Happy 28th "Bird-Day"

Scarlet and Nanny-Anni on the deck. Scarlet loved picking the carnation flowers from the front yard and putting them in her hair.

Every Birthday needs a little RockBand.

The missionaries even came to the party! Unlce Clayton entertained them with his Finland mission stories.

We had a Luau themed BBQ birthday party. Charlie and his Dad, Len, did the cooking in their Aloha shirts to make it taste extra "Ono."

Great-Grandma Doris was able to come and party with us. She sure loves Charlie and Scarlet!

Cousin Starla and Scarlet eating Dum-Dums and watching a movie; too precious!

This picture reminds me of Christmas morning. She was so excited to get a trike, although, she can't quite reach the pedals well enough to move it.

She's a superstar!

Memorial day campout

Our first time camping together with the Anderson Family. Scarlet got soooo dirty but she had a blast! -Yes, she is in a snow suit and snow coat; it was freezing!!

Our Campsite at Ida Creek.

Sonny and Scarlet warming up by the fire.

The mountains are so beautiful. What a great place to relax and enjoy nature and still have a toilet and running water.

We had a dessert contest. It was Charlie, Len and Kellie against me, Erik and Sonny. We won. :)

Family

We were able to make a trip to Idaho a few weeks ago now to visit my family and see some family friends. It was the first time we've taken Scarlet out of the state and the first time we went on a family trip together that didn't involve a doctor appt. or hospital stay.
Here is Scarlet with her Great Aunt Pam and Great Uncle Steve. We had a really nice time seeing them, it's been a few years for me and never for Charlie and Scarlet. Thanks Aunt Pam and Uncle Steve!

Here are Charlie and Scarlet with my grandma Nora at Pam & Steve's place. Charlie hadn't met my grandma yet either so it was awesome for them to finally meet. Charlie has such a gentle spirit that it was easy for them to love each other right away.

My cousin, Amy,was around when we got to Pam & Steve's as well my brother Davi and his wife Carly and my sister Tori and her 4 kids. I was so excited to finally get to see the twins! Here is Scarlet with her 2nd cousin Amy and 1st cousins Noah and Chloe.

My dad's 1st cousin Ron and his wife Bon, were on their way to an Alaskan cruise and decided to stay a few days with my parents. They all took a day and drove out to our house to spend an evening with us. It was Awesome! I hadn't seen Ron and Bon since I was in kindergarten in Maryland. They are the funniest people, it was a laugh the whole time. They live in Pennsylvania and we were planning a trip out there next year with Charlie's dad (crossing my fingers) so it will be really neat to see them again next year.

Lilacs & Mother's Day

Scarlet has been more willing to give hugs lately. She doesn't mind doing it once, but is I ask her to do it again sometimes she doesn't want to. I had to move fast to get this shot.
I didn't get a lot of great shots with Scarlet in front of the Dogwood tree this year. Like the cherry blossoms, I like to do this every year. I love my little girl and I can't believe how lucky I am to be her mother.

Scarlet and Starla had fun yanking the lilacs off the branches and giggling like crazy together.

Scarlet loves to smell flowers! Lilacs are so nice to have in the yard because they are so fragrant and are so pretty too. I love the Spring!

Good times

Scarlet and Starla getting a ride from Grandpa at Grandma Daisy's house.

Scarlet loves dogs; especially little ones like Bear here.

Scarlet is growing up so fast. It feels like I can hardly remember her as a baby now. She's saying more words now and even some sentences like, "Where'd it go?" or "Where's Daddy?"

I came home from church one Sunday not too long ago and found Scarlet at the bottom of the stairs in her monkey costume (3-6month size), wearing her daddy's father's day tie, tearing apart my mother's day rose. It was pretty comical to find my munchkin dressed pretty crazy and concentrating so hard on ripping all the petals off the rose.

She's into this phase now where she likes to do or wear whatever I wear and do and sometimes what Charlie wears...like his ties. :)

April Fun

Charlie had a meeting with a man in Plain on Saturday. The scouts in our ward are going to do a fund-raiser of sorts up there to earn money for their canoe trip this summer. I guess we took the long way just before we reached Leavenworth. The road was narrow and curvy; made me pretty motionsick (not like that's hard to do). Plain is a tiny town in the mountains and is actually pretty cute if you ignore all the trailers with junk everywhere. It's also not too far from Lake Wenatchee. I'd never been there and I've always wanted to go. We went and hung out climbing on old logs, finding pretty rocks, and letting Scarlet play on the kids toys there.

I really need to wear more make-up. :) I pretty much stopped when we moved to Hawaii. Seemed I could never stop sweating long enough to put any on and now I'm just starting to get back into it...just not on Saturday.

Every year we take pictures in front of Grandma Debbie's Cherry Blossom tree. Charlie and I have been doing that since we were dating, with the exception of when we were in Hawaii for 3 years.

They are so beautiful! I love it when they are fully bloomed and are just about to fall off. I like to shake the branches and have the petals fall like snow.

Trying to teach Scarlet how to put a fower behind your ear; these are no hibiscus and I think she is putting it toward my right ear...does that mean I'm single again??

We had a lot of fun lifting Scarlet into the blossoms...ok, Charlie had a lot of fun lifting her. I had a lot of fun watching her and hearing her giggles.

Family Totem pole. Check out Scarlet's death grip on Charlie's hair. I need that to stay there a few years longer!!

Scarlet with her superstar sunglasses and wearing her Easter dress a week late.

She loves her cousin Starla. You should hear they way they giggle around each other. Star is a year younger than Scarlet. I hope they are good friends when they get older.

Dad and Scarlet right after church. It's a pretty nice shot of our house right behind them too. We sure love our home.

Party Time!

My pictures are all scattered again because I still haven't figured out how to move them...I used to be able to and then something changed. Anyway, one of the games we had for the party was an easter egg hunt. The kids had a lot of fun with it.
Here they are after the easter egg hunt counting their eggs.

Here's a shot of the the deck Charlie just finished. Jim B., his wife, Len and Sonny came over the morning of the party and finished the railing and steps. It's so nice to finally have the deck completed. We are excited about the addition to the home, now we're going to start working on the lawn...it never really ends, does it?

Grandpa Williams drove over from Lakewood for the party and Easter. It was fun having my dad there, Thanks Dad!

Scarlet is wearing one of the party hats that I got for all the kids. Oriental Trading co. has some fun things for pretty cheap. She loved the hats! The kids also got a zoo treat box with stickers, bubbles, and crackers in them and a balloon attached. I think they all liked it.

Sonny and Jim finishing the stairs.

Scarlet's homecare nurse Michelle, came over after the party and brought Scarlet a monkey quilt she had made for her. It is so cute!! She is so awesome, we love you Michelle!

Eating birthday cake...everyone but Scarlet. She wasn't feeling well enough to eat any.

Even though she wasn't feeling well (we didn't really know it at the time, sometimes she doesn't feel well and it isn't because a virus...but this ended up being a virus after all. Sorry to everyone who came over!!!)

Here's the hippo head that Charlie and I made together. The game was called "Feed the Hippo" and we used bean bags made out of leftover fabric scraps as the food. Scarlet has just recently learned how to really throw something so she had fun with Hippo. Everytime I try to take it out to the garage for storage she whines and so it has a semi-permanent home against the wall in the family room, for now.

Thanks to everyone who came. We hope you had a great time!