Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks…..

I don’t care if I ever get back, for it’s root, root, root for the MARINERS!!!!!!

Yep, this weekend I went to the Mariners game!  I was lucky to be given A.M.A.Z.I.N.G tickets from Bruce & Mary who have season tickets!  Jaime, Maddie, Amy & I all went and had an amazing time!!  The weather was beautiful, the game was fun, the food was yummy, oh and did I mention we WON!!!

Did I mention….We WON??!!!  Here’s Madison’s victory dance….(Don’t worry, the video is flipped when you watch it, just not in the preview for some odd reason!)

After the game was over kids 14 and under got to go on the field and run the bases!  Madison was so excited to get to do so!!  It was fun to be able to be on the field and run around with her, or should I say try to catch her!!

Thanks again Bruce & Mary for the tickets, if you ever need anyone to take them off your hands again, please let me know!  XOXO!

Duvall Days 2010

What beautiful weather we had today for Duvall Days!  The weather has been C.R.A.P.P.Y lately, I mean NO nice days.  It’s months like last that make people equate Seattle = Rainy.  Ugh, it’s been wet, cold and miserable!  However, some how Mother Nature knew that we could all use a beautiful day to spend in town!

I worked today, so I took the babies down to Duvall Days to the parade.  I wasn’t quite sure how they would react, but after initial fear they enjoyed it!

My attempt to get a picture of the triplets!

*sigh* Guess there won’t be posed pictures taken today :>

Can you spot Sophia??

The kids were really excited about their balloons and footballs they got!

After the parade we grabbed Sophia, and headed to the kids area to play!  They had several blow-up bouncy houses, and I had no idea what the triplets were going to think.  They’d either hate it or love it.  Luckily they LOVED it!  Thad had a blast, it was nearly impossible to get them to leave!

They had so much fun in the bouncy house, here’s a video I took.  Please note this was taken on my still-photo camera, and not my video camera so the quality isn’t great!  Still fun nonetheless!

Have a great night!!

 

 

P.S. Wanna see how much the babies have grown in a year?  Check out our Duvall Days Post from last year!

Look At Her Go!

Yep, it’s official, Emma is now a walker!  She’s come a long ways since The Science Center just over a month ago!

I was slow in getting video of her walking, but now she’s closing in on running!  This weekend she even mastered standing up in the middle of the room, before she’d have to crawl over to someone or something to pull up on to a standing position – but not anymore!  Take a look for yourself!

      

Ahhhhh…she’s so cute!

Hannah [I Mean Maddie] Montana

Move over, Dora…Hannah Montana is the new cool show for Madison.  Madison walks around quoting Hannah Montana and saying “Hannah Montana, say wutttt?”.  She also loves pretending to be Hannah and other people can be JACKSON….with the emphasis on the JACKSON!  Loud and in-caps in person! 

Madison has Hannah Montana movies, books, cds and of course her favorite song is Hannah Montana’s “The Best of Both Worlds", and she’s pretty good at it!  Have a look for yourself….nothing cuter than a 4 year old rock star *note the head banging* “like Hannah Montana does”!

      

 

Yeah, it’s true my niece is pretty darn adorable!!  Oh and she picked out the heart its played on too – lol!

 

Steppin’ in the Right Direction to the Pacific Science Center

Jaime and I took the girls to the Pacific Science Center to play this afternoon.  We were trying to remember, and we don’t think we’ve ever really taken Madison to the Science Center.  Well, maybe when she was a baby back in the days of Gus & Joe, the Dill Triplets and Xander, but that was a long time ago….all those kids are now 7 (or almost!).  Anyway, it had been a long time since I had been there too, so we had fun!

In the butterfly room! 

Yes, I see you Emma!

Emma had a lot of fun in the toddler area!

Both girls LOVED the dinosaur exhibit!  Emma couldn’t get enough of them and Madison enjoyed watching them move and roar! 

Before we left we saw a show on AIR.  Madison said this was her favorite part!  She even got to be a volunteer for the hovercraft deminstration.  She quickly jumped up to volunteer before she realized what she was getting into!

 
This show is great!

I’m not really sure what I’m getting myself into!?!


Cover your ears, it may be loud!


And she’s off!

Unfortunately, the camera died right after this photo, so I missed her hovering.  But she hovered about 4” off the ground, using a leaf blower and the piece of plywood she was seated on!  It was pretty cool!

Emma also did some walking on her own while we were out!!  She’s getting really close!  Two seperate times she walked 6-10 steps!  Of course when we pulled out the camera she would have nothing to do with it!  Check out this video to see some steppin’ in the right direction for Emmalee!!!

 

Since I know you ALL watched my video, you all should know about the voting taking place on my blog!  Go to the poll on the top left of my blog, and vote for when you think Emma will walk!!  Curious to see what people think!  The poll will close on Sunday, May 2nd, so vote today!

 

Alex’s Piano Arrives!

The movers arrived last night, two days early, boy were we surprised and excited!!  Check out the montage I made of the process of moving it in!  *Note: the photo quality isn’t that great, most of it was taken on my dad’s cell phone!*

            

Alex’s has already been playing up a storm on it!!  She is so excited to have this piano!  If you haven’t had a chance to hear Alex perform you’ll have to ask her!  She’s amazing!  If you click HERE you can listen to Alex’s piano recital in January 2008!

Texas Vacation 2010

I did it, I completed my Texas Vacation 2010 video/montage this evening!  I think it turned out pretty well, if I do pat myself on the back!  The music was chosen from friends on Facebook, I asked them “When you think of TEXAS what songs come to mind? Need to add music to my Texas video!” and got a plethora of answers!  What a fun way to pick the music, I know I couldn’t have chosen better songs….well maybe the last one, that was one off of the One True Media site I use to make the montages!  I was short by a minute, and didn’t feel like finding another song!

Without further ado, my Texas Vacation 2010 video/montage…. enjoy!

If you missed out on my blogging during the trip, please check out HERE to see more information, insight and photos!

Okay, I need to get to sleep.  I have card counting in the morning from the Toys & Togs Sale.  So tomorrow night I should have numbers to share!  Then tomorrow evening I fly out to Spokane to meet up with Julia and the kids for the week.  They arrived today and I got this fun text from Julia about 8pm tonight…

Not sure u can tell how huge and great this room is....2 pac n plays on far walls...w\2 comfy reading chairs ..desk and chair...2 double beds...wish bathroom was bigger but oh well! ;)

I can’t wait for tomorrow I love staying in hotels, and this one sounds really nice!  However, like I said, I should probably get to bed asap, it’ll be here before I know it!  Good night!

Incapable of walking??

Emma is 15 months old and isn’t walking yet…..

If the kid can climb like a monkey and cruise around furniture this well, she can walk….LAZY is more like it :) She’s darn cute tho!

As you can tell Emma and I took a quick trip up to Camano today just the two of us.  She had a lot of fun playing with the kids.  She was a little bit hesitant at first, but then jumped (or I guess I should say climbed) right in! 

Annika being silly upside down


Emma was excited to color with Connor & MacKenzie.

 
Emma looking so grownup!


MacKenzie and her crazy bangs right after nap!

 
The big kids had fun following Emma up the stairs!

 
 
Aiden upside down!


Jaime says this is a VERY Emma look!


Connor is such a big helper with the baby!

Julia made this cute video of her kids a few days ago when they were all home sick!  It’s pretty cute!  I don’t know how to shrink it to fit, so it’s a little big!

Happy Friday!!

Sunglass Baby!

How much do I love www.picnik.com it made this wonderful collage for me!  I just spent $4.95 for the one month subscription, but thinking I may purchase the year one!  LOVE THIS!  Any who on to the topic of my post!

This evening I went over to Grandma’s to visit Aunt Sue who is in town.  Emmalee (and the rest of her family) were also there, Brandi too!  Emma was having a lot of fun with her sunglasses!  She worked so hard to put them on both herself and other people!!  She doesn’t quite have the coordination to get them on her (or us), but it was entertaining to watch!  She kept getting so close! 

Of course I pulled my video camera out and got some video of it!  She is so stinkin’ adorable!!  Enjoy!!

Tagged all last night and most of today at Julia's!!  I am pooped!!  Playing catch-up on the DVR and relaxing tonight!  It feels wonderful!  Happy Saturday! 

Fort Worth Zoo

I finally got through all the photos and settled with like 51 I wanted to post!  Felt that might make for a VERY long blog post, so I made it into a collage using www.picnik.com.  Check it out, it’s a pretty cool online program!

We were still unsure of what the weather was going to be like, since it has snowed the day before…but like the weatherman had been saying, it indeed was 70+*!  The weather was beautiful, as was the zoo!  I highly recommend it to anyone visiting the Fort Worth area! 

We met up with Kendra and her kids Hailey (9), Madison (5) and Brayden (4) along with Cami, Carmen and their daughter Kyana (5).  So along with the Munro kids, we had a LOT of little ones.  Hailey, Kyana & Madison spent the whole time trying to cart Annika around, it was very sweet!  Aiden, Connor & Brayden had fun running around together!

One of the highlights of the day was in the bird exhibit.  We purchased bird food on a stick and then went into the exhibit.  Birds were flocking us, it was absolutely amazing….and entertaining!  I pulled the video camera out about halfway through the fun, but you can still see some of the excitement…plus the squeals of excitement, joy and fear from all of us!

 

Wow, lots of pictures, huh!!  Well here are a couple more, just incase you haven’t seen enough!

 Us

All of Teresa’s Grandkids….and Julia!

Most of the group!

Today, Kim, Julia & I hit the mall…and oh what fun we had!!  I’ll post the blog post tomorrow!!  We leave tomorrow…how sad!