fun with the cousins

we went to richland over the weekend. marcus had a great time playing with his cousins. (can you tell which boy lives in seattle???) marcus and landon are already beginning to compete for grandma's attention, and i think she's loving it :)





most of the day saturday was spent splashing in the water and making sure all of grandma and grandpa's flowers, and rocks, were well watered. the boys were exhausted from playing so hard...logan slept in until after 8 on sunday, landon crashed on the couch this afternoon, and marcus slept through the night for the first time in 2 weeks! enjoy the photos!

basement project

kevin's been working on our basement tirelessly for about 7 months, and now there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel! soon marcus will have a carpeted area to run around in. see below for some photos showing the transformation...

the old furnace/beast

basement framing

new furnace and painted drywall

silly boy

marcus has been entertaining us with his silliness. enjoy!

tri-cities weekend

we went to the tri-cities this past weekend. marcus enjoyed paling around with his cousins. he'll be keeping up with their pace in no time!

marcus got to spend some quality time cuddling with grandma saturday morning before she headed off to potholes for a week of camping. we had a mini-birthday celebration for grandpa jeff and landon saturday afternoon. marcus spent his time at the celebration cracking himself up and trying to make his aunt johnna laugh, conning his aunt jenna into walking around with him at the park, and getting grandpa to put him on the slide.

we saw the tri-city dust devils play the spokane indians in the evening. fireworks were scheduled for the end of the game, but we decided to leave at 11pm after the 12th inning...the boys were troopers sticking it out that long! for those who haven't been there, the photo above of field shows about what there is to see in the tri-cities...lots of flat desert land with a few hills. we seattlelites were having a hard time with all the bright sun, but we completely enjoyed the warm weather!
sunday we went to the "playground of dreams" in kennewick. the playground is quite amazing. marcus had fun playing in the water after he realized it wasn't too scary.

on the way home sunday afternoon, our tire blew out just east of seattle. kevin put on our spare tire only to find out it had gone flat. fortunately we were able to renew our AAA membership over the phone and a tow truck was out to help us about 5 minutes after we called. even more fortunately, marcus was fine just hanging out in the car the whole time despite only sleeping for about an hour on the ride home.
needless to say, marcus was exhausted after his full weekend...he took a 4 1/2 hour nap monday afternoon!
click here to see more photos of the weekend

windsor photos by aaron and laurie

as promised, here are some photos from windsor taken by more artistically inclined family members...
link to aaron's: http://www.ucla99.com/sonoma.html
link to laurie's