End of Summer

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Lindsey

Here are a few random shots from the last few days before school started:

Silas likes it when his brothers visit him at the counter

Avery practicing writing his name

A couple cute head shots


Licking the batter of a chocolate kahlua cheesecake


This child isn’t afraid to get messy


Eyeing dinner


Kieron on the climbing wall at our park

At the top!

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Last Camping Trip of Summer

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Lindsey

As the end of summer approached, Jonathan and the boys squeezed in another day hike and one more camping trip. The boys loved getting outdoors and Avery was eager to go back to the same camp site that he went to last summer. The boys did some day hikes from the campground and explored the forest and river. Avery and Kieron are good little pals on trips like this, and really enjoyed their special time with Daddy.






















Woah! Not Mommy approved!








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Tooth Fairy

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Lindsey

Avery has been wiggling a loose tooth for the past month or so, and consuming lots of apples and corn-on-the-cob too! His new, adult tooth was even pushing up behind it, giving Avery “shark teeth,” which he thought was very cool. I have to say, a child with his first loose tooth is awfully cute! Avery was so proud of this right of passage, showing anyone he could, “wanna see my looth tooth!?”

Well wouldn’t you know it, the tooth finally came out an hour after Jonathan left for an overnight backpacking trip with a buddy! Avery bolted in from the back yard beaming, holding it up, “Mommy, my tooth came out!” Sweet boy that he is, he said he wanted to keep it until Daddy got back so he could show him before he gave it to the tooth fairy. So that’s what we did. The tooth fairy left him a silver half dollar.





The next day we counted all of Avery’s money (he saved $40.11), and he decided he wanted to spend some of it on a new toy for himself. We went to the toy store, and he bought a Pirates of the Caribbean Lego Set (seriously, the boy doesn’t have enough Legos yet?) Oh well, his choice.

And a few shots from Jason and Jonathan’s backpacking trip at Rachel Lake


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Railroad Days Parade

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Lindsey

Snoqualmie celebrates Railroad Days over a weekend in mid-July. That Saturday morning, Jonathan took Avery and Kieron to the annual firefighter’s pancake breakfast at our local fire station. Of course, they loved it.

After that, we all headed out to march in the parade with local politician, Mark Mullet, who is running for State Senate in our district. We were lucky enough to be placed between the Seafair Pirates and the unicycle club. The Pirates had a (very loud) cannon, which they set off probably a dozen times throughout the parade. The boys loved seeing the scalawags, but got pretty tired of their mischief. In the end, Avery got a doubloon from one of them, so it all worked out.




5th District friends, vote for Mark Mullet!

Getting our campaign on

Avery enjoyed getting involved


Arg! The Seafair Pirates

Fire in the hole!


Silas, the youngest campaigner

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Weekend with The Avery’s

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Lindsey

In July, Uncle Scott, Aunt Manivanh, Nicole and Andrew moved back to Washington (yay)! They are in Pullman, on the other side of the state, so it’s a few hours away in a car. But we are thrilled to have them back in the beautiful northwest again and are glad we’ll get to see more of them. They came to visit a couple weekends ago. We had a great time, but it passed way too quickly.

The cousins had a terrific time together. On Saturday night, Kieron wisely opted to sleep in his own bed, but Avery, Andrew and Nicole camped out in sleeping bags in Avery’s room. They stayed up talking until almost midnight! Needless to say, they were all quite tired in the morning. On Sunday, Scott and Manivanh went to run some errands in the city and visit friends they hadn’t seen in a while. We took the kids on a nice long walk to a playground, then came back and played in the backyard. We got out the pool, and although not quite as big as Grammy and Papa’s, there was lots of mayhem and laughter.

When Avery went to bed on Sunday, he started to cry. He asked when he would get to see his cousins again and said he really missed them. It was so sweet. He and his brothers are lucky to have cousins close in age and now not so far away. Fortunately, we have a trip to Pullman planned for next month, so he won’t have to wait too long!


Silas, almost five months old

On our walk




Avery the wild thing








Backyard fun

Some random cute shots of Si

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