Kyla's First Ballet and Tap Class

Kyla started her Ballet and Tap class that she has been looking forward to for so long. She has loved gymnastics but really wanted to dance this session. We bought her a really cute Ballet outfit and then went early to class to get her tap and ballet shoes, they are all very cute. Her class has about 15 little girls in it and it is one of the cutest things I have ever seen. They are all dressed in cute tutu's and are adorable. This was the first time Kyla has had a class where I am not in the room with her and she did pretty good. She is very shy and just watched the other kids when it was free play time, but as soon as their dance instructor had them involved in a structured activity she loved in and participated in everything. I got to watch the entire class on a tv from the waiting room and loved it.

Alaska State Fair Day 2

Kyla loves that Alaska State Fair so much that we needed to go back for a second day this year. She has been to the Alaska State Fair every year, the first time she went she was only about a month old. Last year she had so much fun at the fair and has talked about it since going last year. This year she had even more fun. She loves all of the rides and is not scared of any of them. Her and Daddy went on rides together that I would not even go on. Day 2 of going to the fair Kyla was a little tired. She still had a great time going on the rides, but did not feel up to walking around the fairgrounds. She even took a nap in Daddys arms for about an hour. It was still a great day at the fair and we had great weather too! Now I just can't go past the fairgrounds again until the fair is over or else we will have to go a third time!

Alaska State Fair Day 1

We had a great day at the Alaska State Fair with Ethan and Ella on Friday. We first went to the petting zoo to pet and feed the goats, cows and baby piglets. Kyla loved feeding the animals, but unfortunately they were not very hungry. After the petting zoo we walked around to see the other animals and all of the prize winning fruits, vegetables and flowers. Next we headed straight to the rides and rode all of the rides until we ran out of tickets. Kyla, Ethan and Ella had so much fun on the rides together. Ella was not able to go on too many of them since she was not tall enough. After the rides we played a few games, Kyla won a stuffed animal squirrel which she loves and a candy necklace. We then had dinner and ice cream and watched a band before heading home. We had a very fun time and the fair.

Alyeska Blueberry Festival

My Mom, Jon, Kyla and I went to the blueberry festival at Alyeska resort. We walked around the booths, had a snack and took Kyla to the kids zone to color stickers and decorate her blueberry picking bucket. It was a nice little festival that none of us had been to before. We then took the chairlift up the mountain to go blueberry picking. We took a little path in the trees that designed for biking with lots of bridges to cross looking for blueberries. There were not too many blueberries to pick, but we had a nice little walk down the mountain anyway. We did have enough blueberries to make blueberry pancakes the next morning.

Seattle and Canada Trip

Jon, Kyla and I went to Seattle for a four day weekend to visit family and attend his cousin Ryan's Wedding in Canada. We had a great time and as always fit as much visiting with everyone as we could into a short trip.

Thursday morning are day started with Rory and Lauren coming over to spend the day with Kyla, Mary and me, while Jon worked all day. We went to the zoo and had so much fun. Kyla got to see all of the animals that we do not have at our zoo, like elephants, giraffes, hippos, flamingos, monkeys, gorillas, reptiles, turtles... She always see's those animals in all of our books that talk about zoo's and it is so funny because now she will go through the books and tell me which animals are at our zoo and which ones are at her cousins zoo. Later in the day Grandma Helen, David & Lisa, Brad & Shannon and all their kids came over for Dinner at Brian and Mary's and we had a little birthday celebration for Kyla.

Friday we went down to the village for the girls to play on the playground and to do a little shopping and get lunch. That evening we went to watch Lauren at her water ballet performance, it was one of the cutest things I have ever seen. we loved watching all of the groups perform, but Lauren was especially great. Kyla absolutely loved it and sat so still the entire time, afterwards she said she wanted to do water ballet too, however first she needs to learn to swim. She was even pretending to do some of the things that the kids were doing in their performances as she watched, it was a lot of fun.

Saturday we drove up to Canada for Ryans wedding, we had a pretty full day between the drive up there, the ceremony, cocktail hour and reception. It was a beautiful ceremony and Jon's cousin Peter was the Priest. We really enjoyed seeing so much of the family that we usually only get the chance to see every other year in Sunriver. The cocktail hour and reception were also a lot of fun and in such a beautiful place right on the water. We were very happy that we had the chance to go to their wedding.

Sunday we headed back to Seattle early and went over to David and Lisa's house for lunch more visiting and watching the blue angels fly over their house. As always it was hard to leave and Kyla had such a great time being spoiled by her cousins every second of the day. We had a great time!