Andrew's Antics

Mommy's 30 birthday party

My 30th birthday was on July 11th. We had a party at Round Table Pizza in University Place. There were a lot of people invited, but I'm very greatful for the small group of family and friends that came. (Summertime and people had a lot of other committments)

Andrew was so cute! He'd been planning it for days, and spilled some of the beans. At naptime he would lay in his playpen planning the party and practicing singing Happy Birthday to mommy. He kept wanting it to be my birthday days ahead of time, when it finally came he was very anxious to go. He was not happy when I told him it would be at dinner, after naptime. He said, "No! Today!" He thinks it's a new day when he wakes up from a nap. In the afternoon he'll tell me he did things yesterday that he did just that morning.

Andrew watching very intently as daddy lights ALL the candles

Andrew helped mommy blow out the candles....but it still took a second blow.

Andrew couldn't wait to have me open his present

Andrew knew my sunglasses were broken and he came up with the idea all by himself that I needed a new pair for my birthday. So he told daddy at the store and when he saw these pink ones he insisted he had to get them for me. So sweet!!

Ethan and Andrew played cars while the rest of us visited.

Our friends Katie and Jason and my parents

Kelley at the far end of the table holding Eliana and Dana on the right

Matt, Donivan, and Kelley

Angie

My friend Debbie (in the light purple)

We had a very good time, complete with triple chocolate cake and ice cream.

Our new nephew/cousin

My sister-in-law was due July 13th, but was supposed to have her c-section on the 8th, my first day back from vacation. Well, Ian had a mind of his own, her water broke on 4th of July. So we went to see him as soon as we got back into town on Monday night before we went home (7/6)

Getting to hold Ian for the first time

Big Brother Sam, Aunt Jana (me), Andrew, and Ian

Andrew was helping me hold Ian and Aunt Ali asked him if he was going to have a baby like that at his house soon. He said very seriously, "No, baby sister." He's determined, about 3 more weeks and we'll see if he's right

Uncle Matt and Ian

What a cute, sweet baby!!

Grammy and Grampy

This was our last day in Spokane. We went to see Great-Grammy and Great-Grampy before we left. Here are a few pictures of Andrew with them.

Great-Grampy and Andrew

Great-Grammy and Andrew

We also drove around Whitworth University, my alma-mater, so we could see all the new buildings and my brother's new tree. My brother died 15 years ago while attending Whitworth (College) and his dormmates planted a tree behind the dorm for him. But it had to be dug up last winter because of water pipe problems. They planted a new tree in front of the dorm.

Andrew in front of Uncle Jason's tree

Last, but not least, we made another stop at one of our favorite places, Didier's, for frozen yogurt before heading down to Mandi's house in Kennewick.

This is on our way down to Kennewick. It was HOT, HOT, HOT in our car without air conditioning. We broiled!!

4th of July

Every year we have a family reunion 4th of July barbecue on my grandparents' farm. A lot of eating and a lot of visiting.

My cousin Jeremy offered to take someof the kids for tractor rides. Andrew was not very sure about it at first and didn't want to go. But he finally agreed to go with 'Grumpa' and had a very long ride and enjoyed it. We've been reading a lot of tractor books from the library.

This is while he was still just checking out the tractor while it was not running, he was pretty apprehensive.

Coming back from his 'long tractor ride.'

Andrew and 'Grumpa'

Andrew riding with Jeremy

We had about 45 family members at our picnic

Andrew and 'Great-Grammy' (my grandmother)

Great-Grammy and Andrew enjoy a snuggle

That night we went down to the middle school to watch the fire works. Andrew kept saying 'Cool!' He did also say they were very loud!

Playing before the fireworks started

The boys

Grumpa, Andrew, and Daddy

I love this face :)

Time to catch up

I took vacation and we went to Spokane for 4th of July weekend to visit family and friends. We left Friday the 1st after Andrew's swimming lesson. It was a LONG trip with a lot of stops. He finally fell asleep at 7:30 after not taking a nap, but when we got there at 9:30 he woke up and didn't go back to sleep until 12:30!!!

On Friday we went to hang out with our friends Bryan and Suzy and their daughter Kelsey. We of course went to one of our favorite Spokane restaurants, Tomato Street. It's one of our traditions to go there with them when we're in town.

Then we went with Suzy and Kelsey to the Children's museum in downtown Spokane and the kids had a lot of fun! Afterwards the kids were supposed to take a nap at her house but they just talked in their rooms and never slept.