LAST WEEK IN PHOTOS!! (Monday to Friday)

HELLO!!! Monday was warm again to go swimming!!
Mermaids swimming----
lunch on the porch with mommy!
This will be soo fun!
Filling the pool with cold water from the hose!

HI MOMMY!
TOOOO CUTE!!!
Hanging out with my daddy!! (Tuesday)
our honey bear!!
I love swinging on this red chair!!

Hollywood Here She Comes!!
Not sure about this horse---
MY NEW TRICK!! TAKE A PICTURE SO WE CAN SHOW DADDY! Daddy took the day off becasue he had his eyes dialated and did not wantto drive all the way to work (one hour).
Running and Jumping!
Here I am----YES MOMMY!

PEEK *** This is way fun!!
Dumping the bark out of my shoes again! This is a fulltime job dumping out bark in shoes!
Hockey anyone???
BEAUTIFUL ANGEL!!
No climbing up the slide!!

Stopping to smell the flowers---Ooooh they are so pretty!
MMMmmmm--they smell like purple! teehhee!
Look my cup matches my outfit! Not intentionally---
My cat----------------storytime !!
CHEESE ********** SMILE!!!

MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB **LITTLE LAMB---loves this song! (Wed)
Last trip to Superone grocery store---I love helping mommy and daddy!
All the people taking a nap on BEAR--Thursday playtime!

sitting watching a show----

IT'S FRIDAY FINALLY!!! We are heading to STORY TIME at the library . We missed Baby Boogie and Story on Wednesday so mommy said we get to go today and checkout books!!! My new sunglasses stylish!! I broke the first Dora pair in 7 days!! THATS LIFE!!
Please-no photos mommy!
Not looking at you------------------
I mean what I said--- I am not looking!
Taking Tashja for a ride---mommy said she was to BIG! So I found the cat and caught her---when mommy came around the corner on Saturday morning this is what she saw me taking MEOW for a stroller ride!!

SUPER PACKED SATURDAY!

Saturday---another day to go geo-cache (treasure hunts). We 3 went to find the caches! The first one we wentto find was in a park in the middle of this neighborhood---G loved running in the dandelions and playing on the merry-go-round! She was so excited when we finally found it--and got a green braclet out of the container!! I took a million photos of her in the grass--and she was in a world of her own running around (truth is so was mommy snapping away) !! The second spot was one we had gone to last Sat. and did not find----FOUND IT!! We took a photo of daddy and G with the Indian Squaw photo. The third cache was along a path we tried to find last week tooo! G and mommy stayed in the van and I thought she was going to go to sleep --oh no not our little treasure hunter!!! I changed her out of her long sleeves and stretch pants into shorts and we colored in the van waiting & waiting for daddy---NO LUCK!! The fourth one was out by the casino---and we searched and searched until G just wore out and her little brown legs were getting scratched by the tumbleweeds--I asked her at one point what she was doing she said I AM BUSY FINDING TREASURES!!! have to go back to that one---Exausted and asleep in the van (slept 45 min to WWalla) . We went to the dollar store and then to Papa and Nana's at 5:15 pm. She played with their toys and then we went to the fairgrounds at 6:30 for the annual Hot air Balloon stampede! Lee had in field tickets from Pacific Power where he works --we sat down in the field when they lit up the 9 hot air balloons! Gretchen absoutely LOVED THE BALLOONS and went wild and clapped and yelled LOOK! She even told me she was excited and helped count and 1 .......2.....3..BURN!! ---(CUTE) Uncle Scott and Aunt Sheila and Cole joined us!! FUN FUN FUN!!

Georgie Porgie Rhyme

Gretchen is memorizing many, many nursery rhymes---It is so cute! We have a Mother Goose farm singing cassette and I hear I don't think I like Mother Goose. So I explain Mother Goose is same as nursery rhymes--and now she says I LOVE MOTHER GOOSE AND NURSEY RHYMES!! This video was taken two Saturday nights ago and daddy brought home the plastis balls he got at the mall in Walla Walla they were tearing down.

Wednesday in Walla Walla

Wednesday morning mommy woke me at 6:30 am and put me in the car! I was still asleep until she started to buckle me into my car seat and I said THERE is MY DADDY! Then I remembered I was going to Walla Walla and spend the day with Nana---daddy works in WW (hour drive). We got to Nanas a little before 8 and had breakfast at her house and got dressed. We then went shopping at WMART. MY ORGANIZED MOTHER FORGOT MY SHOES! Nana bought me the cutest clear flip flops that light up----I love them and they look like a princess--especially now with painted toes! At first G was being very compliant trying on shoes but when I decided to get the light up flip flops---I still was not sure what size---we had pushed her to far and she took the shoes and said I don't like them and won't try them on--I put her and the shoes in the cart and found puppy trying the shoes on minutes later! Ah! We checked out and she would not put them on after we paid to go to walk into the bathroom. So we decided to eat pizza at this place in Wmart ---I put her shoes on (see photo) while we sat at the table--but would not walk until daddy called ten minutes later and was showing him the shoes through the cell phone!! (TWO YEAR OLDS??) Walked around and around---and then did not take them off all afternoon!! (OR THE NEXT DAY!)Gretchie and Mommy played atch outside and fed the sheep and one llama!!! Nana watched G as I picked Lee up at 3:30 for a meeting and I went back to get her at 6:15 pm--she did great and no tears!! We don't leave her very often! She and Nana made a cake and cousin Cole (10) came over!! Scott and Sheila and Blake came over for dinner and then everyone played WII! Gretchie thought she was playing bowling and baseball too--heehee!! Gretchen was exausted by the time we left at 9-----she had only a half hour nap---on the way home from WMart!

MY AUNTS!

AUNT ALISON---(lives in Lake Stevens, WA. 5 hours)

AUNT JANNY (mommy's sister)(lives in Maple Valley,WA 4 hours)

Great Aunt Connie! (Amma's sister)Great Aunt Patti ! (Papa Gockley's sister)

My Aunt Amber--(lives in Yakima-2hours)
My Aunt Sheila--(daddy's sis)(lives in Walla Walla--1 hour)
AMMA---
NANA---

Gretchen has been blessed with four wonderful aunts and uncles! Although we don't live close to them ----she still talks about them everyday! I am going to post photos of her with her four aunts and just wanted to say WE LOVE EACH OF YOU AND HOPE YOUR MOTHER'S DAY IS AWESOME!! I added two more photos of great aunts!! Oh ya--I posted one more of AMMA & NANA!!!