Merry Christmas! ~2010~

They built this all by themselves!

"Eat your heart out!!"

Um, yes, she's standing on a chair ;)

These are my favorite kids.  They are awesome. 
They make me laugh and give me enough crap to keep me feeling young :D

2010 8th Grade Varsity Football!

Video 1

#56!

Video 2

They got to play on EWU's new turf!  "The Inferno"!

It was spectacular!  We played against Pullman, a worthy opponent...

And ... we slaughtered them!

Final score: 48 us, 8 them!

Do you see him?

Do you see him, now?

My Daddy!

What a handsome man!
When my mom sent me this picture, I almost cried!  It captures his warm, generous nature, and distinguished demeanor.
My dad is one of the main reasons I believe in my power to change my world.  I do not feel victim to my circumstances, because, through his example, he taught me that I can change them!
Thank you, Dad!  I love you!

Cross-country!!!

So, as you may already know, Dauzha (online code-name for our daughter) loves soccer. LOVES it. When school started this fall, we encouraged her to join cross-country to increase her strength and endurance, thus improving her soccer. She was excited about it ... for about one practice. Then she HATED it!

We are strong believers in upholding commitments, so we did not let her quit. We bought her some nice running shoes, and supported her in every way we could. She continued to hate it for about two more weeks ... then she realized she was getting stronger and faster! She began to LOVE running! She is a running MACHINE! She participated in SEVEN meets, running the 1.5 mile race. (That's right, a mile and a half without stopping - something I still can't wrap my mind around!)  Her average time is eleven minutes!
She is part of an incredible cross-country team of NINETY classmates! When the two Cheney busses arrive at events, the other athletes all gawk in amazement as a sea of green uniforms enter the field! NINETY is a lot of students for our little podunk town! In fact, ninety is a lot for any school in the area!  Some of her meets were 70 miles away!

We are SO PROUD of her!

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This was the only cross-country track meet I could attend.  She was so excited to see me! 

I am so lucky I caught it on video!

Look at all that green!

There she is!

This is her pin :)

I am loved!

I am the luckiest mom on the planet :)  This is my "letter" in the alphabet project at school (by Dauzha).

The assignment was to select random things beginning with each letter in the alphabet, then write 25 words about it.

"W  is my awesome mom because she is related to me! She’s so sweet and loving and I love her. She loves dark chocolate so much she could eat dark chocolate all day."

School photo - no retake

She decided not to do the retake :D
She is such an incredible athelete! Cross-country, and soccer!! Wahoo!
Plus, she's doing great in school ... and she's a wonderful daughter.

School Photo

Man, what a handsome devil! He's in 8th grade now, top of the middle school. He started football this fall and LOVES it! He even made the varsity team :D He comes home with sore muscles everyday after practice. I love that he's enjoying it and really applying himself.

Dazha also had photos taken, but she wants to do the re-take. I think she looks lovely, but she feels she could have a better photo.

2nd Place in River City Tournament!

 

Cheney Storm took 2nd place! They are shaping up to be a great team :D

Crazy cool photo

 

This is at our high school graduation!! We barely knew eachother. He grabbed me for an off-the-wall photo ... and the rest, as they say, is history :) We started dating almost three years later!

18 years later we are very happily married with two awesomerific kids!

Canoeing Lake Roosevelt, visiting Metaline Falls, hiking to Canada

We canoed 10 miles, camped, then canoed another 5 miles. It was FUN!
Photos of us in canoes to come soon, I hope!
Afterward, we drove to Metaline Falls and took a short hike into Canada!

Mom & Me Day

To celebrate her 11th birthday, we had a “Mom & Me day”. Started with manicures, had lunch at a bakery, got a makeover, and saw “Despicable Me”. It was a lot of fun!

Hiking Mt. Kit Carson

If you click on the link, you can watch the videos, too.

Steven's Lake 2010

We had so much fun! It was a hot, sunny day. We jumped in the lake at the top - it was freezing! Perfect for wiping the memory of the sweaty hike! Very refreshing. Eric did a few backflips, because he's cool like that. I just jumped in (and still felt quite brave). Yes, we did pack our swimsuits for anyone wondering :P

Family comes to visit!

It was so nice to see my Mom and Dad :D
We took them to the city of Spokane for the first time. It happened to be during Hoopfest (the largest 3x3 basketball tourny in the nation) ... so ... the city was a little busy and crowded, but I think we all enjoyed it anyway.

Cream puffs

Wednesdays the boys go to Scouts,
so it's girls night for Daszha and I. 
This week, we made cream puffs!
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New car and flowers ;)

I love summertime!

2010 Memorial day with the Adachi's!

We sure miss them!

Spring Rolls!

Spring rolls!

 

Dah-zha made the veggies :)

Turned out pretty yummy, but rice paper is TRICKY!

Work of Art

Beef Empanadas

Good luck in the oven, little fella's!

YUMMY!  Empanadas!!

Going out & Dinner

I have a very talented friend, (Karrie O'Neill - watch for this name in the future!) who we went to see play her first concert that she sold tickets for!

Then, later, I found a SWEET Austin Powers pinball game ... I was sorely out of practice and didn't last more than 2 minutes!  Boo Hoo!  It was still fun, though.

This is the dinner I made last night - Bourbon Chicken, Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Green Beans.  It was YUMMY!

New Dishwasher!!

The first best thing about a dishwasher is the machine, itself. I mean, of course. But ....

the box is a VERY close second!