February 7th - 10th - Vacation!

In February Nate & I celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary as well as Valentine's Day by heading off to our favorite vacation destination - Tahoe. We spent several days skiing and stayed in the same resort where we stayed for our honeymoon. It was a blast. The pictures below should tell you all why we love it here so much. If we could pic anywhere to live this would surely be it.

We skiied at Heavenly. There are many hills around here to ski, but Heavenly is also the hill we skiied during our honeymoon.

There are beautiful views like this all over the hill.






The wires are for a fairly new zip line they have installed at Heavenly. We didn't try it or see anyone else try it, but it sounds pretty neat - to watch...

February 2nd, 2008 - Evie's Birthday Party

We had Evie's 5th Birthday Party at our area's brand new Gattitown. It was pretty nice & easy, but very crowded.

Evie requested a Princess Castle cake & of course we made it happen. We also got a King Cake as this was Mardi Gras weekend.


Evie's sitting with her friend Frankie from school.


Sloan happens to be friends with Frankie's big sister Daden. This was great for Sloan to have someone a little older to hang out with at the party.


Will had a blast even without other 1 year olds. Good thing since we had to work very hard to keep him out of the hospital this week. This party almost didn't happen since his asthma attack got very bad Friday afternoon. By about 5:30pm the doctors had cleared us to go home & not to the hospital, but it was just barely.


Evie really liked her cake.


She blew out the candles! Who know what she wished for, but I am sure she had fun at her party.

January 31st, 2008 - Evie is FIVE!!!

Evie's birthday fell on a Thursday this year, just in time for "special snack" day at school. The letter of the day was "P" so we made Pink & Purple cupcakes and had Punch for snack time at school.

Evie loves being the center of attention.


Will even got in on the cupcakes. I think he was focused primarily on mess-making, instead of eating.


Evie thought the cupcakes were yummy!


Will enjoyed sitting at the table with the big kids at school.


Evie wanted to eat Mexican food for her birthday dinner. It was a difficult evening. Will had a bad asthma attack, Sloan had TaeKwon Do before dinner, Evie had swim team, I had to work & the weather was bad as well. We finally made it to dinner though.


Evie really wanted to go to ta restaurant where they would sing to her.


And, put whipped cream on her nose. She got her wish!