Dillon's First Day of School

September 9th, 2009

After over two weeks of teacher strikes, Dillon was finally able to start school in early September. Here in Kent, Kindergarten is all day long. At first we were a little worried about him being in school so long, but he sure adapted quickly and is loving school. He's made some good friends, mainly Luis and Helaman, of whom both live here in our complex. Here are some pictures of his first day at school.

Walker's Visit To Seattle

Last week we had the Walkers visit us from Boise...all 8 of them. Initially I thought it would be some what of a challenge to fit 12 people into our 3-bedroom apartment, but it actually worked out quite well.

Friday they all went and visited the Flight Museum at Boeing Field and had a great time and then on Saturday we went to the Pacific Science Center followed by one of our favorite parks, Kerry Park.

Dillon sure had a blast with his cousins. He loved having Ethan and Eric sleep in his room with him. They would lay awake for hours just "telling stories". I taught Austin and Jessica how to use an MP3 player...and how to download music from the internet (which I'm sure their parents just loved!).


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Kenzie's B-day & Kennewick

We went to Kennewick this last weekend for Ginger's baby shower and it so happened to be miss Kenzie's birthday as well (Dillon's in in 1 hour and 40 minutes from now). Here are some pics from our trip.

(While in Kennewick, Thompson Hill caught fire and made for an awesome sunset)

Lake Fenwick

Natalie's parents are in town for a few days, so for a Sunday afternoon walk we headed to Lake Fenwick and took some pictures. Not too eventful, but I liked the pics.

Pacific Science Center & Seattle Center

This weekend our friends, the Wagner's, invited us to join them on a visit to the Pacific Science Center. We had a great time and best of all it was FREE (because they are members). We were there over 4 hours and didn't even make it through everything. The kids sure loved it. This was our first adventure to the Seattle Center and I think we will definitely be going back soon. There was so much to see and do, but not enough time. Here's some pictures from our weekend.

Below: Dillon holding a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach

Below: This butterfly attached itself to me and hung on for dear life the whole time we were in the butterfly exhibit.

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Kerry Park - Queen Anne

Last week I decided that for this summer as our family night that we would do an adventure night. This week we went with the Wagner's and the Reno's to Kerry Park in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. It had an amazing view of downtown Seattle and the bay. It made for some great pictures. The kids park was also very good and entertaining.

After the park our intention was to go to Red Mill Burgers and we did; however, when we showed up, to our surprise, it is closed on Mondays. Oh well, we headed back to Kent and ended up at one of our favorite joins, The Family Drive-In. We sure had a blast!

4th of July - Enumclaw

For the 4th of July this year we went with our friends, the Wagners, to one of their cousin's house out in Enumclaw. We had a blast! We had four-wheelers, a huge waterslide, good food and over $450 in fireworks! Here are some of our pictures and a video:

Below: About $450 worth of fireworks from the reservation. There are more in the background and in the box on the ground. It took over an hour to light them off, and that's with 3 people lighting them!

A HUGE waterslide

Kenzie wasn't a fan of the four-wheelers, but Dillon had a blast!

A picture of the reservation. It's kind of like a fair, but all the booths are fireworks.