Cal and Kinsley's Visit

Okay, we are hitting the rewind button just a little bit...

In the middle of July, my brother Cal and his son Kinsley came for a long weekend for our cousin's wedding, to meet Lisa and to give the boys a chance to play together for a couple days.  We packed in the fun!
On Friday we went out and picked some raspberries and headed out to the river on the four-wheelers.

Saturday was our annual trek up the mountain to go sledding.  It's our favorite time to go sledding because it's warm enough to wear short sleeves and yet there's still lots of snow.  Perfect combination.

Cal brought along his GoPro camera and attached it to the front of the sled.  We have some pretty hilarious videos of the rides down! 

We ended the day by picking up KFC and going to Zuanich Park for supper.  It was so crazy windy, however, the food was blowing off the tables.  We didn't stay long.

Sunday was a wonderful day to relax.  Cal and Kinsley's flights home were Monday night so we put supper in the crockpot and took it to Mukilteo Lighthouse Park (a new park for us) and hung out there for a while.

After playing for a while, we went to ride the new Seattle ferris wheel.  SO WORTH IT!  I never realized how colorful Seattle is in the summertime.  With the sun setting the colors were pretty spectacular.

Brandon and Micah were quite upset to see Kinsley leave.  We enjoyed their visit thoroughly.

Until we see each other again...

Blessings

Birthday Boy's First Day of School

Just yesterday it seems we were praying our four pound baby would breathe properly without oxygen, have a heart that would beat steadily without stopping, hold his own body temperature, and grow to five pounds in the NICU so we could take him home.  Where has the time gone?  This morning I dropped our now six year old at school for his first day of kindergarten. 

(I'm way behind on the blog and will go back over the last two months as I have time to edit pictures, but I know there are some grandparents who are pretty excited to see pictures of this big boy.)

The iconic first day of school pictures (that I thought would be years away yet):

Micah is having a rough day, trying to understand why he can't be in school with Brandon or why Brandon can't be home to play with him.  He very firmly planted himself on the rock to be in the picture too.  It was pretty precious.

Grandma and I snuck back to his classroom to peek inside and see how he was doing.  Jodi (woman on the right through the door window) used to babysit Brandon and we are so thankful she is the aid in his classroom as she understands him.  As we were walking way she poked her head out of the door and said, "He's doing great!"  It was what my mother's heart needed to hear today.

Micah, Lisa and I will go pick him up from school and go out for ice cream to celebrate all the big happenings today!  Pretty excited to hear all about his day.

Blessings