Calamari

From Ivars in Seattle.

How could I forget?!!!

I had LASIK surgery in January and I love it! I have 20/15 vision these days. Amazing!
Also, I surprised Cory for his bday with a weekend trip to Seattle for a Mariner's/Angels game. It was a lot of fun. We went to the game, of course, but we also did Pike Place, the Waterfront, hiking at Discovery Park, and the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. Look 'em up if you're not familiar with them. They're so fascinating.  We ate at Ivar's, a local seafood place and loved it. I will have to post a pic of the calamari I had.  My parents watched the kids for us. It was a great weekend!! Here is an awkward self portrait of us at the beach at Discovery Park.

Yay for iPhones and the blogger app

Now I can keep you updated on the fly

Portland: "Where young people go to retire"

We went to Portland last month. Our first family trip with out mine or Cory's parents. It was so fun! Our kids were awesome in the car, and such troopers with no naps. Highlights of the trip: Multnomah Falls, the Oregon Zoo and the Washington Park Zoo train, feeding the seagulls at the beach in Seaside, feeding the seals at the Seaside Aquarium, tide pools at Cannon Beach, and of course, Voodoo donuts! PHX got the "gingerbread boy" donut (the vudu doll). Better than the one that he thought was a "Y", but was actually a male body part. Awkward. 

 If you ask the kids, though, the highlight of their trip was swimming in the pool at the hotel.

Alone I can Barely Light A Match

So I obviously haven't blogged much lately, and here is why: Thing1 and Thing 2.

There is a song called "Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die"  by a band called Four Year Strong. In that song, there is a line that says "Sad enough to say that alone I can barely light a match, but together we can burn this place down."  That line exactly describes my two hooligans. Alone, they are both perfect. Together, they make insane amounts of mischief. I literally can't step out of the room when they are together. If I do, I will come back to toys/clothes stuffed down the heating vents, kids on the counter using the kitchen sink sprayer to spray every thing in the kitchen (or to put more water in the fish's bowl), a whole box of cereal dumped out on the kitchen floor ("I was getting some cheerios for Skylee", says Phoenix), a rubber ducky down the toilet, all of the sheets/blankets/mattress pad off Phoenix's bed, or Skylee's entire mattress off of her bed. I could go on....  Anyway, here are some more random (as usual) pictures of the cutest monsters on the block.

 

You can't see it, but PHX isn't wearing pants.

 

 Above, I forgot to turn the pic, but Skylee is teaching her baby "Sam" how to walk. And a couple of pictures below is her sharing her Christmas candy with him.

In no particular order....

 Hogle Zoo

 Soccer!!

 2nd birthday!

 Playing Dress Up

 Making Mr. Potato Heads at the Corn Maze

 The cow tractor train at the Corn Maze

 Corn Box at the Corn Maze

Busy Summer with Few Pictures!

We have had a busy summer but we haven't really taken any pictures. That seems to be our M.O.  We've been going to Boise Hawk's baseball games quite a bit, and the kids have loved it. Cory and I took a weekend trip with two other couples to Lava Hot Springs, ID and left the kids with my parents. It was tons of fun. We also went to Heber City, UT for Cory's family reunion and just got back on Sunday. We went to the Hogle Zoo, a fish hatchery, and hung out at the huge cabin/house that we stayed at. There was pond down the street that the kids loved to play in (and by in, I mean throw sticks and rocks into it and look for fish). We have also been getting in tons of park time. For Phoenix's 3rd birthday (on the July 8th) we went to a bunch of parks that we hadn't been to before. He loved it. He is also potty trained! He's growing up so fast! 

The kids are really into trains right now, so we went to the train depot a few weeks ago and the kids had a blast. Also, Skylee fell off a big play structure at the park and hit her head twice on the metal stairs on the way down. She still has a dent in her head. Here are a few pictures: