Mariners game

Ray and Melissa's favorite sport is baseball. We all enjoyed a game Sat. night. Ray watches it ALL of the time and Melissa watches as much as she can. I like it, too, but not as much as they do... and I can live w/ out it, too. (Keagan, well, he tolerates it...) We all love Ken Griffey, Jr! Melissa and I haven't been to a ballgame in 8 or 9 years so we decided that we should go, especially since Griffey is back! Unfortunately they didn't win... but it was perfect weather for a game! It was not too hot and not too cold and perfectly sunny! The only problem was the sun was right in our face. We sat in center field and it was a little far to see... good thing I have a good zoom on my camera!

The view w/ out zooming in

Enjoying the game! Or in Keagan's case.. all of the goodies we brought!

Keagan had told me that he's not really into sports. Can you believe he fell asleep for a while?!

Griffey!

Ichiro!

Just getting to the ballpark!

Temple grounds

Saturday we went up to the temple so Ray could work our ward's veil assignment, we had already bought tickets for the Mariners game for Saturday night, so we all went up and I stayed out w/ the kids and we went to the park near the temple, went to the bookstore, DQ, and then walked around the temple grounds. It was such a beautiful day!! I felt a little funny not being dressed up on the temple grounds! I normally don't like pictures of myself, but I thought it was cool how Melissa got the picture of me looking at the temple, w/ the reflection of the temple in my sunglasses. She likes taking all of the pictures, I have to remind her that the camera is mine, not hers. I love how the kids were excited to be at the Temple grounds and that they quietly walked around. Keagan loved the statues. He kept putting his sunglasses on them... I love that Melissa loves taking pictures of the Flag! Her first grade teacher taught her a real great respect for our country and the flag!

All in perspective

Most of you know that Melissa has had a rough year this year! She had mono for 6 months and after that she caught every little sick bug around. It wasn't until Spring Break time (April) that she really felt better. She went half days of school from the end of September to Feb. Well, with all of that being sick and missing school her grades really suffered! She is normally an A/B student. Her grades are online and in April she had F's in two of her classes. Yikes! Not just F's, but 33%, low F's! Melissa and I were looking at her grades and now she has D's, one is 65% and one is 60%. I told her good job Melissa you got that up to a D! We looked at each other and started laughing! Who would of knew I would say that... to her!

Fun Fair (again)

The kids had to be at the fun fair at 10:15 to perform at 10:45, it lasted until about 11:30ish. Keagan's school was marching in the parade at noon and he needed to be back there at 11:45! wheww! The theme for the parade was homemade instruments and hats. Keagan is wearing Melissa's cowboy hat and he had a bucket that he and Ray drilled a hole in to put rope in to hang over his head for a drum.

See the yellow hat, that is Keagan
There he is!
It was a beautiful day! It actually got up to 80 by the afternoon! (A little hot for us western Wa people) After the parade he went and did things w/ Uncle Scott and Aurora while Cindy and I walked around and looked at the booths. (I think this is the first year I have looked at the booths) Thanks Uncle Scott! (Ray was doing yard work for someone- earning a little extra $) Melissa was doing the teeny bopper thing and wondering around w/ her friends. That was a little weird... It was kind of funny my sister was more worried about it than I was! :) After a couple of hours Keagan and I did some things together - here he is by the fire engines. He was named after my grandpa Darrell James who was a firefighter.

Lacey Fun Fair dances

sorry, but I'm going to post all of the kids performances on here so we can share them w/ family. Well actually I'm not sorry - they did a great job! But they are a lot to watch.. if you have time enjoy! :)

Cowboy up. Something a little different Melissa's dance teacher is doing this year is combining the younger/older classes to have a bigger group dancing.



Soul man w/ Keagan... it was kind of sad, one boy broke his foot and the other 2 boys had a family situation come up, so Keagan and Justin were the only ones performing! Keagan has a hard time performing, he told me he can't look up, it makes him nervous! He does better in this one w/ the sunglasses on. :)



The boys are back w/ Keagan and Justin



Melissa in the jr/sr class - Push it to the limit



Melissa in the more advanced class w/ move along - this one is my favorite so far, they are getting really good! They performed another one, but just barely learned it and she asked me not to blog it .. yet, I'll wait until their end of the year performance.

Talent show

Keagan signed up to perform at his school talent show. This is something that he really wanted to do, Melissa had always done it and he never has. Well he has been taking dance lessons, too, off/ and on (more off than on because his dance is at 4:15 -5:00 and it seems like we always 2 or 3 things that is happening at that time and he ends up not going...) So.. he signed up to dance with a friend, well that friend ended up braking his foot last week so he couldn't help Keagan at the talent show, so Melissa agreed to do it with him. She learned the dance tonight at 4:00 and the performance was at 6:00!

preschool kids say the funniest things

This just cracked me up and I had to share it...
We were doing file folder games in preschool and one of the kids was putting together fruits/veggies and mixing them up being silly. He would put them together and say things like cauliflower/corn - caulicorn, - pear and corn - Porn. LOL! Marie and I had a good laugh over that one!

Lattin's Cider Mill

This week for preschool we went on a field trip to Lattin's Apple Cider mill. Any of you who have little kids and haven't been should go! I've been going there for years! It is something I did a lot when my kids were younger. On Saturdays they have the most amazing warm apple fritters! They have really good apple cider, too! (of course I had to take Keagan on Saturday to test it out for the preschool kids...)

Right now there are lots of animals to look at and feed, some of them are - a turkey, a pig, a bunny, sheep, peacocks, chickens, ducks, and lots and lots of goats!

We were pretty lucky! It didn't rain on us, we re-scheduled our field trip from last week and were wondering if Tuesday would work. It was windy, and only once did we get a few drops for not very long! All in all a fun time!

Mother's Day

Our family in 2006

I don't think I could of had a better Mother's Day! I always tell my kids it is all about the little things that matter to me. I'm not really a gifts kind of person. If I want something I would rather go pick it out for myself...

This year I woke to Keagan and Ray making me breakfast in bed! I could tell Keagan helped- he put his signature color in the waffles. Whenever we make pancakes or waffles he like to add food coloring to it. They even did the dishes afterwards! :)

One of the best parts was at church, before we got chocolate, Melissa gave an amazing talk on mothers to me. It was one of those times that I needed a box of tissues and if I was by myself I would of cried even harder. She is amazing! I'm loving the person she is becoming!

Then we went out to my mom's for dinner and because we get out of church later, I had given my sister the portion of my dinner to cook so it would be ready when we got there, so I didn't have to cook, either!

All in all a pretty good day! I'm soo blessed to have wonderful kids and a great husband!

One of these things is not like the other.. and my first car

Melissa & I have fun together talking and teasing. She loves newer sports cars and says when she sees one she really likes, that could be my first car... I point out all of the practical cars.. um ugly and affordable?! The other day we were driving and she saw several sports cars that she liked, we were surrounded by them on the freeway. We were in our white practical mini-van and I started singing the Sesame street song, One of these things is not like the other... (Do they still do that on Sesame street?) We both laughed and laughed... which made me think of my first car.

Below is a picture of my first car, bright orange '76 Subaru station wagon. (Now remember I went to High school in the late 80s, so it was only 12+ yrs old) I actually loved it!

Growing up we ended up w/ 3 Subaru station wagons, '76, '77 era. Mine, an off white stick and a white one, each w/ their share of problems that we all laugh about now. One of them didn't reverse, when I drove that one I either took my brother w/ me to push me out and be my reverse or made sure I found a parking spot that I could pull forward into. One of the subaru's didn't have an ignition, you could start it w/ a screw driver! Now that is classy! :) One of them had a spot you could see the ground.. but I thought I was pretty lucky to have a car! :)
What was your first car?

What have we been doing?

I can't believe it has been soo long since I have posted... I can't even tell you what I've been doing.. but I know I like to post w/ pictures and since I havne't taken many pictures lately I haven't posted. So now to some random things we've been doing the last few weeks.