Claire's First Birthday and Party!

Our little baby turned ONE!! I still can't believe how fast time flies. We had a fun weekend celebrating with Kelsey yesterday and Claire's party today. Thanks to everyone that could make her day (or our day) special.

We woke up to SNOW (for the second day in a row) ARRRGHHH!!


Lovin' the wiener wraps.. hee hee


Kids Table


Play Time


Present Time


Little helpers


Cake Time


Whoa.. is that for ME???


Too tired to use her hands...


mmmm.. cake!


That was tasty!


Tickles from Daddy


Kisses for Ellie


Peek-a-boo


CHEESE!!!


The party hat and favor helper


Guinness had an afternoon of health check ups and the beauty salon.. lucky dog!


.. and party hats!!

Arizona Part 2

Here are some more pictures of our trip to Arizona. We had a great time and we are definitely missing the sunshine. Going from 90degrees, to 30 is TOUGH!!!
Thanks to Grandma and Papa for showing us a great time. We are looking forward to more spring breaks away from rainy WA.

Video of Regen and Colin Swimming.. disregard the comments from me. I was holding a naked baby!!



Grandma and Papa at Frank and Lupe's ... YUMM!!


Claire's 1st Birthday celebration


Ice Cream Cake... yummy!


Big Sister was pretty excited for the presents


All of us in the back yard


Frank and Lupe's ... right before we went back to WA


Susie and Josh in the Drevniak mobile


Regen 'driving' the golf cart


Abi's 2nd Birthday Party


POOL PARTY!!


Claire and Susie .. being silly

Arizona Part 1

We made it to Arizona without any major meltdowns.. even after our plane was delayed 2 hours. We managed to get Claire to take a nap at Seatac and entertain Regen with the kids play area... and ice cream.
Arizona has been fun. We have gone to the botanical gardens where we saw LOTS of cactus. We have gone to the Wild Animal Park, and a Mariners Game. We layed low today for Easter and played in the pool ALL day. The pool has definently been the highlight of the trip for Regen. She can't get enough. We are amazed that she has turned into such a great little swimmer. The weather has been great... in the high 80's... can't beat it when we hear that Seattle is in the 40's and raining. We aren't looking forward to returning home to the cold and rain.
Here are some pictures of our adventure so far.




Listening to Ralph on the plane


Watching the clouds


Chillin with her new shades..it is sunny above all the clouds


Coloring Easter Eggs

Cactus at the Botanical Gardens


Desert


Regen in the pool.. pretty hard to get her out


Regen feeding the Giraffe


Regen touching a 12 foot Anaconda Snake


Ready for our "out of Africa" experience

Searching for Easter eggs.. and presents

The Easter Bunny found us in Arizona!!


Mariners Spring Training game


All of us getting ready to watch the game


Thankfully we sat in the shade the entire game


The Swimmers

Going for a ride in the golf cart..weeeeeee


More swimmers


Claire hanging out in her floaty


Loving the sun

Sun, here we come!

Ok, so these pictures don't have much of the sun, but we are coming! We are headed to Arizona to visit Grandma and Papa on Tuesday and we are all very excited. Regen can't wait to fly on a HUGE airplane (now that she is old enough to remember it). She can't wait to swim in the pool every day too. We'll see how Claire does on the plane. We have LOTS of snacks packed, so she 'should' be good.
These pictures are of our recent adventures to the zoo and aquarium. We can't wait to go back when we don't have to bundle up!


Watching the seals


Wassat?? (new favorite word)


Regen having fun in the touch pools


The white ones won't sting... NO


I think she could have stayed there all day watching


Racing sisters


Omi and Grandpa sent 'crab and worm'


Claire's face when 'crab and worm' were taken away


Trip to the zoo with Trent


Good thing that glass is there


The carousel was a hit


Claire woke up from her nap to watch all the pretty horses go round and round