President's Day Weekend

Weekend with the Chantry's in Seattle!

Three day weekend, yay! We had a great President's Day Weekend. We got to explore Portland more and drive up to Seattle. All in all, we had a great trip. Enjoy the pictures.

We started our weekend off by hitting up Ikea for their free breakfast on Saturday and then exploring the store. We had lots of fun.

Loungin' in style.

Because what's life without a random picture of a rope bridge?

Then, after church Sunday we decided to go up to Seattle for the actual President's Day and visit our friends the Chantry's.

The kids immediately settled in and had a blast with their new friends with whom Avey and Jack are only months apart in age. (Samuel is 3 months older than Jack, and Avey is 3 months older than Isaac.)

This is their house and Eric and Matt showing off their kung fu skills (Matt apparently actually has kung fu skills.)

The rest of the families. Bless Joy for letting me borrow her white coat. My coat didn't get put in our car on the drive up, so the day in Seattle would have been pretty miserable without it. Thanks Joy!

We rode the train into the city, Jack and Sam were thrilled!

I love Matt's face here.

A maze outside of the sci-fi and rock and roll music museum.

Playing at the international fountain (and yes this is the ONLY time in history that our kids actual posed for a picture. It's the little things that count).

Triumph after climbing up that steep hill and not falling!

Look at us fit three kids easily into our awesome stroller! It was fun to walk around the city. And man did we walk. And in case you wanted to know there is NO darigold dairy farm to tour near downtown Seattle anymore. We walked two miles out of the way for nothing. Good thing the kids were champs!!! It ended up being quite the urban hike for the day.

Avey was so proud of herself on top of this ball by the space needle.

This was like a playground for the kids. They climbed up the stairs, hung on the bar, and got warmed up being inside. :)

We ended our day by the Chantry's treating us to pizza for dinner, and then playing at the children's museum for the last hour of the day.

On the way back to the train.

Little Isaac sleeping.

Our little daredevil.

It was a fun little trip up. Thanks again for hosting us Chantry's!

Comments

"Hello new world," says Avey.

Well well here we are. A long road of pregnancy, a long way from home, and a VERY short labor everything came out perfectly (pardon the pun). At 12:01 a.m. on December 8, 2009 Avey _____* Stevenson was born. She weighs 9 pounds, 2.2 Ounces and measures 21 cm in length. She has red hair (arguably strawberry blond), dark blue eyes, chubby cheeks, and a fabulously pleasant disposition. *We are still torn about the middle name. The competing middle names are JoAnna, Kristine, or Anne. This was a miracle in timing. I guess that means that Avey will be a punctual person throughout her life. Brooke called me (Eric) on the way home from picking up Sharon (Brooke's mom) from the airport stating contractions were coming every 4 minutes. We hadn't even gotten to our house when she called with "the voice" that told us to hurry up 'cause the baby is coming. That was a little after 10:30. We rushed her to the hospital down the road, I dropped Jack off at the neighbors house, an...

News Flash!

This is an 11 week ultrasound, and looks close to what my ultrasound looked like, I just can't find where my original went. Oh well, so is the sad life of a second child. Yes! It is true! I am 11 weeks pregnant! I was supposed to be 12 weeks pregnant today, but when my doctor measured the size of the baby it was a week smaller than 12 weeks, even when he did it twice. So rather than my due date being December 1st, it has gotten pushed back to December 8th. I get to be 11 weeks along for two weeks! Awesome! It's really not that bad, and I normally wouldn't wouldn't tell anyone until at least 12 weeks, but the doctor found a heartbeat, and says everything looks healthy and good to go, so I don't want to wait to tell people anymore! (Besides I "technically" waited until I was 12 weeks. :) For those that are dying to know I have definitely felt better than I did with Jack. I haven't taken any medicine to help with the nausea- and that could be ...

Another Grocery Craze!

After going to Albertsons this morning (6:15 AM- don't you worry, long story) and bringing in all the groceries from the car, Eric requested that I take pictures of everything and the receipts. So per request of him, this post is here. Here's all the stuff with Jack in the middle (Well almost all of it, Eric took a bunch of it to work today before I took this picture.) Don't worry, Jack wasn't part of the groceries I bought. All-in-all I got: 17 boxes of cereal 4 bottles of Pantene Pro-V 3 packages of Pampers Diapers 2 Fiber One Pancake Mixes 3 Bisquick mixes 1 Toaster Streudel (I loved those in middle school after going to the temple and having breakfast with friends) 2 Dawn dish washing liquids (28 oz each) 2 things of Tide (64 loads each) 3 BC pre-made frosting 2 Fiber One Toaster Pastries 8 Pack of Bounty Giant Paper Towels 2 boxes of Gushers 2 boxes Gogurt 2 packages butter 1 Malt O meal cereal 1 32 oz block of cheese Total without coupons: $233....

The Stevenson Story

Search This Blog