Celebrations

You know the saying "when it rains it pours?"  I think that saying can apply to both the good and bad things in life.  This past weekend it applies to the good.

Friday May 25:
Samuel turns 4 but we don't celebrate it until Saturday because...

My sister graduates from High School.  I sadly do not have any pictures because I forgot to pull out my camera (so Dad, if you're reading this, I would really like some copies of the pictures you took).  However, I do have pictures of an awesome cake I "helped" make (and by "helped" I mean I paid for all the ingredients and showed moral support while my friend, Erica, used my kitchen to make it - she's awesome). 

It was for KeLei's graduation party. 

The next day was Samuel's birthday in which we went bowling. 

He loved it.  He also loved all his gifts including a train table Grandpa H. made him.  (Didn't get a picture of that either).

Sunday, May 27 welcomed 6 years of marriage for Carlin and I - to celebrate we went "camping" with Carlin's brother Mitchell and wife Heather in their backyard.  Yep, we're that awesome.  We grilled hot dogs, roasted marshmallows, made shadow puppets, slept in a tent on air mattresses, and topped the experience off with a rooster crowing first thing in the morning.  Nope, they don't live in the country, they live smack-dab in the middle of a the city in an established neighborhood.  We have no idea why someone owns a rooster. 

mmm...smores!

Can you tell how awful I was at pictures this weekend?  I didn't even get a picture with my sexy husband. 

And to close this post we had severe weather last night and my backyard looks like this:

 P.S. I officially give up on blogger... for all their fancy updates it still isn't giving me an option to rotate my pictures.  Am I doing something wrong?

Breaking News!

Lillian, after two years and four months of denying her mother's attempts to tame her hair, has finally let her mother pull the wild curls back into "two-ponytails."

Lillian only commented: "I so pretty."  Lillian's mother is thrilled with the progress but says "now, I just have to figure out how to part her hair evenly!"

In other news...
 

The kids and I took a quick trip to Washington to see my MIL's family.  It was fun and I loved getting to know Carlin's cousins and family. 

We did a lot, including family pics in matching red shirts and American flag bandanas...

Seeing Mt. St. Helen's from afar... it's snow covered peak.

But the highlight of the trip was definitely the beach.  The kids LOVED it. 

It's Bigfoot!  Oh wait, just Samuel.  And once again Blogger has a mind of it's own and puts the pictures in all crazy like, I give up. 

Hopefully this video works, we shall soon find out. The kids were both fascinated and terrified by the waves.  Weird to have moving water like that... :)