Bryant's 1 year old!!

So Bry finally turned 1 and he partied like it was 1999! We actually just had a really small get together where he opened presents,showed off his awesome new walking skills, and of course ate his traditional first birthday cake in his diaper. Bry says thanks to everyone for the great presents he got.





Hey everyone, It's my Birthday!



Alright, where are the presents?

This ball looks like a good place to start

Hey....Cars. Awesome!!!

"Here Bry, let me just get that for you"

"Does this car come with GPS?"

"Are you guys aware there's a DRAGON in here? Don't worry though, I caught him"

Here's the eating of the cake progression. Unfortunately it lasted too long to put on the video but this gives you the gist.

"Oooooo. Pretty cake!"

"Well I guess I'll just have one bite"

"Yum! This stuff is good!"

"So, can I just eat this whole thing then?"

"Oh wait! I get it! Here comes Papa!!!"

"I love this day!"

"Show me how the Piggy eats"

"That was great! Can I do it again?"

"Totally worth it!"

Bry playing with his ball on his birthday.

Parks, Pools and Basketball Games

Due to the weather warming up we have a lot more opportunity to go outside and the favorite place of both Brooke and Bryant is the park. Brooke is also finally taking swimming lessons this summer and hopefully will be a fully functional aquatic master within a few weeks. We also got to go to my brother Nate's team's basketball city final this year. His team won the championship and Brooke had a blast. Don't forget to check out the video's at the bottom.




"Hey this is a lot of fun"

"Look, I can do that too"

Brooke, posing for her basketball team photo

And Bry posing for his football team photo

Ready to go down the slide!

Arabesque

Always loves the tunnel!

"We rule this place!"

The cave-dwellers

Getting ready to go down the big slide!

Einstein???

Nothing better than some time on the swings

"Come on in. The water's fine."

"So I just drink this stuff and my skin is protected from the sun?"

"I've got to get my tan going before summer gets here."

Girls at the game!

"We won! We won! It's your birthday"

No, that's not the Easter Bunny! Just the school mascot.

"I'm beat!"

Brooke's cheer after Nate's game. She likes the cheerleaders more than the actual game.

All these activities can really wear you out.

Sunny Seattle???

So after years of saying, "Yeah, we'll try and come up some time," we finally made the grand trip to Seattle and apparently we made it on the best weekend of the year cause it was sunny the whole time and I even got sunburned. So much for the "Twilight" theory that Washington's the rainiest place on the earth. We had a great time while we were there eating fish, going to the park, seeing Pike's place and the Space Needle, visiting the temple and even the salmon ladder and boat locks. It was a lot to do in 2 days, especially considering the airline lost 3 of our 6 checked bags (including the car seats the kids needed to drive around in). But we had a great time anyway and we eventually got all of our stuff back. We even got lucky and had our room upgraded to a suite at our hotel when they didn't have our correct reservation ready on time. Rock on Seattle!! Anyway, here's the picture diary of our trip.






Eating fish and chips by the water. It just doesn't get better than that!







Rich came up for the weekend too and Tom and Meg did a great time showing us around

"Look at all these lovely flowers I can pick. 'I'll get you my pretties'"

Shan's favorite blooming flower. It's beautiful when fully bloomed but I didn't get a picture of that.

I didn't know there was still a major metropolitan city that had ducks on the sidewalk and geese in the middle of the road (both of which we saw:-)

Brooke and Bry both LOVED Tom's motorcycle helmet......

.....Brooke because she liked being able to pretend she was one of the villainous motorcycle troopers from Bolt (her current favorite movie)....

...and Bry because it reminds him of even simpler times from the womb when all sound was muffled and his head was even more disproportionatley large compared to his body.

The fam at the temple

The Seattle temple is pretty big as Brooke so aptly demonstrates

Brooke loves statues

"Come on Uncle Rich. Get up!! We still have to see the Space Needle"

"Tiptoe....through the tulips."

Weird totem outside of fish and chips place

Rich and Meg enjoying the sun....feeling the flow.

Brooke and Tom having some fun