Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Hello, Gorgeous!

I usually love dark, dark wood cabinets etc in houses, but after seeing this house with it's white, bright woods and beachy vibe I am rethinking things.  Every inch of this house is designed/decorated amazing.  I AM IN LOVE! :)

Click on the link to check it out for yourself:   http://justcallmechris.blogspot.com/2011/06/dream-home.html



What do you think, is it your style?  I definitely want to pull some ideas from it when (if!) designing my dream house.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Photoshoots

When all is said and done, I would be ecstatic if even one of my children was photogenic.  I can't tell you how many pictures I take just to try and get one of Camille looking at the camera.  Smiling for the camera is apparently asking too much.  Here's some of our latest photography sessions.  I think I've learned a little more each time we do them. 







 





Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Daddy's girl

Camille will always be a daddy's girl.  Here's further proof...

Pic with Flossie the "tooth fairy" while visiting Dad at school for lunch


Feeding Dad chips


Swim class!




She loves when we do the "monkey climb" along the wall and makes cute monkey sounds while she does it.  Love this girl!

Full term!

Officially full-term for almost a week now, or in a day if you're going by the later due date.  I left the countdown on my blog's sidebar with the later due date so it's not depressing if I go over the "new" date, but I guess that makes me "38" weeks along.

It's kind of confusing/weird having 2 due dates now.  With contractions coming more frequently now, I think the 9th is right on and I def won't make it to the 14th.  I hope I don't end up eating my words! :)




Had a dr appt today, everything's looking good.  She told me to make just 2 more appointments, so she must think our baby will be here in 2 weeks I hope!

Summer

We enjoyed the kite festival again this year, with a few of our dental student friends.  I love this pic of Alex flying his Toy Story kite along with the pro kite flyers :)





Sadly the only pic I got from Memorial Day.  Had a fun BBQ with friends, the kids played in the water and Nick refinished our kitchen table top!


FHE at the beach. 


Sunday, June 19, 2011

Love our dad!

Happy Father's Day to all!




Wednesday, June 15, 2011

If only vacation never ended....

We also had a great time with the Wilson family.  We packed in lots of fun things, and managed to get some pics as well. 

Went on a little hike.  Can I just say I love the pacific northwest?!




At one point Kyle ran down a different path and we could see him darting through some trees. We thought it was a great impression of Edward (twilight) although he was a bit slower :)






Logan's all-time favorite song is "Praise to the Man".  He knows all the words and sings the loudest whenever it gets sung in sacrament meetings.  We had fun playing and singing songs together.


For FHE we went swimming.  We had a great time.  It must have been the beginning of summer because yikes we are all so white!


Showing off her "floating" skills




Trying out the kayaks with Uncle Kyle



We went to a cool park on the beach.  I think this was Camille's first trip to the "real" ocean.  We go to the beach at Lake Michigan which feels so much like the ocean with the tides, sand etc that I sometimes forget it's just a lake!


Learning to skip/throw rocks



This pic makes me laugh.  Kyle was jumping off some driftwood with Camille.  He is such a good uncle to protect her neck from whiplash.  He is great with kids in general, he is a stud and we'll miss him when he leaves on his mission in 2 months!


Giving Jenna a hug goodnight.  A new approach to "baby got back".  Cam was wearing her night-time cloth diapers, they make her bum look extra huge.  We had some good laughs getting her to "dance" which just means she shakes her big booty :)


The Maritime Festival in Seattle was a lot of fun on a beautiful sunny day.  There were lots of fun events including fireboat demonstrations, air/water helicopters and tug-boat races. 


The coast guard were there and we got to take a tour of one of their boats.  As we were about 20 ft up the stairs onto the boat, the wind caught Camille's hat and whisked it into the Puget Sound.  I thought it was gone for good, but some of the coast guard guys said they would see if the could hook it when it came around the side.  A few minutes into the tour he came back with a dripping wet hat.  Thanks guys!


The family minus Brian, Christina, their kiddos and Courtney.





There was an awesome clam chowder tour we went on.  For $5 each you could go to 10 different restaurants on the waterfront and taste their clam chowder.  At the end you got to vote for the best one.  We were sooooo stuffed by the end but it was delicious!  Our favorite was at Anthony's.


After the festival we stopped by the REI store in Seattle.  If you ever get the chance, stop here!  It's REI's flagship store and has tons of awesome things, not to mention it's humongous. 


They have a fun kid's play area.  We tried to get a pic of the cousins in this cute little kayak, but of course it was too exciting to get them all to look at the same time :)


Kyle, Camille and I met up with Christina and her kids, along with the Welch's at Point Defiance zoo & aquarium.  It's been years since I've been here and I forgot how beautiful it is.  It's nestled right up against the Puget Sound in Tacoma so the view is amazing.  We had a great time and lucked out with another beautiful and sunny day.


Feeding the budgie birds was exciting and scary at the same time!






Spent some time at the park, Camille begs for "swings and slide" every day!