Alissa's first scone..or so she says. I'm pretty sure she's had one before but oh well, she loved it.

Me and the Princess, she had so much fun!

My sweet girl giving me kisses, thanks for taking her to the fair.

Here's the Princess on the dragon roller coaster :) She LOVED this, she even had her hands up a few times.

Ali on the swings, she had a wiggly girl next to her and she looked a little worried at first but she had fun :)

Here's Ali waiting to go on the tilt-o-whirl with me.

Now were waiting for the ride to start....

...and it began and she did not like it!.....

...I tried to calm her down but I couldn't quit laughing because it was tickling my stomach and she had SUCH a sour look on her face....she survived though, even if barely :) Her ride preferences aren't too adventurous but she did have fun on every other ride.

Alissa and our friend Kelsey.

The Smithsonian castle!

This is the fountain at the WWII memorial, it was beautiful!

Jefferson statue at the Jefferson memorial, and his own words behind him, probably my favorite picture I took!

George Washignton "Zeus" statue, now gaining popularity since it was mentioned in the new Dan Brown book "The Lost Symbol." The book suggests he is showing us a symbol hinting at his "god-like" status he gained through freemasonry, I think. I haven't finished the book so we'll see how it ends :) But the statue is neat nonethless.

Bike and slight view of the Savannah river in Georgia.

So I took soooo many pictures on my vacation to DC and I was going through them tonight and found some more of my favorites so I thought I would share :)

Hope you enjoy!

Last night we had open house at Alissa's new school so she was VERY excited to introduce me to all her friends, different teachers, and show me EVERYTHING she could :)

Here she is playing on the playground.

And again :)

Here's Miss Ali with her great teacher Mrs. Hafey.

The goofy girl posing by her classes art supplies :) Her favorite part of the room.

And last but definately not least Alissa taking a picture in her art room, she LOVES art!

These are from a couple weeks ago when Ashton and I went to watch the Mariners play, they ended up winning in extra innings :) We had fun!

My friends from work threw a baby shower for one of our assistant Managers and Alissa and I went on Sunday, Alissa didn't know what to expect, she was too little to remember the showers I had for Dylan but she had a good time at this one. She entertained the little boys and enjoyed all the ladies giving her attention :)

Here is Miss Ali pulling around the boys :)

The group minus a few at the baby shower.

The peanut enjoying the snacks :)

The cake I made for the shower :) It turned out pretty well and the Mama to be loved it and everyone thought it was pretty so I considered that a success :)

Justin and I got to have a fun date night last Friday night, we went to the rodeo and Jason Aldean concert at the Puyallup fair, it was realllly fun :) He had way more hit songs that I knew than I realized and he sang different songs from different artists, even Rock songs, it made the show very different and entertaining. I was just happy to have a night out, no kids, no cooking, no worries :)

Miss Alissa started 2nd grade at Cedar River Academy, she looked so cute in her little uniform and she felt very special in her corduroy coat from Grama Helen.




This is Miss Ali after her second day of school, also with a new haircut :)

She is enjoying her new school, making new friends and especially ART!

Waynie decorating cookies :)

Will decorating cookies :)

Miss Ali decorating her cookies :)

D-man being surprisingly careful while decorating his cookies :)

All the kids were so excited to decorate their sugar cookies and we had a ton of different sprinkles to use so that they didn't have cookies that looked the same :)

These guys were amazing, jumping and running in these!

All the awesome elephants!

The canons moments before they shot 2 girls out of them!!

These guys did flips and jumps and acrobatics up in the air while the whole thing rocked back and forth.

Alissa and Dylan had so much fun, it was so nice for Auntie Ashton and Grama Helen to take us all :)

One of the elephants at the Greatest Show on Earth :)

Grama Helen, Ali, D-man(who is too cool to look at the camera), and Auntie Ashton.

Ali and Dylan before the circus.

She's sooo excited!

He was so fascinated by the elephants.