Silverdale Whaling Days Family Fun Run

This year Chris and the kids decided to compete together in the 1 mile Family Fun Run.

Everyone is exhausted after the race.

Chris took 1st place in his division. His good friends Errol and Mike came in 2nd and 4th.

Emily's Birthday

Emilys Birthday is on the fourth of July. This year she decided she wanted to have the dreaded sleepover party. It actually wasn't that bad, the girls were very well behaved and I was able to sleep peacefully through the night.

Pizza

Presents

Emily got lots of earrings, too bad her ears aren't pierced.

Swimming

Emily's Birthday Cake

Trip to Portland

This Last weekend for Chris' Birthday I decided to surprise him with a trip to Portland to see his favorite comedian, Brian Regan. Chris' Birthday often gets overlooked since Emily's Birthday is on the 4th of July and his is on the 5th. I always try and celebrate his Birthday another weekend when we're not so focused on Birthday parties, Picnics and Fireworks.
I picked him up early from work on Friday and we drove the very long 3 hour drive to Portland. When we arrived we checked into the Benson hotel. It was located right downtown which made it really nice that everything was within walking distance. After checking out our hotel room we went to Voodoo donuts followed by dinner at Pastini. Following dinner we went to the show, which was hilarious. A nice surprise to top off the night was when we were walking back to our hotel we saw a huge film crew and they were filming the cable show Leverage. Chris was so excited because he loves that show. The next morning we went to the Saturday market, breakfast, the outlets and Mutnomah falls. It was such a fun weekend.

The Benson Hotel

The Lobby was beautiful!

Apparently "Historic Hotel" means small rooms.

Voodoo Donuts

You may have actually seen this place on the food network. They have the strangest donuts. The kids wouldn't even try the Capn' Crunch one.

Brian Regan

Here we are waiting for the show to start.

Mutnomah Falls

Mutnomah Falls is located just outside of Portland. Chris loves to hike so I thought I would take him on a small one mile hike that maybe I could handle. When I got there I realized the Hike was one mile straight up. I waited for Chris at the bottom.

Twilight

For all of my twilight friends, this is just to make you jealous. This is the house that the prom scene was filmed at. It's located about 5 miles from the falls.

Schools Almost Over

I love the end of the school year. As parents we get to go to orchestra and choir concerts, field days and BBQ's, assemblies and award ceremonies. The last few weeks have been overwhelming with all the different events that each of the kids have had. There were so many, I didn't even take my camera to most of them. I do have one picture though. This is Jordan receiving an award for being in the top 3% of her junior class academically and an award for being a good citizen. The good citizen award is only given out to about 20-30 students in her school of about 5000 students. We are very proud of her.

Graduation Gifts

No Jordan is not graduating this year. However a lot of her friends are and I wasn't about to buy them all gifts. So I made these candy graduation cups for each of them. I think they turned out pretty cute.

Jordan and Austin's Prom 2009

Trip to Las Vegas

This is Shonni, Kris and Cindy. Shonni and I have known each other since about 2nd grade, that we can remember. I'd say about 28 years or so. Next to her is Kris and Cindy, obviously twins. I met Kris in 7th grade and she has been my best friend ever since. We even have daughters 3 months apart who are also good friends. Me and Kris and Cindy spent so much time together in high school that I started to feel like triplets. I love my friends so much and we had so much fun in Vegas that I'm sure there will be another girls trip planned in the future. (Kris, we're still meeting for Thanksgiving though). Because of this awesome trip through memory lane, I have changed my play list to include our most favorite songs back in High School.

Shonni and Cindy at Kahuna ville restaurant.

We decided Cindy and Kris should sit on the floor of one of the hotels and take a picture because the floor was just so pretty. At this hotel some girls actually stopped us and asked us if we were mormon and we asked how they knew and they said because we had clothes on. People don't wear a lot in Vegas.

This was our first night in Vegas, we had 2 days left and we were already exhausted.

This sign made us laugh. It pretty much sums up Las Vegas.

We ate lunch at In-N-Out burger. It was the most crowded I have ever seen a fast food place.

Me and Kris exhausted from shopping.

This is Shonni at lunch(she's so cute). We ate at some french restaurant across the street from the Bellagio hotel fountain show. I eventually found something on the menu I was willing to eat and they were the best french fries ever.

Cindy and Shonni in from of the Eiffel tower.

bellagio gardens

Kris matches the snail so nicely. I had to have a picture.

Bellagio gardens. It was awesome.

This is my favorite picture. We had been shopping for about 12 hours and we were really tired.

Cindy, Me and Kris

Kris and I at the buffet at New Orleans hotel.

This was our last day in Vegas and these are supposed to be our sad faces, because were leaving, but I'm trying not to laugh andKris looks a little mad, (probably from all the pictures I kept taking)