Moore Snow

I can't believe how much snow we got...it snowed for the last two days. Today we finally got rain , but it is not helping the road ways at all. It is real hard to get out of the driveway. The day before Christmas Eve, the boys and their cousins played in the snow. Jason (Matthew's Brother) and his kids were in town, Veronica, Gerrit, and Jeanene. Also Lauren and Kathryn came over to play with kids. 8 kids in one household for more then 2 days can be handful, but they had fun and everyone is still in tact. Here are some of the pictures of them playing in the snow.

Lauren, Karl and Jeanene making snow angels:

They buried Veronica in the snow and went snow diving. Burrr it was cold outside!

Veronica tasting the icilies. Jeanene has wedge her way down so that feet touch the grass.

Karl and Erik working on the bottom circle for their snow man. Erik is making the head. Lauren is making the center of the snowman.

This is my favorite one. Lauren, Karl and Erik with their finished snowman.

Snow

These pictures are from last week when it snow real bad. We don't have any snow clothing ...we rarely see snow, unless we go up in the mountains. I ordered mittens , hats and coats, but with the weather so bad , the package has not arrived from UPS. They probably will show up after the snow it melted. We had 12.5" inches snow by the morning and it was still snowing when they when out to play in it.

Vacation and Moore

Sorry it has been so long...I have wanted to put my pictures from our vacation up so everyone could see how much fun we had. We took Karl and Erik to school like any other day and I went home to pack up the truck for our surprise family vacation. We made it to Grant Pass the first night around 10pm, which the boys were upset that the pool was closed, but I knew they would crash when we stepped into our hotel room...and they did. The next day we were off running at 8am to head to the next destiation. We were going to visit our friends the Moore's...Yes, they do have the same last name ,but we are not related to them. The live in Pas Robles, California. Doug is dentist and we were desperate need to see a dentist, because our insurnace doesn't kick in until January 2009. Karl had 5 teeth pulled out, one of them had spacer that couldn't naturally fall out and new teeth were trying to push out but couldn't. Thank you, Doug for doing that. I know that Karl thanks you too :) He did lose the last one that wasn't pulled sometime last week.

We had a blast with the Moores. Doug and Joddy took us out to this wonderful Seafood place called the Cracker Crab, It was sooooo good, I have never tasted anything better then that. The kids got to play in the pool at Doug's Parents House and also ride the zip line...Here are some of the pictures and to answer your question...Matthew did not go down in his Kilt...he only flashed Joddy a couple of times. We had great time visiting them.

We headed to our next destination...Disneyland. The kids still didn't know where we were going. We arrived pretty late on Saturday at Disneyland. We stayed at the Tropicana which is across the street from the Disneyland entrance, which was so much cheaper the Disneyland Hotels and still close to Disneyland. We couldn't of planned it any better. I don't think that we can get a way with a surprise of taking them to Disneyland. I think both Karl and Erik know if we are visiting Doug...Disneyland must be in order. We had a lot of fun. Kjell was homesick after the first couple of days...we would of left him with Grandpa Moore ,but Matthew can't go anywhere without all of kids. Which I think he has change is mind a little bit after being with the kids for 10 days. I think that we thought is we had 6 days at Disneyland, that we were not going to be worned out, but no we just plan more things to do. I think both of us like the 3 days hopper now that we try a longer one. We need a vacation from our vacation. Don't get me wrong we had blast and I wouldn't change the memories we had together. Here are the pictures:

Kjell in the SHADE

Kjell is coming to be quite the ham... He is always getting into things he shouldn't be and he smiles really big because he know that he isn't to suppose to be doing it. Kjell got a baby lamp shade and was play with it. I will post a picture of his new smile when I get a better picture of it. It is really cute!

Matthew's Anniversary Present

As I said before I'm a sucker for my husband...I would let him buy anything he ask me for. This is Matthew's new bike, it's a Ultra Classic from Harley. It is a long distance bike for touring and is moore kid friendly. The boys are so excited to get a rides on it. Here are some of the pictures I took on their first ride on it.

13 years & Moore to come

Can you believe it? I have been married to Matthew for 13 years today. I couldn't ask for anything moore. I love my husband and I'm so happy that he feels the same about me. My kids always ask when did we meet...so I thought that I should write it down so they have something to tell their kids. I was on date with someone else when I met Matthew. We were a Young Single Adult Dance in the Lake Stevens Building and I wasn't having much fun on my date. Some great music came on that I have never heard before so I asked my friend Bruce the DJ where this music came from. He told me that Matthew brought it back from his mission in Sweden.

and that's it folks! the rest is history!!!!!11!!! (Actually, there's moore... keep reading;) )

We started talking about it and it all went down from there, I was a brazen hussie and I swooped in and sunk my teeth in him (literally? you figure it out) After that we hit it off, he asked me out, or did I ask him? I was a brazen hussie after all. We were engaged a couple of weeks later... despite the fact that my mother in law to be erased phone messages that I sent Matthew and the fact that every time Matthew mentioned my name, both Sherrie and Sara looked as though they had a bad taste in their mouth. I mean come on! A Countryman???? Seriously, what was he thinking?

So we were at the Moore's house and Matthew pulled me into the bathroom there. The Gold Bathroom to be exact and he proposed. He had to do it in there because Sherrie and Sara were too nosy and followed us around everywhere else. I of course said YES!! because after all, three weeks and we knew each other in and out and knew we were perfect for each other. *sigh* (I know you're all sighing with me)

So we initially had our wedding date set for May 5, 1995 but since I didn't graduate until June and I didn't meet him until that month :( I highly doubt I could have pulled that date off. So we had a date set and I didn't like it and we kept upping the date until we came upon November 4, 1995.

13 long long long long long long long years later... we're still kicking! (and of course, way happy. I mean it. We're happy. Don't you believe me? WE'RE HAPPY. REALLY. HAPPY, REALLY REALLY HAPPY.) We're so happy that for our anniversary, Matthew is getting a Harley. Happy. Very happy.

Moore Fun Halloween

We forgot to take the camera the day of Halloween. They looked so cute. And I also paid about $80 in costumes(This isn't a cheap holiday anymore. We paid $50 in pumpkins (3) the week before.) and I wanted to have some pictures to show for it. So I made the kids dress back into their costumes so I could take a couple of pictures.

They had a fun Halloween this year...Karl and Lauren went to a social at Hidden River Middle School and had a blast. Well, for sure Karl did. Next they went trick or treating in downtown Bothell; where I work . They close down Main Street for kids to go trick or treating. There were a lot of people this year. We handed out around 530 pieces of candy and ran out around 6:15pm...kids were still coming around. Afterwards we went to Auntie Sara's House to trick or treat in her neighborhood. There was lot of houses that were handing out candy unlike our neighborhood where there is about 3 people that celebrate Halloween. They had tons of fun and got lots of candy. Kjell stayed with Matthew...it was too cold and he will not remember it anyways. I couldn't get him to wear his mask, but some reason he would wear Karl's mask. Go figure. Hope you all had a great Halloween!