WHAT Snow in JUNE?!?

Nope, just kidding it is cotton but I would rather take snow it is less messy and less sneezy. We are buried in this messy sticky stuff, you can mow it and create a cotton hurricane, or you can use the blower and do the same. You can try to suck it up into the blower, but it sticks and its horrible. If it rains it becomes gooeys sticky horrible crunchy. If left alone it chokes out my flowers and lawn. I just hope for strong winds to get it off the tree fast and spread it through the neighborhood, no luck so far, but im still hoping.

We rushed across the state to Spokane

We rushed across the state to spokane to see Scott and Deanna, and their little kiddoes. Once we were there we had a great time visiting and playing with Elizabeth and their new little baby. Ayden is ready for a baby in the house, but im a little scared since he is so helpful and wants to be in the face of the baby lol. while we were there we went to spokane falls and it was so awesome. It was the biggest water fall I have ever seen. The kids had a great time and so did we but we were so tired once we got home from our super rushed trip.

Our first stop

Our first stop was shelton WA, we stayed with Byron & Lindsay. They were awesome hosts and showed us a great time. Our kids had a blast playing together. We went to Seattle via the ferry, it was our first ferry ride and we loved it. While in seattle we ate at ivars and had some of the best clam chowder ever.. they have it in costco so you can get a sense of what you are missing out on.... We got to meet ashley my new friend, she brought her neices to play. Then we went to the curiousity shop, the kids are still talking about all the crazy things they saw in the store. Then we went to pikes place, I couldn't handle the smell of the fish, but I loved all the stuff for sale. While in Seattle we went to the coolest park, thanks ashley, it was a long winding road down to the beach, ayden said we were in the jungle. Then the park was great shooter and elaina loved the fish slide. It had thise big walkway over some train tracks to the beach, where elaina and shooter and all the other kids played on a giant log turned teeter totter.

The next day we went to the beach at Ocean Shores, it wasn't very warm but we had a blast anyway. We flew lindsay and byron's kites which were amazing (pirate ship, dragon and I think a butterfly) then the kids played in the water. We walked the beach and found a few shells. When it started raining we ran off the beach and to a camp where we roasted hot dogs. Ayden really wanted to roast his own dog and kept bringing me these tiny sticks, so funny. We were sad to leave shelton it was so pretty and we were having so much fun with our firends, but it was a rushed trip!

Vacation to Washington

Finally a vacation. Aaron really wanted to go to washington this year since we have not been for so long, so he gave up his usual birthday bash so we could go. So here we are in the beginning in the car, and a picture of the columbia river. It was 16 hours by the time we got there and the kids did suprisingly well.

Aaron's Birthday

Aaron is turned 27 this year, and it was a little different this year reather than the big BBQ with all his friends we decided to save up our funds and take a vacation. Hopefully he still had a great birthday. We had ice cream cake and invited the family over to celebrate with us.

the second photo is of him blowing out the candles, but shooter was really excited and got in the picture.

Baby

Baylee Jade Keith

so we decided that with this baby we would go to a dr with fancy 3D technology and lots of ultrasounds. Little did we know that this baby is a shy little girl and she will not let us see her face. So far this is one of the better pictures, but it is still really cute how she is hiding. We are getting closer, in this picture we are at 24 weeks or about 6 months.

Braces

braces time... and so it begins. The kids are probably all going to need braces and the dentist recommended getting started early so that expanding the upper pallet would be less painful and move faster. So here is elaina the first day. She was really excited to get them on and was bugging me about when we were going non-stop, that is until they were on and her days of gum and taffy were over and the days of getting braces tightened began... now she says I made her get them. lol oh well she will thank me for being the bad guy later.

Finally a little warm

So I complained that winter never came now I am complaining because the snow and rain wont stop! We did have a little peak of sunshine and we took advantage. We walked over to the park at the elementary and the kids had a great time just running around. Ayden of course wanted to follow shooter everywhere on the playground. I decided to let him just go free and, just be there to catch... but it is hard to watch him climb everything!

Easter

Easter time, it was kind of a cold easter but we had a lot of fun. We went to rolling hills park where the church had an easter egg hunt. the kids had a great time there was face painting a bouncy house and of course a hunt for candy. By the time easter was all over the kids had buckets and buckets of candy.