What a cutie!

Congrats to my little brother and his wife on their sweet little new baby. Her name is Londyn Mineko, doesn't get much cuter than that.

Dedicated to my Big Brother Chad.....

IT'S A BOY!! or as Eric puts it our baby has a kickstand!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

I love Fall! Everything about it. My favorite season and Halloween is my favorite holiday! I am such a sucker for all the decor and costumes. I had to chuckle when someone asked me if I knew what my kids were going to be for Halloween? I have known for like a year and a half, before last Halloween and I already know what Reese will be next year. I have been on the hunt for items for their costumes this year.....I can't wait! And if anyone sees Eric and the facial hair just know we are preparing for Halloween its going to be a kick. So in memory of past Halloweens enjoy!

1st Grade...Wow!

Oh my sweet Waklee started 1st grade. She was pretty excited and really likes school. Mostly because she gets to eat there and gets three recesses. I did pretty good with only a few tears coming to the eyes. But here we go again another year of early mornings and driving Waklee to school, can't wait for Summer already. I do enjoy having more structure in our life though.

Her new teachers name is Mrs. Leabo who is super nice! And yes it is a uniform school, which is easy on my pocketbook, so our outfits aren't too exciting.

Reese keeps walking around and asking where Sissy is? But has actually been pretty good, as good as Reese can get.

My camera, I don't know how to use and so the pictures didn't turn out to well so I took another after she got home. I do have to brag because I am a Mom but my little whipper snapper gets to attend 2nd grade for math and reading, she works really hard to be there though and I am proud of her!

Lex Comes!

Lex & Family came for a visit. After years of saying they were going to come to Portland for a visit they did! I had to admit I was a little nervous about touring around with their many kids but we had a GREAT time! Too bad G-Ma Jan didn't come..... We started out touring in the Gorge at the Bonneville dam and saw the large sturgeon. Stopped at Multnomah Falls & then at a viewpoint showing off our beautiful Gorge.


Day Two we went to the Zoo, to the crazy Saturday Market downtown, Pioneer Square and Melissa just had to hit Voo-doo donuts (don't take your kids). Our downtown adventure was pretty fun but at one point Lex informed me that he had crossed the busy street to find a bathroom for one of his kids to look back and see Aysia chasing after a pigeon far away from the rest of us near busy traffic. Not funny, but oh my goodness that freaks me out.









Day Three we went to Astoria and saw the Goonie house , checked out the sea lions down at the docks...very cool and crossed the really big bridge in Astoria and crossed right back and then went to one of my favorites, Fort Clastop, and learned more about Lewis & Clark. Next we hit the beach in Seaside and buried a few kids, built a sandcastle and bought out the Seaside lifeguard sweatshirt store. Starving we went to Mo's in Cannon Beach and then built a fire on the beach and chilled. If you ever get a chance building a fire on the beach is one of the most fun things ever! Wow we were tired after all of our playing but it sure was fun! Can't wait for some new visitors.

My kids are on one!

My kids have been cracking me up. Tonight for Family Home Evening we had a lesson on sharing. This was geared for a two year old. We talked about how Jesus wants us to share and then I pulled out some Starbursts. I gave one to Reese to give to her Daddy and then one to Waklee, went well. Then I told her they were all gone and she needed to ask Waklee to share her Starburst. This all went as I hoped. Next I gave a Starburst to Reese and told her there were no more for Waklee and asked her to share. I opened it for her and gave it to her to bite in half and as quick as she could she popped the entire Starburst into her mouth and shut her mouth tight! Oh well. We did try to let her think that Waklee was sad but we were all trying not to laugh.
Later tonight we were watching a music video and this car almost hit a person. Waklee turns to her Dad and asks if you get points for hitting people and animals? I thought to myself what? That is such an Eric thing: to say you get points for hitting people and animals. Next out of her mouth she says well Devin said you get points if you hit people. Oh Devin we caught you! We were sure to give him a quick call to tease. My girls love love Dev. Waklee spent Sunday afternoon at the Simpsons playing guitar hero and shared some family secrets with them. Nice. So I guess the moral of this story is to watch out for Dev and his red pickup truck in case he short on a few points.

What do you do......

During Prayer? Reese sneaks broccoli off her Dad's plate.

Reese deserves her own posts....often.

So last night Reese has a Starburst wrapper, no big deal. Next thing I know she is stuffing it up her nostril hole. I get it from her before it becomes a problem, silly kid, and tell her not to do it. Well, ten minutes later she comes over to me and is pointing to her nose. I look and don't see anything but that's because she has pushed it so far up her nose. I think I cursed, okay I did curse. Luckily this kid knows how to blow. It took Wakes years to figure out how to blow. So she gives a really good blow and out comes the Starburst wrapper. She got a huge scolding from her Daddy so we'll see how long before we are fishing something else out of there.

Been Awhile

Well I just haven't felt like blogging so now I gots to catch up! Summer is winding down and I am not sure if I am happy or sad. I am sure not looking forward to Waklee being gone all day long, what a sad day that will be. We have been doing some school shopping which can't be too exciting when you go to a uniform school but I don't spend very much money either. Waklee has a plugged tear duct that has been festering for the last few months. We now have a really good antibiotic for it but it is getting quite large and red but I think it is coming to a head, I secretly cannot wait for it to pop....all that white puss coming out, the dentist I used to work for would so get this. Waklee has become a pretty good swimmer this Summer and over the weekend learned how to use a snorkel set and had a lot of fun with that. Geesh I need to take some pictures of the girls swimming. And on to Reese. This girl keeps us going. Her latest adventure is she loves make-up, particularly mascara. I have found her a few times quietly sitting in my shower with the door closed applying her mascara in the dark. The scary thing is she is pretty good at it. On Sunday we had another mascara incident and so off to church we went with Reese wearing her mascara. This girl also inherited the incredibly long Williams eyelashes. Johnny said she is going to be the girl in highschool who wears too much make-up, I told him I was fine with that as long as she can spike a volleyball. Reese has also loved swimming this Summer, suprise suprise she has No Fear. We just put her arm floaties on and away she goes. A few weeks ago Eric got the crazy idea we needed to go watch some PBR. I wasn't too excited but he had both girls talking about the bulls constantly, I told Reese she couldn't go and see the bulls and she started crying. So we went and saw the bulls and I think I had more fun than anyone. I actually got all teary eyed because I got really homesick. I am such a country girl and spent my entire childhood being the little girl of a rancher. I started riding horses when I was two and always had my very own. I saw these cute little girls with their Wrangler jeans, straw hats and cowboy boots on and had to point out to Waklee that that was me when I was a little girl. I have such fond memories of being that little girl. Waklee loves to hear the stories of me and my horse Sunshine and I love telling them. What a fun time! Isn't the a pretty cute face eating corn on the cob...she loves that stuff.

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