Fall Football

After the cool weather in Park City the last week, we happily retreated to Salt Lake City on Sunday to see "uncle" Andy's new house and enjoy some Sunday Football.  The Seahawks lost, but we all enjoyed the sunny weather.

Soccer + Leaves = 2 year old bliss 

Lodi was pretty happy to see his buddy Lehi, and to roll around in the grass and sun too.

Looking like a big boy

Oh, and I chopped off my hair!  Isaac keeps asking me "are you a boy or a girl?" Apparently a pony-tail was a sure-sign of a girl.  We're working on explaining other (age-appropriate) differences too :)

 

5th Annual Winter Get-Away

For the fifth year in a row (darn, we're getting old!), we've gotten together with friends Andy & Michelle over President's Day Weekend for a winter get-away. We've alternated going to South Ogden, Utah to visit them, or having them visit Seattle.  This year, it was our turn to visit Utah. So, baby in tow, we traveled to Utah for the long weekend.  It was another epic weekend of snowboarding and visiting with good friends. We had two great days of snowboarding, one day of home brewing and too many good meals to count. The Salt Lake area had a big storm and Sunday we rode in almost 2 feet of fresh powder.  YIPEE!!!!

Isaac was a super-trooper.  He did great on his first plane ride (with only one short melt-down Utah-->Seattle) and even slept okay in a new place.  We (Mom) had to learn to be flexible around nap schedules... Isaac had many cat-naps in the car and in the ski-lodges... but he was a happy guy the whole weekend and, for us, the adventure was totally worth it!

I forgot our normal camera, but recently picked up a nifty iPhone and used that to document the trip...

ready for the flight?

Eric & Isaac at Canyons

Isaac & Christina at Snow Basin

The family at Canyons

Christina & Michelle

 

On the way home... right after a mini meltdown

I uploaded more pictures to our February Photo Album too.

Portland & Sounders

I was looking at pictures of our trip to Portland & Sounders game last night, pointing out the different people to Isaac, and this is how he reacted:



Our little man is growing up so fast!

Sounders beat Colorado 2-1. Go Sounders!!

Auntie Lisa :)

At the Portland Brewfest. Mmmm....good beer.




Andy & Michelle Spicer with us at the Waffle Window in Portland:

Andy is very excited about his waffle.


So is Michelle.

Annual Winter Get-Away

Last week Andy and Michelle flew in from from Utah for our 4th annual February visit! We had a wonderful long weekend. On the agenda was Seattle site-seeing, wine tasting in Woodinville, a few gourmet meals, snowboarding at Stevens, a night at a cabin near Leavenworth and homebrewing a Kolsh. It was a great mini-winter-get-away! I didn't take a ton of pictures, but here are a few from Woodinville:

Me & Eric at Chateau St. Michelle (me: 32 weeks/7 months pregnant):

Andy & Michelle at Mark Ryan Winery (our favorite winery of the day!):

Me & Michelle at Bookwalter Winery (don't worry folks... I'm just holding Eric's glass here...)

Cheers to good friends!

Winter Vacations & Snowboarding

Winter get-aways:
We have been lucky to have 3 weekend get-away since January:
- We celebrated Eric's 31st Birthday at a cabin near Mt. Baker with 15 of our closest friends over MLK weekend
- We headed to Whistler in February with friends for an impromptu ski weekend
- Over President's Day we visited friends Andy & Michelle in South Ogden Utah for a weekend of snowboarding & fun!

Here are photos:

Mt. Baker:


Whistler: I dont have photos uploaded yet, so coming soon!

Utah