Summer!!!

Finally the last 2 days we have received some sunshine and warm weather!!! This has been a very long spring, with mostly showers and little flowers. However, I do enjoy the rain as it reminds me of growing up in western Washington. We have been so busy lately just doing the whole daily family routine. I enjoy being busy though, I may have some slight OCD tendencies, which can prevent me from just taking it easy. Elizabeth has become quite the character! She is very "spirited" and keeps me on my toes any time she is not napping.
She is very into coloring, and actually is really good at it. A couple of weeks ago she surprised me when she was coloring in her sesame steet coloring book. She said "eyes" (over and over again) until I looked at her picture, she was coloring Elmo's eyes (almost completely in the lines!!!). I'm not sure how many kids her age really get the concept of trying to color inside of the lines, but it was one of those "my kid is a genius!" type moment. I will proceed to take full credit for the artistic side of her that is already starting to blossom :)
we have so many fin things planned or this summer and I can not wait! We will be building our garden tomorrow to kick off the summer festivities (so, wish us luck because we have learned before attempting this that neither my husband nor myself have a green thumb.).
one more thing... Elizabeth is almost sleeping through the night... Aaahahahahha!!! (that is my crazy lack of sleep self.)

Hey, quick update!

I feel like a loser!  I really need to keep up with our family blog!!!  One reason, but no legit excuse is that our other laptop is broken as of the last couple months.  There have been things that I have wanted to post but I wanted to add the pictures with them... but seeing as our other laptop is according to todays terms ancient, I havent loaded the pics onto the computer we have been using lately.  Don't worry though (if you even were), we should be getting it fixed soon!
  We went to Silverwood for the first time with Elizabeth today.  It was a blast!  She LOVED the little toddler rollercoaster, and no kidding you, i rode that thing with her about 10 times.  Everytime it would stop, she would exclaim "more".  So we would get out, get back in the non existent line and get back on again.  It was actually so much fun watching her smile and say "weeeee" as we rode the rollercoster.  We will get to go often this summer because my sister Hannah has a gold pass which gets 2 people in for free each time, plus Elizabeth is free.  I know she is going to LOVE the water park when it opens. 
  Lately she has been saying all kinds of words... I really don't think I could write them all.  A new one that she has started saying is "salsa", she asked for some salsa the other day when I was eating it and I gave her some thinking she would get mad and hate it... well she surprised me and ate ALL of it and asked for more.  LOL!  She never ceases to surprise me.  Eric and I went on a date last Friday to Hot Rod Cafe in Post Falls.  I was our first time going and we (Especially my burger loving Eric) really enjoyed it.  I got a medeteranian salad and thought it was pretty good considering it was at a burger joint.  Nothing like my White house grill salads though! 
  Elizabeth has been doing a lot better at the day care at the gym, which has been really nice.  I don't get called down halfway into my workout.  I am glad that she is warming up to it.  I think it is good for her to get the social interaction with other children.  She is doing especially good in nursery at church which is a huge deal.  It makes our sundays so much more organized and peacefull.  The women in the nursery are awesome too so that makes it really good as well. 
  I'll be keeping up with this more often, not having pictures is a bad excuse to not keep up to date on everything!

I got a new calling!

I have a new calling in church now!  I am the new Primary Secretary!  I know that this is one of those callings where its intended that I grow... as I'm not the most organized person.  I'm excited though!
Eric has been serving as the Sunday school teacher for the 12-14 year olds and loves it. 
We just got a blendtec last week and we love it.  We are making all kinds of green smoothies, soups, desserts, etc with the thing!  Its awesome!  It seems that Elizabeth will eat anything that has been made in the Blendtec too, which is awesome.  Speaking of which, she just woke up from her nap.  She is sooooo cute when she wakes up.  She does this little yell/cry thing knowing that I'll come in quickly and then she just likes to crawl around on the bed for a while smiling and giving me kisses!  Its great!  She is currently watching sesamestreet.org while I finish writing this.  Besides the blendtec we have been doing really well.   Eric, Elizabeth and I went to the White House for my birthday dinner (obviously not the DC version :) it was amazing!!!  I got the Vegetarian Gurro, lots of Hummus, garlic, veggies, YUM!  Elizabeth got her very first childrens menu item, spagetti with garlic bread (special occasion)  We had a wonderful time, although we were dissapointed we missed the belly dancer that comes every thursday night at 7.  We got there at 5:30 and staying until after 7 would have just been too much for E.   On my birthday I got to watch letters to Juliet which was an amazing chick flick that I loved and would like to someday own :)  Elizabeth is now saying "hi" to everyone that she sees.  Infact, at White House Grill she took a liking to the people sitting next to us and kept looking at them and waving and saying "hi" to them.  It was so cute.  Anyway, thats whats new with us! Till next time!
Love,
the Foutz Family!