The Hughes Kids

Ok, we may be the only ones who like Little Hughes pictures this much... please bear with us! (You have to admit...they are pretty gorgeous, aren't they?)

Malia's 8th birthday picture. This picture freaks Mark out - he says she looks like a teenager.

Typical Josh

The little ones sharing a cuddle.


Kaylie doing the nakey-bunny dance to The Wiggles... Hot Potato Hot Potato!!

Sweet Baby Kay

Kaylie learned to wink today - 10/3! She's quite proud!

Best friends... Malia & Little Avery

Malia and her favorite thing in the world - C a n d y !

Sweet, sweet Josh!

Us

Gabe & Chris' Birthday Party

The seven of us swung at a piñata, ate ice cream cake, played with
lots of kids and met some very nice people.

Hours later . . .

Learning the best strategy.

Drawing in PJ's with cocoa chocolate.

Saturday morning.

Paxton and Josh are introduced to desktop tower defense while the
girls draw horses.

Here we go

Three little Hughes' and two little Neyman's begining their weekend
together. So far so good. (Paxton is hiding in the back seat. )

Misc.

Kaylie congratulating Cousin Derek on a fine win on the Wii!

Kay's new "funny face". You've got to see this in person - she is just too much!

Zzzzzzz... the girl needs a bigger bed!

Mark & Cousin Derek - Bellingham's finest!

Another house project

Last weekend we started another house project: the master bedroom/main hallway. New paint (goodbye, red!), new trim, & pulled out the carpet in preparation for having all of the harwood refinished in October. Kay had a great time with the tools. We were relieved when Grammy showed up and played with her outside for about 4 hours so we could get more done. Stay tuned for "after" pictures!

Keith's Birthday Dinner

We went out with Camerin and Keith & Jill and John to celebrate Keith's birthday. We had dinner at the Boat Street Cafe; wonderful food, great wine, perfect company. Happy Birthday, Old Man! XXOO!

Leslie & Mark

Jill & Cam

John & Keith (a.k.a. "Little Spoon")

Mark's first bite of what quite possibly could be the perfect chocolate.

Dinner with Grammy at Silver City

Swinging at the park

Burning off some energy before nap time

Visiting mom at work

Kaylie and I surprised mom with flowers at work.=

Malia's 8th birthday!

Malia turned 8 on September 12th! We had a fun night - all of Malia's choosing:

The Presents: several books, shoes, a Bratz Pixie doll, jewelery, a purse, and in traditional Gibb fashion: new underwear.

The Chosen Dinner: chicken nuggets, cheddar cheese, potato chips, & milk.

The Chosen Dessert: Coldstone Creamery where Malia chose lemon sorbet with gummy bears and white chocolate chips. Josh had Blue Cotton Candy ice cream with Oreos. Kaylie also had the cotton candy/oreo combo, but also added m&ms. I get a stomach ache just thinking about it.

The Chosen Activity: The park. We played until it got dark, swinging, jumping off the "big rock", and riding the see-saw (be sure to check out the video!)

Happy Birthday, little girl! We love you!

Labor Day Weekend '07

Saturday we went to Jenene & Craig's wedding in Olympia; a perfect day, family I haven't seen in years, and wedding vows said in Dr. Seuss rhymes... a great time! Kaylie was just enthralled with the nieces in their pink dresses - & she danced all night and stole fingers of wedding cake frosting with them.

After playing in the hotel pool and a great breakfast at the Spar Cafe (an old favorite of ours), we spent Sunday at the Harbor Days Festival in Olympia.

Monday was the Blackberry Festival in Bremerton where Kaylie rode her first real pony (very reluctantly), saw a magic show, and ate wonderful spicy Thai food and blackberry scones. That girl has good taste!

Day at the Pt. Defiance Zoo with the Lashleys - August '07