Stray Cats

Yesterday while I was shopping at Target these little cats hopped in my cart!

Allie always finds the best things in the dollar bins! Her little hands and eyes find things I never see!!

Paige Kaitlyn

Paigee girl is 16 1/2 months and is talking up a storm. She is super funny and knows it. She loves to say "no way" and then laughs. Yesterday morning she went around the house telling everything "good morning" and she loves to say "goo night" when we go to bed. She is a hoot. She likes taking things from her big sister and Allie is a good sport about it most of the time! Paige knows what she wants and lets us know it. Here are a few pics of random Paige while Als is away at school!!

Ready to go for a run mama!!!

Reading her favorite book at the moment..Hush Little Baby....

Drum Roll......

This week in the Hulbert house I think the theme of the week is drums. Geoff plays the drums but when we had Allie he gave his drum set to my dad to make room for the nursery! A few years ago, he bought an electronic drum set and the girls play that every once in a while. But the other day the girls were playing in the kitchen making hats out of bowls and Allie needed the colander to be a drum. She was the band leader with a bowl for a hat, a wooden spoon for her baton and a colander drum. Why would you use the instruments from the bin of 12 thousand instruments in the other room, when you can make your own? Have to embrace the imagination and creativity :o) Paige loved the bowl hats too but might have fallen over if she used the colander drum. The next day both girls had fun banging on the bongos. They thought it would be fun to use markers and paint brushes for drum sticks! Jack had to get in on the drum party too!!

**Look at Geoff smiling from ear to ear in the pantry door reflection...

Princess Party

Today the girls and I drove down to the bay area to attend a princess party for two of our cousins. Savannah turned 4 and Rikki turned 2. It was a princess party and there were lots of little princesses. It was mostly cousins and it is crazy that we all have girls. There are 10 second cousins ranging in age from 5 years old to 3 weeks old and they are all girls except for poor Jordan! He is the only boy in the bunch. The girls had a nice "royal" lunch and all got tiaras and wands, they played pin the princess in the castle and then just had fun playing together. There was a game of ring-around-the-rosie, a princess race and all kinds of fun going on in the "castle". There were even grown up princess at the party. My cousin Erin (Savannah's mom) and her mom (cousin Cindy) and Cindy's friend Dianna all dressed up for the occasion. The Fairy Godmothers were in their wedding gowns! It was a fun party and the girls loved it! Happy Birthday to Princess Savannah and Princess Rikki!

Princess Belle and Princess Aurora
Princess Baby Belle (cousin Rikki)
Princess Aurora (cousin Savannah)Paige with cousins Savannah & Evie
Cousin Love
Cousin Erin & her little princess Savannah
The Fairy Godmothers

Cousins Maren, Savannah & Als

Princess Paige eating a "chipa" (potato chip)

Cousin Richard and his wife Danielle and Princess Rikki

Dance party

Paige playing pin the princess on the castle...

.....she did it!!!

Ring-Around-The-Rosie

Ashes, Ashes....

Princess race on the royal carpet

Uncle Dick, Aunt Jeannie, Dustin and his new little princess Summer

"Anna Jean" as Allie calls her holding the newest addition

PS Cousins reading this...I will put the rest of the pictures on Facebook

Catching up...

Since I have started back to work, I have not been snapping as many pictures. It doesn't mean things are not going on in the Hulbert fam....it just means I have not been blogging about it! We have been getting back in the swing of school for Allie and work. We are busy but life is good. Last week my Great Aunt Janet (Grandma Rosie's sister) and her some Jimmy stopped by for a visit. That was a nice little treat. They were on their way back to Oregon from Concord. We had a nice visit.


Paige has been keeping busy shopping with her purse, making messes and taking her baby for drives. Right now as I am typing she is saying "dypoo, wipe" and changing her babies diaper. She is talking more and more and says "Grandma" like a champ. It is so fun to hear her vocabulary explode. The best was today when I wanted her to come over to me so I could change her diaper and she looked at me and said "Why?" Geoff stopped and said did she just ask why? and I said yep! Oh we might be in trouble!





Allie is keeping busy writing stories, building things, using her imagination in all kinds of ways and loves going to school. She had a cold last week and I said do you want to stay home?..and it was like the world was ending. "Miss school? No way, I can never miss school" she said quickly....so off she went and she had a great day. Allie was the "Grand Marshall" on our walk the other day! Why not make everyday a parade? The other morning she was a magician...I tell ya, never a dull moment around this place!!

We Will Never Forget.....

Geoff and I were newlyweds living in Hollister, CA. He was teaching and I was subbing. We were getting ready to go to work and watched the planes crash into the towers and watching the first footage of people jumping from building...so surreal to think that was actually happening. I went to check in as a sub to get my assignment for the day, and the secretary I checked in with small talked about what was happening and the office was listening to the radio coverage. She was talking about her brother who was a pilot and was glad he was not flying that day. Later in our classes, we got a memo that the secretary was the sister of the pilot of United Flight 93. She forgot he had switched his flight schedule to be with his family on another day.....this is truly a day we will never forget.

First Day of 4 Year Old Preschool

Today was an awesome day for Allie. She has been excited to go to school since she got out in June! This morning she woke up and said "It is my lucky day mom" I knew what she meant but had to say "why?" and she screeched "because I get to go to school". She hurried downstairs and I had the table ready for her so this is what she saw.


She was soo excited and sang Geoff the "Great Day" song with fist pumps and all! She chose pancakes with sprinkles to eat on the special red plate and off we went. Well before that, she had to do a little "tap dance" because that is what you do when you are happy!!





She was super excited to show Geoff the new class hamster. His name is Little Guy and she has been talking about him non stop since she saw him last week. Last year they had toads (which are still there) but Little Guy is new this year! I am sure we will hear lots about him.

She hugged her "old" friend Josephine and was happy to see her and was happy to see lots of friends from last year. We had a playdate at the park the other day with some school friends and they were all happy to be together again. Josie and Allie are good buddies!

She settled in to working on an art project with Mrs. Beaty and we were off. Geoff said, "I don't think she is going to miss us one bit". She did tell Paige she would miss us before we left home! She did awesome and had another great first day! I am sure glad she does not take after me in the going back to school department I cried every year until high school I think!