Our New Home!

This is our new home in Puyallup, Washington. We are super excited

Formal living roon changed into Austins playroom

Front entrance - Formal dinning (pauls office) and formal living (Austin's playroom) off to the right

I like to call this one the "hall way of doors"

Kitchen with walkin panrty

Living Room

Backyard

Master Bath

My closet

Master Bedroom

Upstairs Laundry

Kids/ guest bathroom

Back of the house, bedroom 2 (Austin's future room after it gets painted)

Front of the house, bedroom 3

Front of the house, bedroom 4

Beach Day with Oma

It is my mom's Spring Break and we invited her to come with us to the beach.

We walked along the pier and got some breakfast a Ruby's. Austin liked looking at all of the people catching fish. Then we took Austin to the water, his first time in the ocean and he loved it!
Walking with my mom trying to get her in the water

Austin is trying to get Oma all wet!

Having the time of his life

Our Visit to Washington

Many of you know we are MOVING to Washington! Last weekend Paul and I went there to shop for homes! We had so much fun trying to find the right community and home that fit our needs now as well as our future. We are so excited for this new adventure but we are sad to leave our family and friends. Thank goodness for JetBlue!

While we were there we got in some sightseeing. We went to the Space Needle. Both of us are a little anxious when it comes to heights but once we got up there the views were beautiful!

We walked around the observation deck while we waited for our table to be ready
Such pretty views

Once we were seated we were able to see all the views as you ROTATE around

While we were moving around these cards would come around. These were probably kids being silly. Some asked us where we were from, what we were eating. Even one guy was looking for a date and put his business card out!

No dinner is complete without dessert!

Juming and Bouncing Fun!

Austin and a play date with his gal pal Kali and lil bro Griffin at the bounce house in Fountain Valley.

Here we are in the toddler bounce house

Playing some ball with Kali
Griffin doing what he does

We were even lucky enough for Oma to come!

We had a lot of fun. Thanks Kali for coming along!

Becoming a pro!

And the winner is

How old am I now?

I took Austin's monthly pictures that are posted on the right side of this blog, mixed them up for others to figure out how many months he was at each picture.

This was a pretty hard game, even I had trouble and I 1. made the game and 2 I took the pictures :-) Everyone speedily at work
Aaron came out on top. He got 9 out of 12 pictures correct.

AARON YOU GET ALL OF THE PRAISE FOR THIS ONE!!!!!

Pie Eating contest: our proud winner!

For those of you who know my dad aren't surprised that he WON the banana eating contest. He finished while others still had a lot on their plate. Good Job dad.

Pin the tail on the Monkey

The winner is....My Mom! Great job mom!

Let's Party

It was the first day of spring and it was a beautiful day. What a great day to spend with family and friends!

Friends from our Ward (Tabagus Family) and my Aunt Carli playing with Austin

" Mo Money" having some lovey time with birthday boy

A boy who loves his Oma!!!

Rough housing with Opa

My Uncle Ben enjoying a jelly belly kabob while my Aunt Carli is chilln' with Austin

Picture op with Aunt Jessica

Cake Time

Taken a REAl big boy bite!

Kali is helping us open all of Austin's gifts

He is lovin the bubble gun

Stef and Deashan having so Austin time

Thanks to everyone who came. Our baby boy sure is loved!!!

It finally came...

Time never stops so no matter how anxious I was about having my little boy turn one like it or not it was coming. So many people can deal with this in different ways...my way is being CRAFTY. I started (with the help of my mom) making decorations for Austin's party. Almost all of the decorations were hand made by myself. We made his party a monkey themed party because we call him "our little monkey".

Front door sign

and thanks to my sister we also baked most of our treats. We had cupcakes, chocolate covered bananas and of course Austin's birthday cake.

Thanks to all of those who helped make this day a special day not only for Austin but for our family as well. Now lets party!

On my birthday I...

I went to California Adventure with my gal pal Chelsey. We were cooling off in the jumping water. Austin loved the water even though the water was a little cold
Having the time of his life!

He even got to meet some bears and do dental exams on them! (its his secret passion in life)

Then he got to crawl around in a BIG tunnel!

What a great morning! Thanks Brenda and Chelsey joining us!

The birthday celebration has just begun, stay tuned for more Birthday festivities!