My Half-Day Off

I normally have Thursdays off. Since Chris is off most days by 9am-ish, he and Sam get to go do lots of fun things together. They go to the beach, parks, the aquarium, kite flying, canoeing, and other fun stuff. It's nice that they get to spend so much time together. Since I work full-time at my 9-6 job, I miss out on most of it. So lately Chris has been planning things for my days off to make sure that I don't feel left out.

So yesterday we went on a hike together--just the three of us! It was a beautiful day, and a nice little trail (the place is called Meadowdale Park for any of you locals who want to go check it out). We hiked down to a rocky beach, had lunch, and hiked back.

When we got home, we all took a nap. I woke up to the phone ringing--it was one of our employees wondering where I was. I am the one who does the scheduling over at the bakery, and normally I don't give myself a shift because I work full-time at my other job. But this week I was on the schedule because I got Labor Day off and we are training a new girl. I completely spaced that I was supposed to be there at noon, and we got their call at 2:15! Oops! I was so embarrassed! I told Chris I should be fired! He was so nice and went over right away and worked my first hour until I was cleaned up and ready to work.

So for making sure I have fun things planned on my day off, and being willing to cover part of my shift, Chris is a pretty wonderful guy and I think I'll keep him around!

Sam's 3 Year Old Doctor Visit

In keeping with tradition, here are Sam's stats from his 3 year old doctor visit:

Weight: 33 lb 12.8 oz (67.88%)
Height: 3' 1.5" (43.58%)

Here are his two year, 15 month, nine month, four month, and two month stats just in case you were dying of curiosity (mostly it's just a place to record it all, so I won't feel too bad if you really don't care).

Blue Bath Water

Sam wanted more bath bubbles, so he poured about half a bottle of Chris' body wash in the tub.

Labor Day Adventures

Here are some highlights from our Labor Day weekend:

• A better than normal day at the Farmers Market and at our store
• A nice day at church with Primary kids that actually sang with me during singing time
• A yummy Sunday dinner
  
• LOTS of family time playing dominoes, playing Sam's little fishing game, having tickle fights, reading stories, etc.
• free movie rentals from the library (I recently discovered that you can look online on the library's website for movies, place a hold on them, and then just go pick them up when they're ready. It's so easy, and you can get nice movies for free and keep them for one week! Some of them have a long hold time--I'm still number 20 in line waiting for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but that's okay. All the others came quickly and I ended up getting five of the movies I requested all at once. The only one we didn't get to this weekend was the new Indiana Jones movie. I've always loved the library for good French films, but now I can get cool new releases too!)
• Haircuts by me for both Chris and Sam (and may I add, they look so handsome!)
• A bus ride down to Seattle
• A visit to the Seattle Aquarium
• Afternoon naps
• And I squeaked in a tiny bit of bookkeeping--I had to labor just a little bit, I couldn't help it.

Here are some pictures of our trip to the aquarium (by Eliza's request).

Walking down from the bus stop to the aquarium. In the background you can see Pike Place Market, and just down from there is the aquarium. We had typical Seattle weather--cool and rainy. I like it! I think it's cozy!


A scuba diver (one of the divers took Sam's picture with his underwater camera)


Sam and me


A scuba diver (one of the divers took Sam's picture with his underwater camera)


Sam's breakdown at Subway


On the bus

We also saw an octopus that was really quite ugly. But did you know that they can change colors? This one did! We also saw sea otters that Sam always likes.

So really I guess our weekend was pretty low key, but it was nice to spend lots of quality time together as our little family.

Trip to Utah

We had a great visit down in Utah last month. It was great to see family and friends and take a break from our crazy busy lives up here. We didn't take any pictures, so any posted on here are stolen from other people's blogs. We did take a couple movies, so enjoy.

We left Friday night after I finished work at 6pm. We drove through the night taking turns, and arrived in Utah at 8am the next morning. Sam pretty much slept through the night and there was no traffic so the trip down was pretty easy other than the fact that we were exhausted when we got there. The reason for the trip was to see Chris' (big) little brother Jordan who just returned home from his mission in Louisiana.

A random picture of Jordan from his missionWe got to spend time with some friends, go to my sister's baby shower, attend Jordan's homecoming sacrament meeting, hang out with lots of family, eat lots of good food, go fishing, and shopping. It was a quick trip, but really nice to see everyone again.

From the baby shower

This is a video of me and Chris catching our fish. And the second one is of Sam catching his fish.