Dinner with Friends

We went out to dinner with our good friends Cory and Regan....and of course the perfect little Finnegan. He is now giving kisses which is just adorable! They are due in October so we are trying to fit in our adventures before we are all sitting at home with two babies this winter.

First Kayak Trip

Our first kayak trip as a family! Minus the basset hounds, we figured it would be enough with Clair and her life jacket. She did really good - trying to splash her arms and legs in the water. We went up to Silver Lake which is only a few minutes from our house just in case she decided it was not her cup of tea.

Don't worry the life jacket was not smothering her as it appears to be in this picture.

Who Me??

This is the guilty look - she loves to climb on top of the baseboard heater and look out the window at the basset hounds.

She is Walking

On July 16th, Clairana took her first steps to Levi who was eating popcorn. Since then she has taking a few steps and then decides that crawling is much faster. Although she did take 11 steps to our midwife on Monday.

Here are a few pictures of her trying to keep her balance on our front porch.

My little Chair

Our daughter has made Levi and I trash pickers, we were on a morning bike ride and someone was throwing out this chair. After some cleaning it now fits perfectly in our living room.

Climber

See her new Nike's from Uncle Nicky & Aunt Emily. She also has started to climb into cabinets and she knows how to go up and down the stairs. She will be walking shortly.......

First Steps

Tonight we had gotten home from running errands and getting Clairana a swing - which she loves.

We sat down with some popcorn to relax and Clair took her first two steps to try and get the popcorn off of the table!

We will see if it continues, she looked pretty scared afterwards.

First Photo Shoot - Nephi

Guess WHAT??!!!

It's a BOY!

Nephi Joe will be joining our family this winter. Everything else appeared to be normal on the ultrasound - we will know more next week.

I will post pictures this weekend.

Round TWO!

Crazy to think that we will be blessed with another beautiful baby! We are getting very excited for what our future holds with two.

So tomorrow at this exact time we get to find out if Clairana will have a baby brother or sister! It will also be great to see our little bean and make sure everything looks good. Stay tuned.....

U-Pick

This morning we woke up and decided to have a relaxing and cheap day - we went to an Organic Strawberry Farm. Clair watched Levi and I for about two minutes then decided she didn't need us anymore. She was diving into the patches and pulling them off the vine herself!

Oh and here you can see baby number two! We are 19 weeks along.

First Boat Trip

Over the weekend we got to spend time with Terri and Destry on their anniversary. Carolyn was also visiting from Arizona. They took us out on Whatcom Lake to enjoy the sunshine.

Clair had such a great time walking around the boat and enjoying everything being at her level. She didn't mind the life jacket too much.

Boo Boo

This little lady is now on the move which comes with accidents. She ended up hurting her chin but you would have never even known, she didn't miss a beat. After a little bagbalm it is amazing how quickly this little one heals. She thought it was more fun that we were trying to chase her around the bathroom to get her picture.

Out in the Yard

On Saturday, we got to borrow our neighbors power washer - we cleaned everything! After cleaning the front deck and then re-staining it we cleaned both trucks.

Here is Levi working hard

Clair being entertained by feeding the bassets her expensive Gerber snacks. We were excited to get something accomplished while eveyone was happy.

Some for Duncan

Some for Clairana ....

We also had a pinic around the campfire.

Hotdogs

Bike to Breakfast

This past weekend we had tons of family time which was great. We got to play hard and work around the house. Levi was able to be off on Monday which added an additional play day. Here we are at Subway, we woke up early on Monday morning and decided to bike to breakfast. Oh and Clairana also learned several words this weekend. First and foremost Dada followed by Wow, Ouch, Woo, and Ball. Nothing even close to Mama.

Not sure of this face - on either one of them!

Waiting for Dad to get the bikes ready to go....

Here we are - I think we were the most energetic people there - seems it was 9:00.