Downtown

Jen, Jeremy and Tyler in front of the tree that was just lit.

Pretty Landscape

The road our cabin was on. Look at the snow on the hood!

Downtown

A picture of the wise men leading people to the local church.

Downtown Leavenworth

The downtown area all lit up. It was snowing like crazy. It was really pretty.

Cold Stone Creamery

The boys eating some ice cream and goofing off at Cold Stone Creamery.

Hot tubbing!

This was us in the hot tub on the porch of our rental house. It was great to sit in it and look out at the snow covered landscape.

Where's our car?

This was a picture of our car when we returned after the lighting festival. It had snowed a bit while were in town.

Cold enough?

The water froze as it was cascading down leaving beautiful landscape.

Road?

Road? Or lack there of? This was the road to our cabin. It was a beautiful drive.

Pretty Landscape

Our rental house was near this river. It was really pretty.

Rental House

This was our house we rented in Leavenworth. Hot tub on the porch. They had christmas lights up and inside a tree all decorated. It was great.

Santa!!

The boys with Santa clause. We just happened to catch him wandering up the street.

Leavenworth, WA

The first weekend in December, we rented a house in Leavenworth, WA and got away for the weekend. They have a big city wide lighting festival every weekend in Dec. They light the trees and then one by one all the buildings turn on their lights. It was a fun evening. The boys had a snowball fight in the street, they got to see Santa and just had a blast. It snowed pretty hard for a little while which was a special treat as it doesn't do that too often around here.
Here is us in front of some shops after the crowd disappeared.

Jeremy School Photo

Jeremy's school photo. 4th Grade. Oct 2007

Tyler School Photo

Tyler's school photo. 1st grade. Oct 2007

Getting in there!

Jeremy getting in there and fighting for the ball.

Soccer Season has arrived

Here is Jeremy all decked out in his soccer uniform. Soccer is his favorite sport. He enjoys it a lot.

First Day of School

The forced picture that mom takes every year....
Jeremy's first day of 4th grade (I can't believe it!!)
Tyler on his first day of 1st grade.
Both had new teacher's this year. Jeremy continued in IA and went to Mrs. Laybourn and has 15 4th and 5th graders. Tyler joined IA and started with Mrs Titus and has 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in his class.

Elaysha had a good time

Elaysha just played with toys and checked to make sure I was still there every once in a while.

Ellie on the Ferry

Ellie was a little freaked out by the ferry. So, a bottle and she fell asleep.

Seattle to Bremerton Ferry

On Saturday, the 18th of August, we decided on a whim to camp at Sol Duc Hot Springs on the Olympic Penninsula. Jen had a meeting in the morning, so I took Ellie and Elaysha and went to my meeting and then took the ferry from Seattle to Bremerton to meet up with the boys. Boy was that a challenge getting that stroller around on the ferry!!

Jen and Amanda partying it up....sort of

Jen and Amanda at the Texas Roadhouse Bar in Billings MT. We met up and spent the day at Rituals spa having pedicures, massage, facials, and sitting in the steam room. We, also, went to JCPenney's and had our hair done.
We spent two nights at the Ramada and went shopping and just spent time without kids and husbands.

Ellie and Elaysha

Aren't they adorable in their matching outfits? And holding hands.

Oh Yeah!

Dylan took right to his new spiderman bicycle. He put the helmet on and within a few minutes he had those pedals figured out and was all over the park.

Pool Party

For Dylan's 3rd birthday, we went to the wading pool at Mud Mountain Dam. Here is a pic of the boys in the pool.

Dylan is 3!!!

Dylan on his 3rd birthday. He has turned into quite the little man. And he can hold his own with his brother's already.

And the road was formed...

The bags lit the way for all of us to walk in the middle of the night. To tell cancer that even as night as fallen our spirit can't be broken.

And nightfall came...

As nightfall came, we lit the luminary bags to light the way through the night. Relay is in honor of Jeremy's mom, Molly, so we made some bags in her honor.

Team Fire

This was our relay team this year. Jeremy, Jen, Jeremy Jr, Tyler, Dylan, Jeremy's grandma Frances, Jeremy's brother Paul, and Jen's parents, Tom and Debby. We had a little rain, but survived and by event time it had cleared up and we had a good night.

It's a family affair

Marilyn Hash or mama Hash as everyone calls her cutting her granddaughter's hair for the locks of love. It was one of those moments when everyone wants to shed a tear. A few years ago, her grandson shaved his head for Marilyn so she wouldn't be the only one without hair. It was great.

Locks of Love

The girls cut their hair to donate to the locks of love. An organization that is part of Pantene that takes the hair - turns it into a nice wig and returns them to the American Cancer Society to give out as part of their road to recovery program.

The Mayor

Here we have the Mayor, John Wise, Pat Kollen, Linda Wise (Mayor's wife) and Tom Hassenaur (Jeremy's old soccer coach).
Starting to feel like a small world.

And those Jolly Ranchers!

Here in front is my neighbor Jen and her son Zachery. Zach and Jeremy went to preschool together 4 years ago. Then, two years ago we bought the house across the street from them.

Giant Boot!

Gotta love the high schooler's with the Giant Boot team!

Then comes the team lap

Here come the teams around the track!

Bring on the Relay for Life

Relay for Life at JJ Smith Elementary Saturday June 22nd. This is the survivors coming through the arch to begin the Relay.