Kids Quest Museum

About a month ago we went to the Kids Quest Museum with our cousins.

The kids had a blast!

 They could have played at the water river thing for hours! They would throw the ball up river and watch it come back down to them. Blakley didn't really have aim when she would throw her ball and ended up just throwing balls all over.

 They were both kind of unsure of this. They were to push the buttons to make the water shoot up to make a sound. There was some back splash, hence why they are both trying to cover their faces.

 Grayson also spent a ton of time in the semi-truck. Anytime he managed to get away from us we were sure to find him here. (You can also see how wet he got from playing with the water)

Mid bounce on the dog bouncy toy. This was in the play area for littler kids. She just ran around playing with everything she could.

Potato Heads?!

The kids each got a potato head for Christmas. They play with them all the time and every time this is the first thing they do, put those glasses on themselves.

Grayson knows that they go on his eyes, but silly Blakley thinks they go over her mouth. Even if I tell her they go on her eyes, she takes them right off and puts them over her mouth again.

Snow Week!

Last week the Seattle area was hit with day after day for snow(not usual for the area). Monday we didn't have any snow at our house but my parents had about 6in. So I took the kids up to play.

We only played for about 30min but this is how it went. Blakley got pulled around in the sled and was loving it. Grayson really didn't want to do anything, he just filled up his dump truck with snow and pulled it around.

 Blakley and Auntie having some fun!

 A few days later we got a good amount of snow. The kids didn't want to go out and play so I got a big bowl full of snow so they could play inside. The next morning that was the first thing they asked for, their bowl of snow.

 Than after all the snow, we got about 6in in all, there was an ice storm. It was so pretty!

Until this happened...not so pretty.

Grayson is 3!

On his actual birthday we kept it low key. We went to play at McDonald's. His Aunt and cousins brought him over some amazing cupcakes! Opened a gift and that was about it.

A few days later we had a family party for him. Thanks to everyone that came!
We had some lunch, play games(there was a great game of duck, duck, goose), and had cupcakes!

Toy story shaving kit. He doesn't like his face to be messy so we shave his arms.

Can't go wrong with money! When we go to Target he gets to pick something out with his money.

And Auntie Kerissa got him a present that will last for years to come, a Betta fish!

He loves it and always wants to feed it and catch it with the little net.

Zoo Lights

The day after Christmas we made it out to Point Defiance Zoo to see the lights.

 They had fun scenes like this one, others were animated.

 In the middle area of the zoo the just had lights everywhere.

 There was even a few animals we checked out. They loved checking out the fishes.

They were able to fed some goats also. It didn't get a picture of it but one of the goats tried to eat Blakley's hat she had on. It has little pom-poms on it, i guess he thought it was food.

To end the night the kids took a ride on the carousel. They loved it!

Christmas 2011

We had a great Christmas! It was nice to start it out by going to

Church and focus on the true meaning of Christmas.

When we got back from church we let the kids open the presents Santa left for them on the couch. They played with those presents while we wanted for my family to come over. They kids were loving it! They went from one gift to the next than back to one they had already opened, than spotted a new present and opened that one. 

 Blakley loved all her new clothes she got. She is a true girl and loves clothes and shoes!

 Grayson was in heaven with his tool table and trains he got.

 I just had to post this. While we were waiting for my family to show up the kids entertained themselves with the box of Kevin's gift.

After we opened gifts with my family the kids napped and than we went open to Grandma and Grandpa Evans house. I'm sad I didn't get any pictures there. They had fun playing with their cousins and didn't do too bad in the present department either!

It was a great day and we feel so blessed to be back home with our families!

Snowflake Lane

A few weeks ago we went to Snowflake Lane.

They have drummer boys, music, snow fairies, and of course snow!

 We got there early to get right next to the drummer's platform. We went on a Monday night and it turned out there wasn't a ton of people and the drums were a lot louder than I remember. So it didn't really matter.

 Near the end of the show it starts to snow. Blakley thought it was the greatest thing ever! You can't see the snow in the picture but she would just look up at point at it.

 Grayson loved the girls handing out the suckers, just stared at the drummer boy and wanted daddy to hold him the whole time.

 It was fun to be back home and be able to do this with my family!

Museum Of Flight

A few weeks ago we went to the Museum of Flight.

We weren't sure if the kids would really enjoy it but the loved it and we'll keep going back!

 We spent a lot of our time in the kids area. Blakley sat in the airplane for a good 10 minutes.

Grayson sitting in the helicopter. He had a blast running around checking out everything.

Notice Blakley in this picture she spent most of her time looking up

at all the planes hanging  from the ceiling.

Thanksgiving

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We were blessed to have both our families over and had a great time. Lots of food and yummy dessert!

 Kind of a funny picture of Grayson but he was loving the turkey's

Auntie made from oreos, kisses, and rolo's.

Blakley also loved them! She sat there and eat her dessert and loved every minute of it.

Love My Kids!

I went upstairs, after getting Grayson some breakfast, to get Blakley out of bed. I came back down to see this. I guess he wanted more! You'll notice his bowl is just pushed off to the side at this point, he was just eating it off the table with his spoon.

 Saturdays are my days I get out and go get some stuff done. I came home and saw Grayson playing around but didn't see Blakley. Poor girl was very tired! Kevin said she went over to the living to and the next thing he knew she was fast asleep on the floor.

Halloween

Trunk-or-Treat

Blakley really didn't get the whole trunk or treating thing. She just wanted to run around with all the other kids. Being that we were in a parking lot I said it would be better if she just hung out with dad at the car. So she helped dad pass out candy and even found herself a sucker.

 After all our candy was gone and daddy could walk around with us we

let Blakley run around and Grayson just followed behind daddy.

Halloween Night

The kids loved going trick-or-treating!

 Grayson was so funny! The first few houses he would go right up to the jack-o-lanterns and blow them out. Than he started knocking on the door, ringing the doorbell and than he would turn around and walk away. He did this at almost all the houses.

 Blakley decided she wanted to take a break here on the front porch. She just sat down and picked out a piece of candy and tried to eat it. After a little freak out because she couldn't;t get it open auntie opened it for her and she was quit content.

We had a fun night with the kids and family!



Pumpkin Patch

Last week took the kids to the patch. Blakley loved running around  but wasn't to sure about the pumpkins at first. Grayson walked right up to the table of gourds, picked two up and was using them as drumsticks to play the others.

 Walking with daddy over to the big pumpkins.

 I could not get the kids to look at me, they had so much fun running around the patch!

First Hair Cut

So she got her hair cut so long ago(end of September) but I just got these pictures.

This isn't the best before picture but you can see how crazy the back was.

It was all different lengths and would flip out to the side.

She actually did very well while her aunt was cutting her hair. She just wanted to know what was going on back there and kept turning her head around to try and see.



Here is her new hair cut, all the same length and nor more flipping out.

She even got a cut little pony tail.

Splash Park

So we went to the splash park over a month ago and now that's it's colder and rainy we are wishing the warm weather was back so we could go again.

 At first the kids really didn't know what to do.

They stood there looking around and checking everything out.

Blakley kept tyring to fill her cup up and drink it(eww) but she never could figure out how to fill it up. She would go over and put the cup by the thing but never where the water was coming out.

When we were getting ready for bed we saw this.

I guess I forgot to put sun screen on her little chest. Poor girl!

Point Defiance Zoo

I've been so bad at blogging lately, not that I was good at it before. But almost a month ago we went to the zoo with the Evans family. It was such a fun day!

 The kids loved seeing all the animals. Grayson was trying to find the moles in the tunnels.

 "Hoook!" Grayson has a hard time with the "L" sound so that's what we hard all day

pointing at all the animals.

 All the cousin's, except one(must have run out of the picture) checking out the monkey.

 The kids loved the walrus. He would come up to the glass and just look at everyone.

The kids passed out the second they got in their seats.