Growing Family!!

Kristi, Addyson, and I want to send a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to my little bro Kurt, his wife Courtney, and Savannah on their new addition to their family, Keaton Douglas!! Keaton was born Thursday morning weighing in at 9 lbs 10 1/2 oz. with a height of 20 inches. Mother and baby are doing well.
Kurt is currently station in Hawaii with the Marines. We are excited to meet Keaton and the whole family when we are all back in Minnesota for our family annual weekend this January.

CONGRATULATIONS!! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YA!!

Here is another picture Kurt sent us with Keaton and big sister Savannah. If you can't read Keaton's shirt is says, "I love my big sister."

My Stepmother, Cele just flew into Hawaii yesterday to spend a little time with them. We hope they all have a great time and can't wait for more pictures.

Bike Ride

This past Christmas my mom ordered a bike cart for Addyson as a gift. I guess it was a real popular thing to do because for the longest time it was on back order. It was on back order so long my mom canceled the order and just gave us money to put towards one. After doing a fair amount of research Kristi and I placed our order for one and sure enough that one was on back order as well. We of course waited and waited and then finally cancelled that order as well.... Speed forward..... This past week when I get a phone call from Kristi saying that REI just put the cart we wanted back on there web site we wasted no time and ordered it, an yesterday I got an e-mail saying it came in.


Out of extreme excitement we decided to put it together and break it in. Here is Addy and I in our fashionable bicycle helmets. I'm not sure why they make these things so ugly for the adults, her's is actually pretty cute. It has these little chickens on it but she of course she hates it with a passion and try's to tear it off her head every chance she gets. She was trying so hard there was a time I thought she might end up with whiplash.



Here is Kristi buckling her in for the first time. It's kind of neat, this trailer is made for two kids but you can rearrange the straps to put just one kid in the middle. I'm not sure why the feature impresses me so much but it does.

We of course didn't want to take Addy for a long bike ride so we just went a detour way to a park that is very close to our house. They added a new water park this summer so we wanted to check it out. We've seen it from the parking lot but we have not seen it up close. I'm not exactly sure why we didn't take a picture of the water park so you could see what it looks like but if your wondering, it is actually pretty cool and Addyson loved putting her feet in the water.

It wasn't the easiest gift to get but we would like to say THANK YOU to my mom and Gene for a great Christmas gift. (It feels weird to say that in August!!) The trailer is GREAT!! It will take a little time to get use to but I know we will get a lot out of it.

Here is Addy waving good bye to the water park right before heading home!! All I can say is CUTEST DAUGHTER EVER!!

Happy 30th!!

On Sunday Kristi, Addy, and I went over to the Dyk's house for a little BBQ, to celebrate Lori turning the big 30. Of course before we sat down for a little salmon (that Matt and Tim caught over the weekend) we got a little play time in. Here is Andrew and Addy in the back yard . As you can see Addy's feet were just a tad to short to reach the peddles but she sure did like the trike anyways.
Dinner Time!!!
Addy with her boys Michael and Tim.

I believe Tim just explained to Addyson how old 30 really is and after she realized there is no turning back for Lori she couldn't hold back the tears. Happy 30th Lori!! If you need to cry we understand.

Peek-A-Boo

I finally figured out how to put video on the blog. Which I am very excited about. I know Ryan is the main blogger in our family but with this video thing I could possibly take over his duties.

Last weekend Addy and I went to visit Auntie Brooke over in West Seattle.

While we were eating breakfast Addy decided to play Peek-a-Boo with Brooke and I. This is the first time that she has done it on her own. She did get a little distracted at the end with Brooke's cat Daisy. But I hope you enjoy it.

Parents Night Out = Twins Implosion

Any time the Twins come to play in Seattle, Kristi and I try and make it out to at least one of their games. This year was no different and at the start of it, it looked like we picked an AWESOME game to go and watch.

Grandma and Grandpa Pair watched Addy for us. I believe this was Addyson second sleep over. It was extremly nice of them to take her but I have to admit it was a little weird to wake up this morning and not have to go and get a bottle ready for her.
Here we are sitting with Addyosn on Grandma and Grandpa's bench right before heading off to the game.

Safeco Field is such a nice venue to watch a game at. We can't wait to take my family here when they come for Addyson birthday at the end of the month. It just happens that the Mariners are playing the Twins for that game as well. Although we are really excited we hope the game result is a little different.
Here we are right before heading in.

The Mariners had salute to Japanese Baseball Night. When we walked into the stadium, we were handed these hats. I was told they say Mariners in Japanese. Since I don't read Japanese that well, I will just have to take their word for it. Kristi and I decided that we are going to send them over to Kristin's brother, who lives in Japan so he can enjoy them.

Before the game Kristi and I checked out the team store. I guess you can actually buy the teams name that goes into the score board. It runs $300.00 but how cool would that be!! Kristi and I thought it would be perfect to place it in our game room. The only problem is, WE DON'T HAVE A GAME ROOM but believe me, if we win the lottery or come into a lot of money, we will have a game room and the Minnesota sign will be hanging on the wall.

Here is our view from our seats. The last two years we sat at Hit It Here Cafe. It's a cafe out in right field. It's really nice and it comes with an $18.00 food voucher so if your on a diet (WHICH WE ARE) you might want to skip counting calories for the night because your just going to be upset at the end of the night.

Before we went in we decide that if one of the teams was up by a good amount we would leave in the 7th inning. It's always nice to beat the traffic and to get home a little early. When we left the game the Twins were up 6 - 1, I REPEAT 6 - 1. As we were driving home we listen to the radio and as you know the Mariners scored 10 points in the 7th to come back and win 11 - 6!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! I'm glad that we left because I would of been throwing my food unto the field and got kicked out. Of course if the rolls would of been reversed and the Twins came back an won I would of been so UPSET that we didn't stay but that's how it goes.
Here we are at our seats enjoying the game. Even though the Twins ended up loosing we did have a great time and remember. There's always next time!!