Allison's 4th Birthday Party

The day started out to be sunny. We were so excited because we had a lot of people coming and a lot of fun games to play. My friend Tamara helped me out a lot with making the cup cakes and invitations for Allison's birthday party. Don't they look yummy?

For Allison's birthday party we had a carnival theme. Kyle bid on the event at our church, which raised money for the pres-school and missions for our church. Pastor Aaron (the children's pastor) came with a lot of fun games and he even dressed up as a clown. The kids had a great time. Allison invited all the neighbor kids, friends from school and her long time friends she has know since birth. We all had a great time.



The birthday girl is very excited about her day.

Allison's present from mom and dad. She picked this out a few months ago. Its a little cottage and you can plant flowers around it. Caleb loves to play in it as well.

Getting ready to start the day.

Carter excited to play some football.

Even brother got in on the fun games.

Kayden with the clown

Sophia did not want to smile for me but she had a good time.

Hannah and Kailey, Allison's friend from school

Chloe Allison's long time friend.

Allison and Lleyton. This is her good Buddie from school. He just adores her so much.

Me, Shannon and Tamara. My good friends.

Kailey was Allison's first friend at School.

The kids enjoying Mrs Tamara's yummy cupcakes

Grace being as cute as can be.

Aidan Allison's good friend from across the street.

Pastor Aaron brought out the parachute and all the kids just loved it.Even brother got in on it. Thanks to Grandma Hutchison and Papa, mommy and daddy got to play with Allison and her friends, while grandma and papa watched and played with Caleb

We decided to open presents just with family. It was too crazy with all the kids. Allison got a tone of great toys. We had to put some away because it was a little over whelming. I have slowing been taking them out for her to play with.

Celebrating Daddy

Kyle had a great fathers day. The weather was not the best. We ended up just going to Bellevue square to play and eat lunch and have cup cakes. Allison made daddy a card but she ended up hiding it and for got where she hid it. Allison and I made some fun frames for daddy. The pictures are from school. We surprised daddy with them.

Watching Soccer

Watching the Sounders game as a family. Caleb just loved it.

Funny Family Pictures

Mom started to train for her tri-athalon . Caleb and Allison are taking swimming lessons so we decided to all put our goggles on. We love to laugh at each other and the kids enjoy it when mom and dad get goofy.

Preschool Graduation

The boy next to Allison is her good friend Lleyton (stripe white and dark blue shirt with a t-shirt underneath). He does not do any thing without Allison. He is such a great kid. We are sad because he is switching schools next year.


Caleb waiting for his sister's celebration.

The Graduate

The diploma

Today Allison graduated from preschool. She went to Cedar Park Christian. Allison went 3 times a week and loved it. She had two different teachers, Mrs Fouts on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Mrs. Bir on Friday. Allison hated to miss school. When she got sick and I kept her home, she would ask me when can she go back to school. Her Tuesday and Thursday Class was full of boys. She and another girl Davina were the only girls out of 10 kids. She still had fun. On Fridays she loved her class because all her girlfriends were in the class.

During Graduation they showed a video of their year. I was amazed out how much she has grown and how much they did. I even got her report card and I saw how she excelled from the beginning of the year to the end. They sang songs, did the whole alphabet and counted to 10 in English, Spanish, Japanese and sign language. It was so much fun to watch. I am so proud of her. She is very sad that she wont be able to go back until the fall. Next year she will be in the 4's/pr-k class and have Mrs Fouts again. I am excited about our summer but selfishly sad because I enjoyed my mornings.

Kyle, Caleb, Grandma and Grandpa H made it to the celebration. We had a great time.

Kyles 34th Birthday

I can hardly believe my Young Husband is the age I was when I had Allison. Time seems to fly by these days. We didn't do much with the kids this year. They gave daddy a present and that is about it. I asked Kyle what he would like to do for his birthday this year. He asked to go on a date with me so how could I say no? I couldn't I was all for it. Especially after being couped up again in the house because of sickness. We had a great time. He wanted to go shopping for new pants. We went to about 3 different stores to find him clothes. He tried on over 35 pants and we only came out with one pair. Kyle is a rare size. We then headed out to dinner at Terracotta Red. My friend April had gone earlier this year and said it was a good place. It blew my expectations away. This is the best tai food I have ever had. It was so nice to be out with Kyle and enjoy some adult conversation and just love on my husband. We also went next store and tried some wine tasting. We are looking forward to having our friends the Van Liews over to try this good wine. After dinner we headed back to the mall to try on more pants. It was a fun time for both of us. Happy Birthday Kyle. I love you so much. Thanks for being such a great date.