August 17, 2015

First day of Kinder

Today was the first day of kindergarten for Zara and Lexi. They were so excited. We drive by their school every day and they ask, "when can we go to school?" every day. They had orientation last week so we had already met their teacher and been to their classroom. This morning we all walked down the street to school and dropped them off in their class. They waved bye and that was that. It wasn't a big deal to them after going to preschool for over two years. 

This week is a warm-up "transition" with the kindergartners going just in the morning to learn the ropes before school officially starts for all grades next week. The school has over 500 kids and 4 kindergarten classes. We chose to have the girls in the same class this year, but will likely split them up next year

When we picked them up they were full of stories about breakfast, racoon books, rockets and filled me in on all the school procedures. Zara declared it "the best day ever" and Lexi said, "I didn't like it, I loved it." 








July 17, 2015

Summer Time!

So behind on the blog, but most of the house is unpacked and we are having lots of fun enjoying the Yakima sunshine. We joined the tennis club that's near our house so we can go swim in their pool. The girls did swim lessons the first week and we've been spending lots of time there ever since. In June, Lexi and Zara did an art/dance camp every morning for a week. They studied dancing, art, food and music from Jamaica. The twins and I took a road trip to meet up with my sisters and their kids at Great Wolf Lodge. It was great! Now this week, the twins are doing summer camp at the Yakima Country Club every day. They do tennis, golf and swimming every day. Lucky girls! 

This is a picture dump from my phone. Here we go.

First swim in the new backyard


Early morning run with the rooster

Fathers Day

Art/Dance camp

Jamaica week - dancing on sticks


Chillin at the pool

Mt Rainer - driving to Great Wolf Lodge


Her favorite toys

YCC Summer Camp

July 4, 2015

Happy 4th of July!

Unintended blogging break since we've been super busy selling a house, buying a house and moving to another state. I'm hoping to catch up soon, but in the meantime we had a great day with these three patriotic cuties. 


June 7, 2015

5th Birthday Party

Today we had a birthday party for Lexi and Zara at The Little Gym. Starting with our trip to California last month, this birthday has been never-ending. This was the last of the many festivities and we are done for a while now, ha ha. 

The girls and their friends had a great time tumbling, jumping and hanging and playing fun gym games. Then we ate snacks and cake, yay! Yes, they are still obsessed with horses. 








June 4, 2015

Lexi is Five!


Oh my goodness this girl is full of personality, excitement and drama. She picked out a new colorful maxi dress last weekend and was very conflicted about whether she wanted to have a party at all because I told her she couldn't wear it to her gymnastics birthday party. This morning she finally came around and said, "I was joking yesterday, I'll just wear a shorter dress for the gymnastics part of the party and then change back into my long dress." Whew, crisis averted. She insists that her $2 flip flops from Old Navy are the most comfortable shoes ever and wears them everywhere she can, including all over Disneyland. I took her to buy new shoes at Nordstrom today because she was complaining all of her shoes were too small and after an hour we almost left without anything because she was so darn picky.


Lexi is very excitable and usually jumps up and down squealing and yelling about anything and everything. The volume in our house is LOUD. At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park last month she chose to make a pressed penny donkey as a souvenir. The rest of the day she exclaimed loudly several times, "Look at this sweet little ass!" and "I just love this little ass." We have our Aesop's Fables book to thank for introducing that word into her vocabulary.


This girls is always right and super stubborn to go along with it. She will often change her mind about something, but instead of admitting she just changed her mind, she insists that we are wrong. It drives us crazy, but it's also hilarious. For example, she will say, "I want the cheese pizza" and then when the cheese pizza comes she will say, "I said I wanted the pepperoni pizza!" and acts like we are all nuts for thinking she ever said cheese.

Lexi loves drawing, puzzles, playing with horses, reading books, dancing and watching Paw Patrol. Her favorite foods are blueberries, strawberries, bananas, popcorn, quesadillas and grilled cheese sandwiches.

We LOVE her so much!