Priceless, really!

Someone found an egg!

And, someone got the cutest little chocolate Easter bunny :)

French toast shaped into Easter eggs :)

For the kids!

Here's what the Easter Bunny brought Casey and I......
a yummy Breakfast!

Friday Night FUN!

Friday nights sure aren't what the used to be....they are BETTER! Even the most laid back, sweat pants, no make-up kinda night equals a great time when you've got great friends to spend it with! This past friday was one of those nights. We had a family swim date at the Y(which all of the kids LOVED, and that the mommies thought was a bit too cold). Then we headed back to our house for some Papa Murphy's pizza, play time for the kids and some relaxation for the parents. Enjoy some pics from our fun night, I just have to say that we have some pretty darn cute kids here!

I kept looking at this picture thinking that my teeth looked kinda funny, yep they do! They have a slightly gray purple tone....we might have had a little red wine ;-) That aside look at the 2 little blondies with their dark-haired mommas! Gotta love momma's boys, I do!

The future Mr. & Mrs. Suetta
(I hope so)!

♥ goin' in for the kiss ♥
I know a day will come when I won't encourage this, but until then I absolutely LOVE it!

Kory hangin' with 3 of the 4 kids, cute!

And these two little princesses are just precious!
They are becoming the cutest little friends, so sweet!

Skiing anyone?

Our 3rd Annual Moclips Weekend!

I ♥ Moclips, there is no doubt about it! I really have just been waiting for my hubby to edit some of the 300-400 photos we took over trip to blog about it. So he edited, and now I'm gonna post. It's gonna be mostly photos(kinda a lot of them) because I'm gonna leave the writing to Tiffany(because she can do it better than anyone I know)! Check out her blog post on Moclips, I'm sure she'll be posting one soon ;)

Grassy beach before the nice sandy beach!

It was Razor clam season(for 2 days), there were tons of people on the beach. Casey and Kory tried there luck with clamming and we were able to cook up a few tasty ones for dinner one night!

Holly :)

Jax, boys gotta get dirty!

The Newgards buildin' some sandcastles

Nolan and Jax in their own little pirate boat right out side the house we rented.

The kids loved the hot tub just as much as the mommy's and daddy's did!

Check out the arm on my kid, look at how high he was able to fling that sand! And look at how great he thinks it is! ALL BOY!

Probably my favorite photo :)

He's going through that I don't want to smile for the camera phase, its ok I still like it!

Me and my girl! Check out her sentences ;)

There was kite flying done by all!

This is a live crab, she was so brave!

She litterally walked right into the ocean, her boots were so full of water we had to dump them out!

My pretty girl, ♥ her!

Kids at play!

View from Sand Castlemore!

The kids!

The parents(photo courtesy of miss Norah)
I really love this one too!

And this one!
Me and my bestie!

Sunset view from inside the house!!!!

I don't think these kids could be any cuter, I love them!!!

Newetta family photo, love!

Thank you Newgard family for the adventure!! It was a great time as always, can't wait for all the fun adventures we have coming up!!!

I don't want to forget.....

....all the super cute and funny things my little guy says!
Lately Nolan has been saying funny, sweet and sometimes really random things. Here's a quick little list, I just want to always remember this stage in his life :)

* Throwball fight ( he used this a couple of weeks ago when it snowed, instead of snowball fight)

*Sign stop, for stop sign! I hear this a lot from the back seat of the car :)

*Fider web (for spider web) he replaces S with F in a lot of words

* Last week he was sitting at the table eating and I said "Nolan are you a big boy?" and he replied "Yes and I'm fart" so, I replied "did you toot?" and he said no "I'm fart" then I realized he was saying trying to say I'm smart!

*Last night we were cuddling on the couch and he looked at me right in the eyes very seriously, touched his little hand to my cheek and said "Mommy I love you so much on a winter's night"

It's just too cute and I can't help but smile at all of his little sayings!

A perfectly FUN snow day!

*My favorite little tree all covered in snow *

Uncle took turns throwing
Nolan and Norah up high in the air!
They obviously LOVED it

Warming up with hot chocolate,
complete with chocolate mustache ;)

The boy showing of his mustache!

Today has been so fun and it's only 1 o'clock! Puyallup schools were running 2 hours late due to the snow so that means Norah has no school at all, Yay! My dad and brother got over here bright and early(7am) to help me get my car to the Mazda dealership(minor repairs). Joe and I got back by 8:30 and the kids were ready to play, but first we snacked on some doughnuts and had a little scramble. Then we got all bundled up and headed outside! We ran around, ate lots of snow(not the adults), made snow angles of course and had a "throwball fight" as my precious 3 year old calls it :) After about an hour and a half the kids were getting chilly, I made them some hot chocolate and the adults enjoyed some hot coffee and we warmed up! This was followed by a hot bath for Nolee and a hot shower for miss Norah. We watched some Toy Story 3(which I don't think will ever get old), had some lunch and now it's nap time. I've got a batch of chocolate chip cookies baking and I'm about to hit up the P90X and try and burn off some of the calories from the cookie dough I just ate :-) Love this snow, I hope everyone else is enjoying it too!