Fun day in Seattle

Yesterday we decided to spend the afternoon in Seattle with Chris and Christie. We had a fun day wandering around the Pike's Place Market. Skyler and I shared the most delicious peach that weighed a whole pound! I have NEVER had a peach that big before, it was amazing!!

Here is a funny store that we passed on our way to the market. The name of the store is "Free People" and their advertisement outside says "Tons of New Shipment". We were wondering if a new boat full of illegals had just come in...

The flowers at Pike's Place are always so beautiful! Chris and Christie couldn't resist buying a beautiful bouquet for her mom.

Since it was Skyler's first trip to Seattle we had to get a picture of him on the pig

We found a little bakery that had the most amazing looking cookies. Rich couldn't resist getting a giant snickerdoodle. That thing was the size of Skyler's head and boy was it yummy!!!

Of course, my little cookie monster LOVED it!

We decided to end our day with a trip to the Melting Pot. Here we are enjoying our yummy chocolate fondue.

Here's my little double-fisted chocoholic :) Yep, he takes after me!!!

Chris and Christie enjoying their chocolate smores fondue

We had such a fun day I think we'll have to go back soon and take in some of the other fun stuff that Seattle has to offer!

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!!