Sledding @ Paradise Christmas Eve 2009

We were so happy to have Tia and Brandon join us for Christmas this year. We enjoyed all of our time together. On Christmas Eve we went sledding at Mt. Rainier with Tia, Brandon and Autie and her family. It was such a nice day and we had a lot of fun. Did some sledding, ate our picnic lunch in the visitor center. Then we went over to another spot and played in the snow. Nate dug out a snow cave and the kids thought that was great. Chris and I were thankful for all the help from Autie, Nate, Tia and Brandon with the little ones. It made things way more manageable for us.

Nate's snow cave


Nate digging and Chris getting ready to throw
a snowball


Kiana slept like this for a good
1 1/2 hours










Aaron


Vincent -Autie- Aaron

Random Pics from the summer of 2009

My family, Autie's and our cousin Morgan tried to go to Alki Beach in Seattle but it was so busy we couldn't find any where to park. So we called our cousin James, who lives in Seattle, and asked him for another place to go. He gave us directions to another great beach that I can not remember the name of. We barbequed, visited and played. James and his wife met us down there and visited for a little bit. We had a great time and also got to witness a great sunset.

Nate, Chris, Kiana


Me, Morgan, Autie









Kiana's after bath hair do


Sam's playdough bunny


Sam lost his first tooth!

My trip to Arizona with Autie!! Aug. 2009

My sister Autumn and I flew to Arizona for my Mom's birthday weekend last August. We did not cook, clean or do any work that is associated with children for 4 days! We relaxed in the pool, ate out, did a tiny bit of shopping, watched movies, went to "As You Wish" pottery shop and painted pottery and did some boating/wake boarding/tubing. We got to spend all of our time with our Mom and sister Tia. We did see our brother a little bit when he was not working and we did get to play with our adorable and almost always smiling nephew, Corby. Our Mom rented a boat one of the days we were there and we enjoyed the day on Canyon Lake. For the first half of the day it was just us 4 ladies. Tia helped us figure out how to get up the correct way on a wake board. Autumn and I took a few rough falls before we got it figured out. In the afternoon TK (mom's husband) and Lauren (TK's daughter) showed up and joined us. We had a great time. Glad we could go and spend the weekend celebrating my Mom's birthday. I have such a great husband!


We were trying to find a swim suit for me that
gave me the proper support but no such luck.
We had a better time trying on hats!



Relaxing by the pool












Eating at Tia Rosa's. My favorite restaurant
in AZ.

Montana Summer 2009!

The Crew minus Dad and Pattie


We are getting close to hitting the road to Montana again so I figured that I should blog about last years trip! We had so much fun as usual. We were there the end of July beginning of August. We celebrated Kiana's 1st b-day while we were there. We spent one night camping at Gypsy Lake. I didn't sleep all night, it was so cold. I could not get my toes to warm up. The kids slept pretty good. We woke up in the morning to a frosty ground. We saw a beaver (Brandon got some video of it) swimming around. Sam and Brandon saw several anaconda snakes!! Some how the rest of us missed out on those sightings. We told some good poop stories around the campfire and played mexican train dominos. Fun was had by all.
We went swimming and kayaking at Canyon Ferry Lake. My Dad and Pattie rented a boat one day so we spent the day swimming, skiing and tubing. Autie, Nate and family showed up on Mason's 2nd birthday so we had a little celebration for him. We meet up at Uncle Scott's and Aunt Dawn's house and went to the Townsend Rodeo Parade with some of the Scoffield relatives. Uncle Bart and Aunt Trish were both in the parade. It was fun to see them doing there thing. After the parade we went to the Rillway cabin. My Dad, Pattie, GG, Scott, Ducky, Jennifer (her boyfriend), Shannon (her boyfriend) and Lexi came out and we had dinner. The kids played in the creek. We found a mouse that was living at the cabin. Autie's family, Tia, Brandon and our family camped out there for the night. After we put the kids to bed the grown ups were visiting by the camp fire and Nate found a way to scare us ladies silly! My Grandma Trenna's (GG) family used to own or lease the Rillway Cabin for a very long time until the Forest Service took it back several years ago. I need to write down all the details from my Grandma again so I can have correct info. My family would go to the cabin and bbq with relatives when I was younger and I always enjoyed going there. We were able to go to Julie and Arden's lake house and spend some time with more of our Scoffield relatives. My Dad, Chris, Nate and Brandon had an opportunity to go on horse back in the mountains and round up some cattle. They had some good stories when they got back from doing that. My Dad made a contraption called "Old Blue" for the kids to ride on. It is a blue barrel with a saddle on it, held up by ropes. The kids sit on it and somebody else pulls on the ropes so it bounces around like a bucking bronco. The kids loved it. There were horse rides, playing with the dogs, collecting eggs from the hen house, picking raspberries in the garden, catching bugs and birds, playing games, lots of 4 wheeler rides, deer watching and probably much much more that I have forgotten over the last year. We love going to Montana!!

Gypsy Lake


Vinny on Old Blue


Chris looking for runaway cattle


Dad on the round up


Cousins at the Rillway Cabin


GG Trenna getting some love from Vinny


Pattie and DAd eating smores at the cabin


Chris skiing on Canyon Ferry Lake


Aaron,Chris,Kiana- relaxing at the end of the
day at Julie Bruce's