A quick trip to Seattle

I have never been to Seattle.

We have some great friends here who are from Seattle.

Long story short, they let us go home with them last weekend!

It was a blast.

Friday night after we got there, we put Mylee to bed, left the boys with Grandma and Grandpa
and went on a date!!!  We ended up going to an arcade, played mini-putt, dance dance revolution and shot hoops on a mini basketball hoop.  So fun!
Matt, Monica, and I were at the hoop for about an hour timing each other and trying to beat each others records all the while Brad was collecting a million tickets to win prizes with.

The next morning we got up...and headed out for the day!

First stop---the zoo!

The kids loved it.

The day started off cold, but it was feeling nice after a few hours.

I love this picture of Monica chasing the birds...such a fun mom :)

After spending 5-6 hours at the zoo..we drove downtown.

The kids got a quick nap while we toured by car... and then we were off again

These 2 boys had so much fun together...if you can't tell.

Gum Wall...I was the only one that would get close to it!

Mylee loved riding in the carrier, who wouldn't?!

Our great friends, Brad and Monica

The streets of Seattle

So beautiful!

Sunday

Relaxing, church, then beach!

We got back from the beach and boat docks and Monica's awesome mom had made an Incredible meal.  I now know where Monica gets her cooking abilities from.

We played games all night and hung out with her awesome family, it felt like being home!

Monday we took the kids to the Children's Museum.

Mylee didn't stop moving.

Colton didn't want to leave the trains...

Finally we convinced him to check out the rest of the place...

which he Loved.

We went back to her parents house, loaded up, and took the long drive home :(

It was an awesome trip.

Her family was awesome,

they were the perfect travel partners

and we wish we could go back every weekend!

V-Day

Our Valentine's Day started last Friday night.

Some friends came over after we put the kids to bed and we used

a gift card to go to JAMMS... we then went to the late show of The Vow.

(Loved that movie... by the way)

Yesterday, I took the kids to Matt's school to put a goodie basket on his desk...

we went to sneak out and Colton took off running back to Matt's desk

 (I guess he thought it was for him too)

And Matt came walking up, so we got to visit him too!

I took the kids to the grocery store so they could ride in the truck...

and get free sugar cookies :)

When Matt came home, I made a "red dinner"

My mom always had this tradition...but I was a slacker this year,

all we had was Spaghetti and Strawberries.

Then, a bunch of kids came over for us to babysit while there parents went out!

We put the kids to bed early and Matt made me go sit in our room and wait...

He finally brought me out and had candles all over our table with

 ingredients to make Ice-Cream Sundae's

Wow!

We saw who could make the tastiest one and then he had written 30 questions

to ask each other and we saw who got the most ones right about each other.

The winner was ME.  The prize was a ITunes Gift card.

To top the night off....

he said he was not going into school at 6:30, but whatever time I woke up I could take him in!

I got to sleep in until 8!

  (Mylee has been waking up with diarrhea at 5 or 6 for 2 weeks now)

So 8 o'clock was Incredible!

I love my husband and I feel SO blessed for the amount of

time we are able to spend together this year!

And I sure do love these 2!



Our life lately...

Colton is not the same boy he was even just a few months ago.  He is talking SOO much more, sometimes too much ;)  He has started getting really into coloring. Like obsessed.  He could sit at the table and color for hours.  He is also getting a lot braver to do naughty things.  He has always been very timid and obedient, but lately he is definitely taking on a new little personality. It is very good in some ways, but really really bad in other ways.  He has speech therapy one day a week and pre-school twice.  Since the weather is kind of nice here, we are able to go on lots of walks outside and finally to an outdoor park.  The other hours that he is not doing these things I watch a little girl who is a few months younger than him.  He is loving all of the time that he has with friends. 

A few things about Colton:

I say, "Colton, Stop it."

He says, "Mommy, You Bop it!"

I can't help but laugh.

At least 5 times a day he comes up and hugs me and says,

"Wove you, Mommy, ok"

He sets up pillows in the doorway of my bedroom, and says,

"No baby come, ok, ok, ok"

He gets on a phone and says,

"Hi Bampa Wandy. (grandpa Randy)  Ya, Ok. Ya. Ok.  Bye!"

He does this ALL the time.

I put him on time out in Mylee's room the other day and I went in about 10 minutes later to get him out.  He had knocked her dresser over and everything on it.  Broke the lamp.  Taken the humdifier apart and dumped the water out and scribbled with marker all over the desk and himself.

He has never done anything like this so I laughed, after I put him BACK in time-out in a different room.

Mylee and Colton (together)  is not always the happiest combination. 

 Colton likes his space and Mylee likes everyone else's space. 

It's really funny actually to watch their different personalities clash. 

 I feel like Colton is a little bit more like Matt and Mylee is a little bit more like me,

eventually they have to get along, right?!  I mean, Matt and I do!

I tried to put Mylee in front of a TV show, I got her a little chair next to Colton and everything.

It lasted about 2 minutes.  She smiled for the camera a few times and as soon as I was not taking her picture, she was done watching the show. 



Mylee is understanding so much more.  She is turning into a little toddler.  When she wakes up in the morning I ask her if she wants to eat, she starts yelling, Eat, Eat, rips her binky out and runs to the kitchen screaming.  She learned what her toes were as well as a bunch of other objects.  She loves me, but when we are around a couple of my friends she only wants them and will whine at their feet (I have to admit, it's kind of a nice break ;))  She is only taking one nap a day, and I love it!  I feel like 2 naps a day is so hard if you want to do anything!  She will still smile at anyone, but is starting to get a little more timid around someone who she doesn't know.  We love this little girl.



We all love when Daddy is home.  I am loving this 2nd year of Law School.  I feel like it is more like the life of Matt having a job.  He is gone from 6:30-5:15 every day and doesn't do a whole lot of studying at night or on the weekends, just every once in a while. 



This week has been long.

Mylee has had diarrhea for 10 days now.

She wakes up between 4-6 a.m. (one morning at 230) with it ALL over her.

I have to strip her down, wash her off, and by then she can't go back to sleep.

I have been going to bed at 10:00 and it is marvelous.

This week we:

Went to the indoor playplace, went to Matt's intramural basketball game, went to the indoor pool and swam, went to the Washington State University Creamery (wow), went to the church 3 mornings for bball and work-outs, went on a few walks to parks, hosted a Valentine Craft time for kids, went to our new Super Wal-mart in town (pretty exciting), went to the doctor for Mylee's diarrhea to be told there is nothing they can do, and tonight Matt and I are going on our "Valentine's Date" to see The Vow! (we'll see how much Matt enjoys it, but it was his idea)

Our time in Moscow is flying by. 

We have 3 months left. 

And then all of our wonderful friends and us are all going our separate ways.

On the plus side I found an Awesome apartment in Boise that I love! 





Family Photos

We took these at Christmas time

with Matt's family.

I thought they turned out cute.

Thanks to Matt's parents for letting us get some cute pics :)

My kids at a year...

Colton and Mylee at ONE Years Old.

I used to think they looked so much alike...

but not really so much anymore.

They are, however, definitely siblings.