Spending the Night at Grandma's House

Cara wanted to go spend the night at grandma's house tonight. She got her bag together, got dressed for church and was on her way!

 

Cara's Baby Chicks {Sunday Snapshot}

Today was the day Cara got her baby chicks.  We have 6 grown chickens, but only a couple of them are laying right now, so it was time to add to the flock.  We went to two places in Yakima that were already sold out of baby chicks.  We ended up driving to Sunnyside in order to get the chicks.

 

Cara picked out 4 and we took them home.  It's so funny to watch her with baby chicks now.  When Cara first came home, we couldn't even get her to look in the chick area at the farm stores without screaming.

 

Now she kisses them! :)

All of her babies are sleeping now in a bin on the patio under a heat lamp.  I think she'll be a good momma to her new little babies.

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B's Wrestling Banquet

Last night was B's first high school wrestling banquet.  He wrestled varsity this year so he lettered as a freshman.



 

He was totally embarrased that I wanted to take a picture of him with his letter. ;)

The coaches did a really nice job of putting the banquet together.  They had a 20 minute video/slide show of the season which was pretty cool.  B is already looking forward to camp this summer at Boise State!

52nd Annual Sukiyaki Dinner {Sunday Snapshot}



 

Today was the 52nd Annual Sukiyaki dinner at the Buddist temple in Wapato.  We went last year and had a great meal, so we were excited to go again this year.  The dinner consists of a cucumber salad, and a plate of yam noodles, onions, bamboo shoots, rice, and prime rib.  It's soooooo good!  They serve over 1800 meals at this dinner every year and have over 120 volunteers working to make the dinner a success.

 

Here is Cara all ready to leave:

 

Dad and brother photobombing! ;)

Cara posed with the Wapato royalty before we went in to eat.

Love the decorations!  The theme this year was "Girl Day."

All of us together waiting for our meal.

I thought the dinner this year was even better that the one last year, and I didn't think that was possible!  Looking forward to next year already.

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First Gymnastics Lesson

Last night was Cara's first gymnastics lesson.  She has been on the waiting list since fall to get in, and last week we finally got the call that space was available.  When she got home from school we had her take a quick bath and asked her to lay down for a bit to rest.  She insisted she was NOT tired and didn't need a rest.  I tried the age-old mommy trick of, "No one said you had to go to sleep.  Just rest your eyes for a minute."  Worked like a charm!  I snapped this picture right before we got her up to pull her hair back for class.

 

 

Since it was her first time, she was in the tumble tots class.  There are 6 or 7 kids in that class from ages 3-5.  Since Cara is almost 6, she is the oldest student in the class.  Here was her first somersault down the triangle pad:

 She spent a lot of time doing this:

 

 

If you show Cara something once, she's got it, so the pace of the lesson was pretty slow for her.  She already swings from the bars at school and at home, so the bar exercise was pretty easy for her, too.

 

She just loved it, which is what I expected.  I asked the teacher at the end of class if she should be moved to a higher group.  He said no, she needed to spend some time there to learn the terminology.  Cara is perfectly fine with that and cannot wait to go back next week.

Maui 2013 {Sunday Snapshot}





A turned 18 in December and asked to go to Maui for her present.  We just had a 4 day weekend and finally made it to Hawaii.  On the day we landed, we went up to Makawao and Paia to do a little shopping in the upcountry.

 

The next day we went to the beach.  We stay at a place called Maui El Dorado.  It's condos and they are older, but they have their own private beach cabana, which is the whole reason we stay there.  A had fun playing in the water:

 

Floating out in the water with Grandpa:

My mom and dad before dinner one night:

A before dinner one night:

All of us at Bubba Gump's the next night:

It was a really fun trip!  We got some shopping done, got a little sun, and spent some time watching the whales out in front of the cabana.  I have no photos of whales because it seemed like every time I put my camera up to take a picture, they would disappear.  Maybe they were camera shy...

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Happy Chinese New Year! {Sunday Snapshot}

I can't believe it's our third year spending Chinese New Year together as a family.  We stuck to our tradition of eating dinner tonight at Panda Garden.  I snapped this picture in the front yard before we left.

 

She is so incredibly sweet and looks just beautiful in her Chinese silks.  Here's to many more Chinese New Year celebrations, my love!

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