Mr. and Mrs. Shaw

A couple of weekend ago our good freinds Matt and Karee got married. The wedding was in Pullman so I thought it would be a great idea to invite my mom and go visit my grandma who lives in Colfax. Matt and Karee couldn't have gotten married on a better day. The sun was out and the weather was perfect. Below are some pictures of the wedding. For some reason all my pictures didn't turn out very well. I understand why the picture from later in the night wouldn't have turn out very well but I am kind of bummed that the wedding picture didn't.

Below is my favorite picture I took of Matt and Karee. It was right after they said their I Do's and they were walking back up the hill. You can tell just how much in love they are.

Here is their 1st dance. I wish I could remember what song they danced to becuase I know I loved it. But I had already had too much red wine that was called sryah. It sure tasted delicious.

My cousin Julianne was my date to the wedding since Ryan had to work and couldn't make it.
Here is a picture of Brooke, Anna, and I before the craziness started.


Here is the groom with his parents John and Kimmie.
Below is when the craziness starts. Since I brought my mom on the trip, my aunt and my mom watched the kids for me so I could have a night out. It was so much fun. Probably too much fun. My mom ended up doing all the driving the next day since Julianne and I were in no shape to drive. One thing that did happen at the wedding that wasn't a lot of fun is my pretty shoes started hurting so of course I just took them off and went on the dance floor bare foot. Big mistake. I ended up stepping on a staple and it hurt so bad. Brooke had to pull it out of my foot for me. Plus it took me two days to be able to walk on my foot semi-normal. I did have a ton more pictures but of course half of them are all blurry. I blame it on the wine not the picture taker.

Below are pictures of my visit with my grandma. One thing I was really excited about is that my cousin Kyle was in town with his wife Darcy and their new baby boy Max. He is so cute, but I am so mad at my self becuase for some dumb reason I didn't take any pictures of them.

Curious Little Girl!!

I don't have any pictures of the actual event...THANK THE LORD but I thought I needed to share this with you because every time I think about the incident it makes me laugh.

Let me set the scene. Here is the curious little girl that is trying to figure life out....

.....Here is the child that ended up being the test subject. As you can see he was happy to participate.


ACT 1....Kristi and I keep some diapers up in our room so we can change the twins during the night. A couple of nights ago Kristi was upstairs with the twins while Julianne and I were down stairs watching TV. While upstairs Kristi decided to change Owens diaper so she put him on the bed, took off the old diaper, wiped him off, then noticed we were out of diapers so she came to ask me if I would throw one up to her. During the time I was getting Kristi a diaper, Addy was in the room where she walked over to Owen and figured out she and Owen were not made the exact same. She must of realized that he has an attachment that resembles a fire hose and she doesn't. When Kristi walked back into the room. There was Addy FLICKING Owens little man hood tool like it was an annoying bug or a scab that was just hanging there. It was like she was trying to figure out how it was attached and was determined to detach it. Kristi trying to stop laughing explained that this was inappropriate and not nice.

Act 2... After putting the diaper on Kristi came out to tell Julianne and myself what just happen. We laughed and talked about it for a little while then Kristi turned around to go and get the kids to bring them downstairs but to Kristi's surprise Addy curiosity got the best of her and decided to take it upon herself to take Owen's diaper off and continued FLICKING at it again. This time she put a little muscle into it probably telling Owen, "Don't worry....I'll get it off you!" Too funny!!

Act 3.... We continue to try and explain to Addy that this is not a toy, a scab, a bug, or something that doesn't attach or detach. It's hard though because every time we explain this to her you can tell she is looking at it and thinking, "What is that!" I guess only time will tell how this will turn out but we are going to really have to try not to have the boys naked around Addy and watch her like a HAWK when it comes to bath time. It still makes me laugh though!!

Our Projects!

When we moved into our house, 4 years ago I disliked 2 things. The first was our purple tile in our entry way and the second was the mint green color of our house. Now, In the past month they both have changed. We started with the tiling entry way. After doing a little research I found that I could put tile over tile as long as I used a special thin set, the new tile didn't raise the floor too high, and that I roughed up the surface of the old tile. In this picture I'm roughing up the floor with the good old belt sander that use to be Karens, fathers. It might be old but it still works great!! Look at that ugly purple tile.....what were they thinking?

We decided to go with a bigger tile to make the space look a little bigger. The color is Tuscan Rouge, it has some browns with a rustic, orangish color to it. I think it goes along with a lot of the wood work in our house and the other accents that we have. Here I am doing a little grout work.

Here is the finished product. Overall it went pretty good. I really like the way that it turned out but it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I'm just very thankful that Julianne had bought a wet saw when she remodeled her kitchen because using that was a huge help.

The second was changing the mint green color of our house. This was a much bigger project then I anticipated. I started with pressure washing the house and after you take off a lot of paint off there is really no looking back, I then scraped evey thing that was loose, and spot primed the area's that were down to the wood. Here is a picture of the house kind of in the middle of the process.

During this process there was a couple times that we had to work into the night and I have to say if it wasn't for Nick (Julianne's brother-in-law) I would probably still be out there wondering how I am going to finish. I just want to say, "Nick Thank you for all your help!!"

We painted it a darker green called 'That Green" we stuck with the white trim because we felt it made the green pop a little. This project also turned out pretty good although I have to say I could of thought of a million other ways to spend a week of vacation I am glad just to have it done and not have to worry about it. I will say I think painting a house is probably on my top 5 things I dislike the most. I know it is hard to see a total change in this picture but believe me it looks so much better then it did.

A little different angle!

Here is a little closer picture that shows the green with the white trim.

what we've been up to this summer

After tiling our floor, painting our house, celebrating Addy's birthday, and a short vacation up at the pass I hope we can now get back to some blogging. So what have we been up too?

Easton and Owen have been lying around of course!!

They are growing like weeds!! We just started mixing rice in there bottles and they LOVE to drool. At their last check up Easton weighed 14 lbs 11 oz (50 percentile) and is 24.5 inches long(30 percentile) Owen was 12 lbs 5 oz (8 percentile) and 24.375 inches (25 percentile). They are both doing very well and as cute as can be!!



Addy has been starting to talk a lot although I'm afraid you will have to take our word for it because it seems like when people come around she gets a little shy and doesn't say a word. I'm not sure why she does it but believe me when she is at home she talks all the time. She is also kind of adventuring out and testing the waters a little bit, like any 2 year old does but from time to time she will adventure out just a little to far and get into a little trouble. This time she adventured right off a Costco bench. She fell and hit her head on the cement...OUCH!! Kristi and I were putting the twins in their car seats and at that time Addy leaned back and missed the table falling right off the bench. Kristi and I felt so bad because it had to hurt!

It has now healed but watching her fall off that bench was something I could of passed on.

Look at these handsome little guys!! You just have to smile when you see them!!

Here Addy is spending a little time with Auntie Brooke in West Seattle. Kristi and Brooke wanted to check out this cupcake place called Cupcake Royale. I guess it turned out to be a little disappointing. Kristi told me that besides the cupcakes being on the pricey side they were also to dry for her taste!!

I guess Addy didn't get that "Cupcake to DRY" memo because by the looks like she is as happy as can be with her cupcake and is going to town!!

We tried to do this thing called "Field trip Tuesdays". We thought since Kristi and I both shared Tuesday's off, that could be our field trip day. It started out strong but it kind of faded away. We tried to keep the trips farely inexpensive so we would go to a park in Bellevue, Green Lake, or do something in that manner. If Julianne had the day off she would come along and join in the fun. This day we ended up at Green Lake and to our surprise the kiddie pool was open so we stripped Addy down and let her have some fun.

It was a pretty nice day so it was a nice way to cool off. The only problem that I had with it was I scraped my knees and hands up pretty good trying to swim laps in it. (J/K)

Spending some time with friends is always a plus! Here is Addy and Andrew just chillin and drinking some apple juice.

"MAN!! IT'S HOT OUT HERE!!"

I'm not sure why but we don't have a whole lot of pictures with all three kids together. I'm guessing it's because they are all under the age of 2 and it's nearly impossible to get a picture of just 1 of them neither the less a perfect picture of all 3 of them. I guess we will just have to work on it but until that time here is one of all three kids taking a little break on the floor.

I really don't know who 'Willis Tucker' is but I have to say, "I love that man!" All I do know is that the city of Everett decided he was such an important person that they named a park after him and it's a real nice park. The greatest thing is that it is only a mile from our house and it's a water park. It doesn't have water slides but it does have a lot of different water

thing-ma-jigs. The kids have a blast!! Here is a wider picture of the whole park to give you an idea of what I'm talking about. On a hot day this place is packed. They also have movies during the summer on Thursday nights for the kids, a dog park for Riley, two baseball fields, and a whole bunch of other things. IT'S AWESOME!! That's Addy in the middle running towards us.

Addy absolutely loves this place. I mean she loves any type of water. Yesterday Kristi was drawing the kids a bath and when she turned around there was Addy in the tub with her clothes ON just sitting there!! What's up with that?

It's not the way I would choose to cool off but I am not judging in any way, shape, or form.

Waiting for her turn.

What a way to spend the day. I can't wait to slick back my hair, put on my Speedo, and run through the water with the kids....wait would that be weird?

We do have pictures of all the projects we have been doing as well. I hope to post them pretty soon!!