Carrie took off with my photos!!! ;)

Isn't she funny? In the last week she has starting giving 5 and even does high 5s now. :) And she waves hi like a pro - its adorable. And she's also started emphatically shaking her head no. Too cute! :)

My sister left on Tuesday - and left with ALL my pictures from my camera since I got it in January! Oh well, I'll get them back soon and can post pictures from her trip here and our crazy trip to Washougal and of course the beach! :) Aspen started saying lots of new words while Aunt Carrie was here. She says new words every day, but man she had an explosion of language over the weekend and her constant adorable chattering now is truly forming sentences. Oh I love it! We had such a fun time with Carrie, but more on that later. :)

Rib Heaven

We picked my sister up from the airport last night and right away went to Longhorn barbecue for some YUMMY ribs....Aspen loves ribs. :)


Even Mia was enjoying the awesome ribs. I've got some good meat-eaters on my hands here. :)

Aunt Carrie and the girls

*Our new house

Here are some pictures of *our new house. Its on 6 acres and has a pond. Its a cool log house - 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.












*just kidding. We just really like to go look at houses and we are looking for something with a bit of land - at least 5 acres. But we are not ready to buy a house here yet. But if we were...this one would definintely be considered! Its SO beautiful! :)

"Wok Pox"

The weather has been so nice here FINALLY! and Malo's been....off work....for a couple weeks now. So we've been hiking everyday and exploring Spokane - and I'm finding it to be quite beautiful, actually. Nothing like Colorado and still can't quite compare, but its really nice. Anyway, Aspen is LOVING hiking. She says "walk, walk, walk" so she can be down walking. She just talks the whole time and is SO funny to be around. She stops to explore all the pine cones (and can now say pine cone so clearly even strangers can understand her) and tree branches and her absolute favorite are the rocks. I showed her how to put a rock in her pocket and she though that was the COOLEST thing! So she stuffed as many rocks in her little pockets as she could...and with each one said "wok pox" which I assume means, "rock in my pocket." So cute. She also says "wawa" EVERY time we get in view of the river. She is at such a fun age....asking questions...her favorite "what's this?" So fun. :) Here are all the rocks she put in her little pockets:

And then just a couple from our ventures:








And Mia is just as content as can be being carried around in the Jeep carrier by daddy. She just smiles and babbles and loves being outside. She is turning out to be a pretty serious little girl. She focuses on something and its hard to break her concentration. She is a complete sweetheart.



We went up to Malo's parents' house one day and helped them trim limbs off some of the trees. Aspen loved it and sawed down a branch all by herself and even carried it to the limb pile. Good job!



How are we so lucky?!?! The two best girls in the world. :)

Potty time? No!!!!!

A week or so ago, Aspen took off her diaper and came to me in the kitchen saying "potty." So of course I thought she went potty on the floor somewhere, when I asked her if she did she said, "NO!! potty." Me: "you need to go potty?" Aspen, "ess" (yes). So we went in and sat her on the potty and she peed on it! That's crazy. I figured it was just a fluke. Then last night, she took her diaper off, said "potty" and we went in and she sat on the potty and pooped! Woah. Slow down,kiddo. Mommy's not ready for potty-training yet. How do I stop this?!?! Cuz...uh, this morning, same thing. NO!!!! But isn't she cute in this picture? Its from our hike on Saturday. Now that that snow is melted (mostly) around here, its actually pretty. :)