Fall Time!

I can't believe that summer is gone already, but fall is my favorite so ya!!We have been enjoying our last hot days trying to finish up all of our outside projects, seth put a new front porch on the house but decided he wanted to add on to the porch so we are still working on that but he does such a good job and it looks great! We also put in a new fire pit and have been roasting lots of marshmellows when the wind allows us to. We had a blast a rodeo this year and made it through the whole thing on sunday for the first time since we had the boys,even though it rained and the wind blew and it hailed on us! The boys were troopers and loved every minute of it! Ayden got to ride the roller coaster for the first time and i was little worried it would scare him but of course not, he put his hands in the air and laughed the whole time! Gavin loved the animal barns and was a little upset that he wasnt big enough to ride with big brother, next year watch out!! Seths mom and her boyfriend came and stayed with us for a week and we had so much fun and they got to go to the fair with us, it was so nice to see them!
I cant believe ayden is in his second year of preschool! He goes three days a week this year and loves it, he asks me everyday if his school is back! I am so glad that he likes it so much and i am so proud of both of my boys!! Gavin misses his big brother when he is at school but likes his mommy time and loves that he gets to pick the cartoon!:) Seth and i good and just celebrated out seven year wedding anniversary, thanks honey i love you!

Stay-cation in Seattle

This last weekend Seth and I took the boys to Seattle and stayed a couple of days! The city pass is the coolist thing ever! We went to the seattle aquarium, pike place market, a cruise tour of elliott bay, the music and science fiction museum and the space needle all on saturday what a day! we ate the best food down on the pier and the boys were sooo good even with how tired they had to be! On Sunday we went to the pacific science center and then to the woodland park zoo and the city pass included all of these things, its so great you dont have to wait in line for anything! i highly recommend it! We stayed in a fancy hotel because we were only staying for one night so why not, it was the boys first stay in a hotel since we had both of them and they loved it especially all of the elevator rides but it was a chore keeping them out of the mini bar, where a snickers bar cost five dollars!! Seth and i on the other hand have had our fill of elevator rides for at least another year or so, we had to take elvators to do everything even to ride the train! It was the best mini vacation and a good trial for the kids who proved to travel very well! What a perfect weekend! i am so blessed and thankful for my house of boys! Hope you all had a good one!

Whats new with us

so, what's new with us? I have been really bad about updating this, but we have been having a really great summer! we just had my nephew James for a whole week and we had sooo much fun! For those of you who know me well, little James is now thirteen and not soo little anymore! My boys had so much fun with thier "tousin" as my boys would say, and we miss him already! We are planning a trip to Vegas in december and James is going with us and i can't wait!
This week we also got to welcome Riley Jordan Carlson to the world and he is precious, congratulations Jason and Kayla we love you all so much and are so lucky to have you all in our lives:)
This weekend we had some old friends come over and we had so much fun, i actually had a few drinks and we stayed up playing the wii until two thirty in the morning which is rare for us, the boys even got stay up until midnight and they thought that was just the greatest! Thank you Josh and Katie we had a blast! On Saturday we went to the car show in kittitas and then the burn out contest which was so fun! i know im in trouble when the kids get older because all they love are jeeps, trucks and loud exhaust!(so much like their daddy, but that's a good thing) We got all of our school shopping done and seth rhino lined his Jeep, pretty great weekend!

Our week with grandma

So this week we were missing Seth so much! He had to go to Kirkland on Sunday and stay for a week for his new jobs safety training, he's working at waste management now and we are so proud of him! He still has his septic company but is going to do both, thank you seth for working so hard for your family! We love you! So anyways since daddy is gone it was just us and my mom and so we planeted new flowers and did some shopping, sorry seth, and we put up a new fence for my horse so he could be turned out in the pasture. My mom and i were quite proud that we put up a fence all by our selves and with the help of Ayden and Gavin! Seth will be back today and we are so excited to see him, this is the longest that the boys have ever been away from thier daddy. Thank you mom for all your help while he was gone and we had so much grandma we love you!:)

Haily came out and took some family photos a couple of weeks ago and she brought them to me today! Here's a a few for everyone to see! Thank you so much Hailey for taking our family pictures! They are so beautiful!

Fourth of July Weekend

Happy Fourth of July! We had a really good weekend, we stayed home most of the time because i was on call at work but it was really great! On friday we went up Manashtash and took my mom with, it was her first time up, i cant believe she had never been up there! We went for a hike and Ayden caught three butterflies with his bare hands, it was soo wierd, and all of them made it he didnt squish any:) On the fourth my mom cooked us a huge dinner and because it was so hot we drained the hot tob and put in cold water and used it as pool( the kids thougth that was a wonderful idea) We did some of own fire works and then we all sat out in the yard ans watched the fireworks show, we have the perfect view from our yard! The boys now would like to have fireworks everynight!:)

Fathers day weekend!

My goodness weekends go by fast, there's just never enough time! Saturday morning we woke up to one of the huge trees in the driveway blocking the driveway, so we spent all day cuttung up a tree, probably not what seth was wanting to do first thing on his day off! It was sort of fun though the kids loved it, helping dad, and dragging branches into a huge pile! On Sunday, for fathers, day we just wanted to relax! We went and got breakfast for Seth and did a little shopping for his Jeep, went to lunch and got piza for dinner! i think he had a good day! We were all exhausted after the day of tree trimming so a simple day of fun was nice! The boys and i are so blessed to have Seth in our lives. We had the perfect day for the perfect father and husband, thank you Seth, we love you! p.s. new pictures coming soon we are having them tomarrow, so excited!