September 17, 2011

Finger Painting

We were trying out our new finger paint. Although it wasn't as vibrant on paper he loved playing with his fingers in the paint.


"Look Mom!"
He loves painting

September 15, 2011

Finger Paint

Also tried my hand at home made finger paint put it into jars and added
food coloring and walla! Finger paint! haven't tried it yet but I will post

pictures soon of our artwork!

Play Doh Fun!!!!

I was feeling kind of crafty and tried my hand at making homemade play-doh with the help of a utube video and an 8 year old showing me how to do it. I figured if she could, I could too! Not too shabby for my first time
Austin had so much fun playing. He kept saying dough, dough!

and the next day we invited of some friends to try it out. They all had so much fun.

They were so proud of all of their creations.

Here is Luke with his green snake

Austin making me something good to eat

Shelby and her yellow ball

Hailey making me steak

Cheap fun, gotta love it!

Neighbors

Not only have we moved into the best neighborhood, into the best house but we happened to move next to the best neighbor who has turned into an Auntie for my kids and one of my very best friends. We share, text, laugh and occassionally cry but through it all its nice to have a great mommy friend to go through it all with :-)

September 13, 2011

Video Cuteness

We have been trying to get Andrew to practice crawling and since he loves eating we figured this would help give him some motivation to move




Austin is OBSESSED with trains!



September 9, 2011

Puyallup Fair

Rachel and her adorable daughter and my crew packed the car and braved the fair traffic on the "free" day at the fair. It was both of our first time there so we weren't sure what to expect but we knew we would have fun. Austin was in love with the ponies and kept making horse sounds
he was so gentle with the pony, petting it very softly

Austin: "mom I want one"

Mom: "ask your oma"

and he even got to see a big pig and her babies

It was a fun day at the fair especially since we had friends go with us. There was a lot to see and do there.

He is on the move people!!!




Wendesday Play Day

We have started trying to get together with friends and neighbors on a regular basis so our kids and play together and we can chat. So we have been getting together every Wednesday at varies times and locations.


The kids have fun playing with their friends and love seeing each other.

My neighbor Pam playing with Andrew, Heidi and Rachel with her adorable little girl Quinn
Our kiddos
Luke, Shelby, Makayla, Hailey, Austin (no pictured Quinn, Andrew, Olivia and Zowie)

If your free on Wednesday morning/ afternoons come and join us!

On any given day

my kids are creating playing
and learning

on any given day memories are being made.


I am so blessed to be a stay at home mom and be able to witness this on any given day.

September 6, 2011

Oma and Opa are here!

Oma and Opa are here! and as usual we did a lot of stuff!


As soon as they landed we put them to work! We bought a trampoline for the kids and my parent's helped put it together. Austin was so excited
went to the zoo and played with the animals

got ice cream

went to the park, many times!

got to go to the wadding pool

took many pictures

celebrated Oma's 36th birthday or was it her 63rd???

had floor time with Austin

he had so much fun making a tunnel from our legs

the park again, he loves parks!

enjoyed the hot summer days pool side and trying to get oma wet :-)

Opa went fishing and Austin was excited about his catch


we also went to our small airport, got dinner and watched the planes land

we went on a train ride

Austin loves trains! I mean LOVES trains!

having fun with opa and oma

fun family time

we went to dinner a few times

Opa went fishing again (he loved it)

We had a lot of fun as always with oma and opa.


Hurry back!!!

Austin"s Photo Shoot

My good photographer friend Ann took Austin's 2 years pictures. She is great! She has a 2 year old also and gets how hard it is to capture a smiling 2 year old. She is awesome, patient and finds great places to capture the magic


She also captured a few of Andrew also. I love this kids smiling face!!! So cute!!!



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