Anniversary Weekend Away!

For our 6th anniversary, Seth and I got our first weekend away together since Alistair was born. We have both been away from him over night before, but it was one or the other not both of us. We went to Portland for the weekend. We stayed in a nice Bed & Breakfast just south of the downtown area. The first night we had dinner and then saw the 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean. Saturday we spent a majority of the day walking around the downtown area, window shopping and checking out the Saturday market. That evening we went to dinner at the Greek Cusina (awesome greek food if you are ever down there!) and then saw Death at a Funeral. Very funny movie, we highly recommend it! Sunday we checked out after breakfast and headed north. Our cousin's little girl Carrie turned 1 on Sunday and they had a big birthday bash for her. Lucky for us they live about 10 minutes from our house! (:

Alistair stayed with my parents while we were gone. In addition to him, they also had Natalie and Sadie all weekend! It was a very full house, but it sounds like they all had a great time! Alistair did very well and makes us less nervous about leaving him for 10 days while we go to Hawaii at the end of September!!! I can hardly wait!

Natalie was a big helper. She played with both Alistair and Sadie quite a bit, she helped take care of Alistair's needs (diaper changes, feedings, etc) and she took Sadie for walks.

My dad went out and bought a pool for the grandkids to play in...and grand dogs too apparently! Although if you know Sadie, nothing will keep her from going in the water!

Ahhh...those pesky kids are gone and now I have the pool to myself!

Camping at Lake Easton

This past weekend we went on another camping trip - we went up to Lake Easton, which is just on the other side of the top of Snoqualmie Pass. We went with the Folgedalens and the Sandholms. Ethan and Jen also came and stayed with their friends Jay and Ellen Mirro and their 2 kids Leo and Ivan, who just happened to be camping the same weekend! Friday night was just Seth, Alistair and I. This was our first night camping alone since before we were married! Everyone else came up Saturday and we had a nice day walking along a portion of the Iron Horse trail and into the "town" of Easton. Easton is a blink and you'll miss it kind of place, even on foot! (: That night everyone converged into one campsite (11 adults, 4 kids and 2 dogs) for dinner, campfire and s'mores. This was our first time camping without a trailer available in 2 years. One thing I took away from our trailer-less trip was that we got much dirtier due to not having hot running water to wash up - especially Alistair. He got a couple of good wipe downs with baby wipes before he put on his PJ's both nights! It was a fun weekend - it is hard to believe that summer is coming to an end soon! ):
Alistair taking an early morning stroll in his penguin PJ's - we had to unsnap the bottom of the legs and pull his feet out and roll the foot portion of his pj's into the leg so he could wear his shoes!
Mmmmm - a nice warm bowl of oatmeal on a cool summer morning!
The gang taking a break on the rail bridge over Lake Easton. The Iron Horse trail is an old decommissioned railroad bed that has been turned into a trail. It starts in North Bend and right now ends in the middle of nowhere Yakima. I think the eventual goal is to groom it all the way to Idaho. There are campgrounds all along the route for those who want to backpack the entire trail.
Seth entertained Sully for a good 30 minutes on Sunday while we got things cleaned-up and packed-up. They were having a good time! (: Alistair was napping!

Other Weekend Activities

Getting Alistair's hair cut wasn't the only exciting activity for the weekend. Saturday night we attended a Rockaroke party. For those of you not familiar with this term, it is very similar to Karaoke but instead of singing along with recorded music, you sing with a live band. Reagan and Jesse and a couple of their friends have a band and provided the music. We were encouraged to wear band t-shirts/concert t-shirts. I don't own any, however Seth wore his David Hasselhoff tour t-shirt from Germany and Alistair wore a New Model Army onesie that his Uncle Ethan picked up for him at one of the shows. Ethan also wore a New Model Army t-shirt: Alistair seemed to have a good time. Mommy forgot to bring any toys for him, so he was resourceful and found his own. He found a small plastic cup and found pushing it around on the linoleum entertaining. Aunt Jen gave him a second one and then things got crazy! He was pushing them everywhere. Here is a little video of him, notice how he mows down anyone in his path? Very polite! (:

(Please note: the noise seems louder than it was for those concerned about Alistair's ears!):
http://my.videoegg.com/video/eqpPqH
(You'll have to click on the path to see it on the other website because for some reason I can't get the html code to work!)

Alistair stayed in the house for the most part or played under the ping pong table outside. He went outside when the band started playing as they were WAY too loud for him. He did watch them warm-up though and seemed intrigued: Once the band got warmed-up, Seth volunteered to go second and sing a song. He sang "Should I stay or Should I go?" by the Clash and did a good job. His mike wasn't as loud as the amps, so at times it was impossible to hear him, but you could occasionally. Notice the liquid courage in his hand with him on stage! (: Oh and thanks to Ethan Frey for the dancing! http://my.videoegg.com/video/eqOQpX

(Alistair was outside for the performance)

Alistair's First Professional Haircut

We took Alistair for his first professional haircut today. He was starting to look a little shaggy and needed more than what I feel I am capable of doing. We found a place in Lynnwood called Fun Kuts. They have all kinds of fun chairs, Alistair showed interest in the yellow volkswagon. He was very good. He didn't squirm much or whip his head around. He sat fairly still and cooperated for the most part. No crying either! We got a Keepsake Card with a polaroid picture of the finished product as well as a little bag of some of his locks.

This is the before shot

Sporting his new 'do...looking cool.