[ Happy Halloween! ]

Here's our cute little Witch and Giraffe for Halloween! We had a fun time trick-or-treating tonight with Grandma and hanging out with Nana and Poppa! What a fun day and we're so glad the weather was good except for a little sprinkling! Pretty good for Seattle! :) Anyway, hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween!

[ 4th of July ]

For the 4th of July we went to Port Townsend with my family for the weekend to do some camping. It was quite the experience with me being 7 1/2 months pregnant and Angie coming down with a cold the day before we left. So we only ended up staying for one night, but still had fun getting together with some family friends of ours and when we got back home we set off some fire works with John's parents. John's favorite holiday is the 4th of July because of all the fireworks, so he lit off his own stash, which was quite the show! Angie loved the ferry ride and beach and thought the fireworks were great, just a little bit noisy! Oh and we also celebrated my father-in-law's 60th birthday on the 5th, what a fun weekend!

[ Easter ]

Well, I'm a little behind getting these Easter pictures up, but I thought I'd share them anyway...

Here's John and Angie after the Easter Egg hunt at my parent's house. Lauren, Lee and John had fun hiding them around the living room!
Here are her spoils...

Angie in her Easter dress after church, my Mom got her two "baby" guinea pigs for Easter since she lost her other ones. She also Needless to say, she loves them and carries them around everywhere! This is Angie's new camera smile...

Our Easter egg creations...

Angie's friend Mackenzie coloring eggs...

Having fun coloring eggs at Mackenzie's house...

And finally here's a "belly shot" for Alisha who's been bugging me to post one.
In this picture I'm about 22 weeks along...

Angie saying "Oh cute!"

I took this the other day when I was getting ready for the day, Angie was being way too quite, so I went to go find her and found this...

She had opened the fridge and got a hold of a block of cheese and started helping herself! There were huge bite marks out of it, who knows how much she had eaten! Crazy girl!

Angie's Easter Egg Hunt at Nana and Poppa's house...

[ our little sweetheart ]

Here's our little sweetheart being a "ham" for the camera! She luckily wanted to cooperate with me... otherwise I wouldn't have gotten such fun pictures! You can definitely see how much personality is in that little body of hers! That is, when she wants to!






Angie was really getting into the pictures at this point because she wanted me to take a picture of her pink toes and her butt! I laughed out loud when she said "Take picture my butt!" then she turned around a stuck it right in front of the camera! We try to say "bottom" but apparently she's overheard us when we slipped up and said "butt"! We'll obviously have to keep working on that! I was excited about painting her toenails though... that's the first time I've had the guts to do it! I always had these nightmares of getting fingernail polish everywhere! But it was fine and she thinks it's great!



This table runner and matching coasters were a gift from my Mom... can you believe it? She's in the middle of her radiation treatments and she still manages to make beautiful gifts! She actually didn't quite finish the table runner because she's been so extremely tired from the radiation. So she took this opportunity to teach me how to finish it off. She sewed the blocks of fabric together and then showed me how to do the border, the quilting ("stitching in the ditch") and lastly the binding! It was so fun to learn and now I feel like I can consider myself a quilter since I know how to complete a project! I was even more excited that I finished the project for the holiday! I know some of you are laughing right now, but it happens! I get a project started and then get so many other things going on that I usually don't finish it in time to enjoy it for that holiday! Not this time! So now that I know how to quilt, I'm working on finishing up Angie's comforter which has been a work in progress for a long time! Thanks to my Mom... I should be finishing it by tomorrow! YAY! I'm finally excited about sewing enough to not be intimidated by a project so that I can finish it! So be looking for Angie's quilt! :)


Here's John's gift from Angie and I. Inside the bag is a heart-shaped paperweight that you can put a picture in. I didn't think to take a picture of it, oh well. We thought it would be perfect for him to take to work to have a picture of us and be useful at the same time! Angie and I had fun making our card for John and he loved his gift so it was a success!

And here are the beautiful roses John got me along with a very sweet note! I'm always so excited when I get flowers, as I'm sure most women are! John always remembers them for those special occasions... my birthday, Mother's day, our Anniversary and Valentine's day! Thanks for the beautiful roses Babe!Oh how I love special occasions! We ended the evening with dinner at The Olive Garden- YUM! Thanks to Nana and Poppa for watching Angie! HAPPY BELATED VALENTINE'S DAY!

[ trunk-or-treating and pumpkin carving! ]

On Saturday we had our ward Halloween party, which John and I were in charge of helping out with. It was a success! We had hot dogs, chips and homemade root beer for dinner and then went trunk-or-treating in the parking lot afterwards. We were trying to help Angie with saying "trick-or-treat" and every time we'd come to the next car we would say, "What do you say?" and she replied, "Help please?" which is what she usually says at home when she wants something. So we had to re-train her! After the fifth car she was opening up her back and saying "trick-or-treat" like a pro! We were so proud! The only thing is that she wanted to start eating the treats right then of course! We then had to stop for a minute to enjoy some of her treats, so I think now that she'll be really ready for tonight!






We had lots of fun carving pumpkins with John's family on Sunday night. Here they are all lit up! Mine is the silly face, John's is the scary face and Angie's is the spider of course! John has a tradition of carving intricate designs in his pumpkin every year, this year wasn't as extravagant, but still turned out great! John is so fast at it that he was able to carve his and Angie's in the same amount of time I carved mine! I'm a bit of a perfectionist though, so maybe that's why it took so long! :) Angie didn't care to help out on the carving, but thought the outcome was great and of course gave the pumpkin a kiss! Seems to be Angie's new thing! :)





HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

[ Independence Day ]

Our 4th of July celebration was a little mellow this year, but we kinda liked it that way. We went to the parade in downtown Kirkland, had a BBQ with some neighbors and friends, played frisbee, lit off some fireworks and watched the big firework displays in Bellevue and Seattle from our deck. John was able to get Thursday and Friday off of work, so it was fun to hang out together for a nice 4-day weekend. Also what made it even better was that John and I were able to house sit and dog sit for John's parents while there were out of town for the weekend, so we were able to have a couple nights to ourselves, except for the dogs of course! My parents where nice enough to put Angie to bed in the evenings and get her dressed and fed in the morning. Thanks Mom, Dad, Lauren and Lee. Here's a few pictures of us, the first two my sister took and worked her photoshop magic, I thought they were such cute pictures I had to show both! Happy Belated 4th Everyone!