Our Saddlerock Hike

We had such a fun time on Sunday, October 5th. Mommy decided that we needed to go on a hike, and while we were at it we would search for a few letterboxes we knew were hidden around Saddlerock. First we hiked up the trail by the WRAC (or "Mommy's Gym" as some of you know it); we not only found the first letterbox, we ran into one of my friends from St. Joseph's Pre-K (Maya-Papaya). It was so much fun! Kailie, Maya, and I ran up the trail and beat all the slow parents to the water tower. Maya's daddy had M&M's for us to snack on, and that made me really happy. We all decided that we were going to head back down the trail, because we thought we were too tired to hike all the way up to Saddlerock. Well, we made it down to our car, and ate some more snacks and drank some water. Then we drove around to the other side of that hill (Appleatchee), because Mommy said there was another letterbox over there. So we hiked, followed the map, hiked some more, found the letterbox, sat and rested, got up, hiked some more, and I told Mommy that I was pretty pooped. I don't know how she did it, but Mommy convinced us that we really didn't have that far to go, and we couldn't pass up the opportunity to see Saddlerock up close, could we?! I really wanted to go home, but I could tell Mommy was kinda excited to keep walkin' up that big, steep hill. Then, it was so cool, we met a friend of our mom's coming down the trail... she was with another friend, and they were on horses! (I thought Kailie was gonna pee her pants!) Well, we got to get on those guys... and ride up the steepest part of the hill. It was great! Finally, after a lot more hiking (and not on the horses) we made it up to the very tip-top. We looked through our binoculars and called Nanny and Poppa to see if they could see us through their binoculars at their house. It was lots of fun! What a great day!

I am totally famous... check me out!

The Wenatchee World Online: It took Mommy a long time to get this on the blog, but I totally was in the paper last week. Oh yeah, my dad was in the picture too... but you can't see him, because he is wearing his camo stuff (and that's kinda the point!) Really, I am so famous right now... people are asking me for my autograph! Well, okay, only one person did... but still. (And when my mom quits being such a slacker, she is going to put on some new pictures of me and my sister playing soccer and hiking up Saddlerock).

It's my party...

What a great birthday!! We had so much fun swimming together and some of us even painted the windows of our sliding glass doors... but we never did get to frost those cupcakes mommy made. That's okay. Here I am with the 'Stinkersmell' present I got from you guys. I have been using it all week and even let my sister play with it too. I'm six now, so I can share (too bad you aren't here to witness this little miracle). We miss you!

The experiment

So, here is how the whole thing started... On Tuesday night Mommy was cleaning up the kitchen and talking to Daddy. She kept noticing this dumb fly that was on the ceiling above Dad's head. She had a candle jar that she was getting ready to throw away (the candle had just burned out that day), and she had just put an empty Diet Pepsi can in the jar too. Well, since our mom is so tall, she just reached up with that jar and trapped the fly inside it. Daddy didn't think she'd be able to keep it in there when she slid the jar off the ceiling, but Mommy did AND she happened to have a lid which fit the jar. Daddy called us from the playroom and said we were going to conduct a science experiment. We were going to see how long the fly would live inside the jar; we all got to guess how long we thought the fly would last, and I wrote the number of days that each person picked under their name/initial. Mommy picked the right number... the experiment passed away on Thursday afternoon. ~ Maeghan

Our First Post

Well, today we created our own blog; we wanted to have an easy way to talk with our family and show them all the fun and cool things we do in Wenatchee. As you can see from the pictures on our site, we now have a brand new cousin. His name is Caden Michael, and he was born on Saturday morning. Of course we drove over there as soon as we could get ready (you know our mom, so that took a bit longer than it would for other people). We got to the hospital Saturday afternoon, and we introduced ourselves to the baby. He is really small (and we don't believe Mom when she tells us we (almost) used to be that little), and he sleeps a lot (Mom says she sometimes wishes that we still did, but we had no idea what she was talking about). Baby Caden finally opened his eyes for a long time on Sunday afternoon, and we all got to hold him again (but just for a little bit).


View our slideshow! Here is the latest (and greatest) addition to our family. He is absolutely beautiful!!!