Thursday, March 12, 2009

We did NOT fall off the face of the earth!!!


Hello to all! I can't believe I haven't updated since before Christmas...wow! I'm not gonna throw out a bunch of excuses, life just gets busy sometimes and in my rare spare time I've chosen to do other things! Sorry! I am happy, though, to hear that some of you have been checking back and waiting for new posts - somebody actually reads my blog! YAAAAAY!!! So here is a long awaited, abridged update on our family. (With lots of pictures, of course!)


A couple weeks before Christmas we went to Ilwaco, a cute little fishing town about 15 minutes away, and enjoyed the "Christmas Crab Pot Lighting"! They made an enormous Christmas tree out of hundreds of crab pots decorated with lights, buoys, etc. and kept it lit there until Christmas. Gotta love a coastal town! I especially enjoyed it since I'm goofy and really into that sort of thing! We wandered over to the docks to wait for the boat parade that was supposed to happen afterward and found Santa in a little bookshop. The girls had fun talking to him and each got a little giftbag with toys and candy. Very cool! It was too cold and late, so we left before the boat parade...maybe next year!




Christmas was good. Spent it in Tacoma with our families - we all got sick again like the last Christmas we were home 4 years ago. Lovely! But overall, good. And we had snow which was great!


Megan with Princess Belle.

Sweet little book worm!


The girls in their Christmas P.J.'s in front of my mom's tree.
Nice smile, Meg!


Beautiful, Lindsay!


My 3 men. The loves of my life! Dad, David, and my stepdad, Joe.



Savannah finished potty training (YAYAYAYAYAYAY!) and the reward she chose was to go to Chuck E. Cheese's. Her favorite! We're so proud of her! She also (in the last 2 weeks) gave up her pacifier with no complaints whatsoever - we were SHOCKED! Now, for Megan's thumb...





Our backyard after a nice snowfall.





And the front!




We rang in the New Year at home with some friends. It was low key, but fun!

David and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary in January. We waited a couple of weeks to go to dinner to celebrate since only 2 days prior David had an emergency appendectomy!!! Scary, but all went well and he healed quite quickly. Good job, David! I finished my scrapbook room... and cut Savannah's hair.





In February we celebrated Savannah's 3rd and Megan's 6th birthdays. This is Savannah's cake. For those of you who don't know, she's a Mickey Mouse FREAK!!!And she's scared of fire (which is fine with me!) so David and Meg blew out her candles for her!Our lovely ladies: Lindsay, Megan (nice face again!), Savannah, and ScotlynGrandma Jana and Grandpa Joe came to celebrate a couple weeks later. Thanks for making the trip! It was wonderful having you there.Yep, that's my family! Still crazy after all these years!
The girls' schools put on a hoedown and we were able to attend as a family - minus Savannah - as my mom and stepdad where in town and they stayed home with the little escape artist! We had a great time. Scotlyn made a large relief map of the state of Oregon for school and we all went to the grand showing of the maps at her school as a family. We also went to a meeting that night to find out about the field trip Scotlyn gets to go on in May to central Oregon! 3 days and 2 nights - she's not real keen on going at this point...send us good vibes!
Look! My girls are as anal and OCD as David and I! Genetics are a wonderful thing!

Not a lot to share so far this month. See - I wasn't really all that behind!!! David has started working the occasional Saturday at an office in Longview, WA (about an hour away) to make extra $. Love my dedicated, hard working man! The girls are doing GREAT in school - conferences this week and they are all performing above grade level in everything! Yes, they get their genius from me... haha! :o)
So that's about it - if I think of anything major that I forgot I'll add it ASAP. And I'll try not to go so long in between posts again! Hope this finds you all well - enjoy!

6 comments:

Living Lavallee said...

I'd say you're all caught up! I still never posted anything for Christmas...

Anonymous said...

Great to her from you again!

Everyone looks great...and how did you figure out how to cut hair so well? Good job!

We have several pix of our childrens OCD also. It was cute when they were little--not so much now.

And yes, your kids did get their genius from you. . .and David! Good gene pool!

Love and Miss ya tons!

Emily said...

hooray for the update! keep it up! :)

kristen said...

Yay!!! I'm thrilled to see you and yours doing so well!! I love the picture of your "back yard" after a snow fall...STUNNING!!! The pictures are always so much fun to look at and your parents look so great too! Tell them hello:)I have scrapbook room envy and I don't even really scrapbook. I'm a wanna be who is way to behind. So fun, I need to now follow your lead and get caught up on my blog too! I like how you did it, stay tuned...mine may just look very similar! (minus the very cool video...I don't know how to do that)I love that I can kind of "keep in touch"! Take care for now!!
xoxo
Kristen

Andrea said...

Glad you're alive. All those pok-a-dots are a little hard on the eyes:)

Lee-Ruth-Clark-Cal-Shanna-Haley-Elden said...

Ok, so is Savannah an exact copy of Scotlyn or what??? You would know more than me, but she looks JUST like her!! It's her twin, just a few years late! I love all of the matching pj's at Christmas. I am excited to hear about the job!