What We've Been Up To...

We've been having some good family fun lately! Here's some pictures of our latest adventures. (Just in case you're wondering why there's SOOO many pictures...Well, now that my mom is in Idaho, I want her to see ALL that she can of my kiddos.)

Park Day at Kelsey Creek

What a cute little guy!

OH! That's a huge pig!

Parker and his buddy, Chaz.

Just the Girls!

Her new famous pose.

Lunch! Swimming at the Beach

Attempting to go under.

Collin and I relaxed on the beach. Check out those keys!

Swimmin' away...

The tummy swim is what Parker does best!

They had to bring their buckets and shovels, of course.

We had a blast at the Beach! The kids fed the ducks (even though you aren't supposed to! OOPS!) We had lunch and looked at the boats too. My kids have an obsession with boats lately, especially Parker. This was the main reason for our visit to the water.

Family Movie Night

We watched the new movie, Coraline. You can watch in 2-D or 3-D. We thought we'd try it in 3-D and see how it was. It was fun for while, but everyone except Jer got tired of wearing the glasses. It was a fun night of popcorn, candy, pizza and pop!

Company Picnic at The Farm

Mmmm, potluck lunch!

You gotta have a tractor on a farm, right?!

Swinging on the "tire horse".

We ventured through the cornmaze.

Farm animals were a hit.

Checking out the baby bunnies, only a week or so old. SOOO cute!

A close-up of the baby bunnies. They were so small!

A big barn of hay to play in!

Parker climbing around the hay.

The kids had a blast on this slide that was in the middle of a hay maze, in a different barn.

Watching the kids slide.

After conquering that hay maze!

This may be the longest blog post, ever!

Last Week's Fun

We had a fun and fairly eventful last week...It started off with us going to the Renton River Days Parade. This is an annual parade downtown that is followed by tons of vendors and FOOD and a petting zoo and lots of other fun activities at the park close by. We (the kids, mainly) love to go and we've been doing this for a few years now. I've actually been going since I was a child, growing up here in good old Renton. It brings back lots of memories. The kids' favorite part, yet most terrifying part, is the Seafair Pirates!!! The Pirates are fun and very "Piratey" (if that 's even a word!). BUT, they are SOOOOO loud! They come down the street in their pirate ship and, of course, have to set off their cannons. The very loud cannons! It's so loud. Poor kids.

Anyway, Monday we got to go visit our new nephew, Tristan. He's adorable. My poor sis-in-law wanted this baby out sooo bad! She's relieved to have him out, but has had some problems with infections and stuff. Not fun. It was nice to see them all and spend some time with their family. I can't wait to get to know Baby Tristan!

Tuesday was great too! Jeremy and I got to go out on the town, alone, and catch an M's game. It was so nice. We had a really good time spending the evening together. The game wasn't packed, so we got to spread out a bit and actually got to eat dinner at a table overlooking the Puget Sound. It was great weather, great company, and yummy food. The best! The Mariners even won! Thanks Sharon for watching the kids:)

Wednesday and Thursday weren't as fun...Those were our 105 degree weather days, but Friday we got to go see another new baby! Our friends, Jason and Wendy just had their second child. He was born 3 weeks early, after Wendy was on bedrest for 9 weeks. He's an adorable litte 5 lb. baby boy named Owen. He's just precious. It was fun having pizza with them and enjoying eachother's company.

So, there you have it. I found it to be a quite enjoyable week. On my down days I got lots done around the house and ran lots of errands. Very productive, actually. Here's some pics from the Parade and Game. Enjoy!

Renton River Days!

M's Game

Feelin' WAY Too Hot!!!!

Seattle isn't known for really HOT, HOT summers...well, that changed this week. Yesterday was a whopping 105 degrees!!!!!!! Us poor Seattlites aren't used to this kind of extreme weather. And, most don't have AC. That includes us. Yes, at 11:30 at night, our house was sitting at 92 degrees! My children slept naked, and Jer and I just didn't sleep at all. It was horrible! And to make it worse...we get another dose of 1oo degree weather today. I'm miserable! You can guarantee we will be getting AC by next summer. I'm not doing this again!

By the way...what's up with this crazy weather this year? Extreme winter, and now summer? Strange.

Our yummy cupcakes melted!

I've been only letting my kids swim in our backyard because I hate to drag Collin out into this hot weather while the kids swim at the neighborhood pool and he roasts in his carseat or on my lap.

Poor baby! He was kinda cranky yesterday and I think it had something to do with the heat. Way too hot!!!

Mt. Rainier Trip

We don't have any big vacation planned for this summer, so we thought we'd do a mini day trip instead. Our destination ended up being Mt. Rainier. Jeremy and I have gone before, but the kids had never been there. We left mid-morning to venture out on our 2.5 hour drive to the mountain. After grabbing our chocolate donuts and chocolate milk we were on the road. We decided to go the scenic route, which seemed like a great idea at the time...little did we know that when we got into the Park and went to make our turn-off onto the road toward Paradise (it's where they call the location of one of the visitor's center, ect...) the road was closed! It had major damage and couldn't be driven on at the time. SO, the detour they took us on took us totally out of the park all together and had us go around the mountain to the other entrance. It was on the other side of the mountain! If we would have taken the non-scenic route, all city route, we would've been fine. Anyways, that made the trip a little longer, but it was still great. The kids did wonderful with no crying, just a little whining on the way home from Miss Samantha. Collin was an angel. I don't think we heard a peep out of him the whole trip! It was a long day, but everyone was happy. And now, every time we see a mountain in the distance, Parker gets very excited and yells "mountain" while pointing at it. He was really impressed, apparently.

So, we took a lot of pictures, but I couldn't decide which ones I wanted to post. There's a lot of good ones :) So, here's the ones I chose, but there's still a lot...I'm just warning you.

Here we go!

We FINALLY made it.

Our first stop at a view point. The mountain is so pretty!

Our second stop on the way up to Paradise. You can see the waterfall in the background.

Jer and I at a way too expensive lunch...A hotdog (and only a hotdog) for $5.50?! You gotta be kidding me!

Sam checking out the top of Mt. Rainier from the visitor's center.

It was so green and beautiful! The summit is in the background...

Our cute baby boy! Jer took the extra weight of him that day. He's too heavy for me!

My sweet family. If only Parker would cooperate!

We found a few patches of snow. It was fun to play in it because it was so darn hot.

There was this map on the floor that the kids had fun playing on.

View of the summit of Mt. Rainier from Paradise.

In the Inn, they had this fun table and chairs. Jer felt like a King!

What a fun family day!