MARCH - WATSON PICTURE UPDATE

Haven't been so good at posting on here lately so heres a picture update!!!!

Pretty much the only good picture of them together, harder than you'd think.  

Laurens big girl 4 year old pictures!

 

  

Connors big boy - 2 year old picture! His birthday is on Saturday!

And of course some sporty fun pictures, there would have been more but we brought some mini soccer balls for props and lets just say they were everywhere! 

I guess maybe they were practicing their kicking technique, we learned our lesson. 

And learned that Connor is still definitely left footed!! 

Probably my favorite from the whole day!!!

Happy Spring everyone!!!

Lauren's Unicorn Party - AKA 4th Birthday Party

So Lauren is finally 4 years old.  When did this happen?... 

She is the sweetest girliest girl ever and mommy and daddys biggest helper.  

And as you can tell she is old enough to pick the theme of her bday parties now,

 I see a lot of pink and purple in our future! She is still in love with zebras and now unicorns too! 

She is loving preschool but still cries once in a while when mommy drops her off, but she says its ok its because I love you sooo much mom -  So that makes it ok.  She can write her name really well and knows most of her letters and loves the show SuperWhy and anything Barbie or Princess oriented.  

She is an amazing little girl and I cant believe shes growing up so fast.  

                       Lauren posing at her party  -                Her Unicorn Cake we went to about 20 stores to find

        Lauren and one of her BFF's Chloie (Nickys Daughter)     -        THE PINATA!!!       

 

 

Her Barbie Bike - and yes it has a little bike for one of her barbies and yes that barbie has no clothes.  

Birthday Day!!! Riding on two of her favorites - Carousels & Zebras 

We survived - Snowmagedon 2012!

As everyone heard there was a big snow/ice storm last week up here in Washington.

We were lucky and had power the whole time but were stuck at home for over a week!

We got cabin fever pretty bad but only ventured out a few times to

build snomen and hike to the park, here are some pictures/videos of how we kept busy. 

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Before the ice storm came we had almost 2 days of fun with some awesome snow.

Our neighborhood does a snowman building competition

and Lauren was the brains behind our design (as you can see)

We built a prince and princess and a bunch of fairies

and she won first place for the best snowman family!

*Thank you to everyone who helped!

Lauren with her favorite Fairy and her Prince & Princess

  

After the Ice storm we (I) couldnt stand being inside anymore or watching Rapunzel - ONE MORE TIME! so we treked to the park down the street and the kids had a blast! There was at least an inch of ice covering everything and they got soaking wet but they had fun!

Lauren with the ice off one of the steps 

Trying to get a picture of both of them = impossible!!!! 

Cant wait for the sun to come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Moving on into 2012

We had a rough beginning to 2012,

but I think we are finally starting the new year - even though were a week late. 

Here are some pictures from this past week of 2012. 

Connor got to ride a horse at his friend Jacks bday party,

yes he loved it and yes It took all my strength to get him off of it.

He also fell in love with a cat that he now wants for his birthday.    

 The kids cooking - yes connor is wearing a princess apron, but its better than nothing. Right?......

 And last but not least Lauren started ballet last night.

 It was actually a good way to end the day since that morning we had the rangers memorial service.

There was a lot of pink and it was really really cute and it was a nice cheerfull way to end a very sad day. 

How can you not be happy watching a bunch of three year olds

pretend to be monkeys and elephants, and dont worry there will be many videos to come!!!!

New Years Day Tragedy on Mt Rainier

A lot has happened since my last post, for those who havent heard we were up at Mt Rainier sledding on New Years Day when an armed gunman came up the mountain and a ranger who setup a roadblock to stop him from reaching us was shot and killed. The gunman evaded the police for about a day and for 15 hours of that we were held at the Visitors Center up at paradise to keep us safe. Ranger Margaret Anderson is a hero to us all and saved a lot of lives that day (mostly young children) and I can not even imagine what would have happened had she not saved us, our lives would be a lot different.  She leaves behind her husband and two little girls (3&1), please pray for them and if you happen to visit Mt Rainier - stop at her memorial, we owe her our lives and she will never be forgotten. 

There are a lot of stories in the news and online, but this one is one of my favorites that is really well written and puts it into perspective: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2017179033_guest08barcott.html

Thank You for all the thoughts and prayers - I truly feel someone was watching over all of us that day.

christmas morning! SANTA CAME!

Heres a look at our christmas morning!

Connor wasnt as excited as we thought he'd be on christmas, he loved everything, but I think it was just kind of overwhelming for him. He really just opened one present and didnt want to do anything for the next hour, and thats kind of how his whole day went.  He loves his Jeep and sat in it all morning and if we allowed it to still be in the house he'd probably still be sitting in it. Lauren loved every little thing she got from the car to chapstick and hair things she loved it and showed everyone and said thank you about a hundred times, but her favorite was the dollhouse that grandma & grandpa West got her,

she even wanted me to put it in bed with her last night. 

It was a really fun and exciting day and it was so great to see everyone -

we are still recovering from it all, but the kids had a blast and it was all well worth it!

*Poor Joe always gets stuck being on camera since I always have the camera.

to see the video go to: http://www.westandwatson.blogspot.com/

December 2011

Ive been trying to get some video on here from the christmas parties, our santa visit and laurens preschool play but the video uploader and I arent getting along very well so here are some pictures from the last month.

Lauren got to play Mary in her school play

She said she was playing an Angel and Mary

she also thinks Jesus lives in the North Pole. 

 Lauren posing with a manequin at Old Navy, dont ask me why she likes to do this. 

 Connor at the christmas party - being himself

 Lauren with Santa (Joey)

 Laurens chritsmas program - singing rudolph with their red noses.