Sunday, April 30, 2023

April 2023

We were so fortunate to be able to visit California for two and a half weeks in March/April.  We tried a new way to get to the airport this trip.


  

The first part was to walk on the ferry in Bremerton.  We all have our own luggage..thank you Santa.

Ferry ride

Running:)


From the ferry we walked a few blocks and took the light rail to the airport

Getting on the plane

The plane ride

Dinner at our favorite Mexican place 

The kids love the mornings. They get to watch their tablet and Grandma makes them breakfast

Wine tasting with Alice and David. So much fun.  This is Carhartt's tasting room.  Great wooden furniture they make and sell. Wines were yummy too.

Another winery with Alice and David


We went to the Hitching Post for dinner.  It was in the movie Sideways.

Having cocktails at the bar





Grandma and Grandpa took the kids to the park when we went wine tasting.

How cute is she cuddling with Bunny

Matching Tie Dye

Quick hair cut by Dad

The Easter Bunny gave us all white shirts and a Dye Tie kit. We had a lot of fun making the shirts and socks.






Relaxing at Grandma and Grandpa's

Tie Dye came out awesome

Eating dinner at Blast 825...we love this place

Can't get enough pictures of sleeping kids

Ice cream after dinner

We were at dinner and the kids got a bit bored..so they took some pictures

Practicing softball with Dad at the park

Having some fun with Dad at the park


Dinner with Shelley and David

Their neighbor has a pet turkey named Bob

Here is Bob watching us through the fence.

Playing at the park

Sleeping



Making our Tie Dye outfits



Ice Cream from the ice cream truck on Easter



Easter Egg hunt at church






Having fun playing in the backyard


Easter morning



Note left by the Easter Bunny

Note left by Alexis to the Easter Bunny


Wine tasting with Sherri and Sony

Ping Pong with Cousins


Giving cousin Cade a hug



BBQ at Renee's








Wine tasting

Wine tasting

Seeing a theme...wine tasting


Park



Making juice from tangerines 

The cats missed us.  Max is hanging out in Alexis's room with her stuffed animals

Midnight was on her bed

Checkers with Grandma (or Chuckers as the kids call it)

Funny faces with Dad

Having dessert

Checkers with Grandma


The arcade at the mall


Pizza with the family


The cats missing us..thanks Mom for loving them while we were gone

Sleeping kids:)

We met Alice and David for dinner and a fire pit on the ocean.  Kids having fun with David


S'mores










Hard to eat when you are missing your front teeth






Flight home


Light rail home

School pictures

Softball




STEM day at school


Max loves the kids so much



Field trip to watch a play

Baseball





Carter and Cole

Max being cute

Birthday party fun

Lego club



Baseball pictures

Kindness club

Plant Sale...annual fundraiser for the PTA.  We grilled hot dogs

Alexis and her friends having fun

Cole and Brody enjoying some chips

The bounce house and sunset. The event is over

The owners of the nursery giving us our check.

Practicing baseball

We planted some flowers this last weekend.  Spring is here

We had such a great March and April.  It was so nice to see everyone in CA. Thank you so much Alice, David, Sheri and Sonny for meet with us. Thank you to all our family that made the effort to get together. And a big thank you to Nana for watching our home and cats in Washington. Thank you to Sherron and Bob for hosting us for such a long time.  We love you all.



March 2023

 March highlights 


Both kids played basketball for the first time.  Alexis is number 19


St. Patrick's Day are in Cole's classroom

We had some work done in our backyard.  New stairs down and a ramp to drive vehicles down



Max loves the kids

Stairs down from our second level to the backyard

Alexis broke her right arm in two places. She was a trooper at the ER


Cole was the B.E.A.R of the week

Danielle was able to attend a game for both kids.

Max keeping Alexis company with her broken arm

Waiting for her splint--so lucky no cast.

Alexis decided to try and sell some Pokémon cards at the park

Relaxing

Alexis and Jada

Alexis and Daddy

Cole's last game


They are so cute together

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Alexis's class (top left)

Cole lost his two front teeth

Cherry Blossom 5K in Seattle


Fun with the phone


I ended March a week early to add the pictures from our CA trip to April.