Imaginations.

Lately, Madeline has been really into playing with her animals-and Hobbes, as usual, loves cars, planes, trains and anything mechanical. A few days ago, they decided to combine the 2 worlds and played for several hours with both cars and animals, creating their own natural-mechanical world. It was pretty cute, and I had to interrupt for a moment to get this picture-right after they were back at it!

Little Buddies.

It was such a gorgeous morning, and the kiddos looked so cute, I couldn't resist taking some pics. Love these sweet kiddos! And they play so well together (most of the time...). We are blessed indeed.

Shnoo Family Date

In case some of you don't know, I am now working at a place called "Shnoo Yogurt." It is just a mile or so from our apartment, and serves all-natural nonfat frozen yogurt and Stumptown coffee. I love working there (seeing as I'm back being a barista!) and it's fun to have the kiddos come and get their healthy 'ice-cream.' A few evenings ago we decided to all go and have a family-date night there-the yogurt was delicious as always, and the kids felt so grown-up! What fun!

Tasting everybody's different concoctions.

Love those Wilkins' boys!

http://cardco.blogspot.com/2009/08/frito-bandito-song.html

Go to my brother-in-law Matt's blog to see a classic Wilkins' boys moment-and on our wedding day! I have to say, I love having such a fun, crazy family-thanks Matt for putting this up!

Going home.

Partying in Moscow is hard work!

Coffee with cousins.

Goodbye, Moscow! See you soon!
Having fun in Payless Shoes...mocking runway models who actually wear these hideous purple things. :)
Such a smiley dude!
Yes, can I help you? Look how stinkin' adorable she is!!
Hobbes felt like such a big boy, pushing cousin Asa-he did a great job! And Asa was good, too.:)
Lovin on the cousins.
It's not often that Hobbes finds something so funny, he bursts into outright laughter. When he does, though, I think it is the cutest, funniest thing! When we were out for coffee, Amara kept trying to eat the napkins, and Bray would take them away from her. Although it was a bit frustrating for poor Amara, Hobbes was dying of laughter-so I had to take a picture!

Singing in Spokane!

The singers, doing what they do best!

I believe I posted a few pictures last year of this fundraiser, 'An Evening in Tuscany,' that Bray sang at. He was invited back again this year, and so we were thrilled to go (free dinner/date for me, and a night on the town!) My parents were kind enough to keep the kiddos for the evening, so we stayed a lovely elderly couple's home, and then came to the event. It was a beautiful evening, the music was great, and the food and wine were delicious! What fun!

Bray and I, on one of the lower balconies overlooking the pool-I love this event!
Part of the master bathroom...probably bigger than our entire apartment!This is part of the formal dining room-this house is absolutely fantastic!

The back stairway down to the patio-as you can see, where the dinner was held.
The view is honestly like a painting. You can see all of Spokane, and it is framed by the mountains in the background-gorgeous!

Moms and Martinis!

Happy Birthday, Mom-we love you!
Asa, and his perfect camera-grab-the-face Kodak-moment pose.:)
Don't worry, I didn't drink both of them!
Cute mamas.I think she had a good time!:)

Baby Car Ride.

This past weekend, we went to Spokane/Moscow so Bray could sing for a fundraiser. The girls (and babies) all went up to go shopping in Spokane, and I couldn't resist taking a few pics of these crazy babes on the way up! The above picture was the only one Amara would let me get-she's "talking" now and loves making funny faces... and below was Asa's reaction to her-he definitely has Kathryn's personality!

And this is their, "um, Aunt Kajsa, why do you keep taking a bazillion pictures of us?" faces. Still pretty cute, if you ask me!

Gasworks Park!

We all took a turns sliding down this cool pole...don't know what it was originally used for, though!
The inside of the factory/old plant that they've painted fun colors.
running shot of Madeline, courtesy of Uncle Caleb.
At the top of the hill-it has a view of Seattle from the other side!
Looking over the harbor towards the Fremont bridge.
Gasworks park

The Troll.

Some cool steps on near the Troll/Bridge, and the kids decided to take a little rest=photo op.
Side note-can you believe how big they look? Pulls on the heart strings a little.
Oh no! The troll got us!
This is the Fremont Troll-I've seen it a few times, but had never shown Bray and the kiddos! It's extremely dusty and dirty, but fun to get pictures with! Definitely a Seattle landmark.:)
The hand that has taken the Beetle off the bridge...
Caleb, at the top of the hill under the Fremont bridge-pretty cool view!
Checkin out an old fire truck.
The easy life with Uncle Pud.

Legos!

On Caleb's second-to-last day here, we went to the mall in Bellevue...and stayed at the Lego store! We had never been in, and it had little stations where you could play and build things...so it was actually pretty fun! Although Bray and Caleb spent the most time playing, the kids had a good time, too!
This is what they spent their entire time building...pretty cool, actually.
I decided to bring out my creative juices, and made a mall cop.:) I don't think the boys were very impressed, but if you knew my previous Lego history (Seth!) then this is some of my best work!
Madeline built walls and put flowers all around the play table.
They could've stayed here all afternoon!

Crazy girl!

This is what I found Madeline doing one evening...she insisted on wearing the firehat over the blanket...what a funny thing!