Mike's trip, 2009

In August Mike went on his annual trip with his old roommate Connor.  This year Mike flew out to Seattle, a group of them drove up to Canada, took a ferry out to Vancouver Island, then kayaked out to the Barkley Sound and set up their camp.   There was a group of about 8 people and they hung out on these islands all week long.   They went on long kayak adventures, and saw tons of sea lions,  and a few hump back whales.  Amazingly, Mike said the sea lions were actually a lot scarier than the whales.  The whales were only about 100 feet away and they would come half way out of the water.  Damon LOVED hearing all of Mike's stories and had so many questions for him.  Here are just a few pictures....

a ton of sea lions

now that's manly!  ughhh! 

see the low clouds

Mike and Connor

Connor with a new little friend

Mike and Connor

Mike works so hard every day to provide for our family...I think I look forward to this trip as much as he does because I know how much fun it is for him.  I love him so much and I'm glad this trip was a successful one.   Until next time! 

Recent...

  I have been so bad about blogging lately!  But this is just a quick and simple post with a few pictures.  

   Everyone that sees our Brixton makes a comment about his huge eyes.  Yes, we know they are big...but we just laugh that EVERYONE that sees him mentions it.   His eyes have earned him the nickname of Bugsy  

I love this picture.  He's such a goof

huh?

The big brother telling Brixton a story.   He looks very interested

Spiderman?

Yes, that is Damon with the red face.  This was the first time he's ever had his face painted...it was so weird to not really recognize him.  Our own little Spiderman....with his sweet little friend Sienna. 

they thought each other were pretty funny

My 30th Birthday - and Anthony Kim

So...I turned 30 at the beginning of July....which honestly, I was thrilled about.  I might be crazy...but I actually seem to always look forward to being a year older.  I'm not sure why, but I've never been upset about aging...and I was so ready to be out of my 20's.  

So you're probably asking what this has to do with Anthony Kim and a picture of golf balls.   Well...I will always remember my 30th birthday...mainly for the reason, that it was one of my husbands favorite days (and not because it made me officially 3 years older than him! - at least for the next 7 weeks).  We went out to a little Italian restaurant down the street from us in Bethesda.  My birthday was the same day as the first day of the AT&T National Golf Tournament, which was held a few miles from our house.  One of Mike's favorite golfers, the up and coming Anthony Kim, was in first place at the end of the this particular day.  As we are sitting in the outdoor seating area of the restaurant waiting for our food, Anthony Kim walks by holding hands w/ a pretty girl....Mike says "Hey Anthony", and Anthony responds with a nice "hello".  Mike is thrilled that one of his favorite athletes was only a few feet away, acknowledged him, and walked into the same restaurant where we were celebrating my birthday.    We enjoyed our dinner, then Mike and Damon went to get some golf balls out of the car for him to sign for them.  We are excited that for some random reason, Mike had grabbed the camera as we were leaving the apartment....only to find out that the battery was dead.  I suggest that he uses his i-phone...and he gets excited.   Mike and Damon go inside to ask for an autograph and picture....Mike is about to take a picture of Damon and AK, and the cute girl offers to take one of all 3 of them...she holds the phone up about to snap the shot...and his battery on his phone dies.  Talk about disappointment.  Mike was devastated....it was so sad...but he got the golf balls signed, and we went home.  What a great birthday!  

Those who know golf or like golf might think this story is cool....but otherwise, it's just the most boring post ever.  

Missing good friends....

Dear Sweet Jackie, Elise, and Elijah.....we sure do miss you!    

I knew that when I was looking for pictures for this post, I wouldn't have any problems finding any.  I could basically click on any month, from the last 3 years, and be guaranteed to find pictures of our little kids playing together.   

We have done SO many fun things with these sweet friends.  We've also gotten so many rides, yummy meals, emergency laundry cleaned, and did I mention they gave us a lot of rides?   I don't know what I would have done without you Jackie.  I love you so much and miss you more than you'll know!   We hope you're loving being back with family in Hawaii!  

We got rained on

one of our last play dates...   :(

A few pics...

I just love this little profile picture

My Aunt Laurie made this amazing blanket.  I absolutely love it. 

For as much as I love taking pictures, I seriously think this is the first picture of the 4 of us together.  Our baby is 2 1/2 months old, and I never took a picture of all of us?  What kind of a mother am I?  and this was Damon's idea!  

We do love him...

I feel horrible that the last few posts (besides the one of Brixton smiling) haven't had any baby pictures...My mom keeps saying "put up some baby pictures!"  So then I really realized what a slacker I have been....so yes everyone.  We do love our baby...here are a few pics to prove it!  

I absolutely love this picture....just look at this little guy staring up at his Daddy

So far, Damon has been an amazing big brother

What?  An actual picture of the mom?  

There is a story behind this one and the one below.  I was trying SO hard to get a cute picture of Brixton, but he's not the most photogenic quite yet, and I got a ton of pictures similar to the one above, a lot of weird faces, tongue, squinty eyes...etc..He absolutely would not smile for me. Then Mike get s home, walks over to him....and ta dah....see the picture below.  This is what Mike gets...I got about 6 pictures of him smiling back at Mike.  Not fair! 

Sweet Damon climbed up and cuddled w/ his brother, held his little hand, and totally fell asleep.  I thought it was so adorable.  He sure loves this little baby.  

So sweet!