Maiden Voyage....

This weekend we took our new trailer out for it's maiden voyage. We had such a good time. Only two months until Neah Bay.

Daddy's hat.

This girl LOVES to swing.

Throwing rocks into the water.

She loved the little tiny tub.

Apple Blossom.....

May 1st Aniston, Nana and I did Apple Blossom. We were able to watch about 1.5 hours of the parade before Aniston was finished....which was enough for us. We went to our new Olive Garden for lunch and it was nice and quiet with the rest of the town on the other side of the river.

Blitz was there. He's the Seahawk's mascot and Aniston thinks he's pretty neat.

"I'm tres....that means 3 mom"......

March 5th Aniston turned 3. I can't believe it.....where did my little chubby cheeked baby go?! We had a little party at Abby's Pizza and she had a blast.

LOVE this picture....they look SO innocent. Looks are definately deceiving.

Her new big girl bike from Nana and Grandpa Howard.

She loves this little camping chair from the Tubbs'.

A few of my favorite baby pictures.

Seriously....look at those cheeks!

Her first Christmas present to Erik. They have matching jersey's for their favorite Seahawk Tatupu.

Portland Zoo......

Valentine's Day weekend we made the trip to Portland/Vancouver to pick up our new camping trailer. We stayed at a hotel but spent a lot of time out and about visiting with Poppy Lee and Grandma Carolyn and playing. My dad, Rose, Melissa and Jerry were all down that weekend as well with the Sportsman show and boat shopping. Here are some pictures of the zoo.

Grandpa carrying the little monkey.

Those two kinda like each other.

Aniston's favorite, the baby elephant.

Portland just finished their Lion exhibit. They haven't had them for years and the new exhibit is pretty amazing.

RANDOM PICTURES:

Enjoying one of Auntie Lysha's FAMOUS peanut butter cups.

And Coming.....

I don't have any pictures yet, but Aniston is now in her big girl bed! I'd been procrastinating on moving her from her crib and she wasn't crawling out of it and was still sleeping well through the night in it so I figured there was no point in moving her out. Well, a few weeks ago we found the bedroom set we'd been looking for and the deal was so good the bed, nightstand and dresser came home with us. I will update more later!

Nana's Birthday Weekend with Aniston.....

As mentioned in the prior post, Erik and I went to Seattle for the 3 day weekend and my mom, Nana, spent the weekend at our house with Aniston. It works so much better for her to stay at our house so Aniston can sleep in her own bed and mom can give Cabela her medication every day. Well, Friday was mom's birthday so Aniston and Erik made a cake for her. I remember when I was little it was my job to make my mom's cake and my sitter would help me make it while my mom was at work. So Erik and Aniston baked the cake and then frosted it while I was packing for our trip. As you can see.....Aniston LOVED putting on sprinkles. Nana loved her cake!

They had a great weekend together and we're so lucky to have Nana so close that she can do things like that for us. We love you Nana and Happy Birthday!

Nana's cake. Her favorite, yellow with chocolate frosting.

Anniversary Weekend....

December 29th Erik and I celebrated our 8th wedding annivesary. We didn't do anything that day but last weekend (Martin Luther King Day) we spent the 3 day weekend in Seattle. We have WorldMark/Trendwest and have never used any of our points before so we decided to try it. It was SO nice! We were right down town Seattle (2 blocks from the downtown Macy's). We jammed so many things into the weekend that we're looking forward to this weekend to recover.

1. Friday: Friday we left Wenatchee at 2:00 and headed over the hill. We checked into our hotel and took a cab to "Olive and 12th", which is a wine shop that was doing wine tasting. We ended up talking to the owner, which was nice because I'm just getting into wine and he was very informative without using all the fancy wine terminology that I don't know yet and didn't treat us like we were too stupid. After that we went to a restaurant that one of the wine shop employees recommended. Now, Erik is a good ol' meat and potatoes kind of guy. So we went to this little Italian restaurant and were thinking there would at least be one thing on the menu Erik would think sounded good. WRONG....the only meat that was served was duck and everything else had pumpkin filling or acorn filling, spinach here and there and lots of other stuff that I could see was making him hope there would be an Arby's on the way back to our hotel. We agreed to find another spot and ended up eat at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse across the street from our hotel. It was SO good. Erik got his big steak and potatoes and even ordered dessert...which, I don't ever recall him doing.

2. Saturday: We started off in Bellevue at the Lasik Institute so Erik could have his eyes checked since he had the laser eye correction there a few months ago. He now has 15/10 vision. Then we went to Bell Square. This used to be my favorite mall and I could spend DAYS in there but the last 2 trips there have been greatly dissappointed. After the mall we went back to our hotel and had a little nap. Then we walked downtown to do the HUGE Macy's, Nordstroms, etc. After that and on our way back to our hotel, we ran into a really nice theater and ended up seeing "The Book of Eli". Pretty good movie.

3. Sunday: We drove down to Lacy and did Cabelas. I was shocked that this is the second time we've been to a Cabelas store and we've only spent a TOTAL of $200. Then we had lunch at Red Lobster since the closest one to us over here is in Yakima. Since we weren't too pleased with the mall we'd been at, we stopped at the Tacoma mall and got Aniston a Build a Bear as her present since she was home with Nana for the weekend (more on that later). On our way back up to Seattle, we stopped by Emerald Queen Casino and I won $150....not too shabby!

4. Monday: We did the Woodland Park Zoo before heading home. I have to say I wasn't too impressed and think the Portland Zoo is so much better. We stopped at North Bend and did a few stores and Erik got some new shoes, Aniston got new shoes and I got a few outfits for work. Then we were ready to head home and see our kiddo.

We had SUCH a good time and think it's nice to get away together just the two of us. Although, quite a few conversations revolved around Aniston.

Erik's favorite exhibit, the eagles.

My favorite, the flamingos.

Auntie Lysha.....

We FINALLY got to see Auntie Lysha again! We miss having her around so much but she came home for Christmas and brought her little yorkie "Cher". Aniston LOVES Cher and Cher tolerated Aniston. Our yorkie Sophia is 8 and doesn't think a 3 year old little girl is very interesting. Cher however, played "tag" with Aniston. It was pretty cute, Aniston would chase Cher to one end of the living room, turn around and Cher would chase her back.

Neither of our two girls (Aniston and Alysha) were too happy when it was time for Auntie to leave. We need to make a trip to visit her in Spokane.

Aniston and Cher were more interested in what was on TV.