Biztown

The school participates in this super cool field trip called Biztown. It's this minature city with a variety of stores including a restaurant, Chase bank, Best Buy, Ikea, UPS, etc. Lex worked for Chase as a teller (see picture below). She loved it. Everyone was assigned a job and they had two breaks. During the breaks they could purchase from other vendors but before they could do so, they had to deposit their paycheck with Chase. Hence, Lexi got to see everyone which she loved. The kids absolutely loved this field trip. I was one of the volunteers at the event and it was a madhouse. We had to keep the CEO, CFO, and other workworkers busy during the day and boy was I tired after.

Lex and her awesome wonderful teacher at Chase.

This is the first moment the kids entered the building. They were so excited. Lex was the first kid in the building and she was accompanied by some of her closest friends. This picture really shows how excited these kids were about this event.

This and That

Lex just being cute (at least her mama thinks so)

These girls have played basketball together since kindergarten. We have become friends with the family's and we had a bowling party one night. This is the girlies and below is the mama's.

Salmon Days 2010. Lex is about to go on an obstacle course... one of her favorite things (along with rock climbing and swimming)

Victoria BC

Since we really hadn't used our passports and since we live very close to the Canadian border, I thought I'd take Lex to an overnight trip to Victoria in November. We took a ferry over and stayed the night without a car. We did a cool obstacle course (see below), went to a play (Wizard of Oz) and then went to Buchart Gardens on day two. It was a lot of fun, although I do not advise going to Butchart Gardens in November. It was cold and all the flowers will covered in Snow. I'm unsure why the place is open during that time. Anyway, all in all, good fun, adventurous and cold trip but glad we went.

1st Day of 4th Grade

My beautiful daughter starting her first day of 4th grade... it was raining (of course, it is Seattle)...

Summer summer summertime (2010)

I went to a Seahawks game with Tony and during the game received a call from my brother saying that he too was at the game. Coincidentally, they were one section over and within 1 row of us... I also learned that I was going to be an aunt again so it was a super good game (unsure of the game score though...)

Tony took us out on his boat....

Now this seems fun....

On second thought.... it's really not that fun...

Lex was not pleased when I put my thumb down and requested to be removed from the watercraft device... When did I get so old? I'm sure at one time this would have been fun.

Delay

It looks like the last time I posted was last July with photos from Disneyland. Since we are coming up on another trip in a few weeks, I figure I'll catch up on posts so that next time you see pictures of Mickey then they are 2011 pictures (not 2010). So here goes....

Disneyland - 2010

With Mickey, We went and saw the World of Color show but we got drenched. It wasn't such a warm night so I wouldn't recommend front row view on cold nights... I wanted an umbrella for a while

I love this little girl

This was Lexi's day to lead me around the park. We had coffee's (well hers was hot chocolate), a map, and if you notice... jeans :(... it was cold in Southern California on this trip. Sad to have to wear jeans to D-land but it was a must

I would totally buy this action figurine

Lex and Aunt Kimmie. Kimmie has been there since day 1 (literally) for Lexers. Lex loves seeing her.

My dear friend Kelly and her daughter Kaitlyn joined us for D-land on my birthday. This was waiting in line to go on it's a small world (Kaitlyn's favorite) before they closed down the ride due to an earthquake. Bummer, no fun waiting for 20 minutes and nearly getting to the boat to be turned away

Lexi did a presentation on Walt Disney this year and was so excited to have a picture taken with him at the park. We went to this Walt Disney museum type place and she loved it too.

I was at a meeting in June and mentioned I was going on vacation in July. They asked where I was going and I said D-land... they all just nodded and said, standard operating procedure.... here is us at D-land in July 2010