October Already!

Jesse and his cousin Peyton splashing at Grandma's and Grandpa's house

Time sure does fly by. I swear it was just summer time and we were outside sitting around the fire pit. But that kind of weather has come and gone. We are now into Fall here in the northwest. Which to me means cold and damp. But it hasn't been all that bad, we do still get to see the sun even if for a brief moment, but I am counting it. Things have been rather busy in our house since that last post. Cameron had to do some training and was gone for two weeks, so Raygan came up and visited Jesse and me, we took her and did a little sight seeing in Seattle and then to the beach. We then made the 900 mile trek down to my parents house to drop her back home and say a quick hi and goodbye to the family. The trip back home went amazingly fast! I couldn't really believe it when we hit the OR-WA border and it was still daylight. Jesse is the best little guy, I don't think one tear was shed the whole time we were in the car.

Pike's Place Market 

Cameron's sister Katie came to visit us for a week and so we got to do some more sight seeing. We went up to Seattle again and did Pike's Market and walked all over. I really earned the pizza that we ate for dinner that night. We all wanted to take a ferry ride so we went to a nearby island called Bainbridge Island. It was so much fun, really windy and a little cold but way fun. It was my first boat ride on open waters like that. I could sit there and ride them all day but we still had things to do and places to see. We had some great seafood for lunch at Ivar's and then had some of the best pizza at a little alley pizzeria. Super good food that day!

Ferry Ride!

Yummy seafood at the market

Craziness at the market

We wanted to go to Mt St. Helen's on Columbus Day but the weather just wasn't that great. We wouldn't have been able to even see the volcano so we decided to just stay local. We went out to breakfast and then we went to a hands on children's museum in Olympia. Jesse really loved it. We would try and get him to go look at different things but he would just get mad because he was loving what he was doing. We could have spent the whole day there and that would have been A OK with Jesse.

Jesse and Dad wearing hardhats and playing at the museum

There is a park that we love here. It is called Falls Creek Park. It's in Tumwater and there are 3 waterfalls along this portion of the river. It has had a wood mill and a couple distilleries on this part of the river but now they have put ladders on the river to encourage the salmon to come up the river and spawn there. We were able to take Jesse there while the salmon were running and it was the coolest thing ever. I have never seen the salmon going up the river but it is pretty amazing. Jesse loves this park because there are bridges and water and water falls.

Falls Creek Park

This is his "cheese" face

It is pumpkin time! There is a local farm near our house that sells pumpkins from their field and so we thought that we would take Jesse and let him pick his first pumpkin. He really didn't care too much about the pumpkin all he cared about was the wheel barrow. He loved being pushed all around and being able to look around at everything. He especially thought it cool when we started to put the pumpkins in it and he got to sit on top of them. There were rides and food and home local produce but our favorite thing was the caramel apples and the fresh apple cider. It tasted almost as good as Cam's family makes it, almost not quite but it was good. We are excited to carve up the pumpkins and see how Jesse does with all the goo, he isn't really into getting his hands yucky.

So many choices!

Things are well here with us. There are just about 5.5 weeks left til we add another member to our household. I can't believe that this pregnancy has gone by this fast. I am so excited to meet our new little daughter and to see who the person that she will become. And to see how Jesse is as a big brother. He seems to do ok with other girls but we will see when its his sister.