More pictures :)

This is a picture of my family in Montana this summer. Everyone was there including Kyle and his girlfriend. Kyle is in the back behind my mom and his girlfriend is in the gray sweatshirt nex to my dad. Taunya is standing next to me in the orange, Rhonda is behind Arianna and her husband Michael is behind my Michael, and LeOrla is next to my mom. My nephew Dylan is behind me, Emily is in the green, Wyatt is next to Arianna and Dalton is standing behind him. The two people missing is Ethan as he was asleep and LeOrla's husband Lance who was not able to make the trip. This was taken around 11pm after letting off our fireworks so everyone was a little bit tired :).

Random pictures and update

Arianna and her missing tooth

Michael's new hat!

Things are now in a pretty good schedule here at the Wilde house. Not a whole lot has been going on. We did have some excitement last monday. Arianna lost her first tooth!!! She was very excited and the tooth fairy came to visit and paid $5. Of course she put it in her piggy bank to save. She lost one of her bottom front teeth and the one next to it is now becoming more loose so I assume that will be out soon as well. She doesn't play with her loose teeth a lot so they take a while to come out.



This last weekend was nice so we took a hike in St. Edwards State Park. It is a large park in the Kirkland area where a monastery used to be. There are lots of trails and a great playground. We hiked around 2 maybe 2.5 miles down to the lakefront and then back up the hill. This was tough on Michael as Ethan got tired and wanted to be carried the whole way up and we choose the difficult trail to take that was pretty much just a straight up the hill. Arianna did a great job with the hike. Oh well, it was nice and cool in the forest and along the lake.



I am happy because I am getting a facial and pedicure tomorrow. I have not had either one in a very long time so I am going to pamper myself. I joined a moms group recently and have started participating in their activities. There are a lot of walking groups so I do those a couple times a week. And tomorrow there is a mom's night out for dinner and a movie so Michael said he would be home so I could go to that. A couple times a year he gets a night out where his work group goes to a baseball or basketball game so it is nice for me to get out too.



It looks like we are going back to Hawaii this spring! Yeah. We booked the time we are in Oahu and are finishing up the details for our time in Kauai. I am so excited in Kauai there are Zipline tours where you hang from a zip line and go across forests, waterfalls, rivers, etc. I have always thought that would be fun to do, so we are planning on taking one of those tours. These tours also have you lunch at a spot where you can swim in a pool where a waterfall is and have rope swings, jumping off cliff into water, etc. How Fun!!! We also plan to do a lot of snorkeling as well.



Well, I need to get some cleaning done. I went grocery shopping and swimming this morning, so I need to do the cleaning. I am including some random photos from Arianna getting off the bus on the first day of school, the kids riding rides at the Puyallup fair, Ethan putting a strainer on MIchael for a hat, Arianna missing her tooth!



Have a great day

School Days!

Well, I am a little behind on posting. Things of course have been busy. Arianna started her first day of Kindergarten on Sept 2! She loves it and is doing great. She takes the bus in the morning and home in the afternoon. She loves riding the bus. It makes her feel like such a big girl. She goes to full day kindergarten. She catches the bus at 8:50 and then gets home at 3:55. She has made good friends with a girl down the street. Her name is Shalini and they are in the same class. She is already learning a lot and remembering lots. She had her first school book fair and bought some books and we have just started a cookie dough sale for her school. She wants to get $200 so she can take a Limo to Lunch - that is the prize. She gets to eat hot lunch sometimes and sometimes bring her own lunch. She also loves the they get to go outside 3 times a day and has PE 4 times a week. Arianna has also started swimming lessons again - she had like 2 weeks off and soccer. Both of those are after school.

Ethan is doing well. His word list is growing every day - which is nice and he is now putting 2 works together like Bye Bye Dog or Hi mom or Go Kitty when he is wondering where the kitty went. He is running so fast now. Sometimes I actually have to do a good job in order to catch up with him!! He loves to climb and go down slides. He is warming up to the swings - he has never really liked them, but now he will at least sit a little longer on them. He would just rather be active and running around then sitting.

Last week was my first week of having 2 days to myself!!! It is nice. I got the whole house cleaned up with was nice. Then Michael's parents came up this weekend and watched the kiddos for us while Michael and I cleaned up the garage and organized. We took 3 loads to goodwill and a load to the dump. It is so refreshing to get rid of things. We have even more sorting to go through!! But it will get done. We also went to the Puyallup fair this weekend. We go every year. This year Ethan was able to ride on the rides. You are supposed to be 2, but he is close enough and he is as tall as most 2 year olds. He had a blast!! Arianna was such a good sister and rode on the baby rides with Ethan sometimes so that he would be comfortable. Then he was able to do it without her. He loved riding on these motorcycles that just went in a circle.

Arianna had a good time too. I took her on a rollercoaster that is similar to Mulholland Madness in California Adventure (she loves that ride). She liked this one as well. We wanted to go on more of the grown up rides, but they had longer waits and so she decided to just go on the little kid roller coasters because the wait was much shorter. Ethan did pretty good staying in the stroller. He ran around sometimes, but it is so crazy busy that it is hard to keep track of him. Arianna loves going down the giant slide. It has 100 steps that you have to go up in order to slide down. She did it 2 times.

We are working on joining 24 hour fitness. With microsoft we get a great deal of like only $30 a month and no enrollment fees. That is cheaper than where I currently go swimming and the gym close to us has a pool so it will be perfect. They also have a kids club where the kids could go and be watched while I work out.

We are looking at going to Hawaii again this spring. If we go we will go to Oahu and then we are deciding between Maui or Kauai. I also want to go to disneyland. We didn't get to go this year and I am really missing it. Michael and I talked about maybe taking a long weekend and taking ARianna down for a few days and leaving Ethan with michael's parents. We will see.

Well I am going to post a few pictures of the kids. Arianna from her first day of school, and both of them playing at teh park.