Weekend in Canada

Last weekend we decided to go to Canada so that we could go to the new Vancouver temple open house. We thought since we were going all the way up there we should make a fun weekend out of it and see the sights around Vancouver. Joe and Corinne went with us and we all had a great time. We decided to have a leisurely trip and not make any set plans. So we kinda just stopped wherever we thought looked cool and it turned out to be very fun. We got to go shopping at the Seattle Premium Outlets on the way up to Canada. I've always wanted to stop there and have never gotten to before. Corinne and I had fun hitting up the clearance table at the Coach outlet and both came out of there with some fun goodies. While in Vancouver some of the highlights were seeing the new temple, the Olympic cauldron and Stanley Park. And on the way home we stopped at the tulip festival. We had a busy but fun trip!!! There are quite a few pictures of our fun weekend below....

Even in another country I can't get away from work :) Red Robin was about a block away from our hotel so we decided to eat there on Friday night because we were all tired of driving and wanted to walk to get food.

Vancouver B.C. temple

I thought the flowers around the temple were so pretty.

Doesn't Skyler look so cute all dressed up!!!

Skyler didn't want to do a family picture so here he is trying to run away from us :)

Stanley Park

Walking along the beach

This was a super fun playground we found in Stanley Park. I not sure who had more fun, Skyler or the grown-ups. :)

time to swing

Joe & Corinne on the swing

Joe on the top of the playground

At first we thought Skyler was too young to play on this but he proved us wrong!!! He loved it!!!

Skyler & Joe

Skyler and Daddy on the cargo net. He held on really well and was doing pull-ups on it.

Skyler really loved these wobbly disc things. He kept climbing on and off of them and posing for pictures that random strangers were taking of him.

Here he is in the car trying to drink my Sobe from the wrong end of the bottle.

Joe really like the crosswalk signs in Canada. He thought the crosswalk guy looked really happy and wanted his picture taken by one of them.

This was the view from our hotel.

Here we are in front of the Olympic cauldron

Tulip Festival

I think Skyler looks like he's being our tour guide in this picture. "And behind me here you will see the purple and white tulips"

Skyler and I (and my awesome new Coach bag) at the tulip festival

He has the funniest facial expressions

This is a little girl Skyler met while walking through the tulip fields. As you can see they really hit it off!!!

Such a cute face!!!

He rolled around in the dirt and got filthy dirty but he had so much fun!!

As you can see we had a really fun trip!!! We can't wait for our next adventure but as of now we don't have anything planned so we're not sure when that will be.....

4 Generations of Marlatt Men

We recently realized that out of the great grand kids in the Marlatt family Skyler is the first boy that will carry on the Marlatt family name. So, while Rich's grandparents were still in town we decided we needed a "4 Generations" picture.

Fun times at the park

With all of this nice weather we've been having we couldn't resist taking Skyler to the park to get some fresh air. He finally discovered how much fun it is to go down the slide. At first he wasn't very stable but he quickly learned how to stay upright while sliding down.

Here are a couple of cute videos of Skyler on the slides

Look at that smile. He was having so much fun!!!

Time for some fun on the swing

How cute is this picture!!!

Ok, so I'm totally lame and was a month late at getting Skyler's 1 year pictures done. So here are his 13 month pictures. Close enough, right?!

I love his eyes in this picture!!!

George and Skyler are best friends right now so we figured it was fitting to have George in his 1 year pictures.

Rich didn't get to come with us this time because Skyler is too much of a daddy's boy right now. If Rich is around and isn't holding him he throws a big tantrum. So in hopes of getting cute pictures of Skyler on his own we went and got pictures done while Rich was at work.

Skyler was showing off his newly learned clapping skills

My little monkey loves being upside down

My goofy little boy...

So, Skyler loves to cram as much food as possible in his mouth. This is him this morning with his cereal and peanut butter sandwich crackers.....

He looks like a little hamster with his cheeks stuffed full of food

He thinks he's so funny

I love this crazy kid!!!

Random pictures of what we've been up to...

So I was downloading all of my pictures off of my camera and decided I should post a few of the fun things we've done lately.

VALENTINE'S DAY CRAB FEAST:
So I'm not much of a Valentine's Day lover, or rather I should say I WASN'T until this year. Joe and Corinne might have changed that for me. See I've always been stuck working on Valentine's Day, and in the restaurant world it's not much fun!!! Well I had to work it this year too but luckily I only had to work the lunch shift. So after work we went over to Joe and Corinne's place for dinner and a movie. They have a tradition to NOT go out on Valentine's Day, instead they stay home and eat lots of crab and we were lucky enough to get invited over for the crab feast!!! Now that's a tradition I can get on board with!!! I LOVE CRAB!!!! It was super delicious and my mouth is still watering as I think about how wonderful it was. After dinner we watched "The Time Traveler's Wife" and then had cheesecake. Normally we always have people over to our house so we can get Skyler to bed at a decent time. But we decided to try and take his pack-n-play with us and put him to bed in that. It worked out really well, he slept through the whole movie and dessert and didn't even wake up when it was time to go. He slept the whole way home and went right to bed in his crib when we got home. It was a really fun evening!! Here are a couple of pictures from our crab and steak feast...

"The Claw"

Ok, so this isn't the best picture of Skyler but it's the only one I got of him eating crab. He actually liked it and asked for more, he's definitely my kid :)

This 1 lonely claw is all that was left of the 6 pounds of crab that they bought. Yeah, basically we pigged out.

LOBSTER:

Rich went to the store one night to pick up a couple of things and brought home some lobster tails. So the night after our crab feast we had lobster. Man, I sure do love seafood!!!

TRIP TO THE PARK IN FEBRUARY:

We've had such gorgeous weather the last few days so we decided to get Skyler out of the house and take him to the park. We all had fun running around and playing on the slides.

CUPCAKE CRAZINESS:

I was in charge of making 48 cupcakes for a church event last week. Here's the finished product complete with white chocolate flowers on top.

I had so many extra flowers that I decided to make some more cupcakes for us.

NAKED BABY ALERT:

Skyler discovered how to take his pants off so it's hard to keep him dressed now. After he got his pants off he was working on getting his diaper off (he didn't succeed with that) so here he is sporting his "plumber's crack"

He's getting to be such a big boy, he likes to sit in his high chair now and feed himself. Here he is eating his grilled cheese sandwich.

What a little cutie!!! I sure do love this kid!!!