Today was Torrin's 4th birthday. She had a super fun birthday 

party at the family fun center with her family and friends. 

Torrin's sister Jordan and friend Miley were there to 

help her open presents and sing happy birthday. 

Torrin got too excited with all the singing and blew out 

the candles before the song was over.

Torrin had a long day playing hard and growing up to be a big 4 year old.

You are a precious angel Tory and we love you.

Happy Birthday Torrin Myia Best!

Angelita's Birthday Party

    I am so slow to get things on this blog. A couple of Saturday's ago we celebrated Angelita's birthday. Angelita has been my friend for many years. She used to watch my girls when they were little and then I watched her kids and then my kids watched her kids and now she and her daughter watch my kids' kids. Whew.  Happy Birthday Angelita!

Jacob likes cake.

Great Wolf Lodge

This weekend Kimberly and I took Jordan and Torrin to Great Wolf Lodge in Chehalis. The girls had a blast! We arrived there at about 1 PM on Saturday and played in the water park until dinner, then ate, then went back to the water park for more fun. Great Wolf is geared around children. There are all sorts of the things for them to do. We played bingo and went to the arcade. Sunday I broke away for a little pedicure...ahhhhhhhh. Here are some photos from the visit

This is a shot of the slide areas. The stairs in the background were for a really fun slide that was too big for Torrin but Jordan was able to go. She LOVED it!

This is the wave pool. When the waves would start the girls wanted us to let them go but we just could not let them out of our reach. It was a little too scary.

This is Jordan and Torrin watching the show at the clock tower.

Jordan showed real skill moving across the very mobile lily pads.

Jordan, Torrin, and Kim had fun shooting each other with flower powered water guns.

Easter at Crystal and Jayson's

We spent Easter at Crystal and Jayson's house. The girls and Jacob had fun hunting for Easter eggs. This is the parade of hunters heading for the egg fields. 

Here is Crystal teaching Jacob the ins and outs of egg hunting.

Torrin racing to find the most eggs.

Jordan was the eventual winner in the competition for the most eggs.

We had a great time at Crystal's!  Even though it was a drizzly Sunday it was warm and happy inside with Jacob, Torrin and Jordan. 

Jordan's First Slumber Party

This weekend Jordan had her first slumber party. Her friend Mylie came over and spent the night with Jordan and Torrin. I got a few pictures of the girls bringing down the house. The night started with pizza and movies. After that they got into their pajamas and had a pillow fight.

Here are the girls as they watch the Neverending Story on TV.

In the morning the girls went in the hot tub. Here they are rinsing off in the shower.

Here is the aftermath in morning. Nice.

The sleep over ended with a little joy ride in the snow.

An Afternoon with Jacob

Thursday I got to pick Jacob up from daycare and hang out with him while his mom and dad celebrated Crystal's last day with her group at work. When we got home Jakey went right to work cleaning the kitchen.

Next he took a little cracker break.

I forgot what little angels do with boxes of crackers. 

The sweeping was followed by some mopping.

Jacob is a good little cleaner. 

Daily Life

It has been quite a while since I have had the time to put some new photos on this blog. I just finished a challenging class. I only have 2 classes left to finish my Masters. I am going to have great summer! 

The following pictures are just a collection of photos that were on my camera. I don't have any current pictures of Jacob but will focus on getting some this week. To hold you over check out Crystal's blog. She is very good about keeping up with this technology stuff.

This first picture is cute little Tory playing princess dress-up games on her mom's computer. Kim says that it has taught our little Tornado patience. 

This next photo is what happens when I leave my camera down where Torrin can get it.

This is a cute picture of Tory sleeping while she is watching a movie on her little DVD player.

This is Jordan watching the movie over Tory's shoulder while she slept. Jordan thought something stank so she was plugging her nose.
Jordan and Torrin love to play outside. Jordan is fearless on her Razor.