Ken's 70th Birthday

Our view from dinner!
Group shot

Susan & Ken

Sisters

Brett & Melwil

Nick & Lex

M's Game

July 19th was my dad's 70th bday! We did some pretty fun stuff this year to celebrate the big bday. Susan invited us to join them for dinner at Canlis. Canlis is a super cool restaurant in Seattle with awesome views, service, and food. She planned the whole thing without him knowing that we were coming. The servers gave us giant menus to hide behind when he walked up to the table. It worked! He was quite shocked! I don't think he said a word for about 10 minutes and had a couple tears in his eyes. Good work, Susan! Dinner was delish and we had a great time. A few days later, Nick and I took him to the M's vs. Red Sox game at Safeco Field. It was no Canlis meal, but we did have a tasty dinner at the game...hot dogs, nachos, beer. etc. In all, I think he enjoyed his birthday!

More Spots!!

This poor guy! On Wednesday the hives came back again. No strawberries this time!! We didn't give him anything new, and are totally confused as to why this is happening again. It's now Friday night and they are just getting worse. I took him to a new Doc on Thursday just so I could get a referral to a pediatric allergist and that's exactly what she gave us. So we have our appointment next Friday of next week for a round of allergy testing to figure this all out. I just feel so sorry for the itchy little boy!!

Thomas the Train

Connor at the welcome sign
Here comes Thomas. This was the train we rode.

We went past Snoqualmie Falls

Boarding the choo-choo

Connor's first tatoo!

Grandma & Grandpa

See Thomas behind us??

Connor & Daddy walking around the choo-choo

On Saturday, my mom and Johnny took Connor and us to the "Day out with Thomas" at Snoqualmie. Connor absolutely loved it and seriously squealed when he first saw Thomas. Too cute! They had all sorts of train things to do along with a train ride on train. I couldn't believe how many little kids were there! They probably had 10 different train departures that day and they were all sold out. Lots of little boys must be obsessed with choo-choo's like our little man. It was a fun day! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Zoo

family shot

Connor didn't want to stay in the stroller much...

Feeding the birds

He hated this and wouldn't sit on the horse...just clung as tight as he could to Nick during the ride.

We took Connor to the Point Defiance Zoo yesterday for the first time. We decided to go early at 8:30 right when they opened. I swear we were the only people there for the first hour at least. Connor really liked the budgie exhibit where you could feed the birds and of course the playground that had slides and water to play in.

Summer time in the neighborhood

Check out the FREE workbench my neighbors gave Connor. He loves this thing!!

Logan and Connor testing it out

After all their hard work playing with the workbench, they wanted to run through the sprinklers. It was pretty cute, Connor did everything Logan did. He thinks Logan is pretty cool, he wants to be just like him. :)

Happy 4th!

I hope you all had a fun and safe 4th of July this year. We just stayed home and celebrated with our little family, had a BBQ, and watched the neighbors shoot off fireworks. Maybe next year when Connor gets it (and can stay up past 9:00) we'll do something a little more exciting!

Father's Day 2010

For Father's Day this year, we wanted to do something different. I decided to book a sea plane for us to go on. It was super fun! We left from Lake Union, flew all around Seattle and Bellevue then landed back in Lake Union. It was pretty neat to see the city from the air. You really forget how much water surrounds the Seattle area. After the flight, we took the dads (Doug, Ken, and Nick) out for a nice lunch at Joey's Restaurant on Lake Union. It was my favorite Father's Day so far and I'm pretty sure the dads thought so too!