A REAL HOUSE!

It's finally happened! We have a house. It's not our house, but it's a house! More rooms, bigger kitchen, and a basement! So nice to be able to have the boys in their own rooms and all their toys out of the living room. It was an easy move as were able to start moving our stuff in at the beginning of November. It only took the guys (thanks for your help you know who you are) one big load. Thanks to our awesome landlord who let us borrow his trailer. To the side of the house is the yard and there is a deck off the dining room upstairs and a patio below. The basement is currently being used as storage with plans for a toy room, TV room, and maybe a crafting area. The former tenants left a ping pong table and a piano. So hopefully we can entertain down there in the future.
(picture taken 2-2-11)

Halloween 2010

 Getting ready for Trunk or Treat on 30 Oct. 2010

 Meeting our friends at the Church

  

Halloween 

Schultz's

 Twiddy's

 Smith's

 Cool haunted garage near Grama's house.

Sysco Family Picnic @ Remlinger Farms

So much fun so many pictures! The whole Twiddy clan came.

Panning for jewels in the stream.

Climbing the wall.

Jehana

Jeannene

James

 

Riding the horses

Jocelyn

Landen

Logan

Zada

Cooper

Playing Mini-Golf

 

 

Good food. Good Company.

 

Time to round up the herd and head home. We made a quick stop at Snoqualmie Falls.

I was trying to get a good shot when some random tall photographer took one for me.

 

Happy Twiddy family

Cooper's Last T-ball game

Cooper's last T-ball game was tonight. He had alot fun this year and really improved his skills in the process.

Batting.

Above, Cooper at bat, Below, Cooper in the field. You would think that he'd be paying attention getting ready to field the ball, but no. Alas, kicking and playing in the dirt was more fun.

Roaming between 1st base, 2nd base and right field.

finally deciding on short stop and 3rd base.

Cooper Hit 4 homers in this game.  (In T-ball everyone gets a hit and advances one base.The last batter gets to hit the home run.)

 

He had the best cheering section!

 

Once again it was pretty hot. Cooper would take a break on the bench and put water on his head or take a quick drink.

 

At the end of all his games Logan would do a couple of victory laps around the bases.

LJ rounding 1st base

Heading home

 The highlight of the game was watching Cooper

happily receive his 1st trophy.

Thanks to everyone who came out to support Cooper in his first year of T-ball.

Oregon Camping Trip

This was our only camping trip this summer. And of course it was 3 days after getting back from Utah so it was exhausting. We went with Bill & Freda (James' Great Aunt) to Silverton Oregon. It was at an RV park with their Forrester's Group. Which means toilets and showers. (Which is always a good thing)

 

They had alot of games and crafts for the kids to keep busy with and the adults had organized games as well. I actually played  in a Washer's tournament and won 3rd Place and $10! Not bad for never playing before. At night the camp played BINGO...and between all of us, kids included, we won at least $10. Watch out Muckleshoot here come the Twiddy's. (Just Kidding) 

Below are the pictures from the pinata the kids had a whack at.

Bill and Freda bring the popcorn machine every year and man that all day long.

Hopefully next summer we'll have time for more camping trips. It was hard to plan a campout with at least 2 weddings every month.

Cassey and Sage's Wedding

Congratulations Cassey and Sage!

What a beautiful bride.

The happy couple.

Utah Trip July 22-25

We took our longest trip in the van ever this weekend. We spent 15 hours driving all night to go to Utah for 2 days for Cassey and Sage's wedding and then spent another 15 hours driving home. We had fun though and was totally worth the trip. The boys slept all night which gave James and I a chance to talk and reminiscence and be a little goofy. (Lack of sleep makes everything either really funny or really annoying) We got to our hotel cleaned up and rested before heading out to Temple Square. Friday would be our only chance to do the touristy stuff, and it gave the boys some running around time. I think we set a new record for a self guided tour. But they enjoyed it. I wasn't shy about asking people to take pictures for us. So I can't complain if they didn't turn out the way I wanted them too.

The family in front of the reflection pool.

The boys.

A fast paced tour through Temple Square means. 1-Pictures of family taken with Conference Center on the go. 2- Mom gets to walk slower and take in the beauty of the flowers and the Salt Lake City Temple. 3-Get in the Air Conditioner as fast as you can.

Quick walk to Visitor Center

of course My kids run up the ramp to the Statue of Christ.

I wanted something good to come of this quick tour, so I purposely sat here and
waited for the presentation to start.

Breathe.

The weather was beautiful, but hot, so we had a race to the van to get the A/C going. James and Logan won, while I stayed behind with Pokey.


Quote from the whole trip:
At 10 O'clock at night
" It's sad when 85 degrees feels good."