Sam and Ann

Sam went to California with his girlfriend, Ann. He will return to Missouri with his fiance, Ann! YES! He proposed to her on the beach on Saturday night! Welcome to the family Ann. Can't wait to meet you!

St Patty's Day Dash, Seattle

Right after Christmas a friend of mine mentioned to me that she was going to enter in the St Patty's Day Dash and she told me about a website which basically gave you the guildlines to go from couch to 5k in 8 weeks. And I was definately at the couch level in running abilities. It had been...oh....about 5 1/2 years since I laced up my running shoes up for an actual run. My level of intensity in exercise was about equivelant to a brisk walk to the park. But, hey! I decided I was up for the challenge. I was blessed to have 2 other people in my life who decided to do this run with me. During the week I ran twice with Melissa...and then once on the weekends with Alexis. I have to say it was so much fun to see that we could actually make progress and a couple weeks before the run we were all able to make the 3.8 miles that would be required from us on the race day.

So here are some pics of our big day. For some, this may seem like a small accomplishment, but it was pretty exciting for us. Our only goal was to actually run the whole thing....and we did it!

Hmmmm.....now to figure out which race is next =0)!!!!

Ava Joy Haney

My sister Sherry had her baby today! Yay. Meet sweet Ava Joy! 5 lbs, 14 oz. 18 inches. She came by way of c-section and only about 10 days early. She looks perfect to me!

Rara's Kinder Class

This past Friday, Gavin and I made a trip to Seattle to visit Alexis' (aka, Aunti Rara) kindergarten class. Why we haven't done this sooner, I have no idea. It was such a fun day and so wonderful to see Alexis living her dream. Although we were only able to see her teach for about 30 minutes, I have no doubt that these are some of the luckiest kindergarten students anywhere. I know this, because Alexis loves her job and pours her heart into it!

It was so fun for Gavin to see her class, meet her students, and take part in one of their lessons. He even got to raise his hand and answer a question. And I am sure it wasn't favortism at all that he got called on. =0). If you ask Gavin about the day you will see his eyes light up....he will tell you all about how he got to help hand out snack and then you will get a real sounds description of all the different bells that he heard!

Can you see Gavin in the front row hanging on the teacher's every word.

To make the day even better it was sunny and clear. We took a walk out to the beach that is only a block away from Alexis' school, walk in the sand and of course throw as many rocks back into the water that Gavin could!

Thanks Alexis for a beautiful afternoon and some very special memories! Hopefully we will do it again before the school year is out!

A little catching up!

Well, one of my goals for this year was to blog more than I did last year. It didn't have to be a significant amount more...but at least a little. But, so far this year, I have only managed to do one blog. The time has been flying by and here we are in March already. AAAHH! So, here is a little catch up.

Here we are bringing in the new year with a little fireworks. Of course, Gavin wouldn't even go outside and Keagan had to come inside to watch the loud ones.

wathing the fireworks from the inside!

Then, just a few days into the new year, we made a wonderful trip to our beloved mountain town of Leavenworth. Thanks to our wonderful friends, we had a very posh place to stay! So we did some relaxing, some snow shoeing, sledding at our property and lots of fuseball!

We made a trip to the Pacific Science center for a train expo! Gavin was in heaven.

Keagan, not too sure he likes this too much. The day after we got back from Leavenworth, our wonderful Makka flew in for a 2 week visit! IT was a blast...the boys ate her up and Aaron and I even got away to the ocean for a couple nights alone. THANK YOU MAKKA!

One day we made a trip to Seattle with my friend Shelley and her sweet 2 year old, McKenna. We had a fun morning at the Children's Museum.

Celebrating our sweet Auntie Rara and her birthday! She has been living with us since July and we LOVE having her around.

Then 5 days later...on to celebrate my birthday. The boys got me donuts, flowers, a special spa day....as they were my spa boys. TOO cute! A wonderful day!

my favorite people in all the world!!!!

A sweet Valentines morning....

beautiful flowers from my love.....

just a cute kid who likes to do dishes (aka, playing in the kitchen sink and dripping waters everywhere!)

Boy who loves to climb the ladder in our backyard!

Played outside ALOT in February as it was unusually sunny for that time of year!

And then just a couple weeks ago we decided to paint. Yay for a fresh coat of paint and such great little helpers!

SO, there is a quick re-cap. I will try very hard to stay on top of it now.