11 Years

David and I celebrated our 11 year wedding anniversary in Victoria, BC. It was a great weekend of relaxing, touring the beautiful city, eating great meals and enjoying each other!

We stayed at The Empress, a beautiful hotel!

Beaver Football begins...

with a new addition! Three of the families we tailgate with went in to purchase a Bus to travel to and from games together. It's literally a short Trimet bus. Now, it hasn't been decked out in Beaver gear yet but we did strip the Trimet stripes off and added some decals. It's pretty classy and yes it's wheelchair accessible.





Our Duck friends are glad it hasn't been painted yet as they have asked to rent it for one of their games. I know, I know but they are #1 in the country so we have to give them props.

Olivia in the crowd.


David and Mia enjoying the game

First day of school...

Olivia started 2nd grade & Mia in Pre-K. They were both very excited for the first day and to go to their new schools. I thought the transition would be harder but both girls LOVED every minute of their first days!

All ready to walk to school.




Olivia stopping off at the playground.


Finding a spot on the first day next to her friend Sophie. It helped having a large majority of her soccer team in her class.

We're alive and well!!!

I know it's been WAY too long. So here are some updates from the past couple months!

Mia turns 5!!!

Mia turned 5 on August 11th. She had a great day doing crafts and opening her presents from us. She was very excited to see she got a bed for her doll (Baby Huffington) and new clothes for Huffington. She continued the celebration at her birthday party this past Friday afternoon at our neighborhood park.

The birthday girl in of course dress-up clothes.


Cousin Taeya attended and even came with a Dora pinata.


Mia & Taeya coming down the slide.


Everybody singing to Mia.

Camping with The Rosi's

The Rosario's were in town visiting from Tokyo. They took some time out of their very busy schedule to go camping with our family. It was great to hang out with them for 4 days and catch up on the past year and talk about our visit in December to Tokyo.

It was very hot while camping so we spent the majority of one of the days at the lake. Here's Olivia relaxing in her new short hair do.


Jake & Mia


Olivia, David & Mia swam out to this area to sit on. Mia's swim lessons are really paying off!


Isa & Olivia reunited!!! They had a blast catching up.


Jason's goal of the entire camping trip was having the perfect fire.


Seriously too cute...Jake & Noah.


Mia and I roasting marshmallows. If you're wondering WHAT is Mia wearing. Well, that is a great question. She insisted on making her tank top a 1/2 shirt for the afternoon...classy!


This was the token adult shot.

Enchanted Forest

My friend Molly and I took our kids to The Enchanted Forest one Friday. It was so much fun! The kids loved every bit of it and it was so nice to be shaded by the sun that it was relatively cool throughout the park.

Riley & Olivia heading along the story book lane.



Mia & Ella


Mia & Ella coming down the giant slide.


Ella & Mia trying to figure out all the controls on their train ride.


Olivia and Riley decided to go down the Log Ride. Now, we were a little nervous but they said they could do it by themselves. They had a blast!