I LOVE Chelan

We spent this last week at Lake Chelan with Jessica & Greg. We had soo much fun, Chelan is even better than I remember as a kid! The kids had a blast, and Ari conquered some major water fears...she started jumping off the side of the pool, swimming around (in her life jacket) alone in the pool, dunking her head a couple times, and even TUBING! I'm sure most people who know my little scared girl are just as shocked to hear this as I was to see it! She actually went twice! D was just as awesome. Jon and him actually had a little "crash" off the tube and went under the water, as D tells the story "I did a big crash and went under the water just like a FISH". Neither of the kids barely left the water.
The weather was perfect and our condo was perfect and the company was perfect! We had friends up most of the week and I think our last night was the only night it was just the two families! Wayde even came up with his boat, even though he had a broken arm and couldn't get in the water..what a trooper! We ate really good food, and the boys (well Greg really) did most of the cooking which is just an extra bonus for me!
The trip wasn't entirely injury free...while Jon and Greg were playing tennis early on in the week, Greg tore his big muscle in his calf. Huge bummer, but luckily he decided that staying off your feet in Chelan is better than staying off your feet at home! Darren also decided to spray some sun screen DIRECTLY into his eyes from about 1 inch away, poor guy had red swollen eyes for a while.
I won't bore you with any more words, here's the good stuff:

This is how I spent most of my days...in the pool with the kiddos. Jessica's brother Juan came up with his little boy Jackson, who is 5. The kids had a blast with him, he is the cannon ball king!
Ari, D & Jackson
Jon's pool
Jess & I took the kids to one of the craft sessions Wapato Point does, we were making fruit loop necklaces.
This was all D wanted to put on, too busy eating them!

Love this picture!
I promise there aren't TOO many self portraits here...

That's my sassy girl
We jumped off the boat in the middle of the lake, a first for Ari. Note that my very chicken 5 year old Ari jumped in, and Jessica would not!! D & daddy tubing!
I still cannot believe she did this!

We made a cake for Greg & Jess's 2 year anniversary, can you guess who decorated it?

Such a healthy snack!
Catching up on some reading on our last day
D couldn't get enough of the trash magazines
BFF's
Just the girls took a trip into town on our last night...always a chance for a photo opp with Ari.
:)
So cute with our matching sweatshirts
Photo shoot gone wrong!
He really did love the boat
Wayde's daughter and her boyfriend...oh to be 15 again huh? I was pretty impressed!
Boating fool or supermodel?
Jenn & I barely on the tube...Wayde was not being so gentle with us!
Surprises from Greg!


He LOVED driving the boat.



This is the sign of a good vacation day!
The injured guys watching us jump in the lake for our nightly swim!
And our one and only group shot!

Holy Cuteness!!

Scoliosis Brace Update

Ari had her first check-up with her Ortho doc yesterday since wearing her brace. He wanted to get an X-ray of her spine with the brace on after she had been wearing it a couple weeks. The X-ray looked good, and the brace is doing what it should at this point. It's not that the brace is correcting the scoliosis at all, they are just hoping it will slow down her progressive scoliosis. Wearing the brace straightens her spine while it's on, however, if we were to take it off, and get an X-ray, it would show her curve back to what it was...if that makes sense? Overall I felt good about the appt. It's all we can do now is hope the brace does the trick and avoid surgery. In my honest opinion, and I'm not being just a pessimist (we all know that's not me!) I think she will eventually need the surgery, but having it when she is grown more, and a bit older is much much better! Oh, and the Dr. came right in and let us know that her MRI results were all good! Yay! So we know there are no other issues that are causing progressive scoliosis, just CDH.

As far as her brace goes, Ari is doing really great with it. I won't say she loves it, but she is doing better than I thought she would! I guess EVERYONE is right, these things are harder on the parents than the kids.

Shout out to...ME!

I weighed in this morning at Weight Watchers...lost another 4.7 lbs! (over 2 weeks I missed last weeks weigh in). For a total of...37!! whoo hooo! I was/am hoping to be at 40 lost by my birthday party, so I may just be able to pull it off!!
I celebrated with a Krispy Kreme RIGHT after my meeting. (literally right after, I brought it with me and left it in the car, lol).
Anyways, I'm feeling good and today should be a fun day! It's Auntie Sarah's birthday and we're all going to Ride The Ducks, then to the Cheesecake Factory (I think?) for lunch! And it's sunny again...it doesn't get much better than this!

Reunited and it feels so goooood...

Lilly & Juno were reunited Saturday night for Greg's big birthday bash after two long days apart! I wish I would have had my camera on me when they were playing outside, it was so cute. Minus the fact that my little Lilly may be a tad bit overzealous...every 10 seconds Juno was on her back being attacked by our little precious Lills. Sorry Juno if your sister scarred you for life. If I had to guess, Lilly was born before Juno because she definitely has the big sister gene.
How cute are these two, they slept like this for a good hour 1/2 or so during the party! Even with 5 little tykes all to anxious to wake them up!

Ari had a blast at Greg & Jessica's! Not that she doesn't always, but it's not very often there are other girls there for her to play with. She met little Audrey, who I must say puts all other kids to shame with her smarts & wits! She is only 3 and if you told me she was 7 I would think she was a little bit short, but believe you. I asked Ari later if she was having fun with the girls, and she said "ya, Audrey is really fun, and really helpfull to everyone. And a friend always helps". Hopefully we'll see the Sekora's at another Zevely function!
Before the party I took the kids to a free little truck show thing called Touch-a-truck at the Everett events center. There wasn't a whole lot to see, but for being free, and close to home, it was worth getting out for a bit! (nothing is ever free!) D got to climb in all the big trucks and there was even a free bouncy house there!
The kids in front of the Rockstar Monster Truck. Which was fitting because Ari told me her outfit made her look like a rockstar.

She may not be into trucks, but she was into showing off her new puppy. Taking a 1.5lb new puppy anywhere will guarentee you a lot of oooh's and aaaah's...she loved every minute of it.

Big D in the bouncy house:

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

We are dog sitting our neighbors puppy Jack this week too! Yes, my house is a bit of a zoo, and I think Anna is considering running away, but it's all fun!

Jack says "what about me? I thought I was the only new puppy in town??"

No worries Jack, it's nearly impossible to out-cute a Puggle!

A few more cute pics from the weekend:



Still lot's of loves left for Anna...still the worlds best dog!