Had so much fun shopping with Audrey and a few of her friends in Seattle today. We rode the monorail, had some lunch, and did a little shopping. The girls had sooooooo much fun and they made me feel young again too. So glad Maria came with us too!

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Tonight was the Celebration of Learning at the elementary school and I got to go and check out some of the cool projects both Ethan & Audrey have been working on. They both have great teachers and I'm very thankful to have such great schools in our district.

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Had so much fun going to the open house for the new Bill & Melinda Gates foundation with my friend, Melissa. It was such an amazing campus and it was fun to get to see where she will be working hard every day to better the world! (Not to mention the food was SO GOOD.) Check out those views!

It always seems to be our luck that it doesn't start raining until after we get to the ball field and start playing. Today, shortly after we started to play it started raining and by the 6th inning it was POURING. Pouring so hard, in fact, that we could do nothing but laugh while the boys stood out there and tried to play a game. Craziness. I hope we don't have too many more like this. We were treated, however, with an a-m-a-z-i-n-g rainbow on our way back to the truck. Awesome.

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I LOVE Audrey Lou!!! Today we had fun celebrating Audrey's birthday. We went out to dinner at Red Robin with Grandma and Grandpa and then headed back home to have ice cream cake with the Dillons and then Audrey finally got to open her presents, which she looooooooved. I am oh-so-happy that my beautiful girl had such a fun birthday.

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Look at these super cute eggs that the kids had so much fun decorating. Unfortunately since our regrigerator broke yesterday, they are no longer good and we will just have to look and admire them because I don't think they'll be much good to eat anymore. Booo!

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Today we hard our 6th annual neighborhood egg hunt and look at that weather! It was BEA-U-TIFUL!!! The entire street hid so many eggs that everyone's baskets were overflowing and every kid found a golden egg to turn in for a prize this year. Fun times!

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Now that we have a bunch of older kids on the street we thought that it would be fun to do a flashlight egg hunt for them. We hid eggs up and down the street and even had some neighbors without kids hid eggs in their yards for them to find as well. Audrey was sad that she wasn't quite old enough yet because she thought it sounded much more fun than the little kid egg hunt tomorrow morning!

Today when the kiddos got home from school we colored our Easter eggs. I had to make sure I got them done this year since last year I totally failed. I'm worried that in a few years my kids will be over doing it so I need to make sure to do it while they're still so excited about it!

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Today was David's preschool egg hunt. We had it at Lake Wilderness this year and all the kids had so much fun. David's favorite part was probably doing the parachute and the relay races. I can't believe this is my very last preschool egg hunt.

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Today is Melissa's birthday and when the girls saw her outside they came running and screaming and embraced her in a bear hug to celebrate the occasion. These two girls are definately who you would want to have around on your birthday. They make everyone feel special.

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Jaylee mailed us a flat Emma doll so that we could take it on some fun adventures this week and then mail it back to Jaylee's school class with some fun pictures and stories of our week. Audrey is super excited!

Ran up the hill to take some fun pictures for Makayla's 14th birthday party! The girls were so gorgeous and fun and I had so much fun doing it!

I know of a picture
Transformers with lines
Bears or probably ducks
But then they were gone
Beautiful it was to see
But the picture was not meant to be
It’s been 20 minutes
But seems 45 to me

Thanks for the fun time Holly! I can't wait to do it again soon.

Today Audrey and Aubrey had a sleepover to celebrate Audrey's birthday. They have been looking forward to this for so long and were so excited when they got home and saw that I had gotten them matching outfits and a purse full of pedicure goodies. After changing into their cute outfits we headed out to take a few cute pictures. They were so silly.

What is that peaking in the corner? Could it be a little sunshine?! It made me smile and take notice of the flower bush peaking over my fence. Unfortunately, as I am posting this pic... it is now raining outside. Drat. :(

I am getting SO TIRED of all the rain. I thought for sure when it started hailing that they would call off Ethan's baseball game, but nope. They played anyway... burr!!! The boys were troopers and it was definately memorable.

Today I promised David we would take Panda on a walk in the stroller after I picked up and jumped in the shower, but as soon as I jumped out of the shower I could hear the rain pouring and next thing I knew David was standing at the door with a very sad look on his face. It broke my heart because he was looking forward to it all morning and he was so patient while mom got ready so I told him that we would take Panda on a walk around the Super Mall instead. It turned out to be lots of fun and Panda had a fun adventure.

David was super duper excited that it was his turn to bring home Panda again!... so much so that he was jumping up and down when he found out. David and Dana have been playing with him since they got home.

Today we headed home from Canada and the most exciting part of the drive is going through customs. The kids thought it was so cool that they left the country and Jason told them they better behave if they wanted customs to let us back into America. (And, of course, NOW the skies are blue!) Even though we celebrated Audrey's birthday as a family yesterday and she's having a little party next weekend, we still wanted to make the day special for her and so we invited the Dillons over when we got home to sing Happy Birthday to Audrey.

Today it was raining again!... but thank goodness we made plans to go to Water Mania, an indoor water park! It was tons of fun and I was personally very happy that the water was warm! We then went and saw How to Train Your Dragon again. I love that movie!! And before we left for home we made sure to stop by a bank machine and get the kids some real Canadian money to take home as a souvenir! They thought that was pretty cool!