Jessi's First Birthday (Part One)

We kicked off Jessi's first birthday celebration about 3 weeks early. We were already together with the Bjarkes in Seattle to catch Thomas on Stage at Key Arena so we decided to do part one of Jessi's birthday celebration at the same time. Nana Zsa-zsa surprised us and made the trip up for the festivities. Thanks, Nana Zsa-zsa! Nana and Papa, you are on notice....we'll have part two of Jessi's b-day celebration while we're in Arizona. Start looking for birthday cake or pie!

Valentines Day Weekend

Valentines Day weekend started out with some sweet cards for the kids from both Nana & Nana Zsa-zsa. Both kids loved their cards to say the least! Thanks, Nanas! After bagels and cards, we took Will and Jessi to the Great Train Expo at the Oregon Expo Center. Not only did we get to see a ton of model trains but we rode the MAX trains to the Expo center. Will was in heaven and we ended up spending more than 4 hours chasing him around the different model train tables. The only sad part for Will was having to leave.

Numchuck Baby!

Don't mess with da numchucks!

Fish Hatchery & Surprising the Bjarkes

We had no plans this weekend and did something a little crazy. We had awesome weather on Saturday and decided to take the kids to the Fish Hatchery at the Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River Gorge. We've done this one other time with Will and he loved it. This time was no different. He got a kick out of feeding the big rainbow trout and seeing the huge (>6 ft) Sturgeon.

On Sunday, we drove around killing time to get Jessi to take a nap and ended up just driving all the way to Renton to surprise the Bjarkes. It was classic...we drove up just as they were pulling into the driveway. The look on Dawn's face was worth the trip. The kids got some cousin time in and Will even got to throw down some chocolate cake at Owen's (neighborhood friend) birthday party.