Soccer Time!

We signed Rachel up for soccer because she wanted to play with her best friend from preschool. I must say, I'm not a fan of sticking kids in sports at such a young age when it costs so much. At this age they would have just as much fun inviting friends over and playing in the backyard. Nonetheless, we did it. Rachel enjoys practice, but not the games because she gets hurt every time. She would not get so much if she would just pay attention:):)She keeps asking me to put her back in swimming, so I did. Now we have 2 weeks of more than one sport, which I also do not like doing. I know, I'm weird. But here are some cute photos of Rachel trying to play soccer! jayden is cheering her on!!

Tag!

So, I got tagged to find the 6th folder and 6th picture in my files. Well, since we just put all my pictures on CD because our hard drive is "in danger", I just went with the year folders. This was taken in 2004 on July 4th at the Edmonds park. This was actually the 5th picture. The 6th picture was the same just not as close up, so I cheated because I absolutely love this picture!! Isn't she precious?!!!!! My little Rachel was just beautiful...well she still is, but it's sad to see how the years have flown by. Who to tag? Camille, Emily Nedry and Leah Black! Go girls!

I have lost half of my wisdom!

On Wednesday I had to get two of my wisdom teeth pulled. What a fun adventure! The morning started with some good old Valium...and off I went to be put under. The next thing I know I'm at home getting a blanket put on me. When I wake up from my nap I asked Brett to take some pictures. He said he already did and showed me them on the camera. I was like, what??? I don't remember those. Then I said I wanted to post something on Facebook and he said I already did that as well. What??? I looked and low and behold there are two ridiculous entries on my Facebook account!! Thank goodness I only lost my memory for a few hours. It was pretty funny and a little unnerving, but I guess that's just what happens! Here are two pictures I don't remember posing for and one I took myself when I got my memory back. I know you're all jealous! Last night a friend of Brett's came over with his boy and I thought this picture was too dang cute! Jayden is such a ham!!!

Cuteness

I've taken some pretty cute photos of the kiddos lately (at least I think so), so I thought I'd share:) Jayden is quite the character and loves hats! Here she's wearing one of Brett's and in the next photo she has snagged the PS2 controller. She thinks she's sooo tricky! (too bad we don't use that controller anymore) I bought this outfit at costco and I thought it was sooo stinkin cute, but it's even more cute with Jayden in it! Doesn't she just exude cuteness?!?!?!? On our way to church I had to take a quick photo of the girls. polka dots and stripes, may fav.!! It looks like Jayden also likes to wear our shoes! Here she is in Brett's huge shoes. She definitely loves him more than me:) I especially love this photo because when I was her age my mom took a picture almost identical to this one. Like mother like daughter I guess! I had to toss one photo of Rachel at dance class. The lighting is horrible in there, so none of my pictures come out good. It's quite frustrating!!!! Rachel looks so cute as a ballerina!

A night to remember

The night before Valentine's day we went to a couple's party. (sorry the post is so late). The party was a blast! We found the some people in this group are a little competitive (not me of course:)) and some people don't know when enough is enough (again, of course not me!) The cutest couple there (hee, hee) We played this game where the wife write a poem with specific given words while the husband sketches a profile picture of the wife. Let's just say this gets interesting. Here's my profile picture. I had the hardest time coming up with a poem. I'm not too creative! Here's the profile pictures all spread out: ok women, good luck finding the one of you! I'm whispering my poem to Kristen to get it approved. Let's just say it wasn't too tasteful. Here's the rest of the crowd embarrassed and shocked by what I said. I'm feeling a little ashamed. The next game was fun but a little tricky with this many people. A spoon was placed in the middle of the floor and then a song was played. If you knew the song you would grab the spoon and say what it was. I'm kinda hidden here, but I got the spoon!!! I had to: it was our song! My good friend Emily was one of my main competitors: she was very proud to get the spoon here. I just love this photo! Finally, what's a party without food!!! Everyone brought a dessert and they were all so yummy! I brought a brownie crusted dessert pizza. It was all so yummy! Thanks for a fun night Kristen and Kedra! Good luck to us next year since Kristen has to move away...so sad!!!

A Day For Love

Okay, so these pictures are horrible, maybe it's time for a new camera!:):):) Saturday morning the family woke up to love letters (thanks Colleen for the idea). I think I'll make it a yearly tradition. I made cards for each kids with their picture on it and then wrote them a memorable love letter, including Brett! They loved them!!! We don't usually do too much for Valentine's day so later that night Brett and I went to dinner and a movie. It was kinda sad actually. Since Restaurants are sooo cool and don't take reservations and we weren't going to wait an hour and a half we ended up at one of my not so favorite places: Applebees. At least the movie was good: Taken. A little sad for me but a great movie. I hope everyone else had a fabulous Valentine's day and spent it with the ones they love. Jayden is such a stinker!! I wouldn't give her any vday candy, so when I went into the kitchen she quickly climbed on the table and stuffed a ton in her mouth!!! She is such a monkey!!! Gotta love her:)

Curious?

This past Thursday the girls and I went to the Seattle Children's Museum with some friends from church. They had a Curious George Display, which is what brought us down to Seattle. Rachel brought her friend Julia and and Jayden just had a blast exploring. Here are a few photos from our fun. Sorry they're mostly of Jayden. It was hard to get Rachel because she was everywhere at once! My favorites are the ones with Rachel and her friend at the grocery store...it looks like they're really shopping! Sorry so many photos, they're mostly for my benefit (and the Grandma's).

What's that big bright round thing in the sky?

It's the SUN! We took advantage of the sunshine and played outside for a LONG time after lunch. The kids were so excited and happy: Jayden didn't even want to come inside, that's a first. Rachel had a friend over and of course I was watching Jordan, so they had tons of fun. Although Jayden was not fond of the bike! I also had to include a couple photos of Jayden in her cute little beanie, plus she's 17 months old...eek!!!!