Mom Time

We have been having a lot of mom time lately. When Seth is at work I decided to take advantage of my time and do mom stuff with Parker. Here we are making pizza dough to make one of our very favorite foods.

Biking in Seattle

We haven't posted in a while and frankly, we don't even have a legitimate excuse. We have just been playing inside and staying busy and playing outside. Some of our play outside has included biking around Greenlake with two of our best friends Randy and Jaime. Parker LOVES going on bike rides, the Copilot has probably been the best purchase we've made in a long time. His new word is "very" so I get a good workout in when he asks to go "very fast very fast!" And pictured above is the new face he learned how to make when he's being a stinker.

Snow Storms are the best

Until the power goes out. But we love the snow and we played hard all week. We only took pictures on day one but its a good thing Parker has three snowsuits!

Brazil

Traveling (airplane, bus, taxi) for 26+ hours is exhausting.

The largest church in Sao Paulo has this image that apparently people make a pilgrimage to come and see.

The church has offering posts every 2 pews... there are literally a million pews here too

It started raining like crazy, I've never seen rain like this and I'm from Washington! I took the plastic backpack cover that comes with our REI pack and wore it around

Koi at on of the places we stayed at

Pointing out where our hotel was

Diego's family. We LOVE them and want to go back already

We ate Krepes every single day! We need to sell these at the Puyallup Fair and we'd make some serious cash.

I may or may not have drawn a heart in sunblock on Seth's back. He may or may not have been mad

Facetime with Parksies, what we did everyday

Pumpkin Patch with Austin

Went to the Pumpkin Patch with Austin and Audrey just like last year. Had so much fun, except for when PK tripped in the mud. He has such personality and LOVES being outside and running free. These two boys are so funny together, so different but both total BOYS. I can't get enough of it.

Halloween Chicken

This Halloween Parker was the cutest chicken you ever did see! I am only posting these pics because my favorite little sister called from BYU and demanded that I post some pics soon, so here ya go Kish! We did go to our ward's and Tina's ward's trunk or treat to score some candy but on Halloween we stayed home to answer the door, it was our first year being able to do that and it was so much fun! Parker would get really excited when the doorbell would ring and he can now understandably say "trick or treat." We love our cute little chicken. And thanks Tina for the costume!

Do the Puyallup

The night that Seth and I went to the fair with all our besties, he won Parker a Pablo! And I got a root beer float!

The Puyallup Fair! This was the first and probably the only year when we decided to actually do the whole fair experience. We splurged and had some extremely unhealthy food to eat, rode a couple rides, tried to win $150, played some extremely unfair and expensive carnival games, watched the hypnotist and had a blast! I have to say it was even worth it to wait in line for the WildCat!
During the day we wanted to take Parker and Gage to see all the animals, which they LOVED! We got to see a zedonk (half donkey half zebra) and a lot of other cool animals. Gage went fishing and rode ALL the John Deeres. It was so much fun to take the boys around.

Gage's favorite part was the John Deere section, we HAD to spend a long time here test driving every machine. Parker rode the skid-steer but wasn't interested in anything else.