Ethan's 5th Birthday Party

Ethan had a Star wars party. He has been really into Star Wars, especially after watching the movies. He wants to know everything about the Jedi's. Who trained who, what ship belongs to who, and how everything works. It is pretty entertaining to Nathan to hear some of my answers. I have pretty much given up and not tell Ethan to ask Nathan. I guess we are working on the next generation Star wars nut.


We had a lot of fun. We had the kids practice using their light sabors. They had to pop bubbles with them and move balls from one line to another with them also. Luckily the weather was fairly decent which allowed us to do some things out side.
Here is the birthday boy standing in front of Yoda. He didn't want to stand in front of Darth Vador. this was a game of pin the badge on Vador. I told the kids in order to turn Darth Vador good again they had to get the badge in the right spot.
Here is the "cake." Since we are going to have a real cake for his birthday on Monday I opted to make cup cakes which for a kids party is pretty darn good.

Amie's been tagged

Name/meaning: Amie Lynn. Amy and Annie are family name's on my mom's side we liked both so decided to combine them to make Amie. Lynn is also a commonly used middle name from the same side of the family.

Age: Turned 2 on July 28th

Nicknames: Sissy boo, princess and, Mamie (nickname from grandpa). Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Favorite Activity (ies): She loves to torture Ethan. She also likes to watch Elmo, she loves to play dress up. She likes to read books and sing songs. She is really enjoying going to story time. It is a special thing she gets to do without Ethan, just Mommy and her. She also loves shopping and trying on shoes. (typical girl!)

Favorite Food: She is actually a really good eater. But If you ask her what she wants for dinner or lunch she will say Chicken nuggets every time. She also loves cheese, fruit, bread, and of coarse chocolate. Oh and a newly acquired taste is raw fish. For some reason she loves sushi.

Least favorite food: She will pretty much eat anything unless Ethan says he wont then she will take his lead.

Favorite music: She loves all kinds of music. She will rock out to anything on the radio, It is so funny to see her dancing in her car seat.

Favorite toys: Her favorite toy is whatever Ethan is playing with at that time. She loves to play with lego's, guns, and the lightsabors. She also really likes her babies and her princess tea cups.

Favorite books: She really doesn't have one in particular. She does prefer the princess, Thomas the train, and Curious George books.

What makes her happy: She loves to get out and go places. She is so ready to head out the door we have to be careful on when we say we are leaving till we are ready to walk out the door or she will be bugging us to go. She also loves it when daddy comes home. Or going to Grandpa's house. She will wake up in the morning and ask to go to Papa's house. Also taking in the phone with her Uncle Tyler.

What makes her sad: Not getting to go when daddy or mommy has to go somewhere. Not getting to see her Papa. And not being able to see her Uncle Tyler.

We tag: Kaylee G., Ashely G., and Lily S.

Amie's first hair cut

We finally did it. Amie had her first hair cut and I think it turned out really cute. She did such a good job sitting very still. I had my good friend cut it and now Amie tells everyone, "Bekah, cut my hair with scissors." And to her it is not just a hair cut Amie says she now has "Princess hair."

First day of Preschool!

We finally got Ethan into a preschool. He is going to a real cute preschool here in town that is a lot of fun. The get to go on field trips once a month! There are quite a few where they are traveling to Seattle to go to the museum, zoo, and even the science center! Amie is feeling a little left out and had to bring her lunch box with us when we dropped Ethan off this morning. Once she realized she had mommy all to herself she got over not being able to play with Ethan.

It's going to be a.....

Well we had the ultrasound today and we found out we are having another girl. I was wrong in my thinking I was pretty sure this was going to be another boy seeing how similar this pregnancy was with Ethan's. We are excited, well Ethan is a little bummed he was hoping for another boy. This makes the grand total of grandkids on my mom's side 1 boy 7 girls. Hopefully we will get another boy sometime.

We are still here!

So I know it has been a while since we last posted something. Sorry about that. We have been up to a lot. Nathan finally finished school! Yeah, he did miss the deadline for graduation his summer so he will officially graduate this fall. We are currently applying to several agencies around the state so we are hoping to hear from one soon. Right know Nathan is working over on the west side on a construction job for the Army. I will be happy when he is done doing that. It is for a month and he will be gone pretty much all month. The kids are having a hard time not having him home.

Anyway that’s what happing in our lives. This past week we went on a little Vacation. First we went toe Priest Lake with my family then we went to Idaho and visited Nathan's grandma and his brothers. Then we went to Utah and saw my grandpa and grandma. It was a lot of driving but we are lucky and our kids don't mind the car much. Ethan had a blast playing the Play station Portable, Nathan got his Lego Star Wars so that kept him pretty much entertained. And for Amie she had all her new birthday toys to play with. Here are some pictures of few of the things we did.

Ethan playing the PSP.

My brother brought Rock Band to the lake Amie and Ethan thought it was pretty cool.
Here is Ethan and Amie on the boat Amie loved every second of it. She still asks to go out on Papa's Boat.

On our way to Idaho we stopped at the Montana state prison and car museum. The kids really enjoyed the time out of the car and it was fun to see the neat stuff. Nathan really liked the cars.

Ethan thought this was Bumble Bee.

Nathan and Amie locked up in a cell.

Enjoying Popsicles at Nathan's grandma's house.

Here we are feeding the ducks in Idaho Falls.

Visiting Temple Square in Salt Lake. Ethan and Amie had a hard time trying the stay out of the fountains. They thought they were there to play in.

Starting our trip back home. I thought this was a cute picture of Ethan with his special Army bear.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMIE!!!

Our little princess has turned two. I can't believe how big she is getting. We celebrated her birthday with all her cousins at Priest Lake. We had a lot of fun. As you can see she is very serious about her birthday buisness. All month she has been saying "Happy birthday, My birthday." We are so glad to have her in our family!