Happy Birthday Daddy!

It was Dave's birthday yesterday...poor guy, I don't think he had a whole lot of fun after just having knee surgery the day before. He was a great sport though for the girls sake! They of course had the best time! Carolyn was kind enough to make dinner and have the "birthday party" at our house so I didn't have to do much of anything which was so helpful. We ate dinner, opened gifts, ate dessert and then everyone in my family was asleep by 8:05. Not too exciting...I am really glad we went to the ocean as part of his birthday or I would have felt really horrible!

After the kids and I got home I came in to check on my patient and this is what I found!

The girls helping Daddy open gifts!

Birthday Dessert!

Dave is recovering nicely from his surgery and is hoping to hobble to work on Thursday. He has to do interviews for the middle school at the end of the day so he will go in for sure at that time- and then his only other commitment is the Prom on Saturday- guess who he asked to go? Yep! Yours truly! I asked him if I could buy a new dress? I haven't gotten a response on that one yet!











Have a great day!

Ocean Shores

We just got back from a weekend get-away to the Ocean! Actually, the girls and I took Dave (and his mom and Jerry) for his birthday. We will still celebrate on his actual birthday but he is having knee surgery tomorrow morning and I know he won't be feeling very festive on Tuesday. This way the girls got to celebrate with him in full force!

We were up and out the door by 9 a.m. on Saturday and arrived to rain, wind and the COLD. We were really hoping for some nicer weather so that we could hang out on the beach before we checked into our hotel room. WRONG. The weather just wasn't cooperating! We ended up eating our picnic lunch in our car and then went through the shops until our room was ready. Once we got to the hotel, the girls wanted to swim and we spent a lot of time in the pool with them. We spent the early afternoon going through more shops, playing arcade games and eating ice cream. Our evening was spent having a great dinner, going swimming again and then after the girls went to bed the adults played cards.

This picture makes me laugh! We are all jammed into our car eating lunch!


Taylor is literally running as fast as she can to get back to the car- it's raining and windy!

The girls and their daddy at the pool!



Maddie insisted upon wearing her life vest into the stores....

Yummy! Ice cream!

We woke up on Sunday morning to sun! After eating a quick breakfast we went to the pool again and we convinced the girls to cut their time short so that we could go to the beach before we had to leave (the girls had to go to a friend's b-day party in the afternoon in Olympia). Talk about a turn around in weather! No wind and sunny! The girls had a blast watching people clam dig, jump in the water and run all over the place!

Taylor enjoying the sun and the water!


Maddie girl fell down in the water so off came the pants!

This is one of my favorites...it makes me tear up. Taylor and her daddy. One of only many reasons I married him- a great dad!


The Myers family~ the best we could do~ nobody wants to smile at the same time!

The girls are exhausted (and so are mom and dad!) but we had a great time!

Boston Harbor Pictures

I had to share some beautiful pictures that Tracy took up in a helicopter yesterday of Boston Harbor! He needed a camera to borrow and so we were lucky enough to get all the pictures! As most of you know, since moving out to Boston Harbor I have felt so very fortunate but having these pictures in hand makes me realize what a truly special place this is! Enjoy!

My favorite!

Breathtaking!

The Harbor!

Our House!

The seals! Tracy said that they must have been feeding off of something because he thought he saw probably over a 100 seals!

Kindergarten Registration

Oh My! How is it possible that our sweet little baby girl is headed to Kindergarten in the fall? As I was filling out all the paperwork I had lots of memories running through my head...her first birthday party, eating cat throw up under the table (it's true!), playing with spices and flour on the kitchen floor, I could go on and on.... I am SO excited for her to start school and for all her new adventures that will take place during this next step in her life! She too is excited! She didn't quite get the concept that you sign up and then start in the fall. She had a 30 minute meltdown about the fact that she couldn't start school the very next day! As she was sobbing, she was shouting "Mom, Mom, I just need to start my learnin!" I love this girl!

Easter (A little late!)

We had a wonderful Easter! Maddie stole the show in my opinion this year- she was at the perfect age to be excited about everything! She woke up at 6:15 a.m. to use the bathroom and as she was going a little light bulb went off in her head..."Mom, did the bunny come?" "I don't know" "I need to check" "Okay"....She promptly goes out to the living room- "Mom, where is my basket?" "I don't know" "Him's was hungry- he ate all the lettuce" "Where is my basket?" And my favorite..."Mom, look, him's left him's tail on the ground!....I need to get my sister" (the bunny left parts of his cotton tail as a trail to help the girls find their baskets) and then she promptly ran in and woke Taylor up! By 6:30 a.m. the girls had found their baskets and were very busy eating candy and playing!

We headed to Dave's mom's for Easter brunch which was DELICIOUS! I think I ate 3 (ok maybe 4) sticky buns. YUM! Then, we headed to Everett in the afternoon for Easter dinner. The whole family was at Connie's house and it was so great to see everyone! The girls had fun finding Easter eggs that Connie and my mom had hidden all over the house for them!

So cute! Maddie, John, Taylor and Emilie!

Pre-Easter Festivities

This evening we had Dave's sister, Mindy and her family over for Easter egg dying and homemade pizza. This has become a tradition over the last 3 years or so and one that I always look forward to! Taylor and Maddie really enjoyed dying the eggs this year (which by the way, are now ALL cracked!) and also had fun putting as many stickers as they could on them after they had dried! I do love how excited they get about these little things and I hope this lasts for their life time! If they are anything like me, then I am hopeful! Dave can always get me out of bed in the morning in a heartbeat if he says that it's snowed outside :) After everyone had left, the girls argued (oh yes, it's true...) about where their baskets should go so that the bunny could find them and then we of course had to put carrots and lettuce out for him! And just like that they were in bed and asleep! We are looking forward to a fun day tomorrow with both of our families. We will have brunch at Carolyn's in the morning with Jerry and his family and then we will head to Everett for the afternoon and have dinner at Connie's with my family. We are celebrating my Grandpa's successful completion of radiation as well! Happy Easter!

Taylor is officially avoiding the camera! Hence the reason you can't see her face in very many pictures lately!

Now you know why all the eggs are cracked :)

Maddie, Kitrick, Abbey and Taylor

Aren't these beautiful?

Our sweet girls...ready for the Easter Bunny to come and visit!

Spring Break~ Day 5~ Last one...boohoo :(

The girls and I spent the majority of our last day of spring break running errands together. They were troopers! We had to drop things off at the Goodwill, mail a package, get a pair of my jeans taken in to be turned into capri pants, go to the grocery store and then to the dollar store (I had to get some prizes for school). We split up the errands by doing half in the a.m. and then we took a break and went out to Yelm to eat lunch with Dave. The girls love his office because it has yummy lollipops in it so they were very excited to go and see him. It was a busy work day for him and we only stayed for a little bit before he had to go and discipline some more kids :) After lunch we finished up our errands. We spent the rest of our evening just hanging out together. The girls are asleep and I am about to go and pop some popcorn for Dave and I and we are going to watch the season finale of Friday Night Lights! My kind of Friday! I will be back soon to post Easter pictures I am sure but if I don't see you this weekend, I wish you all a wonderful Easter!

Daddy and his girls!