Seattle

Caleb's parents were nice enough to take the girls for the weekend so Caleb and I could go house hunting and sight seeing with out distractions. It was nice to be back together after so long apart. We went to Seattle one day and took an underground tour of the city. It was really neat and surprisingly had a lot to do with the toilet.
There was a lot of history involved and there were pictures and our tour guide told great stories about the early days of Seattle. It was originally built at sea level but every time the tide came in it would push salt water and anything else in the sewage system back up the pipes, not pleasant. So instead of destroying and rebuilding, they just filled in the streets and buildings with rubble and turned the second story into the first story.
Old water pipe made out of wood.
Next we went to the fish market. There was was tons of stuff there and even though we didn't buy anything it was nice to walk around and look at what I wanted to look at and not be looking at the ground making sure the kids were okay the whole time.


Our final stop was the Space Needle, compared to the other sky scrapers in the area it really isn't that high, but it is a city land mark so we decided that it would be

Megans Birthday

We celebrated Megan's third birthday right before we left for Washington. My mother was very sneaky and bought a pinata without telling me and the kids loved it.
it was just the girls and their cousins so all the kids got a lot of candy.

We were leaving the next morning so my parents got pictures with the girls.

I forgot to take a picture of the cake by itself but it was just the same butterfly cake I made for Alyssa's 4th birthday, but this time I bought a cake icing knife and it was tons easier.
Everybody helping to open presents


Sugar heaven!

St. George trip

We went down to St. George with Caleb's brother and his family and we had a great time. We actually didn't do to much but it was a lot of fun to just hang out at the condon and enjoy each other before we have to leave for Washington. Here are Sophie, Megan, Olivia and Alyssa playing in the trunk

We went swimming almost everyday. Alyssa was tall enough to get around th shallow end of the pool so we only had to worry about Megan.



We spent an afternoon in Zions and it was great. We didn't get too far because of the kids but it was fun to just walk around and view the scenery.
Cute girls???
We did an easy little hike, the girls walked about 3/4 of the way and had fun exploring.
Unfortunatly with Caleb back I sometimes get caught in front of the camera.

Our hike lead us to a little waterfall

The family is back together again. Yeah!!
Alyssa and Caleb are on the bridge.
What is better than an ice cream after a long hike?

Preschool

Back in September when I thought we weren't going to be in Utah for very long, I decided to sign Alyssa up for preschool anyway and I'm really glad that I did because we ended up staying the whole school year. She is my little social butterfly and loves being around other kids and hopefully she got a leg up for school next year.

I know most people take pictures of the first day of school, but I was lazy and so these are pictures from the last day of school.

Dr. Seuss's birthday
Pirate day (Alyssa is the top left with the blue eye patch)


I don't really like how her school picture turned out, but I guess I can't have perfect pictures all the time.

Tulip Festival

My mom and I took the girls to the tulip festival at Thanksgiving Point last week and it was great! It was perfect weather and the and not too crowded and the girls behaved themselves for the most part. Although Megan never felt like giving me a true smile.

Monkey see, monkey do. For some reason Alyssa decided that this was how I want her to look in all of my pictures and of course she taught Megan. I'm always telling her to relax her shoulders for pictures

There was grassy hills and tons of kids so of course everyone was rolling down the hills.
Megan couldn't do it quite right, she always rolled along the hills instead of down but she had fun and didn't care.

My girls are two hairy little monsters, I tried to pull their hair back but the just scream and put up such a stink it isn't worth it. I'm also growing out Alyssa's bangs so the problem is going to get worse before it gets better.


There was also a pond with giant gold fish to feed.

We ended our tour at the waterfalls where there was a outdoor theater and the girls ran around with kids and danced to the music for over an hour. My little social butterfly Alyssa met friends from church and some of the kids that we help at the cross walk. She also tried cotton candy for the first time.