September 2009

 

Well, we've been busy since school started, that's for sure! For the past two weeks it seems like Mom has been living on the computer or hanging out at the high school (auditions and meetings and all that kind of stuff for The King & I). Besides going to school, we have filled our weeks with soccer practices and soccer games, a Panther football game (we beat Southridge this past Friday night), opening weekend for the Wenatchee Wild(the boys are now 8-0, and we can't wait go to the next game on October 1st), and our Grandma's wedding. Maeghan & I got to be flower girls in that thing, and it sure was fun! We got to stay up late and dance with our cousins...
I got a part in the play that Mom is working on; I am going to be one of the Royal Children. I am pretty excited now, but I sure was nervous during the auditions. Lots of my friends are in the play too, so that is going to be lots of fun. If you want to see us, the play is going to be sometime in November... I'm not too sure of the dates, so you'll have to talk to my Mom!
We've been waiting and waiting, and finally we get to start our piano lessons next week. Mrs. Lopushinsky, who is the rehearsal pianist for the play, is going to be our teacher. She is really nice, so Megs and I are happy that she is going to be our teacher. And, because I'm in the play, Mom said that I should start taking the Broadway class at Miss Becca's studio. Pretty cool, huh? Megs doesn't want to take any dance classes, so she's just going to stick with gymnastics.
Well, Dad just told me to get off the computer... I gotta get some reading minutes in for this week's homework. Bye!
~ Kailie

Summer is over???

Looks like it, girls! Actually, Kailie & Maeghan were both ready to start school last Wednesday. They are playing soccer this fall, with the first games starting this week. Kailie is going to audition for the all-district musical The King & I next week (I am one of the producers), Maeghan will get back into gymnastics, and they both are going to start piano lessons pretty soon. Whew... add in our season tickets to the Wild (our most favorite hockey team ever), and we have a busy schedule through next spring! Hopefully we will see you at a game or two =)
~ Rose

Summer 2009

 

Wow! It has been a busy summer for us Wulf Girls. We have done basketball camp at Wenatchee High School, Bible School at First Pres, art camp at McDee's, soccer camp at Walla Walla park, ice skating lessons at the arena, and right now we are in the middle of dive camp at the city pool! Whew! (And you thought summers were for taking a break!!!) We have been using our pool a lot (especially the last few weeks with the temps in the 90's and 100's) and we like to go bowling too... also, I get to go to hunter safety classes pretty soon. Like my dad, I am ready for hunting season to begin... he has been doing lots of work down at the property so that we will have a great season for sure. What else have we been doing this summer? We took a road trip to Nevada the weekend of July 4th. It was a lot of fun in the car... we watched movies, colored, listened to our iPods, looked at the scenery, snacked, and enjoyed each other. We stayed at this great hotel in Reno that had a 50-lane bowling alley inside... we made sure that our mom took us bowling everyday. We also went up to the waterslides in Lake Chelan one day. Mom didn't take any pictures of that fun time, so hopefully we will go up and do it again before summer is over. Speaking of that, can you believe that school starts in only 4 weeks?! Yikes!! I sure am glad we get to lay around for the rest of the summer!
~ Kailie

School's out for summer...

... but here is what we have been up to the last few months! Hopefully we will be better about updating our blog in the hot, sunny months to come =)

Wow... it's almost been two months since we've posted here!!

Okay, we know you're probably thinking that we have just been lazy about our blog... unfortunately, that is closer to the truth than we would like to admit! We have spent the past two months boisterously cheering on the Wenatchee Wild throughout their playoff run. It has been a Wild ride (and don't pardon the pun)!! We have become such huge fans that if we aren't tailgating before a hockey game, cheering for the team at the Town Toyota Center, or watching a game on tv (or the computer), we are making plans to do so! We really don't know what we are going to do now that the season is over... five months is an awfully long time...
All kidding aside, we Wulf's really have been busy with things other than hockey. Both Kailie and Maeghan are playing spring soccer; they still go to gymnastics each week (but only one day instead of two); and they both attend the Good News Club every Tuesday after school. Mommy helped to produce this year's Apple Blossom Musical Gypsy (it is currently showing at the PAC in Wenatchee), and Daddy is hard at work (as usual). In his free time, however, he likes to put on his skates and (you guessed it) play hockey!!
Happy Spring!

Father Daughter Dance

Daddy just told us to get ready and look pretty, because he was going to take us on a special "DATE"... so with Mom's help, we put on our party dresses and curled our hair. Daddy even got dressed up in his handsome clothes! We were ready to go on our night out with Dad... but where were we going? Daddy surprised us by taking us to the Father Daughter Dance at the Masonic Temple. (He saw the poster when he was playing hockey on Monday afternoon, and he thought it would be a special thing for us to do together). So after Mommy took a million pictures of us, off we went... it was SO much fun! I didn't do too much dancing, but Kailie sure did!! Daddy says that she is just like Mommy (she wouldn't get off the dance floor, and when she finally did? She had a new best friend!!) We each got a pretty rose to take home too. It was a great night... Thanks, Daddy!!
~ Maeghan

Who let the dogs out???

 

Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! My birthday party was so much fun!! My friends came over on Sunday afternoon around 4pm. Since we didn't have school on Monday (for Martin Luther King Day), mommy said I could have a sleepover! When everyone got to my house, we had a good time painting Bobblehead dogs, eating pizza, playing the wii, and just hanging out. Then after dinner, we all went to see the movie 'Hotel for Dogs'. For some reason mommy sat in a whole different row than we did... The movie was great- everyone loved it!! After the movie we went back to the house and opened presents (more Webkinz... just what I always wanted). Then we got to have some ice-cream cake, and it was sooo yummy! Finally (said my mom) we all got our pajamas on and we spread out our sleeping bags in the playroom. Most of us girls fell asleep watching another movie, but some people stayed up pretty late. I don't think those girls liked it when we woke them up early (like at 6am). Oh well. It was a great party, and I sure have some great friends =)
~ Kailie

Today the Wenatchee World... Tomorrow???

 

Well, I finally got my picture (the big one in the middle) in the Wenatchee World! I say 'finally' because Kailie-the-camera-hog has already been in there twice! Anyway, even though I didn't make the front page, I don't think page A-5 is too shabby. I found the captions (and the rest of the photos) on the online photo gallery for the World, and I did some minor editing so they wouldn't be repetitive on the blog... now you just have to figure out which caption goes with which photo!

1) Maeghan Wulf, 7, Wenatchee, laughs as her cousin's dog sits on the canvas during the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center's "Making Art With The Family Dog" day on Saturday. Annie belongs to Mikaila Allen, 16, who is having her 17th birthday in February, and her family wanted to have her dog make a piece of art for her.

2) Maeghan tries to control Annie...

3)Cousins Patrick Allen, 9, and Maeghan Wulf, 7, Wenatchee, run after Annie the dog, who bolted for the restroom while making dog prints... they got her!

4)Annie's creation is taken away to dry as she watches the procedure from off of the canvas.

Yay for me!
~Megs

The Boys are Back in Town...

Hockey is back!! The Wild took a three week break (at least) over the holidays, but they returned to Wenatchee with a vengeance. We got to go to the game on Saturday night, and it was great! We had such a good time at the game, and what a game to watch! Even though there weren't any big fights (poor Mommy), the Wild played a great game beating the Fairbanks Ice Dogs to sweep the series. Things weren't looking that good for us as we were down 5-1 at one point in the game, but the Wild turned on the heat and ended up winning 7-5. It was awesome!
The best part came after the game when we were just hanging out with our friends on the concourse. All of the Wild players came out to sign autographs! So Mommy made me and Megs take off our jerseys, and we had the boys sign them. You should see our jerseys now... they look pretty cool. Hope to see you at the next Wild game!!
~ Kailie

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!!