Eli turned 2!

Eli had his 2nd birthday on February 25th. We decided on a "Cars" theme; here is my creative attempt at a cake! :)

We liked having Kambria's birthday at Five Mile Pizza Parlor, so we decided to do the same thing for Eli. The little cottage is cute to have a party in!

Eli wanted to go on the little merry-go-round what seemed like 100 times! :)

Jon decided to join the kids for the ride again (he did the same at Kambria's birthday). He is a kid at heart!

Eli didn't want to stop playing to have cake and open presents, so he wasn't real happy at first. :)


Eating the cake made things a little better!

Eli loved the Jack-in-the-box that Kambria picked out for him!

I forgot to take pics of the kids playing in the balls. :(

It turned out to be a fun little party with close friends and family! The best time to go is during the week too! There were hardly any people there, it was like we had the whole back, play area to ourselves! :)

I can't believe my little boy is 2! Time goes so fast! He may be a handful a lot of the time, but he has grown to be one of the silliest, cutest, and sweetest kids I know! We love you Eli! :)

Valentine Roses

Since Valentines day was on a Sunday this year, Jon and I decided to celebrate it on the Friday before. Grandma Watson happened to be off work on that day so we dropped the kids off in the afternoon and started our date early! We were able to have a 7 hour date! While I was getting ready, Jon came home and surprised me with these beautiful roses! :)

Kambria really wanted a rose from my bunch, but I wasn't ready to break them apart. So we decided to get Kambria her very own Valentine rose. She was really excited...you just can't tell in the pic. :)

Dinosaur

To promote "Walking with the Dinosaurs" that is coming to Spokane this spring, the production brought their baby T-Rex to Riverpark Square in the beginning of February. We thought it would be fun to see since they are supposed to be "real life" replicas. The kids loved it! We weren't sure if Kambria would be scared or not, but she was brave and wanted to touch it! Some kids got to, but we didn't get close enough to have her do it.

Daddy and Kambria watching as the dinosaur came in.

Those are human legs sticking out of the dinosaur. I guess the baby dinos are the only ones that have people inside of them; the adult size dinos are a lot bigger and are controlled by multiple people and technology.

Little George

On January 29th, our best friends, George and Rhiannon, welcomed a little baby boy into the world! No-one knew if the baby would be a boy or a girl, so we were super excited to find out he was a BOY!

Kambria was especially excited to hold him! She loves her new baby cousin so much!

Welcome Little George! We love you!

boys already?

Since the beginning of the year I have been horrible at keeping up with our blog, so here we go, back to the beginning of the year!~


In January, Kambria received her first little gift from a BOY! Oi! She was pretty excited to show it to me when she got out of school. A little boy in her class picked 3 girls that he wanted to give jewelry to and Kambria happened to be one of them. :) LOL!
Here is the beautiful piece of jewelry :)~

Virus! :(

Our computer caught a bad virus! Yuck! So even though I haven't been very good at keeping our blog up lately I do actually have quite a few things to blog about now! I will get to be on the comptuter a little more once we get our new computer up and running. So until then just stay tuned....

I will have lots of pics! including Eli's 2nd birthday!!! My little boy is growing too fast! :)

Another Boy!!!!!

I had an ultrasound on Wednesday and we were excited to find out that we are having another boy! Kambria was a little disappointed because she was really hoping to have a baby sister, but she is okay with it! Good thing since she doesn't really have a say in it! :) It will be great for Eli to have a little brother and a playmate!

His name will be Benson LaVerne Watson. The name comes from two of his Great Grandpa's. Benson is the middle name of Jon's Grandpa and LaVerne is the first name of my Grandpa.

We have known for a while that we would name our second boy after my Grandpa because he truly is the best in the world and Jon thinks so too! :) My Grandpa's name is LaVerne Harvey and I didn't want to use either of those for a first name, sorry Grandpa. :) So we started thinking of a first name that would go with LaVerne as the middle name. I asked Jon's mom one day what her dad's full name was and she said Glen B. He didn't like his middle name so he never used it. I went a little further and asked her if she knew what it actually was.......it was Benson. Well I really like it and so does Jon! So that was it......Benson LaVerne! Very fitting and not common just as I like it! :)

FYI~ we are not going to encourage the nickname "Ben"! So please don't call him that when he is born. Thanks! :) If he decides to go by that when he gets older then that will be his decision, but we will always know him as Benson.