We've been doing a lot of coming together with family and friends lately and here all of it comes together in one post. On Mother's Day we went to the Ponds for dinner. Our crazy lives the past few months have made us perpetually forget to take pictures of what we are doing. Luckily Jared took a picture of Caeden giving one of his many hugs to their dog Josie.
Last week we had the crazy trip of going to Baltimore to visit Cody and Lisa for Cody's graduation from dental school. Since I left the school had a new school built. The old school is pictured below, now unused.
Because the school and city like to make everyone feel like trash I was not able to tour any part of the new school as an alumnus. Furthermore, I was not even able to take pictures of anything at the new school. I guess its too easy to figure out how to bomb the school when I stand 3 feet from a wall to take a picture of the school sign right in front of me. It just recapitulated why I was so happy to leave and come out to Seattle. Despite the amazing poor customer service, racism and the above experience at the school we did have a good trip. We had a great time with Cody and Lisa, were able to see some good friends like the Taits, (even though we were too dumb to take pictures again) and run into a few old class mates and teachers. After being kicked out of the school we went to Edgar Allan Poe's grave site (right by the school) and took a picture there.
Beckham loves to cook and used his birthday money from Grandma Calderwood to buy more play food. We had the great blessing of having my parents come to watch the kids while we were gone. The boys were able to spend almost 5 days with them! The house was cleaner than we left it and the kids were spoiled. How much better can it get? Not much!
Our yard is starting to grow now that we are changing the late spring snow for sunshine. The bad was that our AC got its first test in the 90 heat when we were in Maryland and my mother unfortunately found out that it didn't work. Hopefully the builder will get it fixed tomorrow before much more suffering goes on.
Marisa learned the importance of using a UV filter to protect your camera lens and also improve your shots. When I bought that lens we also got a circular polarizing filter. All I can say is go out and spend the $20 if you have an SLR and you will be very happy with the results. Both lenses give outdoor shots a big color and contract improvement. We were finally able to take a shot of Rainier from our deck and not have the humidity in the air block it out when viewed through the camera lens.
Here is what our yard looked like a couple of weeks ago before the fence and hydroseeding were done.
I was able to take Bex and Trey on the Fathers-and-sons camp out with the ward. We had fun on our boys night out!
While in Maryland celebrating Cody and Lisa's big achievement we were able to spend some time with Marisa's cousin Kevin. He is a third year dental student at the same school. Marisa was jealous that Cody and Lisa now know her cousin better than she does. All that will change when he moves back to the state though ;)
While driving in MD we saw a stealth bomber fly over head, very slowly. It was awesome!
We're happy for Cody, but sad they will be going to Colorado instead of Spokane, but it will be a better situation there so we are happy for that.
Last week we had the crazy trip of going to Baltimore to visit Cody and Lisa for Cody's graduation from dental school. Since I left the school had a new school built. The old school is pictured below, now unused.
Because the school and city like to make everyone feel like trash I was not able to tour any part of the new school as an alumnus. Furthermore, I was not even able to take pictures of anything at the new school. I guess its too easy to figure out how to bomb the school when I stand 3 feet from a wall to take a picture of the school sign right in front of me. It just recapitulated why I was so happy to leave and come out to Seattle. Despite the amazing poor customer service, racism and the above experience at the school we did have a good trip. We had a great time with Cody and Lisa, were able to see some good friends like the Taits, (even though we were too dumb to take pictures again) and run into a few old class mates and teachers. After being kicked out of the school we went to Edgar Allan Poe's grave site (right by the school) and took a picture there.
Beckham loves to cook and used his birthday money from Grandma Calderwood to buy more play food. We had the great blessing of having my parents come to watch the kids while we were gone. The boys were able to spend almost 5 days with them! The house was cleaner than we left it and the kids were spoiled. How much better can it get? Not much!
Our yard is starting to grow now that we are changing the late spring snow for sunshine. The bad was that our AC got its first test in the 90 heat when we were in Maryland and my mother unfortunately found out that it didn't work. Hopefully the builder will get it fixed tomorrow before much more suffering goes on.
Marisa learned the importance of using a UV filter to protect your camera lens and also improve your shots. When I bought that lens we also got a circular polarizing filter. All I can say is go out and spend the $20 if you have an SLR and you will be very happy with the results. Both lenses give outdoor shots a big color and contract improvement. We were finally able to take a shot of Rainier from our deck and not have the humidity in the air block it out when viewed through the camera lens.
Here is what our yard looked like a couple of weeks ago before the fence and hydroseeding were done.
I was able to take Bex and Trey on the Fathers-and-sons camp out with the ward. We had fun on our boys night out!
While in Maryland celebrating Cody and Lisa's big achievement we were able to spend some time with Marisa's cousin Kevin. He is a third year dental student at the same school. Marisa was jealous that Cody and Lisa now know her cousin better than she does. All that will change when he moves back to the state though ;)
While driving in MD we saw a stealth bomber fly over head, very slowly. It was awesome!
We're happy for Cody, but sad they will be going to Colorado instead of Spokane, but it will be a better situation there so we are happy for that.
7 comments:
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Wow your yard is growing fast! It looks great! Good job you guys!
Marisa, you look so relaxed in that picture, must be the vacay with no kids!
is that a remote for the camera in your hand??? if so. very fancy. and a good way to avoid a lot of back-side shots as you're running to get in the picture!
Yeah, but I still look like a dork holding a remote to the camera. I usually hide it better than that.
i want your yard its nice and big! it too bad that so many people these days have such small yards, mostly due to the fact that they just don't want to take care of it. but i love to have a lot of space to let my kids run and play and have lots of parties.
Wow! A lot to blog! Sound like things are going great for you. I can't wait to see how your house turned out. Hope you got your AC fixed!!
Your yard looks like it will be alot of fun and you guys look busy. I am just working on getting my house out of boxes and with 5 kids, it is not EASY!!
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