Halloween 2010

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Lyla's 2nd Halloween, she got to celebrate a little early at preschool this week. What a cute little bee:)

Born Monday May 18th, 2009 at 5:09pm ~ Lyla Rose Winters! Family life is going good so far, just trying to adjust to not sleeping much. The first week went by really fast. Brandon is now back to work, I am going to try and catch up on some sleep during the day now. Hopefully Lyla will take some long naps:) We are all doing very well and are super excited to the new addition to the family. Tawny is doing very well with her as well. She is very interested and checks up on her all the time, giving her lots of kisses! We will try and update more often with some new pictures of Lyla!

Bec & Nate's Wedding

February 7th was Bec and Nate's wedding (along with Brandon's 33rd Birthday). Brandon and I both had the pleasure of being a part of their special day. Here are a few photos from the wedding. It took place in Issaquah at the Pickering Barn, such a great location!

Turkey Trot 08 - Kirkland

Tawny was super excited to participate in the Turkey Trot this year because she got to wear my t-shirt from last year! Heaven, Jordan, Tiffany, Amber (not in photo - she was running a little late), Alana, me, Tawny and Tilly all participated! It was a nice day to walk from the marina in Kirkland to Caroline Point and back. Brandon and Brian got to watch football at Hectors while the ladies walked. We had a great time and hope to do it again next year!

Back on the mainland!

Hello Everyone! Well we've been back since 11/8, just now getting time to update with some photos from Bangkok. Brandon is drinking a big beer at the night market we went to in Bangkok - Chung De (Cheers)! All the other photos are from a Temple we went to in Bangkok!

We had a great time, the flight home was a few hours shorter which was nice. I didn't get sick, which was great! We are both back to work trying to catch up on everything.

Hope everyone enjoyed our pictures and updates from our trip!

Leaving the Beach

Well it's our last day in south Thailand. We will be leaving the beach area and heading to Bangkok this afternoon. We will be in Bangkok for 2 nights then it's back to America. It's kind of depressing since Dino won't be my new governor when I return. For those who commented on the elephants, they were fun to ride and feed. You should have seen them use their trunks to grab the bananas out of your hand, they use them just like a hand. Then they throw the whole thing in their mouth and crunch it once then swallow. They absolutely love them. Marcie, I don't know exactly how hot it's been but it has to be in the mid 80's to mid 90's with lots of humidity. When you get out of the water it takes forever to dry off and your towel doesn't seem to dry for days. We added some pictures of our trip. Alana, these are the dogs we shipped home for Juan...I don't really know what kind they are but they were funny. There is a picture of Railay cliffs, the temple here in Krabi and us at the restaurant.

Railay Beach and Elephant Trekking

Yesterday we took a longboat ride to Railay Beach, about 20 minutes from where we are staying at Ao Nang Beach. It was a hot day with not much shade on the beach. The ocean is warmer than your body temperature so it really didn't help to get in. We stayed here for a few hours and then headed back to the hotel for a shower and dinner. We most likely will be going back tomorrow to go exploring.

Today we woke up, got some breakfast and headed out to ride some Elephants! We road for about an hour on them, they are pretty slow moving but still fun. They took us through the jungle, walking through a stream most of the time. The elephants would just randomly stop to pick up some fruit or palm branches, but then our driver would give them a little kick and they would start going again. We got to feed them a basket of bananas, they really just shove them down there mouths - no chewing just in and swallow. After the elephants we took a ride to the tiger cave temple. There is a temple on top of this mountain that you can climb with over 1200 steps and they are steep steps. We decided to try it out, but we only made it to about 300....we were both so wet from sweating since it was so hot that we turned around and headed back down. We couldn't believe all the monkeys at this place, they were everywhere. Signs posted 'beware of monkeys they may steal things'.

We just finished lunch and are going to sit by the pool for a couple hours. Brandon is going to get a Thai Message this afternoon...he is looking forward to that. I don't think I will be getting one.

Enjoy our little video of our elephant ride!