New York adventures

This is what we saw as we flew into New York City Thursday night, a beautiful pink sky with the moon shining bright.

We saw so many amazing things while we were in New York , we walked 7 miles, went on a 3 hour boat ride  and had a great time. I took a lot of pictures and couldn’t post them all so here are some of the highlights.


Grand Central, Clock at Penn station, lots of sky skyscrapers, Macy’s , Hotel Pennsylvania, Empire State building, Kevin in front of Starbucks, Family picture in Central park,  one of the many bridges.

Time Square the day were were there they were doing Yoga in Time Square. Here are more of my favorites.

This girl Loved New York and had to wear her New York shirt .

It was an exhausting day but we had a great time and will have to come back and spend more time in the city.

the growing garden

Our garden is growing and it is fun to see how these plants will grow. We had fun checking out the plants now that we are back from our trip. We have a Zucchini growing, a pumpkin and even a few peppers. I can’t wait to start harvesting some of our veggies and eating them.
We were looking at the size of the leaves on the pumpkins and some of them are huge. Payton found a few one her pumpkin and put her hand close to show how big they were, she loves to be in the garden.

A yard makeover

This is what our yard looked l like a few weeks ago after I finally got it dug up , ready for some new sod. After a lot of work we started rolling out the new sod, Payton had fun rolling the sod with us.

After it was all done it looked great. We decided to add a little more that weekend to give the kids a little more room to run and play.

We have been enjoying the new cleaned up back yard and can’t wait until we can run and play on the grass. We have also added some new flowers to the back and it is looking really nice.

Some of our new flowers:

Logan has some new Mickey and Donald garden gloves and is ready to help with the new plants.

This is what it looks like and I am loving the beautiful colors. The other day I saw a humming bird on the flowers, it was so pretty. It will be a nice play to be this summer.

Mother’s day

I spent Mother’s day with these two cuties , it was a fun day filled with lots of fun and surprises.

Payton went shopping with Kevin and picked out some presents to me , I had no idea what I was going to get. I could not wait to see what she chose for me.

They did a great job picking out things I would like and I know I will enjoy using them. We had a great lunch at Claim jumpers and later went and had ice cream at Snoqualmie Ice cream a great way to end the day. I am so thankful for Payton and Logan and all the joy they bring to my life.

Let your light shine

Last night Payton had her first school performance and she did great and let her light shine! I am so proud of her for singing her heart out and remembering the motions and verses. Here is a video of the show, it is not the best but not bad there were a few people who walked in front of me. Payton was standing next to her friend Ella, the are so cute and I love that they are the same size.
http://youtu.be/qV9S60u2hc0
 They all did a great job and it was a lot of fun. It is amazing how much these kids have grown and changed over the year and it was fun to hear the songs that I have heard bits and pieces of for the last few months. She is growing up fast and will soon be headed to kindergarten. We Love you Payton!

Our Garden

This year our garden will  be a bit different with the help of my dad we built a raised bed to help contain the garden and keep animals and other things out. Also this year Payton and Logan picked  a few vegetables to grow. Payton will be growing a pumpkin, a chocolate sweet pepper and diamond eggplant. Logan will be growing broccoli and cayenne pepper and I will be growing zucchini and buttercup squash.



We will have quite the garden and I am excited to try the new vegetables we will be growing. It will be interesting to see if the kids will try them or if I will be trying them alone.

This week will be planting out plants and watching them grow. We will also be watching out The Sunflowers we planted grow , I can already see them sprouting up. I love seeing what happens and how things grow and change through the summer. I will be posting updates when I can about what is growing .