Family Time with the Mariners

This weekend we had tickets for The Mariners Vs. Red Sox on Saturday. Sadly, I thought we had tix for Friday night, so we packed up the car, fought traffic & parking and arrived at Safeco Field gate only to realize my tickets were for the next night. That was AWESOME! I can't believe I did that, oh well, we found a scalper that was just trying to get rid of tickets after the game started so we actually went to the game. Pretty good seats too for $20!

We headed out on Saturday as well, and after carefully checking the tickets, headed towards the Home Plate Entrance. I have to say, I was sad that there were so many Red Sox "FANS". Sad because I don't think they're true fans, just sad band wagon fans as the team has done well the last few years. There were huge patches of red and seriously it looked like the Mariners could've been the visiting team. Oh Well, as soon as the Red Sox suck again, the fans will be gone and jumped onto another band wagon.

Enough of that tho ... here are some pics & a little funny video of Brennen from Friday.

Disney World 2009

After a week in the sun and running around all of Disney and to a couple of Orlando Magic games we're back at home and enjoying the much cooler weather. I think Bryan and I have decided that we're true Northwest peeps!

We had so much fun down there though despite the heat. Seeing all of the parks and especially enjoying the Orlando Vs. Boston playoff games 3 & 4 was a blast. We were supposed to sell tickets to one of the games, but didn't really try so, well we had to go! BJ was not sad about it at all and it made us miss the Sonics just that much more. So now the Magic are our new "adopted" team.

Brennen loved seeing the characters, but we were a little disappointed as he was about 1/2" too short for all of the 40" rides, which are most of the fun ones - like Splash Mountain, Big Mountain Railroad & some other ones as well. We've decided the next time we visit Brenns will have to be at least 48" then we can go on everything as a family. With poor Brennen looking to follow my side of the family, that may not be until he's 10!

One of my favorites was Epcot & their country showcase. I know BJ loved all of the rides and he was thrilled he got to go on most everything twice, once with me & once with Bryan. I think his favorite was the Hollywood Tower of Terror. I also loved the waterparks, they were so much fun and everyone had a great time. Plus it helped beat the heat just a little bit!

Here are some pics from our journey - with slideshows at the bottom!

Brennen with Donald

B & Brennen at Epcot

Brennen in the UK

Daddy won!

B crossing the ice drifts

Brennen loving the Water Slides

The Magic Kingdom & Disney's Hollywood Studios


Typhoon Lagoon


Blizzard Beach


Animal Kingdom


Epcot

Egg Hunts of '09

It's that time of year, time for the kiddos to come out & search for Eggs from the Easter Bunny. My good friend Beth and I made our traditional plans early on in the week for our boys. In our true Egg hunt tradition, we started the day early at Harvey Airfield in Snohomish, then headed to Life Care Center at 11am, to the Park Ridge Church at noon and then out to Shoreline Beach for the 1:00 hunt.

This year we were disappointed that the huge hunt that we generally do at Shoreline Stadium was not happening. Wow, the last 7 years, over 50,000 eggs the last few years and then it just disappeared! So, after hitting 5 this year, we shrunk back down to 4.

The 1st & 2nd hunts went flawlessly, getting there & out pretty easily. We ran into a few snags on the 3rd, we got there with plenty of time but then the Children's Pastor went a little long winded and the boys didn't actually get to hunt until about 12:35.

We booked out of there and drove as quickly as possible to the Richmond Beach Hunt and got there just as they were about to say GO! (We weren't about to go from 5 hunts in a day to 3!) Brennen got there a little late and we had to rush onto the little kiddies hunt. He was not exactly happy as he didn't get the bucket full of eggs he'd been able to get at the previous two hunts. The older boys got to line up just before they said "GO". They actuall hid the eggs in the brush on the hillside and the boys were a little shocked that they actually had to "hunt" for the eggs. Kinda funny I thought, they did well nonetheless.

Ready, Set -- GO!

Highlights of the DAY!!!

Gymnastics for Brennen

I know it's been a little while since we've blogged, it's been a busy couple of months. One basketball season ended for BJ & one just started. Brennen is busy with Preschool, Gymnastics & Swimming at the Y!

Today Brennen had a parents showcase at his gymnastics class and here are a few of the pics! He is having so much fun in gymnastics and it's something that he gets to do that all his own. The poor guys gets dragged to so much of B's stuff I thought it would be good for him to have his own activities.

Here are a couple of my favorites then a slideshow at the bottom.

My little Dare Devil!

Bear Crawl on the bars!