Pictures from the Bernard's visit

Our good friends Tristan, Jodi and Ethan Bernard were in town for the last 3 weeks. They currently live in Louisiana :( but we're hoping they'll be living back up here soon :) It's always so great to see them and we wish they could stay forever!! Unfortunately, they had to get on a plane today and head back home (sniffle, sniffle). At least we were lucky enough to get to spend some quality time with them while they were here. Skyler and Ethan got along great and had so much fun just running and chasing each other around our house. Here are some pictures of the boys having fun together...

Ethan & Skyler playing outside

Wrestling around with Tristan

Time out for a hug

Ethan and Tristan rolling down the hill

Time for more hugs. Skyler is good little a hugger :)

Ethan turned 1 in August and got to have a birthday party up here last weekend. We were so glad to get to be a part of his special day!
Jodi, Ethan & Tristan at Ethan's b-day party

Skyler loved this swing, he kept saying weeeeeeee, and he DID NOT want to get out of it!

Time for some swimming. Ethan is a swimming pro since he lives in Louisiana where it's hot. Skyler, on the other hand, wasn't so sure about swimming.

Ethan loved the slide

Skyler went down only once and was ready to get out. I love how it looks like Ethan is helping him down!

Skyler wearing a party hat

Ok, that's enough of the hat. It didn't last long!

Happy 1st Birthday Ethan!!

I didn't take as many pictures of the boys together as I would have liked so I guess that means they'll just have to come back soon so that I can get some more :)

Thanks for the fun visits Bernard's! We love you and miss you already and can't wait for the day when you'll be living back in the great state of WA!!! Let's hope it's sooner rather than later!!

Take our baby poll

2 weeks from today, that's Sept. 23rd, we have our ultrasound appointment scheduled and will get to find out if we are adding another boy to our family or a little girl this time. We're curious to know what everybody else thinks we're having so take a second and cast your vote on our baby poll. Is Skyler going to have a little brother or a little sister to pick on? Do I get to go shopping for blue or pink? What do you think?

Random cute pictures

This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. Skyler and I were all ready for church and I noticed that we were matching so I couldn't resist getting a picture.

This is the funny face he makes when you tell him to "smile"

This was about a month ago. I had Skyler all ready for church and I was taking a shower and getting ready too. When I got out of the shower this is how I found him. Apparently I was taking too long to get ready and he got tired of waiting for me so he fell asleep in the hallway.

This was just taken today, while I was upstairs getting ready for church the boys were downstairs watching tv. Looks like I was taking too long to get ready again :)

Sand in the City 2010

Yesterday we went and checked out Sand in the City in downtown Olympia. It's a really fun sand sculpture contest that is held annually to benefit the Hands on Children's museum. This was our 3rd year going and it's always so amazing to me how talented the sculptors are! Just like the last 2 years, this year did not disappoint. Here are some pictures of our favorites...

Kids playing video games

Toy Story

Camping gone wild

Finding Nemo

This was the master sculpture. It's a fire truck and ambulance. They were still working on it when we were there so we didn't get to see the finished product. It looked like it was going to be pretty cool though.

Born to be wild

Skyler had fun playing in the giant sand box this year

They had lots of other fun activities and crafts for kids to do. Skyler really liked playing with this sand table!

They had some animals there too and the cow was Skyler's favorite!! He kept mooing at the cow, it was pretty funny!!

We had a great time and can't wait for Sand in the City 2011!!!

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!!!