Sophia 5th Birthday

My little girl turned 5! We celebrated with our family on her actual birthday and then the following Saturday she had some friends over for a party. `
Sophia is such a sweet, smart, helpful, funny and loving girl. She loves to help out with whatever I ask her to do, most of the time. She loves to look at books with her younger brothers and sister and tell them stories. Many a time I have over heard her helping them with counting and colors and the alphabet. She is a mini mama! She is very independent and likes to learn things on her own and when she has figured out most of it herself than she will ask Chris and I for some help. Our family is so blessed to have her.
The cake I made on her birthday was a recipe from a magazine and I did not notice that it was a healthier cake. Chris and I noticed when we ate it but the kids did not seem to complain!





Kiana eating cake with her runny nose, Gross!


We lucked out the day of her party and got really nice weather for January. We spent the time eating pizza, opening presents, playing outside, jumping on the trampoline, playing games, eating cake and ice cream, blowing bubbles and going on a hunt for the goody bags.

Everyone getting ready to play a game, except
Gus, Kiana and little Melissa


Turner and Sam were having fun with the
dress up stuff


Sophia and cousin Alaysha

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

July 3 & 4, 2009

On the 3rd of July there is a fire works show at South Sound Center. We watched the from the roof of the CDC building. The kids really enjoyed that, of course. A few nights before Chris' brother, Justin, had Chris cut his hair into a mullet. It was way ugly! He dressed up on the 3rd to match his hair do. It was pretty funny.







We went to the beach for the 4th of July. We went to Copalis Beach, where Chris' family has a beach house. It was a nice day and we were able to spend about 4 hours on the beach. Soon after we hit the sand Chris walked over to the water and Aaron fell down and got wet and was not happy about it at all. I got him dry and he spent the rest of the time hanging out and sleeping in the pop up tent we brought. The rest of the kids had a good time digging in the sand, flying the kite, getting their feet wet, looking at sea creatures, finding sea shells and dead crab pinchers, and playing with Goose (Shane's dog). Chris' brother Jeff and his family were staying the weekend at the house so we got to visit with them and ate dinner with them. We went home before it was dark. The kids had stayed up late the night before watching the fire works so they didn't miss out on anything. We had a fun day and hope that next time we go Aaron will actually play instead of staying in the tent.

Aaron in the tent!


Kiana already getting sand in her mouth


Sophia likes the crab claws


Vinny and his sandy face


Sam flying the kite