We Wish You a Merry Christmas...

As you can see from the pictures, we had a wonderful Christmas with our family. We got to visit Santa twice before the big day, so we were pretty confident about what we were going to get, but he still managed to surprise us! That Santa is pretty cool! We hope all of our friends had an equally joyous Christmas with lots of family, love, food, and presents (Maeghan made me say that). Happy New Year from me and the rest of the Wulf's!!
~Kailie

Laughing all the way (ha ha ha)...

 

Yesterday was the 2nd Grade Christmas program at the girls' school. Maeghan was the cutest little elf!! She loves to sing and be in front of people, and yesterday was no exception. Megs especially loved the songs about getting socks for Christmas and having a snowball fight. Here in Wenatchee we are experiencing a little bit of coldness... I was just talking to a friend in Portland last week about how we still didn't have any snow yet. Oh, be careful what you wish for, because not only do we finally have snow (just a little bit) but the cold temperatures to go with it. It is days like these (4 degrees this morning when I took the girls to school) that make me long for a beach in Hawaii or visiting my sister in Arizona =) And since neither of those trips are going to happen in the next few days, I am going to enjoy the cold from inside my cozy house... put on some Christmas music, wrap some presents, bake some yummy cookies, maybe even enjoy a hot buttered rum at some point! Enjoy the weather (where-ever you are!!)
~ mommy

What we did over Thanksgiving Weekend...

 

We actually got to have a 5-day weekend, and that is why we had a great Thanksgiving! My sister had to go over to Children's Hospital on Wednesday morning; she had pictures taken by a camera that was inside a tube that went down her throat and into her tummy and upper intestines (at least I think that's what I heard my mom and the doctors talking about anyway). Mommy was hoping that it was going to be a movie camera and that we would get a video of this procedure, but Dr. Christie said he was just going to take some pictures and if Mommy really wanted them, she could have a copy. Anyway, we actually left Wenatchee ON TIME (very new and different for us), and we got to Children's BEFORE the appointment even started (again, very new and different for us). Mommy got us new Webkinz (I got the snowman and Kailie got the manatee) to play with on the drive over and while we were waiting. Kailie's scope only took about 20 minutes, but we were in the hospital until 1:30pm... boy, were we hungry for some lunch! We had a great Thanksgiving with Uncle Paul, Auntie Krissy, and Caden. It was also Uncle Paul's birthday (yep, on Thanksgiving), and we got him the Guitar Hero World Tour for his present. We sure had fun beating him at that thing!!
On Friday we had our pictures taken and then for some reason Mommy took us to Bellevue Square. It was crazy at that place! People were crowding everywhere, there was hardly a place to park, and tons of long lines for food. We made sure that Mommy did not stay as long as she would have liked, because it was B-O-R-I-N-G (spell it out, people). The ONLY good thing was that we got to see Santa Claus. That guy is great: we got to walk through his workshop, have our picture taken with him, tell him our Christmas wishes, he gave us each a lollipop, and then we got two stuffed animals each from him. It isn't even Christmas yet! I guess that is just how Santa rolls...
We went back to Uncle Paul's to frost and decorate some sugar cookies that Auntie Krissy made, we watched some Christmas movies, helped decorate their tree, drank hot chocolate, ate some dinner and then we went back to Bellevue to see Santa in his parade on Snowflake Lane. It was pretty neat to see Santa's sleigh being pulled by a team of 6 horses (it was Kailie's favorite part).
Saturday morning we drove home to Wenatchee, because we had tickets to the hockey game that night. We girls put on our Wild jerseys and had a great time at the game. We get to sit in the front row, pound on the glass (especially when there are fights), and cheer on the team. Go Wenatchee Wild!!
Happy Holidays everyone =)
~ Maeghan

Saying goodbye...

Today we are going up to Leavenworth for Grandma Gwen's memorial service. Grandma, Uncle Bo's grandma really, was a remarkable women for sure. Known for her warm, kind eyes, big heart, and even bigger hugs, Grandma Gwen taught many people what it meant (and how it felt) to be loved whole-heartedly.
The Wenatchee World has an online guest book for Grandma, and in reviewing the many entries there, I came across one by Rob Vickery (from Redmond, WA). He says it much better than I ever could: "Some are sent here to do hard work and good work because they have the necessary strength for the hard work and the necessary love for the good work. She always had a stern word when you needed one and a kind word and a cookie when you didn’t. Her fingerprints are on so many of us. Her kitchen offered hearty food as well as lessons in life and was always open. Each serving was plated with love. She wasn’t Mother Teresa but she will always be remembered by her circus kids as Mama Gwen."
Now, I was never involved in the Wenatchee Youth Circus, but I was lucky enough to be related to this great lady (even if it is in a round-about kinda way). There is no doubt that her all-encompassing love was inherited by the many members of her large, extended family. We Wulf's were always welcomed with smiles and hugs to each and every family gathering, from birthday parties to cousins parties.
Grandma Gwen was loved by all of us, she will be missed by all of us, and we cherish her memory.
~Rose

The pre-holiday rush?

 

The last few weeks we have just been doing the same old stuff. One day in October we met our Poppa and our cousins (Meeka, Peyton, & Paddy) downtown to help clean the Art on the Avenues' statues for Make a Difference Day. That same day Mommy took us to see the Moscow Ballet's performance of Sleeping Beauty. It was kinda cool, but there wasn't any talking, so I wasn't really sure what was going on. For Halloween I dressed up in my Cats costume (from last year) and Maeghan dressed up as a witch (she even sprayed her hair green!!). Like we do every year, we went up to Miss Staci's for trick-or-treating, yummy food, and hanging out with our friends. This is the first year in a long time that Mommy & Daddy both dressed up in costumes, so we all had a really good time. That same weekend we got to see High School Musical on ice down at the arena. We knew all the songs (even Daddy), so we had fun singing along! Then, the day after that I had my class concert (all four third grade classes)... it wasn't a play like last year, we just sang some songs about some of the stuff we've been learning in school this year. We have been going to more hockey games (the Wild won all three games against Wichita) and Mommy took sis to the first Wenatchee Fire soccer game last weekend. I wasn't there because I got to go hunting with Dad. We were going to go goose hunting, but we ended up going duck hunting instead. It was still fun, but I really like to smash the honkers!
~ Kailie

It's not Halloween yet, but we are ready!

 

October is almost over, and we decided we needed to have some pictures on the blog to show for it. This month we have been staying busy with gymnastics (twice a week)... and our religious education classes... and school... and homework... and Wenatchee Panther football games... and decorating our house for Halloween... and reading (a lot)... and jumping on our neighbor's trampoline... and playing with our friends... and texting on our mom's phone (she can't believe we figured out how to do it)... and going to our very first hockey games (Go Wenatchee Wild!!). As a side note, our mom has now turned into a HUGE fan of hockey (well, it is completely possible that she actually likes the fighting more than the game, but I am not positive. And I thought I heard her saying she thinks she played the wrong sport? I'm not really sure what that means though.) This weekend we are going to go to the Panther football game, clean statues for Art on the Avenue (for Make a Difference Day), go to the Sleeping Beauty ballet, and (if we are really good) High School Musical 3. Plus, we gotta carve our pumpkins still... wow!!
~ Kailie

End of Summer... Start of School

We finished off the summer with fun birthday parties (my 7th and Brady's 3rd), we went to the water slides in Chelan, we have been going to the high school football games (cut and paste the web address to the Wenatchee World's site... it is at the end of this post... Kailie got in that thing AGAIN!!), school started (which means lots of homework), and we have already been on some field trips. October... here we come!!
~ Maeghan

http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=WW&Date=20080905&Category=NEWS04&ArtNo=905009994&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=4

Our Silverwood Experience

 

We had a great time at Silverwood a few weeks ago; even time spent in the car and our hotel was fun. It was really hot (like in the hundreds), so we had the most fun in the wave pool. Daddy taught us how to dive under the waves (like we were in the ocean), but those things just kept coming (and they were HUGE!!). We also got to go on some big coasters (Timber Terror, Tremors, Corkscrew (Maeghan and Mikaila went on that thing about 20 times on Saturday), and the new Aftershock (only Mommy, Daddy, and Mikaila went on that one... Megs and I were waaaaay too scared). We also got soaked on the Thunder Canyon ride! The best part for me was the end of the day on Saturday when Mommy bought us some cotton candy (it was pink and purple... hello... the colors totally make it taste better) and then we got to go on the carousel. Twice. Well, the first ride we took on that thing was kinda doofy, because me and Megs both picked horses that didn't even move. What's the point? So we got to go again, and that was cool.
We also got to spend some time both Saturday and Sunday at the new Cabela's store in Post Falls. Even though it was Mommy who spent the money there, I think it was my dad's favorite part of the whole trip. Do you know they have real fish is a big aquarium there? Also they have this shooting gallery where you get to shoot fake guns at targets. And they have a couple of different places (mom called them kiosks) where you can play hunting video games (like Cabela's Big Game Hunter). And there is this whole mountain in the middle of the store with a bunch of animals (dead and stuffed) all over it. That was pretty neat to see. Mikaila said that here favorite part was listening to the guy who was demonstrating the elk call... for about 2 straight hours... both days. Mikaila is so funny!
~ Kailie

How many days until my birthday?

I made this widget at MyFlashFetish.com.


Maeghan has been asking me a variation of this question almost everyday for the past 3 months! (I have since updated it for her 9th birthday) Now if she could just figure out how to type in the blog address when she gets on the computer... she will be able to see her birthday countdown and we'll be golden!

And we're off... again...

No pictures of us today, which is a bummer, because last weekend we were up at the lake (Chelan) for 5 days, and Mommy brought her camera with the dead battery. We would have had some great pictures too: jumping off the breakwater (at the yacht club) and swimming with our Daddy; playing (hiking up and down the hill, swimming, riding in the Kubota, watching movies, playing the Wii, eating Miss Staci's yummy cooking, and just having fun)with our friends Dalin, Kaleb, Lexi, Stephani, and Camille, Mommy and Ray's iPod war (a weird game that they both really liked); Carson's birthday party (she's my best friend); visiting Daddy's friends (the Baker's); and spending a day on Poppa Ken's big boat (we anchored in down by the Lady of the Lake dock, and we got to jump off the top of the boat and swim). We had a great vacation... we just don't have the pictures to prove it!

Today we are heading over to Silverwood in Idaho. We are taking my cousin, Mikaila, with us! We are staying in a hotel in Post Falls... I think we are only staying in that town because of the new Cabela's store that recently opened up (and hunting season is just around the corner). Anyway, it is supposed to be super hot over there this weekend, so I'm really glad that Silverwood has a big water park! I will make sure that Mommy brings the camera (and the battery is charged) so we can show you how our trip turned out. Have a great weekend!!

Oh yeah, Mommy wanted me to tell you about some funny things my sister and I have said over the past few days. First, yesterday morning when Kailie finished her breakfast, she said, "Tony the Tiger was right!" Mommy asked her, "About what?" and Kailie replied, "These are grrrrreat!!" It made Mommy laugh. Then today, Mommy asked me what Kailie liked to do (so she could change the 'FAVORITES' section of this blog)... I said to Mommy, "She likes to party." When Mommy started laughing, I cracked up too =) We Wulf's should be in comedy!
~ Maeghan

Where in the World have the Wulf's been lately?!?!

We haven't posted anything to our blog in such a long time, that Mommy got sick of being shown up by Auntie Krissy (on Caden's blog), so... well, we won't write anything lengthy this time. Short and sweet, that's all we have time for: birthday parties + holidays + dance recitals + short drives across the mountains + trips to zoos + day camps + swimming lessons + hikes + sand and surf + family time + spring soccer + cookie sales (Girl Scouts) + classroom parties (inside & out) + class musicals = BUSY FAMILY!!

October, November, & December 2007- we've been busy!

We have not updated our blog in such a loooong time, and we are going to blame our busy schedules for such a catastrophe! Mommy tried to pick out pictures from the past few months that tell the story of what we have been doing. The oldest pictures are from Halloween where I am dressed up as Violet Incredi-Wulf. My sister, Maeghan was a Mummy Fairy and in the group picture are our cousins Patrick (Pirate), Mikaila (pretty fairy), and Peyton (masked Raggedy Ann). Maeghan lost a tooth that night too! In some of the pictures I have lots of makeup on; that is from when I got to be in the all-district musical Cats in Wenatchee. My cousins Peyton & Patrick were also in the play, and there is a picture of them here too. I had a great time learning all the songs and making friends with the big kids. (Probably the only part I didn't really like was my mom french-braiding my hair every night so I could wear my wig!) Did you see that great snowman in the picture with Maeghan? She made it all by herself after our very first snowfall! Pretty cool, huh? Next up is a picture of Daddy with the shooter-buck (that's what I call 'em) that he got in Canada during Thanksgiving weekend. It is huge! Then I am in costume (yet again) for The Nutcracker in December. I really do like being in shows, mostly because it is fun to hang out in the dressing room with the other kids. We eat lots of snacks, we color, play games, and some of them even let me use their Nintendo DSes (because my mom won't buy me one). Also, I'll let you in on a little secret: when you're in a show... people bring you presents. It's totally true! I got flowers, balloons, toys, candy... all kinds of great stuff! So, if you are in the market for some new things and you want to learn some good dance moves (courtesy of Mr. Paul Atwood, the best Director ever) and cool songs, you should audition for the next musical. It is great! We have had lots of fun the past month too. We went to a party at Lala's house at the beginning of December, enjoyed Christmas Eve with our Nanny and Poppa and Grandpa (Mommy & Daddy too), and got to see our Brewster cousins up at Grandma's house and some of our Adams' cousins at Nanny's house on Christmas Day. Maeghan helped Daddy clean ducks (it was way too cold for me... plus, I hunted with him that day already). And lastly, is some pictures from today. When we got home after school, Daddy had already cleared a course for sledding for us. Because our yard is completely flat, we have to improvise. Fortunately for us, our Dad has the coolest toys/tractors for his work, and he pulls us on a sled behind one of them, the Gator. It is a lot less work than having to hike up some hill to sled down, I'll tell you that much! Well, it is almost time for dinner, and I have to go check things out in the kitchen (make sure Mommy is not making anything gross, like last night, when we had green beans). We just wanted to update everyone on what we have been doing... we still care about our blog... we just got busy, that's all. It is supposed to snow more this week... so here's to lots of fun times on the sled!