Weekend getaways

This summer we were lucky enough to have a couple weekend getaways, we first went to Leavenworth with Carl's cousins Enoch and Amanda. The guys wanted to go somewhere and golf so that was the placed we all agreed on. We stayed in a great condo for 2 nights, the boys got to go golfing and Amanda and I got to have a massage which ended up to be the best message I think that I have ever had, It was so amazing. While the boys where out golfing Amanda and I thought that we would go look around town since there are so many cute shops there, we quickly realized though that it would be next to impossible to do with two little helpers. Tory and Malachi wanted to touch everything. Later we did get to go back in to town just us girls and go to a wonderful chocolate shop. There chocolates are homemade by the wife of the gentleman working in the shop, they where so yummy.

Just outside of Leavenworth there is a petting zoo that we stopped at everyone had so much fun feeding the animals, especially Carl.

Some peacocks strutting their stuff

Little buddies

Malachi was exstatic about the tracker, he had the sound effects going and everything.

The hen house

While in Leavenworth we also went to their fish hatchery

This is back at the little petting zoo, they had a little cow train that they would pull you around the farm in. There was no way us pregnant ladies where fitting in the cows with the kids to so the Dads rode instead. It was quite a sight to see Enoch get out of the cow.

On another weekend we went as a family to Silverwood and Silver Mountain Ski Resort I guess it was a Silver weekend. Here Tory is on the train there.

This is the gondola that takes you to the mountain, there were some great views while going up and coming back down. At some point you go right over peoples houses.

After the Gondola ride we went to the water park are the resort, it is so wonderful. Perfect for families. Tory had a great time as did Carl and I.

Gone fishing!

Tory got to go fishing for the first time this summer, she loved it. This time I didn't think that we would catch anything there was a storm coming and it was getting very windy. Carl assured me that we just needed to wait and sure enough we did catch this little fish, Tory called it Dori.

Very carefully touching Dori

Pink or Blue

When we came back from our vacation to Disney Land we were pleasantly surprised to find out that our home would be growing by two little feet. It was along couple of months in the beginning, thankfully the yuckiness is gone and I can say that I am half way through the pregnancy now. When we were expecting Tory I did a scrapbook page of some of the predictions that people had. Sad to say I haven't been doing much scrapping lately, but I thought that a little diddy on the blog would be about the same. So here are some of the predictions.......

Uncle Owen and Aunt Shast - BLUE

Ginny - BLUE

Penny B. - PINK
Meg - 55% BLUE

Uncle Ian -PINK
Gigi - PINK

Auntie Jordge - PINK

Auntie Kaid - PINK

Mrytle - BLUE

Chrysta - PINK

Grandma Baisden - PINK

Grandpa Baisden - BLUE

And the Answer is......... BLUE

Go to TIME OUT....

This year I was lucky enough to get to go to Time Out. I was so excited it was the first time that I had been away from Tory over night. Which was kind of different. I got to go stay with friends in a hotel, go shopping, eat out and enjoy Time Out. There were amazing speakers and I came home that weekend with a renewed sense of who I want to be and what I want to stand for. It was so much fun and I am so grateful that Carl and Tory had a good time together too.

Our group - Sarah, Mel, Lea, Kamas, Me, and Penny

A much needed fence

Needless to say I'm pretty sure that nothing will grow in my garden if I don't get a fence. So with some help from Tory and a lot of sticks later we have this..

Our Spring Time

We took the dog to the creek one night, we thought that they would enjoy going for a walk but little did we know they would be swimming too. Mali is such the water dog the water was freezing and didn't stop her a bit, Chance on the other hand would get his feet wet but wasn't so excited to go all the way in.

Carl and Tory at the Falls

There is a farm down the road from us that had baby goats this year. There happened to be 3 babies that lost their mom so they were bottle feed and very friendly. It became a routine to go down and see them every night when Carl would come home. Tory would get so excited to go see the goats.

Cousins at Kaelynn's birthday get together - Molly, Kaelynn, Makenna, Mathew, Braden and Tory.

Naptime

What is it about a napping child....I always want to snuggle Tory when she is sleeping. She is so sweet and innocent while she is napping. Watching her sleep melts my heart.

This happened while we were at Gigi's. Poppie was tired and so Tory made sure that he had a pillow and some of her blanket and then snuggled next to him.

A girl and her Meow