An Old Friend…

One of my longest friendships has been with my childhood next door neighbor – Anne Knie Rorberg. Oddly enough, we had our first kids within two months of each other, and plan to instill the same friendship in them.

Anne and her family live near Shreveport, LA… where her husband Kris is currently stationed.  The boys met  for the first time, on Jacob’s first trip to Seattle, when they were 4 and 5.5 months old:

Anne and Jacob have been in the Seattle area for the last month, and we joined them at the Kidsquest Museum last week. I can’t believe how much the boys have grown up!!

It was IMPOSSIBLE to get both kids in the same shot – they were having WAY too much fun playing. I did manage to get one at the very end...

1. Jacob….

2. Saylen…

3. Saylen AND Jacob!!!

We hope that the Rorberg clan (currently 3, soon to be 4) will join us again in the Northwest someday, but for now we will continue to make time for them when they are here visiting throughout the year!

Spring?

For those of you that don’t live in the Seattle area, you probably think it rains here all of the time. Well, normally, we say that it’s the best kept secret that it DOESN’T actually rain all the time…. However, I am beginning to think that summer is never going to get here. I am slightly jealous of all of my Arizona friends, posting stories of the hot sun and days spent outside by the pool. I even had a conversation with my boss about how it couldn’t possibly be May yet because it doesn’t smell like it!

This weekend we finally got a peak of what some people call spring. What was the first thing I did? Spontaneously bought a water/sand table for Saylen to have in the yard. And what is the second thing I did? Ran out to Home Depot and bought a BBQ to replace the broken one. Yep, now we are all set for summer…. if it would just hurry up and get here!

Here are some pics from our pre-summer weekend…

“Wow mom, this new toy is really fun! This sand stuff doesn’t taste very good though…”

 

“HAHAHA… look the dogs are stuck on the other side!”

 

Not the best picture quality on this one… but I love that he found Dandelions!

 

The sunshine even brought Aunt Kate out of hiding – what a treat!