Trip to Seattle!

Took advantage of labor day weekend and went to Seattle with the Gwilliams (Josh goes to school with Aaron)

View of the city from across the bay. On the left you can see the space needle

Friday we went to Alki Beach just across the water from the city. We had a picnic there and played in the sand

Also went to Pikes Market on Friday. This is the shop where they throw the fish

The famous Market sign

Friday night we went to a Mariners game

This was Aarons first MLB game and was living in the moment by getting Cade & Conner some matching shirts and hats. They loved it

Saturday took the ferry over to Port Angeles. First ride for Lyla, and my second (first with actually driving ONTO the boat though!)

Went to Olympic National Park to claim our camping spot. This view was about 20 feet from our tent! So awesome. Nothing like a beach and mountains all in one

A cool view nearby our campsite

As the tide went in we went crab hunting with the twins

Got one! (Cade is holding up a crab)

Of course tin foil dinners that night

Went down to the beach at sunset

Sunday we went on a hike to Marymere Falls. Amazing nature and some huge trees!

Marymere Falls

Can't quite fit my arms around it....

Continued on from the falls to Rialto beach on the coast. Made a fire and had spaghetti for dinner made on our camping stove

Rialto beach. It was misty and a little mysterious

Rialto beach is only a short ways from Forks, WA so we had to stop by. We were disappointed with the lack of Twilight viewing

They even tore down the high school, but kept the sign for crazies like me who want some kind of Twilight memorabilia

We had a great time and are now in love with Seattle. It is an amazing city with awesome beaches close by. Thanks to the Gwilliams for hauling us and all of our crap in their suburban! They were so much fun and Lyla loved all the attention from the twins :)

Manito Park

Spokane I admit is not my favorite city, but one thing I love here are the parks. We went to Manito for FHE and caught everything in full bloom.

Back in Spokane

We have moved back to Spokane for our final year of law school! Josh is working at a law firm that keeps him very busy, taking classes, doing law review stuff, and looking for a job for after school (which is a job within itself!) So he is staying super busy and I am so greatful for all of his hard work for me and Lyla!

The first week we got back we got together with our friends and had dinner. It has been nice to have a group of friends that are all in the same situation, live close by, and great company! We will miss them a lot when we move for good

Took a pic of the babies close in age.

Here is the after summer:

McKaylee Day (born in April), Lyla (born in Feb) & Claire Barney(born in Dec)

And the before summer:
Claire, Lyla, McKaylee

They sure have changed in just a few short months haven't they?!

A few weeks after we got back there was a Relief Society Retreat up in the mountains about 45 minutes north of our house. We had a ton of fun with just the girls stayin up late and doing all kinds of different activities:

Made some bracelets
Karaoke- super blurry, but we had a ton of fun jammin out to 'Any Man of Mine'

Heather pullin a solo!

We also enjoyed sitting by the fire, jumping on the trampoline, games and just talking talking talking!

Lyla also got to finally move into her crib! She slept in a pack 'n play all summer and has been enjoying all the room in her crib and moves around like crazy!

Heritage Square

A few days before dad and Josh drove to Spokane we took a last family trip to Heritage Square, ate burgers and went down the alpine slide

Josh and I are the two in the back, just finishing up our ride

Ly hung with Gma and Gpa while we went down

Ha, love Josh's dog face

Lyla's First Meal!

Back in mid August Lyla got her first real food: rice cereal.

She used mom's baby spoon that she used to eat with. It has my name and birthday engraved on it even.

"I'm so full"

4th Anniversary

Celebrated on August 13th in Denver because of the move to Spokane on our anniversary

Loved Maggiano's so much on my bday and got a coupon so we went back for our anniversary and happened to also sit in the same spot!

"Venice on the Creek" in downtown Denver. Romantic and fun.

It even has locks, just like the ones huge boats use. We are going down a lock in this picture, and went down about 6 more feet after this was taken. Also, our boat was an authentic boat from Venice!

Lake Almanor 2010

Had a great time at Almanor again this year. Lyla's first year and she did great and everyone loved her!

Water was a little too cold for Ly this year, but she still put her feet in

Cute Wrigley. Kasia is prego with number two, another girl.

Karli looking cute as always! Spencer would have had his first year but couldn't make it due to internship responsibilities.

Cute little toes. She seemed to like putting her feet on the sand and would curl up her toes.
Sutherland and Holland couldn't get enough of Lyla!

Wakeboarding as usual

And of course tubing. That's me in the middle, and Sutherland on the end.

Tried to go see the Kirk's who were also at Almanor on the other side, the boat engine overheated on the way over and the boat quit. Here we are being towed in back to shore, never getting to see the Kirks since it was our last day

The famous shuffleboard, Josh and I won 4-3!

The whole fam, getting bigger every year with spouses and more kiddos!

Visited Gma S after getting back to Sac town.