Halloween at the Great Wolf lodge

Jayden and Mallory or should I say the witch and the vampire! ooo... scary!

Mals friend Jayden from school got to invite one person to go with her to celebrate her birthday at the great wolf lodge for a night and she asked mal to come. So, Mallory got to go over night to the great wolf lodge for the 2nd time this year she was very excited! While they were there since it was so close to Halloween they had a trick or treat thing set up and she got to wear her costume early for it! Yeah a costume that gets worn more than once for 3 hours!! Makes me feel better about that money spent :) Alisa Jaydens mom did their makeup and I think it looked great! I might have to have her do it again for Halloween night not sure I am good at that kind of stuff. Anyways just wanted to put a few pics up of their time at the great wolf lodge and in their costumes.

Mallory got a new camera!

Here are just some of the pics Mallory took over the weekend...

Making cookies YUMMY!

Playing with Lily and Max.

At Starbucks with Me Me (my mom) she got lots of close ups... mom this was her favorite, Mal said "this is such a good picture of me me, she looks beautiful!! we should frame it!"

This weekend wasn't anything too different than the norm EXCEPT... Mal got a new camera so everything was captured on film. Jeremy was nice enough to give Mal a digital camera that she's been wanting for a very long time! She loves taking pictures of anything, everything and everybody. I will tell you about just SOME of the pictures she took (I had her choose a few that she wanted to post) and what we were doing in them. We went out to dinner to red robin the night she got it with Jeremy and his brother Scott. Then we went and played with Jeremy's new puppies Maximus and Lily. While we were there Jeremy showed Mal how to work her camera and some of the features it has, ie how to use the timer and take a pic of herself or themselves as you can see. She's had a lot of fun with her new camera "thanks again Jeremy!" (says Mallory)

We also got to see my mom AKA Mal's me me and went to coffee with her Saturday morning. As my mom and I talked Mal was either snapping shots of her or showing her pictures she already had on her camera. Then we went to see a movie, City of Ember which I thought was pretty good for the whole family. Mal really liked it too. I also helped mal capture a few pictures of Mal and Jeremy making cookies...lots of cookies I think I ate 8 at least! Enjoy Mal's first works with a camera :)

School school school

There isn't much to report so I haven't been writing much... I started school again and it takes most of my day, my first class starts at 8:30 and I don't get done on campus until 3:30 except Fridays I get done early :) I spent the majority of my weekend studying microbiology other than going to church. The Foxes (Rick, Mag, and their kids O'neal, Drey, and Blakely) have been going with Mal and I the last 2 weeks and it has been really nice to see them! Other than school and Mals schedule (sleepovers, play dates, birthday parties, skate nights, etc) there isn't much else to report.

I am waiting on getting my transcript evaluations back from shoreline college. I am very hope full that some of the classes I took at ASU will count towards the pre requisites for my Bachelors in Nursing! Nursing school has become VERY competitive over the last 5 years or so not sure exactly when it changed? I looked into Med school and found that it's the same GPA to get into med school as it is to get into nursing school 3.5-3.8 in the Seattle area. UGH! I definitely study far more than I ever have! I keep telling myself it will all be worth it in the end!

Vacation to Newport

I went to Newport beach last weekend to visit my lil sis from my sorority in college. We hadn't seen each other in something like 7 years? The last time was when I was pregnant and that was way too long! It was so much fun...it was as if we just picked up right where we left off no time had passed at all. That is true friendship at it's best! Her name is Jennifer for those of you that don't know her and she is an amazing girl! I am so proud of her and all her accomplishments! She is so grounded in a town that can apparently take you and turn you all around. She lives in the cutest house just blocks from the beach I wish I would of taken pictures of her street it's such a cute area it's hard to explain...bottom line cutest neighborhood ever!

We went out to dinner the first night to a really good Mexican restaurant the food was amazing! It's also the first time I have waited for a table for an hour since college :) Then on to a place where there was a cover band (The Harpe I think?) to dance and where the leaed singer actually did the river dance while singing it was hilarious! The next day I woke up and got to run along the beach it was beautiful! I wish I could run along the beach everyday! The next night we went out again to another fun place with great music. Her friend from high school came along as well. We also went and visited her parents and some friends during the day time.

I had a great time it was so fun to laugh at old times, reminisce, and I especially loved going through her photo albums from college since I don't have any photos from college... Why? because of the fire we had right after I graduated college and I lost everything. So it was especially fun to see and remember times I had forgotten. All in all it was a fun weekend! We are definitely are not going to let that much time pass again before we see each other again! Love ya Jen, and can't wait to see you again soon! xoxo

Shrek the Musical

Mal and I got to go to Shrek the Musical! It was so much fun! Our neighbor hooked us up with 4 free tickets to the show at the fifth avenue theatre! Natalie, Marlo, Mal, and I went and had a great time! We laughed out loud throughout the entire show. It was fun for all of us we all walked out of there saying it was very funny! I highly recommend it to anyone especially anyone with kids!

School is starting again!

School started for Mallory Sept 2nd and she has Mr. C for her 2nd grade teacher. She was very excited! As we were walking in together she said "mom I am not nervous or anything!" which is great because this is the first year we haven't had a few tears the first day.

I start school Sept 22nd and have more than a full load of classes. I am taking Microbiology, Interpersonal Communication and Psych 200 lifespan Psychology. But before I do I get to go visit my lil sis from college Jennifer in Newport Beach which should be a great way to end my summer break!

Summer Fun

First I want to thank my sister in law Leah for the idea to start this blog THANKS LEAH! I was doing facebook but none of my family could see it so I thought this to be a better way to go...now lets hope I have the time to keep up with everything going on and put it on here as well! I will do my best.

As you already know in my intro I am back in school and so is Mallory. But I will catch you up on a few things that we have done over the summer...

Mal spent lots of time with her me me and pa pa (my parents) in either Lake Chelan or their house in Ellensburg. In that time Mal learned that she loved to go on the jet ski and has no fear whatsoever on how fast it goes (she likes to go faster than I do!). She is also swimming better than ever with only maybe one or two swim lessons her whole life! When she wasn't with my parents she went to the peter kirk summer camp. There she got to swim almost everyday at the peter kirk pool, did lots of arts and crafts (her favorite), and took some field trips. She also did a week of tennis camp which she loved! She really likes to play tennis which is great because I do too!
We also went on a few trips together... the first was to the Peninsula (Forks Wa) with Jeremy and his two assistants. While we were there we went to a hot springs something neither of us had ever done. Wow the smell is something else!! We also went to the beach one day it wasn't warm but mal had fun watching the waves come in and hit her feet. The other trip was to the Great Wolf lodge where we went with my brother Ryan, sister in law leah and her cousins Tate, Ashley and Ellie. WOW that place is like a Las Vegas for kids! We had so much fun! We ended the summer a little different than usual by not going to the Rodeo we stayed home this year instead. We did go out to the Monroe fair and go on rides and eat lots of yummy fair food!
That is just a little taste of what we did this summer to kind of catch you up.