Visitors

Well, We had some wonderful visitors, over Memorial weekend and then again the past couple weeks. Ginger, Erik's aunt visited us from Arizona. and both our parents came to visit their FIRST grandson. Enjoy the pictures.

Ginger, Erik and Dain at the Ballard Locks

 
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Dain's first time at the beach, Golden Gardens

 

 

Erik, Ginger and Dain at Snoqualmie Falls

 



First Grand baby!!



All of us



Grandma C and Dain



Grandma reading to Dain

 

Grandpa reading to Dain



Nice comfy lap to fall asleep on!

 

Kayakers alive in Seattle!

Grandma P and Dain

Dain's first hike, Snoqualmie Pass July 4th

He was hungry after all that walking! (and sleeping)

2nd hike, Mt. in middle is Red Mt. where Monika left this world.

The Peter's Clan

Dain snuggling with Grandpa P

It was great having all of them visit. And while the apt. was alittle crowded it was sad to see everyone leave. Times like these we wish we lived closer to family agian.  Hopefulyl a move back to MN is in our future but it's all up to God and the darn job situations. 

Summer/Fall 2010 recap

Hi Folks,

I know, I know!! It's been way to long. I am sorry but I just didn't have the motivation to post. Not sure why, maybe it has to do with being pregnant and my mind being elsewhere! Who knows. Well, I thought I would put up a post or two to recap the past several months. They were good ones.

In August we did a little hiking and travelling back to MN.

We hiked Rachel Lake. Didn't get any great pics of the lake because some clouds blew in and sort of obscured it. But it was a great hike over all. About 7 miles, 4+which was flat and then a mile of straight up, and mile of straight down!  Here's one pic. of me hanging out resting by a small waterfall.

Then we were both in MN for a while. I had the camera. I think I'll make a second blog post about that trip. When we returned to Seattle we hiked up to Iron Mtn. Totally reminded us of hiking in MT. It was on the East side of the cascades so it was drier and the vegitation was similar to MT. Again, not the best pictures that day. Here's me at the pass we hiked to.

Then over Labor Day weekend my parents came out to visit up. It was really fun to have them in our new city and show them around. We got to hang out with Aunt Kay and see some really cool places. The first evening they were here we took them to the Museum of Flight, a MUST if you are visiting. Very fun place. Here's a couple shots from our visit there.

Then the next day Aunt Kay picked us up, except Erik since he was at work, and we went to Tacoma to the Museum of Glass.  We all loved the "Hot Shop" the best. That is their actual glass making studio. Dad and I sat in there the longest, it was really fun watching them because the pieces they were making were so big!

Under the Glass Bridge



Guys in the Hot Shop

Of, course we took a trip to Pike Place Market, no pictures from that day for some reason... But I think they had fun while they were here!

Then in Sept we went on our second camping trip of the year! We hopped a ferry and went over to Olympic Penninsula.  Monika came with us and we had a great time. Did a little hiking, checked out Dungeness Spit, a long sanddune that sticks out into the San Juan Straight, and tried to dodge a little rain. It was great to be out in the woods again! See next post for pics from here. blooger isn't cooperating very well today........

Finally in Oct I took a trip to see Tara in Austin. Check for those trip details in an upcoming post....

Well, Hope you all are doing well. Watch for the new posts soon!

Visit from the girls!

The end of Feb I was lucky enough to have visitors! Marie and Chris flew in for a 3 day visit. We had lots of girly time, hanging out, going to Pike Place Market, eating good food and trying not to bug Erik.
Here we are the first day. You can barely see the Pike Place Market sign in the background.

Inside the Market. The fresh flowers were starting to come back again with the daffodils!

Here we're having lunch at Ivar's Fish Bar. Too cold and rainy that day to go outside and feed the gulls.

But this Guy didn't understand that! He squaked at us the whole time through the window!

Here we're going into the International District/Chinatown for dinner. Erik's actually with us operating the camera.

Fried Chicken feet anyone?

The next day we relaxed in the morning and then walked around Mercer Island dowtown area. I didn't take any pictures until later when we went to the flagship store for REI. It's HUGE and has some great landscaping outside, including this waterfall!

Here the girls are trying to run away with this cool kayak!  

And we saw the Space Needle but no one really wanted to go up in it this time.

The last day was Sunday. We went to church in the morning. The day turned out to be gorgeous, warm and sunny so before lunch we walked all over my neightborhood. We went to Luther Burbank Park and took a picture by that gorgeous flowering plum tree (or flowering apple, or something! It's super pretty anyway.)  You've seen it in a previous post.

Thus ended the wonderful weekend!! Thanks for coming to visit me girls! Come back anytime!