Flower Girls

Both Jadyn and Karina got to be a part of Lisa Fast & Jory Rhinehart's wedding today as flower girls. They did a great job walking down the aisle, leaving little flower petals in their wake, and drawing lots of smiles and "aaahhh's" from the gathered crowd.

Afterwards, we enjoyed dancing and reconnecting with friends at the reception. It was a beautiful wedding and a priviledge for our girls to be a part of the ceremony.

Wednesday at the Mariners Game

This last week we took the girls to the Mariner's game. Everyone wore their Mariner's garb, and we cheered our team on.

The girls had a blast! We got Mariner's hot dogs and sodas (part of the family deal!) and ate lots of popcorn and peanuts. I even bought a small package of cracker jacks to bring - the kids know the "Take me out to the ballgame" song well, but they didn't know what cracker jacks were. Unfortunately, they weren't a hit. Here's the face Jadyn made when she tried them:

During the middle inning breaks, they would show different fans up on the big screen. I told the girls that if they danced hard enough, they might make it onto the screen. So every break, our girls jumped up and showed off their moves. They never did make it onto the TV, but they had a blast trying.

We left at the end of the 8th when the score was still 0-0, and in the bottom of the 14th, our Mariner's finally squeezed in the winning run and won the game 1-0. Way to go, Mariners!

Camping Again

We were able to sneak away again this last weekend with the extended family and had a great time camping at Lake Easton State Park. We had temperature extremes - about 95 degrees outside (with no real breeze) and lake water temperature in the 40's from snow melt. We ate s'mores, enjoyed many laughs, adventured in the woods, and relished the time with family.

Check out our family photo page for more pictures!

Lost another tooth

Now she's officially lost both top front teeth. It was pretty exciting, too, as she lost her tooth on the first day of our camping trip. We put it in a bag and brought it home for the tooth fairy.

Now, how are you supposed to take a bite of a big hamburger with no front teeth?

Lots of cheer...

Meet Nick and Lydia. Two amazing people that have captured the hearts of our two oldest girls. As you can see, they both used to do cheer before they had their own 2 kids -and can somehow still do it well. Lydia helped lead the cheer part of our "Mega Sports Camp" at our church last week. This picture was taken at the block party last Friday night. (And yes, he is holding her up with just one hand!)
It was so cute to come downstairs tonight to hear cheering and singing from Jadyn and Karina in the living room. They were pretending to be Nick and Lydia. Jadyn, of course, had to be Nick because she was the only one that could lift Lydia up safely so that she wouldn't be scared.

I wish these pictures could bring you all of the emotion and concentration that I got to witness. It was amazing! (Especially seeing Karina willing to jump into Jadyn's waiting arms!)

I love that our girls are best friends. I also love that they can't wait for little Makenzie to get big enough to join in the fun. They even changed some of the cheers to be just for her! A big thank you to Nick and Lydia for being so willing to share yourselves with our girls!