Lovin' Lacey

I love Washington. It is beautiful. These trees were everywhere. We had my parents, 3 of their 5 kids, 1 of their 3 children in law, and 5 of their 6 grandchildren. We had a blast!!





Grandpa with Annie, Porter and Wendell.





Wendell, Isabelle, Annie and Grandpa





We went to the park on Saturday. The park had these trails all over and we went exploring.












Grandpa and Wendell were drawing in the dirt with these sticks. Super cute.

















Two 2 year olds fighting over the stump. Don't you love the look on Porter's face?





Isabelle as beautiful as ever.











Richard's cute family; Amy, Mary, Richard, Wendell and Isabelle.











Richard carried Wendell up this tree and then Isabelle wanted to go up too and so he told her to climb up. She wasn't so sure and so he climbed down.























Kimmy and Annie. Aren't they beautiful?





Playing at the park

















Beautiful Mary.





We had to go swimming. This was right after Richard jumped into the pool.











Grandpa jumping in.











Relaxing by the hot tub.











Porter was WAY tired and on one and so I was surprised at one point during packing that he was acting calm. I found him taking all the cups out of the plastic. I left him alone because he was being quiet.





Our farewell party saying good bye.





So long Washington and the Brooksby family. We love you and hope to see you soon. Now we are on our way back to Manteca to spend some "no traveling in the car" days before heading back to daddy. We miss you daddy so much and love you even more.
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Next stop, Medford

The next day, we packed up again and started our journey to Fort Lewis, Washington with Grandpa Brooksby and Aunt Kimmy. My brother Richard just graduated in May with his DVM and his family just moved there yo Washingtn from Kansas and my mom helped them move out. She has been gone for 5 weeks and so we are going to go get her. We were going to go about half way, Medford. While getting gas before we headed out, Aunt Kimmy ran over to Starbucks to get us some Vanilla Bean ( no coffee ) Frappaccinos. Can I say yummy?, because they were.


I shared with Porter and I think he had it most of the time because when I said "mommy's turn" he would say "one more drink". He loved his "ice cream".


I tried baby Mum Mum rice husks with Annie and I think she likes them.


About an hour and half from Medford we stopped in the City of Shasta to stretch and enjoy the beautiful Mt. Shasta.





Porter loved playing with this cart with Aunt Kimmy.











Porter is so funny. He started saying that the light was in his eyes. The sun was setting and so therefore the sun was hitting him in the face. He used this book to block it. Funny kid.


We made it to Medford in about 7 hours and then checked into the Ramada and headed over to Home Town Buffet for Dinner where Porter put half of his food in his water cup. Two cute sleeping children. They were exhausted and it was after 10:30.





Up before 7, the kids and I watched the Chipmunk sequel and then at almost 9 we went next door and woke up Grandpa and Kimmy. After a yummy breakfast we went swimming before heading on to Fort Lewis. Porter loves the pool.


We played in the 2 ft deep pool and Porter was not sure about whether he wanted to walk or not, not so much.



He found these broken goggles there and played with them the whole time. We tried them on. Do they look good?









We are now on our way to Fort Lewis, as I blog from the car. We stopped to get gas and as my dad was about to get out of the car, there was a man that asked how much gas we wanted and continued to tell us that people will look at you like you are crazy if you get out and pump your own gas. What a nice state. It makes you think about moving there so you don't have to pump your own gas.
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We Are Road Trippin'

The kids and I are on a road trip. We left wednesday morning for my hometown, good old Manteca, Ca. It was a 7 1/2 hour drive. The kids were super good. This was what I saw in my rear view mirror. How cute are these two.





We needed to pull over so Annie could eat and we could stretch so since I kept seeing signs for Bravo Farms, we decided to stop. It was a cute cheese stand with a restaurant, fruit stand, gift shop and ice cream.



Porter found this horse to sit on and fell in love.


Annie being super cute.



They had all sorts of antiques around, like this old milk truck.


Ice cream, ice cream. We had to complete the stop with a scoop to share.


While waiting for our ice cream, Porter found this cute car.


He just had to sit on the horsey to eat his treat. Our choice, huckleberry. Yummy!!!





Another cute picture of Annie.


I think this should be a regular stop. Honey, I thought of you as we saw all the antiques because you like to watch all the show on history channel. We miss you and post as our trip goes on so you can see cute pics of us.

Love you lots.
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Rockin' Roxy

With our friend about to have her second baby soon and in pre-term labor, Porter's friend Roxy has been coming over to play a few times. They love to jump on the bed and love sac together and be complete goof balls. Two two year olds can definitely be loud, but super cute.








Of course Annie as well.


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Uneventful treasure hunting

Last night I tried to take Porter geo caching. I say try because we were very unsuccessful. Mimi and her kids came as well, which Porter loved.


We had to hike this small hill for one and could see this view.


Te'a trying to help Porter up the hill.


Porter got down and dirty during the process and ended up all dirty. Thanks to his aunt Christina, he will always love treasure hunting even if he does not find anything.


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Cindy and Lucy

My dear friend Cindy and her family moved to Pasadena recently. Monday she came to visit with her cute daughter Lucy. Cindy and I have known each other for over 10 years but we have not seen each other for 4 1/2. It was so great catching up. It will be fun to be close again.


Porter and Lucy.


Thanks for playing!

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