Catch Up!

Well, I'm afraid I'm not a very good blogger. I am on Facebook though now and seem to do better there. Since it's a new year a guess I'd better start on the right foot. Here's a new picture of our family! We'll have to update our picture again in July when the next baby arrives!

Father's Day Weekend with the Mariners!

On Father's Day weekend Kory and I went with Lucas and Shanell (Kory's brother and wife) to Seattle for a little random fun and a Mariner's game. We went up early Saturday morning and drove first to McGrath's Fish House for some unworldly Mozerella sticks and lunch. Kory ended up getting his lunch free because he had an allergic reaction to some kind of nut oil in his pasta. His tongue was huge! Then we went up to central Seattle to the Space Needle and walked around the center there and saw some sights. Below the Space Needle here is the roof of the Experience Music Project which is a crazy, whacky, curvy, and very colorful building which houses a museum of music. I've seen it from the freeway many times and was excited to see it up close.


Shanell made us pose in these weird giant sculptures. There is some interesting stuff to see near the Space Needle. We rode some of the rides there at the amusement park too. I think riding the roller coaster was my favorite part of the whole trip. Only on a roller coaster can a person totally forget about the stresses and worries of being a grown up and give themselves up to wild abandon and scream until they nearly wet their pants!

Here we are at Safeco Field. This was my first Mariner's game and it was exciting to be there in the stadium. I could care less for baseball on TV, but being there to watch it live was pretty fun. We had great seats and a great variety of interesting characters to watch...

There was mullet man and his buddy who got thrown out 3 times for drunkeness...

Earring guy who was about 30 years too old to have an earring in his ear and looked straight at Shanell when she snapped his photo. She just about melted into her seat!

And then my personal favorite, Mustache man. Check out the curly-q on that facial hair!

Here we are enjoying the game, the entertainment of the crowd, garlic fries and popcorn! Lucas was really having a good time, despite his expression here...

Sadly, the Mariners lost. We had one or two exciting innings though. As Robbie always says, "It's hard being a fan of the worst baseball team." After the game we stayed at the Hilton by the airport and enjoyed small, but very soft and plush beds. On the way home we stopped at Krispy Kremes and got a dozen delicious doughnuts to share. We wished we could have taken a longer trip, but the time we had was a blast!

My new Diva Do!

OK Nanna, this one's for you! Nanna has been trying to get Mommy to cut my hair short. My medical condition is causing me to lose a little hair, so I was very thin on top and had long hair in the back. It looked like an old man mullet. So Auntie Megan came over and cut my hair short all over. I use cute clippies to hold the front down and smooth, and the back is a little puffy and curly. I feel like a Diva! I'm having a rough time right now since I had to be flown to Seattle again this last weekend. My belly was puffy on Sunday morning and I was gagging like I needed to throw up. Then I got a runny nose and my upper chest became congested and my oxygen got a little low. Mommy and Daddy did all they knew how to do to help me, but I got a fever and wasn't tolerating any fluid, so they took me to the hospital. At the ER in Kadlec my fever continued to rise and my heart rate got very fast. The doctors at Kadlec felt I needed to be where my specialists are, so Mommy and I got to take a very bumpy airplane ride (the evening was very hot and stormy) to Seattle at 1:00 AM. We made it safely and I am doing a little better. Hopefully I will get to go home in a couple of days. At least I had a pretty new hair-do to show the nurses and doctors!

Say Cheese!

We wanted to take a good picture of the kids for our dads for Father's Day. We think we have a couple of precious kiddos! Are we a little biased? It doesn't matter, fact is fact. :)

Elliott: 4 mos. Angela: 2 yrs.

A relaxing Friday night picnic.

Abby wanted to treat her family to a picnic on Friday, June 20th. So she cooked up a can of chilli, homemade cornbread, and a fresh strawberry pie with berries from Ray and Andi's garden. We went to Chiawana park in Pasco and enjoyed a beautiful evening next to the river. Then Kory miraculously beat Abby at a short game of Phase 10. We walked down the path in the park to a nearby geocache, then back to the car to go find a few more caches. We really enjoyed a fun evening with just our little family.


Mommy is showing me how soft and tickly the grass is!

This green stuff is really interesting! I think I'd like to put some in my mouth, but Mommy said no.

My first geocaching trip! We found three caches!

The family at our first geocache site. Here Lewis and Clark first saw the Sage Grouse.

Smile!

Today was a special day! Angela never has smiled very much. I can count on my fingers the number of times I have seen her smile, and usually it happens when she's high on Ativan. But today I was feeding Elliott and looked down at Angela and she kept getting huge smiles on her face. I immediately put Elliott's bottle down (which he was not happy about, but I'm sorry, this was a once in a lifetime photo op!) and raced for the camera. I managed to catch a big grin, which I promptly accidentally deleted. I was devastated! But thanks to my new best friend, Recuva file-recovery freeware, I was able to get this adorable picture back. It's hard spending so much time and love on a kiddo who can't even smile back at you, but special moments like this make it all worth it.

Silly Boy!

This morning I put Elliott down on the floor face up with his head up under the other side of this toy. He was completely on the blanket. He played for a while, then suddenly it was quiet. I looked over at Elliott and he was asleep, face down and totally out from underneath the toy, with only his face left on the blanket. How he managed to get himself there like that I will never know! He sure is getting tricksy!

A rough weekend for Angela.

This Memorial Day weekend has been a challenge for us. Thursday morning, I went to go get Angela out of bed and I noticed she was a little gray in the face. So I put the oximeter on her and her oxygen saturation was a little low. After some stimulation and suction, she wasn't getting any better, so off to the ER we went. Angela has a cold which she isn't handling very well. Her lungs have cleared out though, and now she is just having trouble keeping her throat clear. She'll be in the hospital until at least Tuesday, at which time she may get to come home, possibly with oxygen, depending on how she is doing. Kory and I are taking turns spending a night and a day with Angela. We're tired and frustrated, but hanging in there.