Lake Chelan and Idaho oh my!

We spent last week on a family vacay!

We camped at Twenty five mile creek,

Spent time on the boat inter tubing,

Spent time at Lake Chelan State Park,

Indulged in the pleasures of 24 different kinds of soft serve,

Enjoyed Slidewater Park,

Something we do every year,

Packed up and headed to a favorite hotel of ours in Liberty Lake,

Stopped in at our favorite feed & pet store in Spokevegas {a.k.a Spokane},

Hit the floor running for Silverwood the next morning,

Rode all the rides,

Some twice.

Indulged in more giant ice cream none of us can ever finish,

left Idaho late at night after tons of fun,

John drove us the long five hours home,

arrived at 3 a.m,

safe and sound..

TREMORS Roller Coaster-

our all time Favorite!
The kids at Slide waters with their tubes.

The giant ice cream!
The girl serving us said Shilo was just adorable,
and practically gave us our ice cream for free!

The kids recreate High School Musical off the back of the boat!
We had a blast!
I think we all needed a little down time and some good old fashioned fun-
Oh and a tan!

Staying cool

We have been so lucky to have such great weather
Now normally I would be laying out giving myself some sort of color {maybe skin cancer- but at least I will be tan} just kidding.



But the baby is NOT liking this heat. So we are lucky to have been invited to our friends parents private pool yesterday. It was SO nice. In fact this family has 2 pools and 2 hot tubs so we were very excited to play at this beautiful Edmonds Woodway estate. We must have been well behaved last time to be invited back. Lucky us!

BLOCK SALE

We Are having a block sale on our block!
If you know me you know where I live.
Saturday 8am to 4ish.
So far I know there will be:

tons of baby clothes through size 4t {six giant bins to be exact!}
cribs, crib mattresses, baby equipment
furniture,
magic cards,
star wars,
house wares,
tons of princess house,
party lite candles,
toys,
kids clothes and I'm sure much more!
I put this block sale together every year and I never know how many neighbors will participate but I always hope for the best! So come by and see us!

A little girls words

{ in one of our strawberry patches}

Shilo says the cutest things....

"stop it mommy, your going to make my legs limp." this she told me during one of my laughing spells. the kids think that watching me crack up over stupid things with tears rolling down my face is sooooo hysterical!



this ones for Julie- a conversation Shilo had with Cody

Shilo- Cody, i think you're cute

Cody- cool

Shilo- i love you Cody

Cody - even cooler

then tonight she asks me-

"mommy? can i choose Cody to marry me?"

i guess anything is possible! john and i are 10 years apart, she and he would be 12 years apart!!!!!

a little girl with big dreams! what ever will we do when he goes on his mission?!

{and maybe Julie will finally leave a comment after reading this!}



a boy at the sock hop told Chastin- your sisters hot!

she tells me- you know mommy, as in beautiful!

boy am i in trouble!

Newest member of the family

I am officially Great Aunt Torrie! John is officially Great Uncle John!

Welcome to the world Donald Ryan Pollino!

We look forward to meeting you!

I think I'll take some pictures when he gets out of the ICU. He's in there for 48 hours, but he'll be just fine. He weighs 6 lbs 11oz 20 inches long. Born via C- Section @ 8:55 tonight. Mom and baby are recovering well and I can't wait to meet him! Congrats Jeremy and Tonya! Love you! Cheers!

Almost a Decade

Of Marriage that is...

Happy 9 years of marriage bliss!

The songs you're hearing are "our songs"

the first is a song that John said reminded him of me- of us when we were dating. We have been listing to this song for 11 years, it always makes us smile. Listen to the words- it says it all for us.

The second is the song we danced to at our wedding, we don't hear it all that often but it reminds us of our wedding day, standing on the dance floor, D.J playing loudly, us dancing with Chastin in our arms, and once again we remember...

And the last song is a new favorite that just makes my heart sing with love, and reminds me I am lucky to be in love with my best friend.

Happy Anniversary John! Here is to many more!

Monday, Monday

Do you ever feel defeated?
I sat in the sun to do something for myself and got burned-
didn't get to eat dinner-
thought my husband was cool enough to be invited somewhere fun but wasn't I guess- my feeling are hurt, not his.
thought I was cool enough to be invited somewhere but wasn't-
cried in Costco because my 4 month thought it poor judgement to be shopping during his morning nap. he was right, it was a bad idea on my part. a nice lady helped me- this made me cry more.
my house is a mess because I had to let my cleaning lady go-
because i lost my job....
to top it all off i yelled at my daughter tonight because she wouldn't stay in bed. { i don't yell}
i feel just terrible about it. so i think i will teach her to make Italian sodas tomorrow. they are her favorite drink.
I'm sure this will all look better after some sleep. if i can sleep.
who knows.
and i just have to add - i miss my friend Mindy.