First Day of School

Okay so I know it has been ages since I posted last. I got a new job and I have been working like crazy. I wanted to post a few pictures of the girls lately. Here is Kim on her first day of school. She is in first grade already.

I can't believe how fast she is growing up. Hadley goes to Columbia River High School for pre-school, which she loves.

Kim's first field trip to the Zoo

Kim had her first field trip yesterday and both Dave and I got to go. Since she is in kindergarten there were many parents that attended. Each group was made up of 2 kids and 1 adult and in some cases like Kim, there were 2 adults and 2 kids. There were so many schools there on field trips, it was a ZOO, literally. I think we out numbered the animals by a million to one. The other girl in the pictures was not Hadley if you were wondering... It is Jessi, a classmate of Kim's.

The trip started off a little slow. First we got onto the wrong bus. The entire morning and afternoon classes were packed into the bus before it was noticed that we were on the wrong bus. Then we got onto the correct bus and found out the driver had to be back earlier than we planned. So our trip was cut even shorter. On the way to the zoo there was quite a bit of traffic (for Portland) so it took us 30 minutes longer to get there. By the time we finally got there we only had 2 hours at the zoo so we basically ran from exhibit to exhibit. That is why Kim is walking so fast in the picture. There was a dinosaur exhibit that was there but it was extra so we didn't get to go. Plus there is a 3-D dinosaur movie playing as well. We still had fun looking at all of the dinosaur stuff that was around the zoo.
We loved walking through the zoo, looking at all of the animals and sometimes the statue animals were more entertaining that the real ones.
Kim's favorite animal is a leopard. Her school in Northern California, Lafayette Elementary, their mascot is a leopard and the office was full of different leopards. So she wanted a picture of a real leapard.
This is the bridge over the black bear exhibit. It is also the 'gateway' to the Great Northwest part of the zoo. It isn't visited as much as you would think because most of the animals there we see outside of the zoo.

Aunt Dannelle, Uncle Neil, Josie and James decided to meet us at the zoo. Since we didn't have much time there we watched a bird show and ate lunch with them. They had a great time as did we.
This is the bronzed goat that is touched by all the little children every time they walk by. So needless to we had to get a picture.
The hippos were lounging around and the girls thought it was really cute.
The Meerkats were pretty much the only animals out and playing. So we had to take a picture. The LCD screen on the back of our camera is cracked so you can only see the corner of the picture and it has no hole to look through so some of our pictures don't capture all of what we would want. Kim was in this picture, at lease part of her. :) Most of the exhibits were closed for cleaning. Plus, we used to watch Meerkat Manor.

Okay if this vehicle looks a little familiar, it should. This is the same make of Land Rover that Dave drove when we first met. He really enjoyed this picture but the Rover has seen better days. If you were wondering we still see the old Rover around town. The new owner changed out the diesel engine for a gas one. (I bet he is regretting that right about now, since we changed it to the diesel because the diesel gets such better gas mileage.) He also put back on the old hardtop which leaks and is very noisy. We converted to a canvas top because it didn't leak and it looked better. He also took out the roll cage that Dave put in. (The guy must have a death wish.) But it will always be known as 'Dave's Old Rig.' The new owner doesn't care to hear that either.

Here we are back at the school after the trip. We were all very tired. Dave had worked the night (graveyard shift) before and then came on the trip without sleeping. He was out cold right when we got home. Kim fell asleep on the way home and I took a nap once we got home. Needless to say, last night the house was very quiet except for Hadley. She refused to go to sleep, which she often does. She ended up snuggling with Daddy last night for a while and the funny thing about it is that Dave had no clue she came in.

*There are more pictures if you go to older posts. I posted the day before yesterday as well. Don't miss out on Hadley's ballet outfit. *

It's been a long time...

Okay, Okay, I have gotten enough flack from family and friends that I am finally updating my blog. I don't have Internet at home so I am at my Mother-in-law's house using her Internet.... Thanks so much Grammie. :) We have been pretty busy lately...Today we played at Grammie's pool. This picture shows how many Bulters can fit in a small hot tub.


Josie loved being in the water. She cried because it was time to go. But as you can see she had a great time.Kodiak tried to throw Grammie into the water but Grammie was not going to have it. So they wrestled a little but no one got thrown in.
Kim and Dave swam and swam and swam. Kim is a little fish. Hadley on the other hand, doesn't like to be any where but the hot tub. She would run from the steps of the pool to the hot tub. Kodiak thought that Josie's floatation device was pretty fun. I am not sure it was made to hold his weight though.Hadley is in a ballet class with her cousin, Norah, Heather's daughter. Their recital is coming up pretty soon and they got their costumes. We took several pictures of Hadley and Norah and more will come at the recital and dress rehearsals.
Norah enjoying herself in the mirror in her beautiful new costume.
Most of Hadley's class.

Easter Eggs

We went over to Neil and Dannelle's this morning to decorate eggs. We had a great time watching Josie try and eat the eggs.
Josie enjoyed putting the eggs into empty bowls and hadn't even discovered the dye yet.

Kim really enjoyed dying the eggs. She took her time decorating each egg very carefully. Hadley on the other hand didn't want to get her hands dirty. But she did get dye on her nose. It's red just on the end of her nose. It was too cute.

Great Picture

I don't remember what we were doing or where we were going but this is one of my favorite pictures.

Hadley Turns 4

Hadley wanted to help with her birthday cake. So here they are helping....

Hadley's birthday was a few weeks ago and I have not had access to the internet to post so I am a little tardy. Hadley's birthday was a lot of fun. I asked her for about a month before her birthday as to what she wanted. Everyone kept asking me so I kept asking her. All she said was a Cinderella dress. Once that idea was taken by Everett I asked her what else she wanted and her response was priceless. "Whatever you want to get me." So that is what I relayed to family and friends. She was so funny about the whole thing. I would ask her what she wanted for a cake and she said, "Whatever you want to make." That is her answer for everything now. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, what to wear, what to do, her answer is always "Whatever you want." It was getting a little old so I said, "Fine, I don't want anything." Her response was "Okay, neither do I." When she is really hungry she will voice her opinion but on a daily basis she has no opinion.

She wanted a Princess birthday so that is what she got. However she didn't want a castle cake like Kim she wanted a Barbie cake with lots of sparkles. I have edible glitter that we sprinkled all over the cake to make it shimmer.

Everett got Hadley the prized Cinderella and this picture describes how 'prized' that dress really is.

Hadley barely gets it up and Kim flys over there to see it. My camera was set up to let more light in but the pictures come out a little blurry but there was no question as to how fast Kim got over to see the dress.

Hadley shows off her loot while sitting next to Uncle Eric. Which is a shock in and of itself. Hadley took a while to warm up to him.

Together Again

We are settled in our new home and are loving it. We have a pretty good schedule down now and the girls are doing great. Dave is on a rotating shift so it seems he is always at work, but we try to spend as much time with him as we can.

I have never seen the girls so happy and willing to help. Kim loves to vacuum and askes if we can do it every day. She knows that we can't vacuum when Dave is sleeping so she askes the second he wakes up. Hadley on the other hand loves to sweep. Since she can do that whenever she likes she sweeps daily. The girls even love doing the dishes. I have to supervise a little but the girls do a great job helping out.

When I was still in California and the girls were in Washington. Auntie Heather was helping take care of them. She and Dave enrolled Hadley in a dance class. She is doing really well and has her first recitel in June. We are already getting ready for it. She loves her ballet class and is actually doing rather well. It took her a while to get used to it and start enjoying it. Now I can't get her out of her ballet shoes. If I would let her she would wear her tap shoes around the house as well but since Dave works the graveyard shift it is a little too loud.

Kim had a party at school that I went to they had a lot of fun trying to read their Valentine's cards.

I am happy to say I love being able to stay home with the girls. I have what I call "Proud Mommy Moments." It is when one of the girls does something remarkable. Kim is learning to read. We read the scriptures everynight and Kim reads her share of verses. She is getting much better and looks forward to it. Hadley loves to look at the pictures and askes me to tell her the stories about the picture. Then at night when Kim is already asleep Hadley tells her dolls the stories we have read about in the scriptures. I just get so much joy out of watching them learn and grow. I do miss the younger versions of them but this time is so much fun. It is hard to imagine it getting better.