Thursday, August 27, 2009

Bami and Bopi

My mom (Bami) and sister (Bopi) came to stay with us for a week. Taylor has really missed them. It was so fun for them to come and hang out with us for a while.


We took the Washington Ferry to Bainbridge Island one day. We tried to get Taylor excited about it, telling him we were going on a big boat. He wasn't too crazy about it, probably a bit disappointed. He was thinking more on the lines of a huge cool pirate ship, I think.


Yep, it was super windy


A neat view of Seattle


By the Space Needle, in the Seattle Center, we found this goldmine. The biggest fountain ever! And it even squirted in time to music (does that make sense?)





The Space Needle was surprisingly tall... always reminds me of a flying saucer:)




Taylor loves to run everywhere!


Sonny and Taylor got this wet the first minute in the fountain.





We went to this joint called Top Pot Donuts in Seattle. We ordered a dozen donuts and scarfed them down.


Taylor had so much junk food that week! Eh, what the heck, why not.


We also stopped by Pikes Place Market, a gigantic Farmers Market downtown Seattle. We sampled some really salty Salmon (gag) and bought some Yakima Cherries.




I love buying vegetables that are outside like this, I don't know why. Just feel super cool doing it.


My sister loves Bigfoot! No, just kidding. She just gets suckered into having her picture taken with weird, random statues. It's a little tradition that we have. You should see our collection. Taylor is kinda liking being in pictures now. He voluntarily stood there and waved. Cute:)


Poor little crabs:( But so yummy!


Sonny and I have started getting addicted to the show "The Deadliest Catch" so we were way excited to see these King Crab.


The beach we usually go to in Steilacoom, a cute little town by us, had a really really low tide one morning, usually low I guess. We got lucky and were able to see tons of sea creatures. They were swimming all around us! We rescued this sea star from the shores and threw it back into the water. Just doing our part to save the world baby!


This crab got pretty mad at us. We bugged him for a while, trying to get him to crawl. I guess he didn't want to play with us.


Where we are walking here is an area that is usually covered by about 15-20 feet of water. So there was seaweed everywhere! Kinda gross.


Taylor got brave and touched one of the big Sea Stars.


I thought they were pretty cool too. Dang, I should have been a Marine Biologist.




Every single rock was covered with seaweed. Taylor's boots really came in handy that day. I need to get myself a pair bad. Flip Flops just don't cut it.


It's so baffeling how the ocean tides work. I just can't understand it. We took Sonny back there that evening hoping it would still be low so that he could see all the cool creatures, but sure enough, it was back to where it usually was. So weird but so cool.



And here's a video of Taylor doing his new "evil" laugh. He also calls it his "Happy Halloween" laugh. Ignore me in the video, I'm really annoying as I try to get him to do the laugh:)

Monday, August 10, 2009

Oh Captain, my Captain

Sonny started his job at the Fulton Dental Clinic on Ft. Lewis today. He will be working there for a year before he starts his Oral and Maxillofascial Surgery residency at the Madigan Army Medical Center. He is now a Captain. Pretty cool eh? When he came home tonight, he told me that he basically did Anti-terrorism training all day on the computer. Totally cool dude. Here he is in his new Army Combat Uniform that he paid a bundle for. We were able to find him some used boots at the Goodwill too which saved us some $. What a steal! We only have one car at the moment so Sonny purchased a road bike online so that he could start biking it to work everyday. I refuse to be stuck at home all day without a car! Sonny doesn't seem to understand why I need a car but all you stay-at-home moms know what I'm talking about, right? If he's lucky, I might let him use the car once a week:) Luckily, there are a couple stores around us that Tay and I can walk to, if we had to get out. Anyways, so Sonny's back to the working world and we'll hopefully get back into the routine of things. As far as the house goes, we are still waiting to hear about our USDA loan. Hopefully it will all work out and it will go through! The weather has gotten a lot cooler, thank goodness, so no more homemade swamp cooler. It actually rained today so I think the raining had started:) If it wasn't for the extreme heat this last month, I probably wouldn't be so happy about the rain. It really isn't too bad, yet, that is. I do enjoy the smell of wet cement...


Wednesday, August 5, 2009

No air conditioning



This is what you do when you don't have air conditioning. Looks like fun eh? um, NO!!! It was interesting, though, waking up to a huge bowl full of water next to me. But the tactic did work surprisingly well. Yep, pretty much nobody has air conditioning in Washington. So, keep this idea in mind, all you people in hot states, or in Washington this summer...

PS: Sorry Albertson's for taking all your ice.