Holiday cheer

In December we did many fun holiday activities to celebrate the season. I love this time of year and it was especially fun this year getting to share it all with Aidan. We had our annual Seattle trip with David's family where we met up downtown, took the monorail to Westlake Center. We then rode on the holiday carousel, saw the gingerbread houses at the Sheraton, window shopped, saw Santa (Aidan slept through this in the carrier which is why we don't have a picture of him and Santa) and had delicious hot chocolate. We had a great time and were lucky enough to get a nice warm winter night. Unfortunately though, we forgot our camera.

We went and met up with some friends at Carkeek Park to see the Christmas ships. They stop in the water in front of the beach and project the singing of the choir on board for all to hear on land. It was really fun and the choir was great. We plan on making this a holiday tradition.
Another fun thing we did was go to see the live reindeer at Swanson's nursery. Here are a few cute pictures from that outing.
Aidan and his buddy DavidAidan, David and Elsa

Thanksgiving/ Half Marathon

We had a great Thanksgiving break. It was so nice to have David home for 4 days in a row and we packed many fun/festive things into our weekend. First we had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner at our house with some of David's family and my mom. We did the turkey for the first time and I have to say it turned out perfectly!Friday morning David and I got up at 3am to take advantage of the Black Friday sales to get a new TV. Luckily the store we went to was about 5 minutes away and we were able to go, get it, come home and go back to sleep. Rachel stayed the night so that we could leave Aidan and we are so glad we were able to do that!

Meg and I have been training for the Seattle Half Marathon and our race was Nov. 28th. It was such a fun experience to run with her and be a part of something so big. We felt like real runners and accomplished a huge goal. My mom and David watched the boys and came to cheer us on (Meg's husband Chris was on call at the hospital so he couldn't be there).
We finished in 2hr 20min which was great time for our first half marathon. We had such a good time and are now discussing which will be our next race.

Snow!

We had a lot of snow right before Thanksgiving. We thought we should get Aidan all bundled up and let him play in it. He immediately wanted to be put down so he could crawl but as soon as his mittens came off he changed his mind.

Aidan 10 months

Aidan is now 10 1/2 months and is getting more mobile by the second. He crawls everywhere and loves to pull up on anything, especially me and any other adult that he can get his hands on. He loves to make all sorts of noises such as "Ma-ma-ma" and "Ba-ba-ba" and many others that are difficult to transcribe. He also loves food and it is so fun to be able to give him the food that we are eating.

Halloween Fun!

We did many fun things for Halloween. Aidan got to dress up many times for baby halloween parties with friends, our PEPS baby Halloween party and a 5K race I ran (the pumpkin push) the day before Halloween. By the time actual Halloween night came we were about done with dressing up and David, Aidan and I spent a lovely evening at home with my mom and friend Meg and baby David. Here are a few pictures to sum it all up.

Yes or No?

Fall

I love the fall weather that we have been having this year. It is beautiful and I have tried to make the most of it by spending a lot of time outside. I joined a mom's group (PEPS) when Aidan was born and we still meet once a week but we have also started getting together more regularly and exploring the great kid friendly places in the area.
A couple of weeks ago a few of us went to the Seattle aquarium. I think Aidan really enjoyed it and could actually see the fish.Last week we went to The Farm in Snohomish where they have pumpkins, a great corn maze of Washington state, a hay ride, a little farm among other things. We took a lunch break and the boys enjoyed their baby mum mums. This is David (Meg's baby) and Theo (Pilar's baby) They even had piglets that were only 5 days old. So cute!Here are Meg and Pilar in the pumpkins. The boys fell asleep before we could get any pumpkin pictures.
A couple of weeks ago David and I went to Bellingham to visit our friends Phil and Rachel and we ended up going to a pumpkin farm up there. We forgot our camera but took tons of cute pictures with their camera that I will post when I get them. We picked 30 pounds of delicious apples and then last week Meg came over and we made apple pies and applesauce with them. It turned out better than we could have hoped.