Welcome Home!

Well we finally made it! Wednesday was our (me and Ellie's) last day in Seattle. We had the movers in the apartment all morning and Uncle John stopped by to provide some assistance watching Ellie, cleaning and loading the Jeep up. Jared worked Thursday in Seattle, so he pulled up a blanket and pillow and slept on the floor that night.

Thursday morning, my mom, Ellie and I headed to Spokane. We picked up the keys at the title company and by the time we got to the house the movers were there within 10 min. A couple hours later the cable guy showed up and then a few more the appliances were delivered. Needless to say it was a very busy day!

Friday, Auntie Becky and Case came to help watch Ellie, so my mom and I could unpack. Becky managed to tote both kiddos (carseats and all) to the store and still help unpack as they both took their naps. Jared made the trip with them too. He spent the day taking the water pressure and the measurements of the yard and a trip to the office to unload his office stuff.

Then we all headed back to ML for Jared's dad's birthday where we had dinner with the entire family and Aunt Happy and Uncle Forry, whom we haven't seen in about a year. They have been traveling around the US in their motorhome helping with disaster recovery and attending different conventions. Saturday brought Uncle Nick's graduation party. We had a wonderful day since the weather decided to cooperate. Nick will head off to Marine bootcamp in September. And finished the weekend off with Father's day. What a great weekend of celebrations.....

As you can imagine I don't have many pictures if any to share since things have been soo busy, but my mom snapped this cute one of Ellie and Case holding hands.

Ellie Loves Her Cousins

Saturday Becky, David and the boys arrived and we had a wonderful day! The weather was great so we got to take a trip on the ferry to Bainbridge Island. I have been several times to the island to see my Uncle and his family, but never explored through town. It was so cute with tons of little shops I was dying to look through. The best stop was Mora ice cream - with their 40+ flavors of ice creams and sorbets! Too bad both Becky and I forgot the cameras! Oops. However I did snag some great shots of the kids hanging out!

Mariners Week

This past week we went to 3 (yes 3) Mariners games! Ellie joined us for the games on Monday night and Tuesday night. These are the rest photos from those games! Thanks Joel for our Monday and Friday tickets and thanks Jennifer for our Tuesday tickets.









Jared and I also had a night out at the Mariners on Friday with Joel and Calin sans Ellie. It was a rough night for me though - especially since the M's were stinky yet again. I left for work at 6 am and didn't see Ellie till 3:30 am the next day!

Lovin Spoonful...

Ellie loves eating! She's mastered rice cereal, sweet potatoes, carrots, bananas, broccoli, green beans, and corn! I think that by far her favorite is carrots and corn. We have some zucchini, blueberries and blackberries in the freezer ready to go. This weekend Ellie also got a taste of lemon sorbet as Auntie Becky and cousin Carter shared their scoop with her. We got a giant pucker at the first bite, but then wanted more, and more! It was pretty funny.

Celebrity!

Thanks to some free tickets, we headed to the M's game on Monday night. It ended up being a perfect day for a trip to the ballgame. Ellie got decked out in her M's tee from Auntie Ashley. A quick pic landed Ellie on the BIG SCREEN! That's right, she was a celebrity! Of course Ellie and I missed it because we were on our way back from the nursing room. But when we got back, everyone around us was saying 'there's that baby that was on the big screen' with great big smiles on their faces.

Packing

Monday we were back to Seattle bright and early in an attempt to avoid traffic. So we decided to start the day out by being productive and PACKING! Packing is something that I absolutely detest, but as usual Ellie made the job fun! Something that we found out from her doctors appointments is that Ellie loves crumpling paper. Well she decided she could help us by crinkling some up for our boxes and did a great job!

A Sneak Peek!

This past weekend we had some 6 month photos taken of Ellie. I got the proofs today and thought I would share a sneak peek with you all! ENJOY!