Trip to Mt. Rainier

We've lived here for 3 years and this is the first time that we've gone up to Mt. Rainier. It only took us about 45 minutes to make it up to the gate park so I think we'll be going again. It was a beautiful day up on the mountain and we took a lot of pictures. Here's a few of them.




I don't know who the guy on the right is, but I laugh every time I see the pic.


The Nisqually glacier is in the background.


Once we got up to Paraside, Dottie and I hiked up a little way (mostly with her on my shoulders) to see the meadow and a better view of the mountain. The mountain kept getting covered up by clouds, but the meadows were pretty.





Dottie took this picture.


Can you find Megan and Dottie?



We got some good views of the mountain on the drive down.






Overall it was a great day. Can't wait to go back up.

riding bikes

with out training wheels!!! We have been working with Emma to teach her to ride her bike with no success. So I finally just let her go out there and do it herself. Well after about an hour getting comfortable with the bike and watching the neighbor girl, Emma came riding down the street on her bike all by her self. Jordan and I should have known to just let her to it on her own .. that's just Emma.

7 years down!

7 years
2 and 7/9th's children
Happy Anniversary to Us!

July Fun

I can't believe it's August in just 2 days. July flew by. Here are some pictures to show what have been up to. We started the month out with fireworks. Allie got to come visit for the day and the girls loved that.

Fun with Sparklers.

Our first time at the Roy parade. It was short and sweet and the girls liked it.
The girls with their cousins awaiting a special Tea Party at Grandma Erickson's house. They love getting dressed up.

Grandma always has the best tea parties!

We also made the trek down to California this year.. something Jordan has been wanting to do for a long time. We are glad we went and hope to get to go again soon. Here we are in front of the Sacramento Temple.

Visiting Grandpa and Grandma Erickson's grave site.


It was very hot in California while we were there... thankfully lots of family members had pools for us to swim in. Here we are at uncle Glens pool. We had lots of fun!



One of the reasons we made the trip to California to visit Grandpa and Grandma Sellers. Dottie had never met them before so it was about time. We had a good time with them and really enjoyed our visit.

Double Digits

I just realized I am down to the double digits on my baby ticker!!! I had my lovely glucose test yesterday. Just waiting on the results.. which I am sure will be fine. I have never had a problem with them in the past.

I have been feeling pretty good... feeling him kick alot. Emma is getting so excited she talks about baby brother all the time and loves giving him hugs and kisses.

Random June

To start with the girls just thought I was the coolest mom ever to make this lunch! An Octopus hot dog! If only I would have known maybe I would have done it sooner!

My Husband finally got his arcade in the house. He has been working on this thing probably over a year now. And with all the reorganizing we have been doing and getting rid of things there was finally room. I tried to keep it in the garage as long as possible. It looks like a lovely thing to sleep next to doesn't it!

Happy Father's Day to Jordan. We also made him breakfast and this is at dinner. Emma made him the crown!

And finally we said good bye to our little blue truck last night! I am not sad about this one! It just sat in front of our house not doing much!
Isn't this lovely!

Trip to the Oregon Zoo

Leah, Dottie and Emma checking out the bears!
Picture moment...
Acting like birds in a big bird nest!
Posing with the birds... Dottie thinks tilting her head will make her look cuter or something!
And the hippo's!
We haven't been to the Oregon zoo in a long time and on a whim we decided to just do it. We had a great time with the girls and Jordan's mom and little sister! But how come when we go to the zoo all the animals seem to be sleeping or just not around!!! Luckily we went to check out the polar bears again before we left cause the first time they were no where to be found but I guess they decided to come out and play. Emma was pretty cute about the whole thing, before we left the house grandma gave her a small notebook and told her to draw pictures of all the animals she saw! She drew every animal..(if you click on some of the pics to get a closer look you will see the notebook in her hand)