One last gold for USA

Last night Team USA stole the bocce title from Dirty Santa in the 4th Annual Young Life Bocce Tournament.

Dirty Santa


Team USA


Bandana Bocce Ball Babes (with Babies, Jane and Clara)


Will and Jane together! (hard to get pics of them together)


Little Husky

Celebrations

It's seems we have a lot to celebrate...
-We celebrated my brother's #28 in West Seattle Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, but it was very fun. There were literally about 15 children under age 2 at the event so it was a very wonderfully chaotic event.
-Our friend, Kate is getting married next weekend in Maui so we had a Hawaii-themed shower for her this weekend. Congrats, Ted & Kate!
-We also celebrated Andrew Barfoot's #27 with a bbq last night.

We are looking forward to a trip to Southern California this coming weekend for our second -annual Labor Day Weekend adventure with our cousins, Josh, Tiffany and girls.

Here are some pictures:
Barfoot and his cake

The boys (Phil, Andrew, John and Bryson)

Christy and I at Kate's shower
The hostesses and bride-to-be
Our wonderful bundle

Will and Jane "playing" together

A Day in the life

Sometimes people ask what I do every day while being a stay at home mom. Besides the obvious (get up, get kids dressed, feed kids, get kids to nap, etc) which takes about 3 times as long as normal, we actually get to do a lot of fun things. With Will getting older and more aware of the world around him, we find ourselves looking for more places to explore. We go to the zoo, the aquarium, to the park, for walks, to the museum, and basically anywhere that will allow small children to run loose. It's been a bit tougher with Jane in tow, since I can't chase after a very active toddler quite as easily, but we're getting the hang of it. (I am avoiding Costco and Target like the plague, because I have visions of Will running through the aisles and not being able to catch him).
Anyway, life is good and I'm very thankful to be around every day to be with our beautiful children:

Here are a few pictures of the past week at Kelsey Creek Farm (free and fun place for kids to look at animals) and also of a play time we hosted with toddlers around Will's age:

Kelsey Creek



Will trying to play with Jane--she loves watching him!

Will and his new friends, Iman and Adam

Van and Simran

One happy boy

Harrah

We headed to the St. Hilaire household in Harrah, WA (near Yakima) for a mini-reunion with some SPU friends this weekend. Lots is going on with this group: babies, weddings, careers, so there was lots to catch up on. Thank you CJ and Jen for all you did. In another life, I think I would've liked to live in the country like you ...you never know, it could still happen :-) We love you guys!
I stole some pics from Jen's web album:
Swimming pool races

My little swimmer

Janie

Becky and Hale (5 months)

The girls (minus Kate)

Come see the softer side of Will

Will has taken to carrying around baby dolls, snuggling them and giving them binkies just like he sees me doing to his baby sister. Don't worry, we're not going to start encouraging Will to play with girly toys, but we are happy to see that he's starting to embrace the fact that he has a baby sister who might need a little extra TLC.

Will being Mr. Mom:



Jane, at almost 2 months:



Will playing with Regan, who also just became an older sibling to baby sister Rowan, who is 2 weeks younger than Jane

John had to leave this morning on his first business trip since Jane arrived. This is actually the longest he has ever gone without traveling in our four years of marriage, so we've definitely felt spoiled. Travel is inevitable, but we'll still miss him!
Will and Jane both had well-baby check ups this past week. Both are healthy and growing. Will is 28 1/2 pounds and Jane is trying her best to catch up at nearly 12 pounds. We are so thankful that neither has gotten sick, especially since Jane is still so young.
We had a nice weekend...attended a friend's 30th bday party and got to hang out with the Painters, who just arrived home from 3 weeks in Europe. We also got to have dinner with Uncle Dave and Aunt Dawn who were up from California.

Here are some photos of this past week:
Meeting Debbie Carlson and Candi Lommen

Meeting Uncle Dave

Our sweet baby Jane


Dad has his hands full