Happy Birthday Kevin!

Sadly, I am a day late posting this.....yesterday was just a crazy busy day! But better late than never!
Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband who is now officially a thirty-something. I feel so fortunate each and every day to be married to such a kind, humorous, hard-working, dedicated and handsome man who is also an amazing father. I hope you have a terrific weekend with "the guys" and enjoy all 54 holes of golf that you'll be playing-- You deserve to kick back and have fun!

On the Road Again

This week we are preparing for our next week-long getaway to Montana! On Sunday we'll be leaving from Spokane with my parents to go sight-seeing through Yellowstone National Park. I haven't been there since I was in third grade and Kevin has never gone so it will be exciting to do this as a family. I know we'll see some beautiful scenery and hopefully some animals...besides buffalo of which there is always plenty of.
I'm also very excited to head to Billings (my old stomping grounds) to see my grandma Deming. She is such a special lady to me. The last time we visited was Thanksgiving 2006 when Dylan was only 8 months old. He was just starting to crawl then so obviously he has changed A LOT. It will be wonderful for him to spend some time with his other great-grandma since he already gets lots of special time with Great-grandma Eng.

Here is a picture of Dylan with Great-Grandma in 2006

Walla Walla Weekend

Thanks to Kevin's parents for watching Dylan for this past weekend, we were able to take a few days on our own to enjoy a weekend with friends in Walla Walla with friends Chad and Hillary. Chad grew up in Walla Walla and has gotten me hooked on his family's fabulous winery's wines- Woodward Canyon so we thought it would be fun for him to be our wine tour guide.< On Friday the guys enjoyed a round of golf while Hillary and I enjoyed downtown Walla Walla- such a cute little town! Friday night we had dinner at Chad's dad's beautiful home which is perched on top of hill in the middle of wheat fields. Gorgeous! Saturday we got an early start after breakfast and began touring some of the wineries. There are so many to see-- we came nowhere close to visiting them all, but got a nice tour of some of Chad's favorites. Kevin and I splurged on some fabulous bottles (atleast one from each winery) and ended up coming home with quite a bit of wine! (Lastnight Kevin admitted to me that he is becoming a bit of a wine snob! Ha!) To top it off we enjoyed a great dinner party at Chad's mom's house on Saturday night before heading home the next day.
What a great weekend!

I had to take a picture of this sign posted at a restaurant where we ate lunch. DGs "doing good"

Easter Weekend

It has become somewhat of a tradition for Kevin and I to make the trek back home for Easter each year. In the seven years that we have been together I think we have only missed one Easter celebration at Kevin's Uncle Brian and Aunt Debbie's beautiful farm in Colfax (and that was last year when Easter fell on Dylan's birthday). It's such an ideal place to spend Easter Sunday....surrounded by rolling hills of growing wheat and open spaces, and sometimes if you are lucky beautiful blue skies. Every year the Largents host a large group of family, friends, and extended family (including my own) to their place for a pot-luck lunch, Easter egg hunt, games and of course dessert. This year was no exception! Although we didn't get the sunny, warm day I was hoping for it was a wonderful time nonetheless.
In addition to my parents this year, my sister's family joined us as well. Kevin really enjoyed showing the boys the farm and took advantage of the four-wheeler to take Evan out to the barns and even had to teach him how to herd in a loose cow and her calf. Dylan had a great time playing with all of the cousins, kids aunts and uncles, hunting Easter eggs in the huge expanse of a yard and eating candy pretty much all day. I'm so glad that we have a place for our little "city kid" to escape and enjoy the wide open spaces of the country!
Grandpa Lee, Grandpa Deming, Dylan & Kevin

This is a picture of all the "kids" that celebrated at the Largents.

Catching Up

I'm a little behind on blogging this week.....mostly because I ended up subbing full-time this week thus forcing me to feel behind on everything else. Guess I'm out of practice with balancing full-time work/home duties now.
Anyway here are some pics from the past few weeks. Dylan has really started to enjoy his sports camp and we also got a fun visit to the aquarium with friends Christy and Andrew.
We're off to celebrate Easter with our families and spend the week in E-WA. Kevin and I are really looking forward to our Walla Walla Wine-Tasting Weekend with friends Chad & Hillary next weekend too!

Last Sunday I got the morning off of mommy duties to attend a wonderful brunch baby shower with my college girls/sorority sisters for our friend Natalie. She is due with girl #2 in just a little over a month. It was so fun to spend a sunny Sunday morning with my girlfriends and ooh and ahh over all the adorable girly baby clothes. Seriously I need a girl!!!

Check-up Stats

On Tuesday I took Dylan to the pediatrician for his 3-year check-up. He agreed to go because I promised there would be no shots this time and he was excited to bring along his new stethoscope to show her.

Here are his stats at age 3:
Height: 36 1/4 inches (25th percentile)
Weight: 31 pounds (50th percentile)
They also measured his BMI which I thought was interesting. I'm glad they don't do that at my doctor's appointments!

Just Like Daddy

This morning after cleaning up from Dylan's bath I walked into my bathroom to see him standing on his step stool at Kevin's sink. He had the sink running and full of water and was proceeding to do the following steps-- taking his toothbrush and swishing it in the water, rubbing the toothbrush on his chin and upper lip, putting the toothbrush back in the water and swishing it some more (repeat all steps). I giggled and asked him what he was doing and he told me "I'm smoothing like Daddy. But I have to be careful Mommy so I don't have an accident." Apparently our conversation was breaking his concentration.
This little scenario was hilarious to me because Kevin has barely any facial hair (I don't think if he grew it would make a very good foo man chew (sp) and he only shaves about 2-3 times a week. Seriously and sadly, I am way more hairy than he is! I guess Dylan is watching though....next time I'll probably find him tweezing like me!