July Weddings

July was a busy wedding month for us. Not only did we have a wedding in the family but we also had our good friends Renae and Sean get married. I'm kind of late in posting these pictures, since Chris and Christie got married on July 10th, but better late than never. It was great being able to have Rich's entire family at the temple together. That kind of thing doesn't happen often when everybody lives in different places and has crazy schedules. I have to say I'm kind of relieved that all of Rich's siblings and all of our close friends are now married. No more weddings to attend for a while. Now we move on to the next phase of our lives....babies, babies everywhere :)

Here is Skyler all dressed up waiting for his Uncle Chris and Aunt Christie to get married.

I love his little mischievous grin!!

Running in circles around the bench trying to stay occupied

Skyler and Grandpa Bob

Our little family

Brian, Denise and Caitlyn

Cheryl, Noah, Hannah and Josh

"The Newlyweds"

Chris and Christie with Bob and Denise

Rich and Skyler by the pretty fountain

My handsome little boy in his new suit

Skyler in front of the Portland temple

On the way back from Portland Skyler and Caitlyn both fell asleep in the car. They looked so cute I couldn't resist taking their picture. They have so much fun together!!

Skyler and Uncle Chris at the reception

Skyler and his buddy Joe

At the end of the month we got to go to Renae and Sean's wedding reception. Here's the happy couple...
Congratulations to all of the newlyweds!! We are so excited for you guys and are glad that you are now happily married!!!

And baby makes 4!!!!

Yes, that's right we're having another baby!!! Skyler is going to be a big brother and we are very excited!!! I'm due on Feb. 4th so our kids will be almost exactly 2 years apart. I'm hoping that is a good age difference, I guess we will see.

We had our first real Dr. appt today and the Dr. had a hard time finding the baby's heartbeat. So, of course that made me worry a bit until he brought in the ultrasound machine to find out where the baby was hiding. Turns out the baby has a very strong heartbeat and everything looked good :) YAY!!!

Here's a picture of our little one at almost 12 weeks...

Such a BOY!!!

I know I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, Skyler is such a BOY!!! He loves all things boy related. Here are a few examples.....

1) Football-

Rich got Skyler a little football last week and they love playing backyard football together!!!

Set, HIKE!!!

Run, run, run

He had to stop and pick a flower :)

Back to the game with the flower and football in hand

A little relaxing on the porch swing after the game

so silly

2) Kayaking-

Last weekend Skyler got to go kayaking for the first time. Here he is practicing before getting in the water.

Out in the water at Summit Lake. He loved it!!!

He was totally mellow and just laid back on Rich the whole time.

His kayaking adventure lasted about 20 minutes and then he decided he wanted to stand up so he had to get out.

Sitting on the beach watching daddy out in the water

3) Tractors-

While we were waiting to meet grandpa at Cabela's, Skyler got to play on this cool tractor.

He's concentrating very hard on driving

4) Helping Dad outside-

Rich went outside to change the oil in his car tonight and of course Skyler had to help. He loves being outside!!!

He tries to be so helpful!!

He's very curious!!!

He has to know exactly what daddy is doing at all times

And of course he loves to get dirty. What could be more fun then playing with a dirty tire?

Needless to say his hands got a good scrubbing when he came inside. We love our curious, adventurous, mischievous, dirty little boy!!

5k Run For Rett

Last weekend we participated in our first 5k!! We are trying to be more active these days and decided a 5k would help us with our goal. Originally we were going to train for it so that we would actually be able to run it (neither one of us are runners) but life gets in the way and we never managed to train as much as we would have liked. So, we ended up walking most of it and jogging a little bit. Either way I'm just proud of the fact that we did it at all. We actually had a wonderful time too!! It was really fun being able to see so many of our friends on the course supporting this great cause. We are already looking forward to next year! Maybe we'll recruit more friends and actually train for the next one :) Here's a few pictures of our fun day...

Skyler and Rich before the race. Look at how perfect the weather was for us!!!

Here's the link to the pictures of us finishing the race:
http://www.backprint.com/view_user_event.asp?PID=bp%1EsFq&EVENTID=69144&PWD=&BIB=61

We survived!!! This is after the race. Clearly it was all too exciting for Skyler, he fell asleep on the last third of the course.

Here's our official times. We came in 93rd and 94th out of 143 runners. Definitely not in first place but not in last place either :)

93  62 Rich Marlatt    M Olympia, WA 47:06.42
94  61 Allisha Marlatt W Olympia, WA 47:06.73

So sleepy!!

Since the weather was so perfect and I had taken the whole day off of work, we decided to head to the beach after the race. Skyler had never been to the beach before and he thought it was pretty fun picking up rocks and sticks all along the beach :)

He was pretty mesmerized but the water.

I think this picture is cute. He's having fun picking up rocks.

Little Daredevil

So, Rich was out at his parents house working on a project and Skyler was outside with him playing and "helping out" like he always does. While Rich was busy and not paying attention for a second this little daredevil decided to climb the ladder. We gotta watch out for this kid, he has no fear. I foresee many broken bones in our future. :(


And this is how I found him a couple of days ago, apparently he wanted the remote which was on the tray of his high chair. Being the clever kid that he is, he managed to push the glider ottoman all the way across the room, climb up onto it and stand up. Clearly he was quite proud of himself!!

4 Years Already!!

Yesterday Rich and I celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary!! I know, I can't believe it's been 4 years already either. Time sure flies when you're having fun. And it seems like ever since Skyler was born time is flying by even faster.

Tonight we got to go have a fun date night at our favorite restaurant, El Gaucho. We only go there for either birthdays or our anniversary 'cuz it's a little pricey.... but oh so delicious!!! Tonight we splurged more than normal and had the Chateaubriand and Lobster for 2, which is a fancy way of saying center-cut filet, steamed asparagus, parmesan crusted tomato, crimini mushrooms, loaded baked potato and oh yeah, LOBSTER!! I freakin' love lobster!! How amazing does this dinner look!!!

Pretty amazing right?! Well I guarantee it tasted even better!!!

After we stuffed ourselves on that amazing dinner we decided to stuff ourselves a little more with some creme brulee for dessert. Yummmm!!

Tonight was the first time we left Skyler with a babysitter who wasn't family. Apparently he did very well. He had bigger kiddos paying lots of attention to him so he was in heaven. He LOVES to be the center of attention!! I'm just glad he behaved for them since he was being a little brat all day for me.


On a side note, Skyler is trying to be so helpful these days. When we got home tonight Rich got him some milk and when he was done with it this is where he put it....
Isn't that cute!! He can't open the fridge yet but he knows where it goes. We were looking all over for it and were so happy to find it right there. He is such a cute kid, if I do say so myself!!!

1st bike ride with Skyler

With all of the nice weather we've been having we've been dying to go on a bike ride. We haven't really gotten to go bike riding for the last 2 years because 2 years ago I was pregnant and not feeling up to bike riding too much and last year Skyler was too small to be able to ride with us. But this year Skyler is just the right age to go with us. So on Friday Rich went and got a seat for his bike for Skyler to ride in and a spiffy helmet for him too. And since it was so sunny on Saturday we decided to go for a ride. We managed to go 10 miles. Yay us!!! I thought that was pretty darn good considering it's been so long since we've been on a bike. Skyler totally loved it too!! Actually first thing when he got up Saturday morning he wanted his helmet on, then he went and found his shoes and made Rich put them on him and as soon as his shoes were on he ran for the door and wanted up on the bike. Rich had taken Skyler for a quick ride around the neighborhood Friday night and apparently he couldn't wait to go again. Unfortunately for him he had to wait until I got off of work but that didn't keep him from wearing his helmet all morning. He is obsessed with his helmet and wants to have it on all the time. It is pretty cute on him!!!

He doesn't look too excited to go for a bike ride in this picture but I promise you he was

On the Chehalis Western Trail

Skyler was so relaxed in his comfy bike seat that he fell asleep

See, he really does like the bike. This is back at home after our 10 mile ride.

Even on the bike he has to play with his belly button :) What a silly boy!!

Let's hope we have nice weather next weekend so we can go again!!!