Sunday, January 20, 2013

Seattle trip!!

We had a loooonnnggg, action pack and fun filled week long trip to Seattle after the holidays. We had a wedding to attend New Years Eve and decided to fit in just about every person we are related to and then some! This led to us sleeping in a different bed every night. Luckily, our kids are the definition of troopers. Not one melt-down in sight! 

Maybe the new DS's that Santa brought helped out in the melt down department. We stayed at the greatest cabin in Suncadia, ladders everywhere leading to fun playrooms and a bunk room that slept more people that I can count...


Musical beds led to sleepy and lazy mornings!

But Miller and Ryan were able to hypothesize about the meaning of life over breakfast. Once again, laziness struck and not many pictures were taken during our Fosseen/Kearney time!! Darn it.

Then we headed to my parent's house to spend some time with the Fosters!

Clothing optional... Yes, Evelyn fits riiiggghhhttt in with this crew.

She might be the cutest thing on earth. I know, I am biased.

Cute faces Kearney kids. Look Split Rail made to Western Washington!

Some snuggle time with Uncle Ryan.

And some harassment time for Uncle Ty. 

Grandma time!

My baby brother and I with our offspring.  

We also had a graveside memorial for Papa Bob. Our big celebration of his life will happen in March, but it was good to have some closure.

A huge thank you to Jon and Heather for planning. 

Darling grandma reading cards from the kids...


Great grandkids! What a legacy left behind... And what a gaping hole in our lives. 

Posing with their cards to Papa Bob, letting him know just how much he is missed...

*Family*

Could these two look any more similar? The conversations overheard between these two are PRICELESS...

We decided to play tourist and hit the Space Needle. 

What a gorgeous day we picked!

Squinting in Seattle? Is that possible?

Nothing beats a beautiful day in Seattle, nothing!



Boise kids in the big city. What to do, what to do?


I see a theme here!




Aidan and Ryan spent many a hour putting together legos over the holiday season... What a dad!


Next up, it was time for Chris Adam's wedding on New Years Eve. Hands down one of the best weddings! It was an event. So much fun that I couldn't take a non-blurry photo. 

Tommy and Ryan, reunited. Still sad Deborah couldn't make it, but looking forward to seeing our favorite Cleveland-ites SOON (hopefully!)


And then it was back for another stay at the Fosters. Hot tubs right outside your living room=brilliant. So much fun for us adults to get to catch up, while the littles played their hearts out. Also brilliant to have an older niece who can be in charge. 


Bathing suit at dinner in winter? Of course! My brother's family lives on a lake, so that it's explains it... It was below freezing so one would assume there was no swimming in the lake, right? Nope, you'd be wrong!

Oh little Dash, how I love him and his brother! So much so, I have lovingly nicknamed my children Dash and Bogey. Morgan and Aidan are going through this phase of constant wrestling, hyperactivity and overall silliness, akin to their namesakes Dash and Bogey.

The fruits of daddy and Aidan's labor at Grandma Dolly's house!

Whew, back from Seattle. I'm pooped just thinking about that trip! 

Christmas 2012

0. That is the number of pictures taken on Christmas Day. Yep, 0. I am going to pretend that I was being rebellious and decided that instead of capturing moments on film, I was busy living them and therefore, there is no documentation. But to be honest, I was really, really lazy. I was so busy being lazy, not a photo was snapped. So there.

But we did capture a couple of photos of our annual Christmas Eve tradition of celebrating with the Bordners! Look at this big gaggle of kids. Why my kid is wearing an undershirt and Ryder is shirtless is unknown to me, but I can't say I am surprised. 

All eyes on the Bordner! Ryder has rockstar status around these parts....

This might have been my favorite moment of the night. We bought Ryder a Bronco shirt and football gloves, he kept requesting to have photos taken of him in this pose.... This boy makes me smile!

Sun Valley, revisited!

We decided to surprise the kids with a pre-holiday getaway to Sun Valley for skiing, ice skating and fun in the snow. So much fun, it was a success!
Before heading out of town, we picked up our Bogus passes. They gave Aidan artistic license with his pass and he took it.            

An excited Monkey and Zebra!

Still a Monkey and still a Zebra... And still excited! 

Ryan even got into the theme of crazy-hattedness... We hit the Sun Valley lodge bowling alley and it was a HIT. 

So was rolling around in the snow and coming in for a hit of hot chocolate. 

More lodge fun!

Turns out we have some proficient little ice skaters!

Ryan included. He was so, so, SO excited to do some ice skating. (Insert sarcasm, I gave him the option of sitting out, but being the super star dad that he is he rallied!)

Goofy monkey head!

Aidan is working on pursuing his dream of a hockey career. I have begun a denture fund.

Dreams of the Olympics dancing in her head.

For both Morgan and Ryan.

Uh oh. Almost 36 year old bones aren't as pliable as they once were...


And done! Ice skating outdoors is fun, beautiful, peaceful and COLD!!!!

But no worries, Sun Valley Lodge does the trick for a warm up!

And a day of zebra hat wearing makes for an evening of sweet hair.

Do you have any idea how many self portraits we have on our phones? It's startling.