Slacker

OK so I have been a total slacker latily. I dont know why. Well acually I do. Its Facebook.. Tonight the kids and I walked downtown and watched the Christmas parade the trecked back home and made about 100 sugar cookies. We had alot of fun. Soccer is now over and we are headed into Basketball season. I signed both the kids up today. Should be fun.. First year for them both. Lets see, Thanksgiving was fun. Dad and Nancy came up for a few days and we had a great time and ate lots of good food. My fridge will be full for awhile. Now on to Christmas. Is it time already. I cant believe this year is over. Its been a crazy one. Beng and I had our 10 year wedding anniversary on the 29th of Nov.. 10 years. How the hell have I made it 10 years.. Whoop whoop.. Cheers!.. Its beed a great 10 years. I still love him just as much as I did when we first met. Maybe even alittle more. Sheeeee..... Dont tell him that. LOL. OK well I just wanted to give a quick update. I will try to get back into this. Have a great week.. TA TA By the way thats my Turkey. Not a great picture but it was sooooo good.

Papa was a trooper and played games with the kids all day on thanksgiving.. Thanks dad..

Dakota she loves to pose for the camera. I could take pictures of her all day and she will still be smiling.. What a doll..

I have so many pictures of Hunter and his cat Fur Ball.. This cat just loves him.. Its so funny. I love taking these pictures. Usually its alittle boy and his dog. Nope not mine. Its alittle boy and his hunting cat..

Ok these are halloween pictures. We had a great time. Wendt trick or treating downtown then came up to the house and went around the neighborhood.. Amy and Gracie came over to. It was alot of fun..

Sick kids

Hmmm.... Well we had Eatonvilles big 100th birthday last weekend and Dakota got to be in the parade thanks to my neighbor Rick. So thank you RICK.. Hunter and I went down and watched her. She was very cute. She got to wear a basketball jersey from 1932. She had alot of fun and met a few new friends. The kids are both coughing alot today so we might end up staying home from school tomorrow. My washing machine went out last night. Go figure it was when I took all the sheets off of everyones bed and both laundry baskets are chucked full. Damn it.... So I had to go to the laundry mat today. I hate going there. It cost me $3.50 for a load of cloths. Crazy. Anyways, we are all just hanging low. We went up to my moms this weekend and had lunch and got some fire wood. Was great to spend some time with her and Carl.. I got to meet Carls mom to. Nice lady. She gave the kids a whole thing of cookies.. I ate most of them. What else. Not a whole lot. Just a quick check in. Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to Halloween. I am.. TA TA

October

HAPPY OCTOBER... I love this month.. Cant wait for Halloween.. Its so great living in a neighborhood when Halloween comes around.. The last year that we were here we got 350 trick or treaters..( I always tally them up) I think we spent more on candy that night then dinner. Its a great time. Dakota has decided she wants to be a good witch. Although she may change her mind. She does that sometimes. Hunter wants to be a bloody motorcycle rider. Go figure.. Andrew has an old Honda motorcycle that is about Hunters size and he loves it. Cant get enough of it. Amy and Gracie are going to join us for Halloween this year. Going to be so much fun. I'm really excited to see them. Gracie will be a turtle.. How cute. Lets see school is going good. Both kids are doing really well and adjusting to all there new friends. Hunter had his 1st soccer game last Saturday and did great. They won 2-1. He is alittle intimidated to get in the mix of the kids that have the ball.. I try to tell him to get in there and steal the ball but he doesn't want to get kicked.. I really don't blame him.. Its his first year so he has lots of time to get used to getting kicked.. It happens.. There so cute to watch at this age. Some take the ball the wrong way others are trying to kick it into there own goal.. Its funny.. Dakota, we are still working on what she wants to do. I think there is a little dance studio here in town so we are going to have to go check it out.. She would really enjoy that. The house is coming along slowly.. Getting organized is the hard part. I need to hire a professional. Wonder how much something like that costs? Beng has been getting alot done. We took down the closet in the living room and made that our TV wall so he has been working on that. He made a couple of shelves that are like in the wall for all the Direct TV receivers and the Wii. All that stuff that usually sits on a entertainment center now goes right into the wall. Its really cool. I like it. Plus it keeps everything out of the way. Me I have started walking everyday. Ive lost 13 pounds.. Yeah!!!.. Looking pretty good. I got a hair cut the other day. Looks really cute. Very happy with it. Bengy even told me its looked good. He usually doesn't like short hair. Always nice when your husband say he likes your hair cut.. Last time he told me I looked like a boy from behind.. Well that's all the new news I have I will be back in a week or so to fill you in some more.. TA TA

Livingroom

Just around the house..

Dad and Nancy working hard..

Bedroom 3

Hunters room. We have a boo boo on the wall that we need to fix..

Bedroom 2

Dakotas bedroom

Bedroom 1

Here are the before and after pics of my room..

Eatonville

Hey, well we are now up in Eatonville and having a ball. Its so great to be home. The kids are getting settled with all there friends and school. Hunter just started soccer. Dakota got to got to the Miley Cyrus concert last night. A old girlfriend of mine that I used to walk with before we moved has a daughter that is the same age as Dakota asked me the other day if she could go. How do you say no? She was soooooo excited and had alot of fun. Thanks Jenn.. What a treat. Cant wait to see the pictures. Lets see, the house was in bad shape when we came back but with my dad and Nancys help we got her ship shape. Thanks... Nikki bought and brought all the kids school supplies. So nice of her. I was in a crazy state and didn't get down to get them.. Your and angle sis. Thank you. I had to leave my washer and dryer behind and so the ones her weren't working right. My mom and Carl had a spare in the garage so they gave them to us. Thank god. No washer and dryer can you imagine.. Mom thank you too. You are all a blessing and I am so lucky to have you. Blessed that's what I am. The kids are so loving living in a neighborhood.. I never see them anymore. They love it here. Beats the trailer park across the street in PA.. LOL.. Its been a crazy ride but we are getting there. Life its a crazy one sometimes.. OK well just wanted to give a quick update now that I am back online. Yipeeee. Missing this online thing.. Love you all.. TA TA

Hi Mom

Dakota was saying Hi to me at the beach the other day. Great picture..

Beach

Wow, been to long. I don't really get online as much anymore. I would usually go into the office every morning and do my computer stuff, and now that I'm not running the office I never seem to get online. I need to start. I'm loosing my cyber space profile. LOL.. Anyways, we have also been gone alot enjoying summer. We will be making a big load over to the other side on Thursday. My dad and Bobby are coming over to help. Thank god for the two of them. I would be packing over heavy furniture by myself if they weren't coming to help. So thank you dad and Bobby..

We have been going down to Ediz Hook alot in the past week or so. So if you live close to a beach you have probably seen this new thing people are doing with rocks.. Stacking them. I know how weird that sounds. Stacking rocks come on.. But really its kinda cool.. We have stacked so many rocks in the last week. Go ahead and laugh, but it looks cool and the kids dig it.. Plus it gets us out of the house.. Today is Hunters Happy Birthday eve. We took him and Dakota to Walmart today and let them each pick out a couple of things. Hunter got a new skateboard, helmet and all the pads. Gotta be safe. He had to call Andrew right away and tell him to come over and teach him some new tricks. It was really cute.. Dakota got a blendy pens set (that is was its called) and bendaroos. It has kept her occupied all night. All there toys are packed so there excited to have something to play with. When we get back home and I unpack all there stuff its going to be like Christmas. We are going to head over to Papa and Grandmas house tomorrow and have a BBQ and Birthday cake.. Should be fun. I will download some pictures when we get home. Lets see what else. Not alot. I'm going to post pictures now of the stacked rocks.. LOL, then hit the hay.. TA TA

Jessie and her Family

My good friend Jessie from dental school came over the other day. She drove up from Missouri. So nice of her to drive up and see me. I haven't seen her is years. It was a great visit and the kids had such a good time playing together. I wish they could have stayed longer.

Ferry ride

Getting ready to catch the ferry home..

Pike place market

We all took a trip over to the Pike Place Market last week.. I haven't been there in years. It was alot of fun. I bought some fresh nectarines that were so good. They were all gone before we got home. There are all sorts of cool little shops there. Dakota got this really cute bracelet that says her name and Hunter got a new Seattle Seahawks hat. Dusty and Tina bought us all lunch at this little cafe that had some really good clam chowder. Thanks guys. Oh and we got to see the fish guys shout and throw the fish back and forth. Hunter got a kick out of that. Dakota just loves going to Seattle. She wants to move there she says when she gets older. She could totally survive there. She is like her Auntie Nikki in that way.. All in all it was a really great day.

Brets house

We went to visit Tina and her family on Friday at Brets house. Had a BBQ and visited for awhile. Was tons of fun hanging out with her. Her little boy Dax is a busy bee. He is soooooooo cute. I wish that they could have stayed another week.. Love you Tina.

Sorry about Brets finger. I seem to get that finger everytime I take a picture of him.

Driving

Here is me playing peek a boo in the mirror..

Lake Cresent

We have been going to some parks along Crescent Lake and having picnics and letting the kids swim.. Also made a trip up to Elwha State park and let the kids try to swim under the waterfalls. It was so cold, I don't even know how they made it into the water. There was this women up there camping with her son and she made it right under the falls. Twice. You could hear how cold it was in her voice. She was shaking. Brrrrr......

Fort Warden

We had a heck of a time at Fort Warden. The kids and I walked around all the Bunkers and the beach even went to the little Marine Center they have there. Dakota was so freaked out at the bunkers. Hunter and I couldn't get her to walk through all of the tunnels. She was to scared. We even had flashlights. I have to admit, I was alittle scared to. It was fun.

Hoe Rain Forest

This is up in the Hoe Rain Forest and this little hamburger stand we stopped at. This was the Sasquatch that we ate lunch with.. Hunter just loved this big stuffed animal. He would have taken him home if he could have..

Eatonville

Well, as everyone probably already knows we will be moving back to Eatonville. At this point we are all just really anxious to get over there. We have made a few trips and got alittle bit of stuff stored in the garage over there. The house is pretty much packed up we are just waiting for our tenants to get moved out. We have been super busy around here packing and trying to get out and enjoy our summer. Beng and I have been trying to take the kids to everywhere on the peninsula that we haven't visited. Its been really fun. Doing what we can before we have to move. I didn't realize how many beautiful places there are over here. We went to the Hoe rain forest and on the way stopped in Forks to visit Bobby and take Dakota to see Bella from Twilight's truck. Oh she loved that. We have been to every beach and State Park over here. I will post some pictures. Lets see what else. We are all doing good. We got to meet our nieces son for the 1st time last week. We spent about 6 days with them. He is such a doll We went to the Pike place market and had a great time. It was so good to see Tina, Dusty and baby Dax. Maybe we will make the trip to Texas next year. That would be loads of fun. Ok well Im going to post some pictures and write some more later. TA TA

Pictures

Just a few pictures i wanted to share.