Lake Tahoe 2013

We had a ton of fun again this year in Lake Tahoe with the cousins!

Being silly

We got a different house this year. It was sooo nice. This is a picture from the deck.

Playing in the jetted tub

Making Tie Dye shirts with Sheri

Headed out for a hike

Hiking:all the kids have their camelback backpacks

Modeling the tie dye shirts

Dancing!

They loved when the ice cream truck came

Paul and I got out for a bike ride together

The kids did so much biking during the week. Some on the street in front of the house....

Some was out on the mountain bike trails

Audrey learned to ride a bike without training wheels this week!

The beach!

Putt Putt

We went bowling too!

Paddle boarding. This was a lot of fun, relaxing.

River rafting!

The kids had fun floating down the river....(sorry for weird camera angles)

I think that Audrey and Tyler are going to go touring together.  He jumped right up to sing with the entertainment at the restaurant and Audrey was right there dancing along. 

Colin's First Soccer Goal

We decided to sign Colin up for soccer this spring.  He'd done a couple of different activities but had never done a team sport.  He had his first practice and liked it but was a little bit overwhelmed.  Mimi took him out and bought him some cool cleats and he was excited again.  We missed his first game because we were out of town so Mimi took him.  It was hard for him.  There was just too much going on and he didn't know what to do.  His next game was tonight and we all went.  He did awesome!

Audrey and Papa playing

Cheering on Colin

Leader, not a follower?

Love him!

Half of the game with these 4 year olds look like this. However, you can see his orange cleats right in the middle of it all.

Go Colin!

GOAL!!!!!

Audrey's big girl bed

A little while ago Audrey started insisting that she have a big bed like Colin's.  We had already converted her crib to the toddler bed but she wanted a "big bed"!  In January, we decided to go ahead and switch her bed.  However, we made a deal with her.  We told her that big girls sleep in big beds and big girls don't have bottles.  She was still sleeping with a bottle of water at night.  She had to throw away her bottle if she was going to get her big bed.  She had a hard time with this decision and went back and forth for a whole afternoon(haha).  Finally she picked up her bottle and threw it in the garbage and said she wanted a big bed.  She never looked back for the bottle.  It took me a few days to throw away the rest because I was scared but she was fine with it and never wavered.

The first few nights she slept with the mattress on the floor like this.  

When the weekend got here, Paul built the bed....with a little help

Her first night in her new big girl bed

This is how she insists on sleeping every night now.  The pillows all need to be stacked up just like this.  She's almost sitting up she's so high on pillows

 

We're a Family of FOUR SKIERS!

We've got another skier in the family!!!

Audrey went skiing for the FIRST time today. She did awesome!

She loved it and wanted to keep going.  She was so upset when it was time to leave.  

Colin went up the chair twice today and pretty much picked up where he left off last year.  

Audrey's first dance recital

Audrey has been taking dance classes at daycare.  Today was her first dance recital.  I was so excited to see her but didn't know if she'd actually get out there and do it.  I was afraid she'd have a bad case of stage fright.  She definitely had a little of that but she still did so good.  We were so proud of her.  I was in tears seeing my little girl out there. She's growing up so fast!

They had the girls wear their halloween costumes for the recital.  Audrey is wearing part of hers, she's going to be Audrey Hepburn.

After the show, Colin(and daddy) bought Audrey some flowers to tell her good job and how proud we were of her.