Happy Halloween!

Since it is Miles' first halloween, we thought we would make a big deal out of it. Actually, his school goes trick-or-treating every year to the local businesses and since we are first time parents, we took billions of pictures. Here are a few of the good ones.

One of Miles favorite teachers Nikki

Miles and Adriana (bat girl) check each other out.

Trick or treating at the four seasons

We loved the Elmo costume

Class photo

And here are some pumpkins we carved with friends one night after Miles went to bed.

Pumpkin Patch

We took Miles to a local farm to pick out pumpkins. Here are some of our adventures.


We ran in to some friends of ours.

Dad and Miles checking out the animals

Even at something as innocuous as a pumpkin farm, you can still find some scary.

On another note, Miles started crawling last night.

Bubbles bring brothers together

Steve bought Miles some bubbles yesterday to play with and Scooter joined in on the fun. Watch the video of Miles and Scooter enjoying the bubbles together.

Inspired to Run

Last weekend Steve ran his first marathon in Victoria, British Columbia.

As I was waiting for Steve to reach the finish line, I was watching a bunch of people come in and I started to get a little emotional (only on the inside). These people had been running for hours and were still going. I was so inspired, I decided to sign up for my own race. I won't be running a marathon, I'm just going to run a 5k, but it's a start.

For those of you in the Seattle area who would like to join me, I'm running the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. For information, the website is: www.seattleturkeytrot.org

We've almost got it

Miles is learning every day, but learning to crawl is proving to be very difficult. At least he has a good attitude about it.

He's almost 6 months old!!

My baby boy is turning six months soon so I thought I would pull a picture from each month of his life to show his progress. Since you can't view him in action (unless I were to figure out the video on our camera) I will say that recently, he has started rolling over, public speaking (he usually gives a sermon on the bus), he thinks about sitting up, and he just started rice cereal today.

Just born


Feb 2009

March 2009

April 2009


May 2009

June 2009

July 2009

Combatting the Heat

This week in Seattle has brought nothing but hot weather. It has been in the 90's all week and it is supposed to hit 100 degrees today. This weather trend is predicted to last through next Monday. The nights are not cooling off at all either. So I want to know. What is everyone doing to beat the heat? Here are a few things Steve and I are doing.

1. Go to work, it's air conditioned
2. Drinking a lot of ice water and cold beverages
3. Running fans (though it doesn't work very well since the air outside is hot too)
4. Driving the air conditioned car to a park and ride with covered parking and an air conditioned bus
5. Last night I sewed up some rice pouches and froze them. I thought if rice can hold heat, can they hold cold? It worked all right.
6. In the past, Steve and I have purchased a block of ice and set it in front of a fan as a makeshift airconditioning unit.
7. Sleep in Miles room. He has a window airconditioner