nothing much new

 Not much has been happening around here.  Just school, work, dishes and laundry (living the high life)
Claire has perfected her tantrum skills...although she doesn't quite have the defiant personality that her sister did so it's a good thing I recorded this tantrum for posterity because It might be the last one she ever threw.

 look at that skill.  throwing her self on the floor....

 kicking her feet like a pro!

 Claire smiling for the camera, showing off her pigtails

 she loves to get pigtails put in but immediately pulls them out cause she wants to look at the rubber bands.

 Violet still loves to play "cheese" with the camera.

 Claire loves to poke me in the eye....seriously she does it all the time, It helps her to fall asleep.  She likes eyelashes and eyebrows....I hate it.

 lovely

 can you imagine trying to sleep like this?  

 Making a painting for Gma's b-day.  we ended up painting over it and using different colors.  but it turned out cool.

umbrella in the shower....totally rational.

 Visiting Gma's office to dress up like little old ladies.

 Claire and Gma talking about all the pictures on Gma's wall.

and finally some snuggle time with Dad in the girls new big bed.  It was time to get Claire out of her toddler bed and they always ended up in each others beds anyways so now they have one big bed.  We are doing some minor decorating in there so when that is done I'll put a picture up. It's going to be cute.

Hope all is well!

Wesley lost his first tooth about a week and a half ago. He was very excited! And to add to the excitement, he lost his second tooth the next night!

I think this face says it all. I cannot believe that he is already loosing teeth, I feel like he is growing up so fast. He is really loving school and is learning a lot. They sing this song about letter sounds to the tune of "Who let the Dogs Out?" (Who let the B out? B, B,B, B, B. Who let the C out? C,C,C,C,C. etc.) So tonight he was looking for his glue and sang, "Who left the glue out? G,G,G,G,G." It made us laugh!

Hope you all are doing good adn gearing up for Halloween, oh boy.

-Emily-

Adoption

This week 2 of my friends announced they were starting the process of adoption!  I am so happy for all these wonderful people.  I pray that they will be able to find a special child to join their families.
Thats all...it just made me so happy and I wanted to share it :)

ramblings

I have a new place to keep track of the stuff I find on pinterest.  Check it out.  Stuff I found on Pinterest.

So I realized that it has been a really long time since we added anything to either blog and we still have pictures on our camera from last Easter, so I thought today would be a good day to at least get started to organize that. We had a really fun summer hanging around Houston and visiting both families. My pictures are of course out of order, but I am just happy they are there. In Olympia we went to Burfoot Park. It is so nice. They have play equipment, picnicing areas, and hikes down to the beach. We just took a hike to the beach but we had a lot of fun there. I love to throw rocks in the water and was so happy to do that wiht my boys. This will definately be a stop that we will make next time we are in Wahsington.

We also had a really nice time in Utah with the Wood family. It was nice to reconnect with the family again. On the last day we were there our little family took a trip to temple square. It was fun to show the boys the temple, Visitors Centers, and the Conferance Center (They said they recognized it last week at General Conference). It was a nice day there and was so great to just be on Temple Square.

We landed in Houston and the next week Wesley started Kindergarten. He really likes to be at school and is learning a lot. He has a great teacher which really helps. He says his favorite part of Kindergarten is "learning". Oh and he has his first loose teeth. It is all very exciting for him.

So, it is Sam and Allison at home with Mom all day. We love it! We miss Wesley, but are having fun just the 3 of us. Sam is doing a pre-school co-op with a few other kids in the ward. I am teaching this month and he is surprisingly retaining quite a bit. We have had fun!

Dad has been retired for a year now and I must say I was really surprised when I learned that he was into shooting. My Dad? What? It was really fun to be home and see him in his mountian man atire. I think it is a great hobby to have and as I understand it there is a guy or two in the ward that he goes shooting with. I know Jonathan is excited to go shooting with the guys next time we are together.

Jonathan is busy at work as always, but I am glad that he is learning all that he is. It will just make him a better Engineer. He's busy with scouts again (3rd year) and just being such a help for a tired mom.

Anyhow, that is a little bit of what we've been up to. Hope you are all well too.

love you all

texas woods

School

It is 9:22 and Peter is still at school.  The girls are in bed and I'm bored.  I suppose I could go clean something.

The Japanese Garden and Shrek the Musical

 This Saturday I went to Portland with my parents to wander around the Japanese garden and to see Shrek the musical.  Here are some pictures of the gorgeous garden.  It was so peaceful there. I loved it.

 I loved all the different fences.  This took some serious work.  That is woven bamboo.

 Mom and Dad in the garden.

 This is my kind of gold fish!  The koi were huge and so beautiful.

These are some images I got from the internet of the show.  

This song is "let your freak flag fly"

 Princess Fiona doing something a little less than shall was say "princess-like"
This scene was hilarious.  Everyone loves a good fart joke right?

My favorite was Lord Farquad!  He was hilarious!  The actor played the character on his knees with puppet legs and he was amazing!  I highly recommend this show.  The music was great, the actors were all fantastic and the story was hilarious.  I loved it!