Happy Father's Day, Dads & Grandpas!

First things first, we want to wish a Happy Father's Day to our Dads (Gene & Barry) and Grandpas (Jim & Jack), we love you! Hope you have a great day!

It's been a pretty busy weekend so far, but I guess that is par for the course lately.  Feels like summer hasn't even begun in Seattle yet, except for the busy schedule!  Yesterday morning I went with Sean & Claire to the NW Epilepsy Walk--Chelsea unfortunately had to work, but was with us in spirit!  We met Aunt Cathy & Uncle Sandy, Grandpa Jack, Miranda and Matt there.  Each year we walk around Greenlake in Seattle in support of the Epilepsy Foundation Northwest and in support of our lovely cousin Miranda! It was pretty nice weather, only rained a little, so all in all a nice morning to get out and get some exercise.

Afterwards Chels and I had hair appointments and then rushed to the grocery store to get ingredients for dinner we were making to have our friends Danny & Michael over.  We made delicious chicken and black bean enchiladas in a cheesy salsa sauce, and homemade margaritas. Yum! We had fun :)

This afternoon we're meeting up with Stephanie for lunch, and then going over to Grandpa's to make smoothies and take him out to dinner for Father's Day.  Should be a fun Sunday!  Stay tuned, we have an action-packed week ahead of us...

Congrats to Chelsea's cousin Jillian and her husband Scott who welcomed their twins, daughter Ellora and son Kellen, into the world yesterday, happy birthday little twins! We can't wait to meet you!

Lovely June In Seattle

Chelsea's birthday was last Sunday, so on Saturday we spent time with our friend Stacy.  Here's us at the park playing with her cute dog Aggie.  Since she's really good at catching her Frisbee, Aggie was definitely the star at the park that day!

Look at her go! 

We had dinner, cake and ice cream for Chels' birthday and watched a movie.  It was a fun night!  Poor Chels got a bee sting on the way back to Stacy's from the park, but other than that she had a pretty good birthday weekend! We spent Sunday (her actual birthday) hanging out with Grandpa for a little bit, chatting and watching the birds out on his deck.  It's so nice having him in Seattle!

We got to spend even more time with dogs last week, as Chels started pet-sitting.

                                                Here she is with the little pup, Chloe

She's pretty cute! It's nice when Chelsea pet-sits for dogs because we get to spend time with them without having to get one.  They are super fun and we'll probably get one someday, but right now I think we have our hands full enough just with one animal (I'm sure Kitten's plenty happy to rule the roost!).

Today we went to a Mariner's baseball game downtown with some friends.

It was a beautiful day!  They played the Dodgers, so Chels was giving her Dad text message updates since he grew up in LA and is a Dodgers fan.  Unfortunately, the Mariners didn't win, but we still had fun!

 Here's Caralee trying to eat some crazy nachos out of a batting helmet!

 Go Ichiro! We had pretty good seats.  It's so much more fun going to a game than watching it on TV.

 Pretty view downtown

We've started ripping up the grass in the backyard and have made major progress this weekend, thanks to the shovels we borrowed from Claire & Sean

 Here I am on top of the mound of overturned grass clumps.  I tried to challenge Chels to a game of King of the Mountain, she didn't think that was such a great idea...

 Relaxing on the new patio chairs.  I can't wait for all of our hard work to pay off and to have a nice, relaxing patio to enjoy this summer!

 Here are some big roots I dug up

Chels digging up more grass, the shovels definitely make quick work of this project.  We're about half-way done digging it up, now we just have to break down the grass clumps so we can put the grass in the yard waste.  Good times as new homeowners!