Sun Lakes Resort 4/09

This is the front view of our cabin.  It had one room with a twin bed, double bed, futon sofa, bathroom and kitchen area.  It was not the Hilton!  We've decided our kids are way too spoiled when the first thing they said was "Gross!  We're staying here?"  Too many nice hotels with hotel points!  We went to Sun Lakes Resort in central Washington for three days of our spring break  this year with our good friends the Hansen family.  I remember coming here with my family when I was a kid and having so much fun!  The lake was right outside our cabin, just past the grassy area.  We rode our bikes, played at the playground, fished on a couple of the many lakes in the area, hiked, played in the cold water, paddle boated around the lake, played miniature golf, had our own huge Easter egg hunt all around the cabins and had a lot of fun with our friends!

This is as close to fishing that Sydney got!
Bryant did go out with Todd for a little bit.  This is what I saw when they were headed back in...Bryant on the back, so Todd could fish, and leaning over the edge touching the water with his hand!  Todd rowed back in with Bryant just as he is in the photo, not worried at all! Ugh!
Taylor was okay as long as she could see and feel the bottom of the lake.  She has this control issue like I do, where my safety is concerned!

A couple of warm days...means water!

My kids love the water.  We were lucky enough to have two days of seventy degree weather this week and all my kids wanted to do was to head to the creek to play.  We headed to the park and then the creek.  Sydney's feet were so red from the ice cold water run off, I kept making her come out of the water to warm them up a bit.  Then the slip and slide came out, even though it doesn't work right.  They would hose it off and then slide down it.

Like our nice wood pile piled up underneath the tree?  Ugly!  We don't know where else to put it though, it can't be near the house for bug reasons...


Taylor made a teepee!  Not sure why though...

Easter Egg Hunt

Nana loves a good egg hunt!   And she came loaded with candy filled eggs for the kids.  This is before the hunt.

Checking out the loot!  And loading up on sugar too!
The kids love the crab apple tree, trimmed and all, it still works as the climbing tree they've always wanted.  Sydney loves to go all the way to the top and it scares me to death!  

Another Birthday Party!

Nana and Aunt Louise came up for a few hours last weekend from Portland to celebrate Bryant and Easter with an egg hunt, more on that later.  This is Bryant opening his Star Wars Light Sabers. His friend Jon has them and brings his over on Tuesdays when he comes to play and it is all Bryant has been talking about lately!  So he got two for his birthday from his sisters.  He now just wants to fight, sound effects and all!  

Trying them out with sister Tay.
Louise got him Red the fire engine from Cars.  Bryant and I have been looking for him for two years!
We got him the Sheds for his trains to park to go with his Thomas the train set.
This is how Bryant reacted when the only gifts left were for his sisters from Nana and Papa, and none left for him... pouty!  Happy Birthday Bryant!  We love you!

Bryant's 4th Birthday Party!

Oh, we had a fun April Fools Day!  It started out snowing all morning and melted almost as fast as it landed. I thought about putting plastic spiders in the girls sandwiches or chips, but thought better of it as they then would refuse to eat their food...  

Today we had Bryant's first friend birthday party and it was so much fun!  The kids each made their own pizza, had soda, cupcake and icecream cone, played, played a game, played, took their turn at the pinata, and played some more.  I decided since Todd wasn't here to just sit the pinata on the floor and let them have at it (I usually have him hold it)- worked great!  Everyone got a turn and then Bryant wacked it hard right in the middle and split it in two, I then dumped the candy and they all sat around really nicely picking out what each wanted.  Nothing like older children do... grabbing everything in sight!  So different.  We had four girls and one boy, plus Bryant. It was fun to see the major differences between boys and girls and how they play and get along!  This is how he acted when everyone was singing "Happy Birthday" to him!

He really got into opening his gifts this year, as he fully understood all that was happening.  He got a speed racer car, football, lots of coloring stuff, frisbee, Batman and Spiderman and bubbles!  So fun!  His real birthday is this Sunday.  Papa and Nana are coming on Saturday and we'll have birthday celebration number 2 then.


The boys discovered balloon boxing and had so much fun!  Thank you friends for coming to celebrate Bryant, he had a great time!

Missing doughnut

Earlier this week Bry and I went to the grocery store and we bought doughnuts for Dad and the kids (I don't like them).  I told Bryant he would have to wait until he ate lunch before he could eat his.  So, he ate and then played and then remembered his doughnut.  Meanwhile, Todd had come downstairs looking for something to eat for lunch and ate the doughnut we had bought for him...  Can you guess where this is going?  I went to get Bryant his doughnut and it was missing!  I asked Todd where had Bryant's doughnut had gone, "Oh, it was his?", was his reply.  When I broke the bad news to Bry, he was devastated!  The next couple of days, he would say..."We go to the store and get doughnuts and Dad don't eat it!"  Here he is eating his doughnut today before Dad could eat it!

Disappearing Sydney

Sydney has always been my one and only child who will entertain herself for hours on end.  She had disappeared all afternoon on Sunday, then came down and asked if she could take some photos.  This is what she'd been up to.  For late Christmas, she received a fun gift called Bendaroo's.  They are waxy, wirey, bendy stick things in all different colors.  This is what she came up with.  This Bendaroo doll is sticking to her bedroom window looking out.

She's made all kinds of gadgits to go with her Littlest Petshop pets like swings, tables, hanging lights, hats, hair. She even decorated some rocks into people!  What an imagination!