Our family also has a Psych phase going on, too!
A card from Grandpa Gary with a check for basketball camp from grandma and grandpa, mom and dad. Score!
Cake and ice cream with Aaren and Ben. Just like old times!
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Jacob's Birthday
The family is going through a retro phase. Rubik's Cubes have been big birthday hits lately. Jacob scored the pyramid. Remember?
Our family also has a Psych phase going on, too!
A card from Grandpa Gary with a check for basketball camp from grandma and grandpa, mom and dad. Score!
Cake and ice cream with Aaren and Ben. Just like old times!
Our family also has a Psych phase going on, too!
A card from Grandpa Gary with a check for basketball camp from grandma and grandpa, mom and dad. Score!
Cake and ice cream with Aaren and Ben. Just like old times!
Friday, May 27, 2011
EASTER!
How did I miss Easter?
We went to Colville on the Saturday before Easter for an Easter Egg Hunt!
Nobody went home lacking sugar!
Jared's bucket overfloweth!
Melanie showing her haul!
No candy can be eaten until it has been inspected (and all Snickers removed) by grandpa!
Stop beating yourself up, the blonde at the end of the table isn't a Lee!
Nope - still can't do the cell-phone-self-portrait!
Sunday we had our traditional Ham with Fancy Dishes Dinner!
We went to Colville on the Saturday before Easter for an Easter Egg Hunt!
Nobody went home lacking sugar!
Jared's bucket overfloweth!
Melanie showing her haul!
No candy can be eaten until it has been inspected (and all Snickers removed) by grandpa!
Nope - still can't do the cell-phone-self-portrait!
Sunday we had our traditional Ham with Fancy Dishes Dinner!
End of the Year
Time for concerts and banquets! Tis the season! Jared had his 5th Grade Band Concert and they sound great! No, really! He's the trombone in front at far right.
Malorie & Melanie had their musical today. They did Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Melanie was in the singing group and Malorie played the xylophone. I only had my cell phone with me - usually it does pretty well, but today the lighting was pretty dim.
Malorie & Melanie had their musical today. They did Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Melanie was in the singing group and Malorie played the xylophone. I only had my cell phone with me - usually it does pretty well, but today the lighting was pretty dim.
Cross Over
Jared advanced from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts this month.
He and his friend Jevon were both presented their Arrow of Light award and then crossed over into Boy Scouts together.
He and his friend Jevon were both presented their Arrow of Light award and then crossed over into Boy Scouts together.
Cheap Thrills
$2 at The Dollar Tree Store and my laundry area is so much brighter! It's in the hallway upstairs with the kid's bedrooms so it's fun to have something light-hearted like this to decorate the space! I love it. I don't love DOING laundry any more than before, but I like BEING in the laundry much much more now!
Over the River and Through the Woods...
He's getting soft! I'm pretty sure he never pushed ME in a swing! The kids sure do love getting to spend time with their grandparents!
(Meredith and Joseph with Grandpa Gary at the little park acrossed the street from his house.)
(Meredith and Joseph with Grandpa Gary at the little park acrossed the street from his house.)
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Jared Turned 11
The scale is really starting to tip at our house. We are becoming a family of big kids more than a family of little babies. Ahhh, a time and a season...
With that, Jared had yet another birthday.
Mom has noticed how much taller and big-kid he looks lately. He's another Lee boy, just like the others.
Happy Birthday, Jared!
With that, Jared had yet another birthday.
Mom has noticed how much taller and big-kid he looks lately. He's another Lee boy, just like the others.
Happy Birthday, Jared!
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Punewood Derby 2011
This year was Jared's last official PWD!
He and his dad made the funniest car yet...the box the kit came in! They cut the box down and glued it to the block of wood, gave it a few clear coats and some wheels and sent it down the track. Low and behold, it held it's own and had a respectable showing.
Way to go, Jared!
He and his dad made the funniest car yet...the box the kit came in! They cut the box down and glued it to the block of wood, gave it a few clear coats and some wheels and sent it down the track. Low and behold, it held it's own and had a respectable showing.
Way to go, Jared!
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Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Time Out For Women 2011
I've never been a fan of "Time Out For Women" - I suppose mostly because it's hard to get away from a large family. I'm a home-body. I like my husband. We like our kids. We enjoy being together. It just never appealed to me to GO overnight somewhere to attend a women's conference. Fast-forward 17 years and I finally went! My cousin, Mardi, and I spent a day and a half traveling to Seattle and being uplifted and motivated by some wonderful speakers and musical performances...and of course there were a few adventures in between!
Friday morning the fun began. I got the kids off to school and then the clock chimed "1987" and Mardi and I were on the road!! We laughed and talked and laughed and laughed the entire way to Seattle!
Well, there was a stop in Ellensburg - and of course it was windy!
We checked in to the hotel and promptly took our picture in the elevator! (When you don't get out and do things like this often, you try to document every moment! Ü )
We quickly dumped our bags and walked down to the Pike Place Market and Water Front area. I had hoped to catch a picture of them throwing fish, but it smelled so awful there and they were taking so long I finally just walked away! Imagine fish being flung back and forth!
We vowed to perfect the cell-phone-self-portrait on this trip!
What do you do when you're walking along and come across a 6-foot penguin?
You take your picture with him!
Ditto when seeing giant iron men with swords!
You can't go to the Pier without stopping that Ye Old Curiosity Shoppe and visiting Sylvia! (She's the one on the left!)
We decided it would be fun to buy matching souvenirs to remember our trip with. We quickly realized that two adult women can not sit in a public restaurant and take pictures of their hands/rings together without raising eyebrows at the tables around them! We quickly deleted the other hand/ring poses and went with the wonder-twin-power pose!
That evening the conference was amazing! 2,500 women in attendance!
Michael McLean performed.
John Bytheway was there.
After the talks/performances, the audience could go to the stage and meet the "stars" - not something Mardi or I were interested in doing, but as we walked by I did get this picture - I can say I stood by the lady who stood by a lady who stood by John Bytheway!
This is our usher, James. He was from Africa and we got to help him meet one of the speakers, Mariama Kallon, who was also from Africa. That was very fun for us to be a part of.
When we left the center that night we very confidently jumped on to... the wrong city bus...we had asked the hotel receptionist person which bus to take to get back and she said "The 124." Well, FYI, there is apparently a 124 North and a 124 South. 124 N takes you about 5 steps from our hotel. The 124 S takes you to the ghetto, dog town, the dark side of Safeco Field, about 5 steps from purgatory!!! Inches from the freeway headed toward the reservation and a place called Tukwila! That's the one we got on!
After noticing we were getting further and further from our hotel Mardi asked the driver when we were heading back - he said, "This bus doesn't go there, get off." Uh - ghetto - 11:30pm - pouring rain - we were the only 2 sober people in a 12 mile radius (and that includes the bus driver). Long story short - we got our transfer tickets, stood in the rain, talked to a wine-o, got on the right bus, had a wine-o on the bus tell us that "Girls like you shouldn't ride the bus at night." Yeah...no kidding! And low and behold, the 124 N got us 5 steps from our hotel - which only took us abt 2 steps at the clip we were running! (Picture of us after we were kicked off the 124 South.)
We had a lot..LOT...of nervous energy when we got to our hotel. We ordered pizza at midnight - (woke up with heartburn at 4:30am). We laughed some more. We mocked our "Room with a view." Yes, we could see the Space Needle, but we hardly considered it a "view" when we had to plaster our faces to the window to see it!
The weekend was amazing! Didn't take many pictures Saturday. We did meet up with Aunt Lori Saturday and had lunch (huge Nachos to keep the midnight pizza company)! Next year TOFW is in Spokane. I'm already looking forward to it! I know I didn't share much - anything - about the topics the speakers talked on, or say anything about the incredible music. It was all just one big journal-worthy event. When I die, buy the book! ;)
Friday morning the fun began. I got the kids off to school and then the clock chimed "1987" and Mardi and I were on the road!! We laughed and talked and laughed and laughed the entire way to Seattle!
Well, there was a stop in Ellensburg - and of course it was windy!
We checked in to the hotel and promptly took our picture in the elevator! (When you don't get out and do things like this often, you try to document every moment! Ü )
We quickly dumped our bags and walked down to the Pike Place Market and Water Front area. I had hoped to catch a picture of them throwing fish, but it smelled so awful there and they were taking so long I finally just walked away! Imagine fish being flung back and forth!
We vowed to perfect the cell-phone-self-portrait on this trip!
What do you do when you're walking along and come across a 6-foot penguin?
You take your picture with him!
Ditto when seeing giant iron men with swords!
You can't go to the Pier without stopping that Ye Old Curiosity Shoppe and visiting Sylvia! (She's the one on the left!)
We decided it would be fun to buy matching souvenirs to remember our trip with. We quickly realized that two adult women can not sit in a public restaurant and take pictures of their hands/rings together without raising eyebrows at the tables around them! We quickly deleted the other hand/ring poses and went with the wonder-twin-power pose!
That evening the conference was amazing! 2,500 women in attendance!
Michael McLean performed.
John Bytheway was there.
After the talks/performances, the audience could go to the stage and meet the "stars" - not something Mardi or I were interested in doing, but as we walked by I did get this picture - I can say I stood by the lady who stood by a lady who stood by John Bytheway!
This is our usher, James. He was from Africa and we got to help him meet one of the speakers, Mariama Kallon, who was also from Africa. That was very fun for us to be a part of.
When we left the center that night we very confidently jumped on to... the wrong city bus...we had asked the hotel receptionist person which bus to take to get back and she said "The 124." Well, FYI, there is apparently a 124 North and a 124 South. 124 N takes you about 5 steps from our hotel. The 124 S takes you to the ghetto, dog town, the dark side of Safeco Field, about 5 steps from purgatory!!! Inches from the freeway headed toward the reservation and a place called Tukwila! That's the one we got on!
After noticing we were getting further and further from our hotel Mardi asked the driver when we were heading back - he said, "This bus doesn't go there, get off." Uh - ghetto - 11:30pm - pouring rain - we were the only 2 sober people in a 12 mile radius (and that includes the bus driver). Long story short - we got our transfer tickets, stood in the rain, talked to a wine-o, got on the right bus, had a wine-o on the bus tell us that "Girls like you shouldn't ride the bus at night." Yeah...no kidding! And low and behold, the 124 N got us 5 steps from our hotel - which only took us abt 2 steps at the clip we were running! (Picture of us after we were kicked off the 124 South.)
We had a lot..LOT...of nervous energy when we got to our hotel. We ordered pizza at midnight - (woke up with heartburn at 4:30am). We laughed some more. We mocked our "Room with a view." Yes, we could see the Space Needle, but we hardly considered it a "view" when we had to plaster our faces to the window to see it!
The weekend was amazing! Didn't take many pictures Saturday. We did meet up with Aunt Lori Saturday and had lunch (huge Nachos to keep the midnight pizza company)! Next year TOFW is in Spokane. I'm already looking forward to it! I know I didn't share much - anything - about the topics the speakers talked on, or say anything about the incredible music. It was all just one big journal-worthy event. When I die, buy the book! ;)
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