Happy 5th Birthday Rylee!

Rylee's birthday was pretty special this year.  Great Grandma Arlyss AND Grandma Marcia came on our "girl's day" to celebrate.  We started the morning with manicures and pedicures.

After getting our nails done we went to Tacoma mall to the "Build-A-Bear Workshop."  Rylee made and dressed up her very own pink kitty that she named "Pixie."  Next we met Auntie Mandy for lunch and more celebration.

Rylee came home to find her birthday present in the living room.  The one thing she asked for was a Barbie house.  How could we say no?  Now we have one more giant toy taking up space in our living room.  =)  She was pretty excited.  It even has a working elevator!

Later we went to Aunt Mandy and Uncle Jon's house for more presents and dinner.  Rylee was pretty excited to get a new Barbie and Barbie convertible, jewelry box, and best of all... a Seahawks jersey!

Happy birthday sweet girl!  I can't believe you are 5 already!!

Soccer and the Zoo

Rylee has been playing soccer again this Fall.  The weather has been amazing every day so far (knock on wood)... much better than her spring soccer days!  She has been improving a lot and seems to really like it. 

We've had such good weather lately that we decided to take advantage of it and go to the zoo.  The animals were out and active.  Carson said his favorite animal was the Tiger and Rylee's was the elephants.  Mine was the walrus! 



 

Grandparent visits are the best!

We were lucky enough to spend two weekends in a row out at the beach house (or I guess I can call it my parent's house since they live there now).  The first was just a relaxing overnight, and the second was when my Grandma Arlyss and Grandpa Willis were in town visiting from Minnesota.  We had a great time as usual.  Lots of good food, fishing, and my favorite thing to do with the Grandparents... card playing!



Rides, rides, and MORE RIDES!

 We spent 7 fun hours at the fair today.  AT LEAST 6 hours were spent on rides.  Thank goodness for the dizzy pass bracelet... I swear my kids went on at least 40 rides each.  Some they went on 5-6 times in a row.  Their favorites were definitely the roller coaster, the cars, and the big slides.  Carson just barely made the height requirement this year, and he took full advantage of it!

Pure joy.

Tubing!

 A couple weeks ago we were lucky enough to spend more time with Savannah.  She teaches Rylee and Carson all kinds of crazy things!  I couldn't believe that both of my kids went tubing... and loved it!  They were doing all kinds of tricks on the tube... standing up, riding backward, hands in the air.  What a great time!

 She also showed my daredevil son how to jump off of her boat dock.  It's about 8 or 9 feet high so I thought there was no chance he'd jump.  Boy was I wrong.  After he saw Savannah and Lance both do it, he had to try it out.  He loved it so much he did it 3 more times.  Just about gave me a heart attack!