If a picture's worth a thousand words, then this post is a novel

This is Halloween!

They both chose their own costume.

This is what Matthew does when you ask him to smile.

She refused to stand in the parts of our yard that had good lighting. This is also the only picture with an actual smile. She's a huge brat about picture taking.

Wouldn't you think my collections complete?

Happy birthday Grankey! My mom turned 52 today, she is now old. I hope I'm as cool as she is when I'm 52.

Hailey has been carrying the tinker bell tea set Grandma Y bought her all over the house. She even has it by her bed when she sleeps. She also carries around her, "collections" (pretty sure it's a Little Mermaid reference), which is a wipes box that is filled with all of the play food my Aunt Jackie bought for her. Whenever she has a spare moment she sets up the tea set with the food and offers Matthew and I, "samples." Mostly what she feeds us is, "Christmas Jenga."

Matthew has learned his animal sounds and proudly tells them to everyone. It's pretty cute except for when the bread is being passed in sacrament and he is reading his Jesus book and sees the sheep and proudly starts shouting, "BAA! BAA! BAA! BAA!" as loud as possible.

Whenever we are in the car one of the kids will shout, "YAY!" and the other one will repeat it. This is follow by a rousing chorus of yays, all the way to wherever we are going. It makes it all worth it.

My first beehive adviser passed away this weekend. She is a lady I love and admire so much. I hope someday I can be as amazing of a woman as she was.

About two months ago Matthew and Hailey started actually playing together. I love it. They have always loved each other, but this has made them best friends. It has also made them partners in crime, so I guess it's a double edged sword.

My best friend (after Alex, of course) moved to China for a year. I miss her.

Since vacation, we've been busy busy busy. Almost every weekend has been a party, but I've been too tired to blog it. I have some great pictures though.

I have discovered snow ice, but the closest place to get it is 30 mins away. If you live in an area with a high Asian population, go find a place to get some. I promise you, it will be worth it. It's one of the best things I have ever tasted.

Alex is still as hot as ever. :)

I'm happy, I'm tired, but mostly just happy.

Home!

So, I kind of have dropped the ball on blogging. I never even finished our vacation! Life has just been busy. So without further ado, here are some pictures of our tiny family being awesome.

Next we were off to the Pacific Science Center.

It was probably the highlight for the kids.

Matthew loved the butterfly house, Hailey was scared of it.

I love my hot husband!

The kids loved all the hands on stuff.

We also went to the Sci-fi/Music experience, but it was too boring to merit pictures.

MORE MONKEY!

I got to go inside a B-17! My grandpa was a WW II tail gunner, this was one of the highlights for me.

We're in a black bird, even though you can't tell.

By the way, this was the Air and Space Museum.

Air Force One!

This is what Seattle looks like underneath. It's a whole city literally built on garbage.

Space Needle!

KRISTI(ne) Falls

How many waterfalls are we up to?

Snow! This was supposed to be our beautiful nature walk to the reflection lake at Mt Rainer. The lake was frozen.

And this is what Mt Saint Helen's looked like. Thank you fog.

After that we headed home. My parents took the kids from San Fransisco and went home. Alex and I picked up the car his brother let us borrow from my Uncles in SF and then headed back to Utah, and from there a very slow tedious trip home in my stupid dumb car. We made it home safe, but TIRED! I think it took us longer to recover than it took the kids. :) My car is now fixed again, and we have been having lots of fun which I will hopefully blog about soon.