Airplanes, Easter, and Gang Signs.

Found the cord. It was in my safe place, that I couldn't remember, thus making it unsafe. It's a viscous cycle. Anyhoo, I'm going to continue with the picture story gig.

On a "cold", windy Saturday we drove down to the "Big City" and went to the Museum of Flight. The boys were in AWE from the moment we drove into the parking lot. Luckily we got the worst spot in the whole lot so we were able to walk by every outdoor static display they had.

I just like this one of my menfolk, it's cute.

That would be Thatcher's "Shit Eating" Grin. This is possibly the happiest I've seen him, except for Disneyland.

Cooper's like "You're kidding me, that's real? B.S." 

Captain Yarsley in a cockpit.

There were airplane displays hanging from the ceiling. Harps was intrigued.

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Coopie can always con his Auntie B into holding him :) I love dragging her on our adventures.

A fore mentioned hanging airplane displays.

Little Jonathan playing with the Bernoulli's Principle display. He was mad he couldn't get enough wind speed to really make it fly. Nerd Alert.

Face cut outs are awesome.

Someone did not want to go to Infinity or Beyond.

Thatch didn't know what I made him put his face into. Then he was like...

...Woa, I'm an astronaut.

There's a park about a 1/2 mile away from the house so we go there sometimes after school. There's a creek that runs through it so Cooper enjoys trying to flail himself into it. Only God knows what kind of amoebas and parasites live in it but I let him play in it none the less. Harps sticks to the swings and Thatch to the equipment. Rule followers...I like that.

Taking pictures while kids are swinging is hard. I was kicked a few times.

But sometimes you catch some really good shots :)

Action shots rule.

Monkey Bars. Totally get where the name comes from.

This is seriously a steep slide.

On rainy days there are a lot of indoor places for the kiddos to run around at. Bellingham is impressively focused on activities for the littles to do, rain or shine. I personally don't enjoy being in the rain as much as watching it from under a blanket so we went to an indoor park to play on this particular day. Harper crawled around the whole place and gave the floor a good mopping with her pants. Yay, more laundry stains to fight. 

Pretty sure she licked every toy they had there.

Trying to keep up with Cooper. He didn't run her over, thank heavens, but it will happen soon. <---Mother's instinct.

She has super expressions. I love them.

I'm fairly confident here she's telling me to "Put the damn camera down Mom".

And here she's saying "Well, if you're going to take pictures, here's my good side."

We signed the boys up for the YMCA's Rookie league baseball. Jonathan took them to their first practice while I stayed home and cleaned the house getting ready for Grammy and Grandpa's arrival! Teamwork!

How awesome is this going to be on ESPN when they do his player profile in 18 years?

He wanted to wear his baseball sweatshirt. He's actually pretty good at Baseball, as opposed to Soccer.

Ready position. Making his Mommy proud.

And then the Grandparents and the Aunties arrived and we had Easter the next day! Auntie Ash's plane was 2+ hours late making Jonathan and I come home at 1am, so we didn't hide the eggs until the afternoon. Made for good lighting I guess.

This Cooper's "LET'S DO THIS" face.

Grammy helping Harper find her eggs. Thatcher's eggs were blue, Cooper's were green and Harper's were pink. Her's were the easiest to hide, because I basically just rolled them in a pile in the middle of the grass.

And each monkey got a golden egg. Big stuff in there...$20! Dang Easter Bunny MeeMaw!

Thatch's game face. 

Harper found out the eggs had stuff in them...

...and was like, "This is candy? Winning!"

Sorting out the goods.

Still shocked that I let her have candy.

Giving me the eye, she probably thought I was coming to take it away.

And this is what Easter looks like when there isnt' snow. Crazy.

So we drove to Seattle to do a little shopping and I found these gems on my camera after the upload.

So cute :) She's such a good influence.

And then I see that she's teaching them how to throw gang signs. Those Yarsleys and their bad influences.

Luckily Coop could only manage the pincer grasp and Thatch was doing what ever it is that means. 

So Saturday was the big day...first Baseball Games! Yay!!!

The big guy, up to bat in the #4 position. There were only four players that showed up though, so he's not really the clean up hitter.

A parent plays with the kiddo in the 3 year old division. Jonathan clearly takes his job seriously.

My Cooper diving for the ball to throw that little kid out at first. Really, Cooper picked up the ball and ran it back to the bucket. The kid was safe. Boring.

Good to know it's not just our kid.

He hit the ball. That's a start! Next step, is to get it to go on the other side of the plate :)

And now you are caught up with the going ons of we Yarsleys. I'll try to keep more with the blog. I just went to Ikea today so I'll update you on how Jonathan handles the unloading of the car :)

XOXO
S

A SportsCenter Recap

Okay, so it's been AGES since I've done a blog. My bad. I'll just post some highlights to get us up to date on the peeps. I need to find my cord to connect to the computer and upload a few more pics as well but we'll get to that later I suppose.

So here we go...the SportsCenter Top 10 version of the past six weeks.

10. We swung down to Seattle, picked up Auntie B and headed to the Northwest Garden show which was pretty awesome, even with a 2 year old!

Coopie and his Auntie B.

Captain Coopie in the Swiss Family Robinson area.

Awh crap, I thought I could rotate in blogger. Here's the Poopster buying us flowers and carrying them around. They were as big as him :)

Harpie matched the tulip displays.

Coop found a pig to ride. Good times.

9. Jonathan drove off the boat with Thatch...The Yarsleys are reunited at 8 AM. They would have been cheerier if it had been more like 11AM.

Thatch waving. 

7. Poopie Coopie turned 3! This really deserves it's own blog post but alas, I'm a bit behind. Sorry Poops. You can tell your therapist later. We had a small shindig with Aunts popping up for the night from Seattle and the neighbors coming over with their twin girls. Three 3 year olds is a lot of 3 year olds in one room.

Oh My Gosh, how stinking cute is he? When he blew them out he shouted out in his adorable little voice "I DID IT!" I wish I had videoed that.

Opening presents while Grammy watched on the phone. And, making her very first appearance in the blog...Auntie Lorny! She's going to be in here a lot now because she's going to baby sit a ton. True story. Don't tell her though ;)

Coopie playing with his balloons. They were kind of a big deal.

6. Tuesday after Coops party someone broke into the house and whilst scaring the crap out of me during Jeopardy (Side Note: Did you know I'm awesome at Jeopardy? I'm going to make a ton of money on there one day.), also surprised us immensely! Auntie B came back up for an impromtu visit! Yay for living close!! Little did she know I was going to make her come to library time with us.

I made it in a picture!

Harpie rocking her I love my Auntie shirt. She's such a suck up.

We're entering a clingy phase. It's awesome. Oh wait, no, it's not.

Doing some form of kid dance. Good God, I am never wearing that shirt again. Front pockets on the stomach area are a TERRIBLE idea Banana Republic.

5. In an effort to keep things like home we went to B&N to have some relaxing time. I ended up chasing Coop around the store and looked like a crazy woman. It was just like home.

I say "Coopie, show me your cookie." This is what I get. Boys are gross.

Harps and Coop, totally the cool kids.

Seriously yummy cookie.

She's too cool for Starbucks, she brings her own from home. 

4. Movie Night...It's BACK!!!

It's blurry, but Harps is in focus so it's okay.

Popcorn hog.

Does this really need a caption? I think not.

3. Making their debut on the blog is the Glaze Family!!! I can't beleive my bestie has been gone long enough to not have ever been in the blog! We were reunited in Tacoma for a few hours until Cooper was Cooper and we had to leave early. His dumb Mommy forgot to bring extra clothes and he got soaked so he had to ride home in his diaper.

Cool little area. 

My beautiful girl.

Jonathan being a little kid :)

"Baby" Beau playing with the pump. I really need to stop calling him that.

Poopie Coopie in the dry phase of the day.

He's thinking, "This is awesome. I'm going to totally get wet because my Mom is always prepared." He was wrong.

Baby Easton, who I finally got to meet! Harpie and Easton are 2 days apart.

The museum had this WAY cool structure that I can only assume was modeled after a DaVinci sketch. The wings moved, it had phones to talk between the top and the bottom, it had nooks for littles to hide in. It was super neato!

Here's Thatch doing something cool on the structure. You can see one of the climbing tunnels really well here.

Here's Thatch and Brandon waiting for someone to come down the slide. I'm thinking Beau. This was the point of the day where Cooper wandered off back to the water, Yars thinking I had him in sight and myself vise versa. We were both very wrong but the museum staff caught our snafu and brought our little fish back. Sigh.

Here's Nicki and I! Yay for us :)

My view of Harper from the passenger seat. Her new favorite thing is to take off her socks and throw them around the car. The car is also a great place to lose socks, similar to the washer. There must be something in Pinterest to do with only 1 sock. 

Here's Nudie Coopie, and the rest of the gang.

2. I really have nothing left. Here's a cute picture of Harpie.

She's standing on her own now with no support now. 

She so stinking cute. Have I mentioned that?

1. Yeah, I've used up all my pictures. Time to find the cord. But I'll leave you wanting more at least?

This was obviously in chronological order, not in order of awesomeness. We've been keeping busy and getting used to the swing of things around here. I think we are getting settled though and are definitely happy with our move.

More to come once the cord is found (which really means once I clean off the junk table. Boo.)

Love you long time,
S