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Maddie dressed up for her "Fancy Nancy" birthday party! This post won't have much writing, but I wanted to be sure to throw some pics on the blog to share. She has blessed us with the best "year" of our lives.
I had to paint her toenails...fancy:)
We are so blessed with great friends and family!
Maddie thinking, "What do I do with this thing?"
She figured it out:)
All of that cake required two things: a bath and nap.
We went to Seattle recently for a celebration of my Grandma Sand's 90th birthday. As you will see below, she looks AMAZING! Maddie had the opportunity (a tough one to pass up) to rally sit on Grandma's Jazzy. My grandma was so cute talking about it. She gets around just fine, but she enjoys cruising around on longer distance trips. I hope she had a great birthday party! We also had a ton of fun hanging with the fam! Check out some of the pics below:
Smiles around!
Swinging at Greenlake
We met up with one of our best friends Sean "Bud" for some Mexican. He just got back from Africa!
Great family dinner at the Crab Pot...mmmmmmm! Thanks Mom! We left out the pre dinner pictures. As we were waiting to get into the restaurant, a group of about 300 bicycles passed by, many of which were naked men and women. Good thing we didn't eat for quite some time after that. The wait was about an hour and a half, but well worth it!
Cousins:)
My mom and I loving our seafood!
Here it is...
Our first roadtrip of 2009 was to my brother Ben's stomping grounds, Portland, OR. We went down there for a whirlwinding 36-hour adventure that included: Maddie's first taste of authentic Pho, lots of downtown shopping (Buffalo Exchange, Powells, Nike, etc.), lunch at vending cart central by Maile's work, frog legs and mac and cheese at Montage, a trip to Mill Ends Park, with dessert at VooDoo Donuts, and lots of great hanging out in between. Maddie slept on the way down to Portland and the way back...what a blessing! The best part of the trip was spending such quality time with Ben and Maile in their element. Ben took the day off to tour us around the city while listening to mostly authentic Portland tunes in the car (ie, the Decemberists, etc.). I say mostly because Ben played "Lipgloss" by Lil Mama, saying, "If there was one song I came to love this summer here it is." He then hit play and the rest is as they say, history. Check it out for yourself after looking at the overdue pics from our early July roadtrip:
Maddie wasn't sure what Pho she was eating but she liked it.
Maddie's first taste of frog legs...ours too. Please don't call CPS, she liked them!
Look @ Ben...enough said.
Leftovers @ Montage are put in foil sculptures...we got a whale, squirrel, rat, and flower.
Maddie poppin' her lipgloss on Ben and Maile's awesome front porch. They have a beautiful urban house!
Voodoo donuts...mmm.
We have been really busy with weddings, anniversaries (really just ours on 7.21), road trips, etc. So posting has been tough. I have lots of pictures from those events, so I plan on posting them well after the fact just to share some of the great moments. Some of those specific events in the order they will be posted include: a trip to Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, Nikki and Dan's Wedding, a road trip to Portland, and eventually our trip to San Diego. First, here are some pics from our trip to the new Spokane Red Lobster.
I love seafood and I love Red Lobster. I have long asked the CDA people if they thought Spokane would ever get a Red Lobster...they always told me flat out "NO." They said they liked keeping busy and that a Spokane franchise would impact their business. I think they were wrong with respect to both. They did build one (by Northtown Mall) and I think both are keeping plenty busy...according to the lines out front.
Maddie started her night at Red Lobster with animal crackers...this quickly progressed once she discovered the rest of their menu.
How about that "homemade" bib:)
She discovered that, like her dad, she loves lemons and limes. Of course, this was her first look upon realizing that they are both sour:)
