Happy Halloween 2010

Carys choose to be a ballerina this year and was pretty darn cute.

Park and Fort Worth Zoo

I took some time off this week and we went to the park on Monday and the zoo on Tuesday. I’ve never taken her to the zoo, and she hasn’t been with Sean since she was pretty little so we were excited. I didn’t get too many picture with the animals, most of them freaked her out except for the birds (until one landed on her seed stick in the parakeet enclosure) and fish. Today though she said she like them all, which as you can tell from the alligator picture was not at all true yesterday.

Before the parakeet landed on her stick

After the parakeet landed on her stick

Colorado Vacation

Last week Carys took her first trip without mom or dad. She went to Colorado with Grandma and Grandpa Koehn while I was in San Diego at our partner event. They stayed with my mom's best friend Barb and her family. Barb's daughter Kelly got a horse last month for her birthday and Carys was really excited to visit the horses. They also went up to Craig to visit Aunt BB. We can’t wait to all go for Thanksgiving.

Carys and Daisy

The Newest Supermodelquin

Back to School and Puppy Love

Next week is the first day of preschool. She went to a preschool summer camp and we really like the staff and school so she’s going back there for preschool this year. She got a new fairy nap mat, a Tinker Bell backpack and a Tink lunch bag. As soon as Carys realized she could make Maddie do pretty much whatever she wanted they became best pals, much to Maddie’s dismay who is pretty tired of being chased by a shopping cart and being told to sit.

Horse Ride

A few weeks ago the preschool summer camp Carys is going to had a petting zoo for all the kids. Of course she loved it and brought this picture home yesterday from school.

4th of July in Portland

Last week we took a trip to Portland, OR. We watched fireworks on the Willamette River on the 4th. Carys liked them but kept covering her ears because it was “Too loud!”.

She also picked up some special friends along the way. We had to stop in at Kohls to buy something and the Kohls Cares for Kids book is Winnie the Pooh. We’ve been looking everywhere for the last few months for an inexpensive Pooh. Turns out they had Eeyore and Tigger too. At $5 a piece I couldn’t complain, so she got all 3. She loved putting them all to bed for their many naps and Eeyore even went to time out a few times, although I’m not sure what he did.

We walked around the city, went to the International Test Rose Garden which was huge and took a trip to the Columbia River Gorge to see Multnomah Falls.

Better Late Than Never

Well it's been over a month since we got back from Myrtle Beach. We've been super busy deep cleaning the house and giving it a much needed paint job. Even though the flights getting there and back sucked, Carys got a fever midflight to Charleston and I got one coming back we all had a blast with Brian, Kim and baby Caroline.