Quotes from Ella

Standing in front of a small toy with a mirror in it and seeing her legs: "My legs are looking in the mirror."

Requesting vanilla yogurt instead of a fruit variety: "I have to have vanilla to keep the strawberries out of my mouth!"

Labor Day Reunion

So I'm definitely not staying on top of posting huh? Well, I'm going to try to catch up.....We took a trip to Yakima over Labor Day to see my Mom's side of the family - The Roberts'. Papa Jim and Grammy Sharon, Zac & Kristen, and our family all went. (Gabe was in Stillwater OK for the first Coug game). We found a huge house on a very nice golf course to rent, Seth got to golf, and we were able to catch up with family we haven't seen in a long time. Ella met my cousin's kids for the first time, well Luke too, but I'm not sure it made as much of an impact. Thanks to Dave and Merletta for hosting! It was a lot of fun!

the whole group

cousins, minus Gabe
(Camille, Joey, Danny, me, Zac, Heather & Sarah)

the cousins' kids

(Camille's: Asher, Leah & Halle, Sarah's: Isaac & Christian, and Ella & Luke)

playing in the pool with Leah & Halle - and loving it!

chow time

catching up

Happy Birthday!

Ella, Luke and I want to send a special Happy Birthday to Mommy! We hope that you have a great birthday. (Dont eat all the cake before I get home!)

One of my best friends passed through Spokane a couple weeks ago and stopped in for a visit. Jenn and her daughter Aayla spent the night on their way home from Canada to Portland and we had a blast catching up. I wish we still lived in the same city so we could get together whenever we wanted..... Thank you for stopping by to see us Jensens!

cheesy grins

Jenn bouncing with Luke

an attempt at a group self portrait

pizza - yum!

New Paint

Got the house painted!! We are VERY happy with the way it turned out!

Good Times on the Butterfly

We have a little floor mat that we broke out recently for Luke to kick around on. Ella used to love it, and she still seems to, especially when her brother is on it!

Little man testing out the new toy

showing brother the ropes

Ella still loves her butterfly mat - Luke or no Luke

Foslers Visit

This post is at least 3 weeks late.....but better late than never. The Foslers came for a visit on a Saturday a few weeks ago and we got to have a little picture session. I don't think we got one with all 4 kids, but we managed a few different combinations. To remind you, Isaac is about 5 weeks older than Ella and Addison is about 2 months older than Luke. So fun having kids so close in age. We all walked to one of the local playgrounds while they were here, and man were we a traveling circus!

Addison & Luke - our adorable babies

Addison, Ella and Luke

the girls - Addison & Ella

Isaac, Addison and Ella