Swim Class

I love the summer!! Especially now that it's been warm enough to swim outdoors.  I wanted Kaleb and Ethan to take swimming lessons this year, but the city classes are pretty expensive.  I used to teach swim lessons back when I was a lifeguard in high school, so I thought why not just give them lessons myself and invite some friends to do it too.  So that's what we did. 

A very nice sister that I visit teach said we can use her pool.  We're so grateful, because it's been a lot of fun!

We divided the kids up into two groups that a friend and I teach at the same time.  It's been great to see the kids already learning some of the swim skills!

Today we went on a field trip to the fish hatchery, for Kaleb's pre-school group. 

 All the kids had a great time watching the fish swim, feeding the fish, and scaring the fish.

 Here's Kaleb feeding some fish.  Heidi pointed out that the fish will even jump a little out of the water to catch the food.  It was really fun to see.

 Kaleb's BFF Jay.  They will be moving soon, so sad!

 After the field trip we stopped for a snack and some play time.

More Sledding!

The boys and I absolutely love sledding!! So of course we had to go out again and again with some friends. The first time I didn't bring my camera with me, but the second time I did. There's a great sledding hill at the park near our house. We finally got some snow, so we were so excited to give it a shot.
Ethan had fun trying on Kalebs snow clothes. Pay no attention to the mess on the table behind him. I was in the middle of reducing our paper in our files in preparation for tax season. I seriously would have gone out every day that week if the boys and I didn't end up with colds. I even cheerfully shoveled the snow off our driveway, knowing that we'd be able to sled in the wonderful white stuff!!

Aubrey's little girl is so cute! I have been having girl envy lately! Please let us have a girl next!

I sure do love my boys though!!

Jessica found this sled just lying around the park and kids kept calling it the boat! Kaleb talked about sledding in the boat for the next couple of days. I would not mind another snow day or two or three, or four, before the end of winter. We still have yet to make a snow man, and snow angels! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Leavenworth mini-vacation

We headed over to Leavenworth for a mini-vacation. My brother and sister in law had a timeshare there, but they couldn't use it since my brother was sick. They asked if we wanted to go so it wouldn't be wasted. We are so grateful they gave us the opportunity, and that Jarom's boss let him have a day and half off of work last minute!! (So I'm having a hard time putting all these pictures in order. I guess I'm out of touch with my blogging ways...so here are all our pictures in random order.)

Leavenworth is a Bavarian style village about 4 1/2 or so hours from Spokane. We had a great time looking around and getting a taste of the town. There were some shops we wouldn't dare go in with our 2 and 4 year old boys though. (too many breakables!)Jarom found this shop that was filled with all kinds of random hats. The boys had funning trying some on!

The first day we headed out to take advantage of the snow we weren't getting in spokane.

The boys really enjoyed their first time sledding ever!!

We had a blow up sled that was so comfortable going over bumps in. We were able to fit our whole family on it for some fun. Jarom also enjoyed catching some air by sledding over over some big bumps!!

Yes, we still exhist!

It's been a lonnnnng time!! I got out of the blogging habit and decided it's time for me to get back in the game. I don't even know if anyone even checks our blog anymore, but I thought it's worth a try. I feel awful that I blogged so much about Kaleb and hardly any about Ethan. Not to fear though, I plan on catching up on some cute stories about that little man.

In the meantime we are heading out of town to Utah! Yeah!! We are leaving tommorrow morning! Road trip 2010! That's right we are attempting to fit into our Toyota Camry with the 2 kiddos in the back and all kinds of things stuffed in the trunk and wherever else space may be, and then drive 10 hours one way. We definately plan to stop here and there a long the way. Wish us luck.

We are so excited to get to see Jarom's side of the family. First stop will be at Jarom's brother Aaron and his wife Krystals house. They have the cutest little boy AJ who is just a little older than Kaleb.

Next we will head over to the Watt's family Ranch where Jarom's Mom, Grandma and Grandpa, and a few other siblings will meet us. It will be great to see them all again, and it will be the first time they will see Ethan.

Now for some pictures of our boys lately. Kaleb super loves stickers (what kid doesn't right?) So last Sunday he thought it would be fun to decorate himself and his little brother to match him.
And heres Ethan. He is already 9 months old. He's been crawling for over a month now, and shortly after that started to pull himself up on things and cruise around. It's so fun to see him develop. He's been in a hurry to catch up to his big brother and has been catching on to things much quicker than Kaleb did at this age. He's been practicing his walking skills as well. He laughs so hard when we take him by the hand and give him a chance to walk around the house. He's an all around fun and sweet baby. We all love his so much!!

It's Kaleb! He is still an awesome big brother! I seriously believe he understands Ethan's language, because often he will be my little interpreter. When Ethan babbles or cries, Kaleb will say things like, "Mommy he's hungry, or he want's to go night night, or he wants Mommy." And he has been right each time. It's so cool! I'll catch up more on Kaleb later as well.We went to the Spokane fair last Friday with my mom, and grandma and had a great time! Here I am with my grandma about to enjoy some yummy funnel cake.Kaleb got some tickets from his "Oma" (my mom) to ride the rides. He only went on one and then ran from one ride to the next thinking he would ride them and then once we put him on it, he would change him mind and want to get off. He's still a little afraid. Since we still had tickets left Jarom and I rode on the zipper. This ride is crazy! We kept screaming the whole time and then felt sick for the rest of the day. I remember I used to ride this when I was a kid and never get sick after, what happened to those days?

Wells that's the end of my update. I hope you all have a fabulous rest of the week, thanks for stopping by!

Christmas boys

Here are my boys at my parents house on Christmas day. Kaleb and Ethan in their Christmas pajamas. Kaleb playing with his Opa.

Ethan taking a nap.
Merry Christmas!!