Christmas Tree

This year the twins are really interested in the Christmas tree. After one day of trying to keep them away from the tree so they wouldn't break the ornaments I decided they would need their own tree! They now have a tree in the living room upstairs with soft ornaments and they have been decorating and redecorating every day! They also attempted to climb the tree, but it fell over. Luckily there was nothing breakable on it!!

Does UPS Deliver to Submarines?

Thanksgiving week we had a decent amount of snow. After living in Hawaii and South Carolina we were all enjoying the winter wonderland! However, the next day we lost power for about 24 hours! It was in the upper 40s inside our house. It was horrible! We ended up spending most of the day at our neighbor's house. She has a gas fireplace so we were able to keep her living room in the 60s. We are hoping for more snow this year, but I'd really like to keep the power on next time :)

Watching the Snow fall!

Seattle

Brian's cousin Katherine came for a visit. We spent one day doing a quick tour of downtown Seattle. We saw the Space Needle, rode the monorail, checked out Pike Street, and went to the Seattle Center.

Pike Street

Katherine and the twins inside the Space Needle

Rides at Seattle Center

Parker and Rylee checking out the zero visibility from the top of the space needle. It was so foggy we couldn't see anything. The kids ran laps around the top of the space needle because we were the only people up there!

Dirt!

We had a dump truck come and deliver 4100 pounds of top soil in our drive way. We moved all of it to the back yard by wheel barrow and spread all of it today. Brian and I are both very sore this evening! Tomorrow We're building the playhouse and Monday we're seeding the back yard. Hopefully in a month we'll have a beautiful back yard! We found out that having a dump truck deliver a pile of dirt is the easiest and fastest way to meet all of the kids in the neighborhood! We ended up with 5 kids playing in our giant "sand box"! Brian was hoping for some of their dads to come over and offer to help!

Parker was singing "Hi-ho, hi-ho, its off to work I go"

Rylee working on her Supervisory skills :)

The boys working hard!

Getting ready for the top soil

Brian and Parker worked all day to get the back yard ready for a bunch of top soil arriving tomorrow. Ryee did a great job supervising :)

Walk in the Rain!

We attempted to take a walk before it started pouring...not a good idea! My mom and I took the kids to the park near our new house and by the time we got to the park it was raining really hard! The kids played for about 5 minutes and then we all got soaked on the walk home. Welcome back to Washington!

Nature Walk

We took the kids on a nature walk tonight at a recreation area on the base. The kids had a lot of fun. We saw a few people fishing so the twins found sticks and pretended to fish too!

New Rain Boots!

Can't live near Seattle without rain boots! The twins each picked out their own. Rylee's are multi colored polka dots and Parker's have a big black spider and spider webs. Notice Parker is wearing shorts. He really does not like long pants. I am hoping that when it really gets chilly he will change his mind!

First day of preschool!

Today is the twins' first day of preschool. They will be going MWF from 9am-1pm. I'm glad to have a break and that they get some time to play with friends and learn new things, but I sure am going to miss them. Three days a week seems like forever!

Preschool Open House

We went to the twins preschool open house today. The kids met their teacher for this year and got to play with their new classmates. They seemed very comfortable at their new school...possibly too comfortable! One of the ladies was escorting the kids to the bathroom prior to snack time and the twins decided to sprint away from the group and run outside. The poor lady was trying to run after them but couldn't keep up so Brian and I ran after them. She gave the twins a good talking to so I hope they got the message! Please pray that their behavior improves before next week...or just pray for their teachers!

10 day Visit to Clarkston

Visiting Great Granda Nancy at Guardian Angel Homes

Playground at Guardian Angel Homes

Brian teaching Parker how to climb trees!

Nana playing with the kids at the park

Cleaning out Nana's Garage!

Waffle House!

Story Time

Fountain Park

We've been staying at the Hampton Inn while house hunting. We are right next to the naval shipyard and the Seattle Ferry. Between the two is a very neat fountain park that is about the length of a city block.