Special Visitors

This past weekend we had some special people come to visit us. My mom (Grammy) and grandmother (Gigi) drove up from Bend, Oregon (6 hours is a long time to sit in the car for anyone - but it's amazing my 90-year-old grandmother gets around like she does!)

We had a wonderful, relaxing visit. They got to see in person that I'm not kidding when I say that Sawyer is obsessed with trains. He wakes up in the morning calling our names and then "choo choo". They had fun playing with him, and he quite enjoyed the extra attention. We visited and enjoyed the comforts of our home, and also took them to the beach. We made some rockin' brick-oven style pizza on the pizza stone mom gave us as a housewarming gift. Soooo good. It was a quick visit, but much enjoyed and appreciated!

*by the way, I hope I look as good as they do when I am almost 60 and over 90!!!

Kelsey Creek Farm

We have had amazing weather this week...warm enough to delay the storage of my flip flops a tiny bit longer :) We started off the week with a sick little boy, and spent the first couple of days getting him well. And there were lots errands to run and things to do, as usual. We of course went to the beach, as Sawyer requests the beach or the zoo several times a day. I can hardly begin to tell you about how fascinated he is with "Choo-choos" these days. One reason he loves the beach so much is because the trains pass right next to the beach by our house (Carkeek). Today, however, we invited some friends and decided to venture to the "East Side" and visit the animals at Kelsey Creek Farm. It was the perfect day! If Daddy didn't have a huge deadline and have to go into work, and Mommy didn't have a photo shoot, and we didn't have family coming into town tomorrow...we'd love to go back over the weekend for their Fall Farm Fair. If you have Saturday free - go check it out!

Have I ever mentioned how much I love sailboats?

Well, I do. I do, I do, I do! I posted this on my photoblog because I took it as I was waiting to meet some clients for a photo session late yesterday afternoon. I got to the location (beach, obviously) and I looked out on the water and beheld a fleet of beautiful sailboats welcoming me. At least that's what it felt like. It had been a long day. Sawyer had not been feeling well, I hadn't been feeling too great, either. And we had spent several hours at Recycled Cycles pawning off 3 of our old bikes so we can upgrade to a better commuting bike for Jacob. Good news is: tomorrow he gets to go pick out a new bike (he's been so patient waiting for this - he rode one bike in which the peddle would fall off several times on his ride to work!). Sawyer was a trooper (as usual), Jacob made us dinner and watched Sawyer so I could go do my photo session and behold this amazing sight. Seriously, sometimes God looks down on us and gives us something simple - like maybe an ocean view with a few brilliant sailboats and clouds - to make a gray and rainy day all of a sudden seem, well, sunny. Know what I mean?

We are alive!

It kind of feels like we fell off the face of the earth or something, with all the craziness of moving and trying to get settled. It's kind of hard being 13 weeks pregnant (and feeling better but still quite tired and not super good) and chasing my 13 month old very active/busy son. It was hard enough to get packed, with him unpacking as we tried to pack. But now we have to find a place to put everything! I know I am a minimalist, and didn't think we had much "stuff", but it feels like we have a lot! Good thing we have a garage now - that's where everything is until we dig through, one box at a time, and get settled. It might take until Halloween, but we will get there! Since we bought a brand new place, I didn't think we'd have to spend so much time at Lowe's and Home Depot, but we have! Between painting, getting measured for some custom blinds, installing this and that - it's a good thing Lowe's is so close by! I am going to have to give HUGE shout out and an even HUGE-R THANKS to my super mom and sister, Jamie, who drove 6 hours from Oregon to come up and do most of the painting! They were life-savers - even in the 90+ heat wave we had! What troopers, they painted while I chased Sawyer and tried to rest a little. Seriously - it's time like this you realize I realize I can never ever "repay" the love and servie my family gives us. There is just no way to pay off those debts. But then, they're not really debts, are they? They're gifts of love! But I have felt so not-on-top-of-things, I really which I could do something in return for the help they gave us...I'll have to think of something, eventually. For now...back to the boxes! I promise to have more exciting posts in the near future!

Better Days...

Last night, right as I was about to go to bed, we had a knock on our door. It was our neighbor, who also happens to work as a caterer. He had very few words as he handed a box to Jacob: "medicine for the pregnant lady". Well, he must know something I don't, because chocolate dipped strawberries sure sat well with me last night, I think I devoured them in record time! I have had a few better days - thanks to getting a lot more sleep and eating more protein for breakfast. But it's knocks on the door like last night that make my day. There truly are angels among us! We are sure going to miss our good neighbors...

I guess I might as well announce that we are moving! Not very far (aboutt 5 miles to be exact) but nonetheless, we will be moving very soon. We bought our first home - a brand spankin' new townhouse in the Greenwood neighborhood, near Greenlake. We're very excited! And also going to be busy getting moved and settled in the next two weeks. So excuse any absenses from the blog-o-sphere until we are up and running again ;) Don't worry, we'll give more details and have pictures to show later.

As for today, those strawberries and chocolate did me better - Sawyer and I are going to actually make our last swim class today! Hooray!