Family, "Graduation", Recital

At the zoo with Angela's favorite sister Alyssa.
Do you like the elephant's at the Boise Zoo? (In case you can't tell, they are fake.)

Making carmel things. (Apples and pretzels)

Cody is ready to go swimming. Our pool opened up Memorial Day weekend.

Playing on the trampoline with Kaylee and Tanner (Angela's bro and sis) At the park playing wiffle ball. Cody took this picture and then broke our camera.

Cody

Ryan wears this badge when he coaches t-ball. It certifies that he passed a background check as a non-pedophile (at least through the end of 2009).

Cody playing catch.

Brandon protecting his head.

Kathleen getting ready to throw a strike.

Kathleen with Grandma Lisa.

Kathleen at the pool.

Brandon snuggled right up to Grandpa.

A picnic at Ann Morrison park with Angela's family.

Don't ask. Brandon got his shoes all muddy.

Playing at the fountain at the park.

Angela setting up her GPS for our maiden voyage into geocaching. She is assisted by Alyssa (favorite sister) and Marianne (cousin).

Contrary to the post on the Plumb blog, Ryan merely retrieved the geocaching treasure. Cousin Marianne actually spotted it up in this hard to see location.

Angela with her dad. (Nice hat!)

At the waterfall code named Terebithia.

Brandon had his pre-school "graduation" too. He is the second from the left.

Handsome guys.

This is Brandon with his teacher Miss Denise.

Eating fruit.

Kathleen also had her dance recital.

She's a great ballerina. (She's the second from the left in this video from the dress rehersal.)

Aunt Lissa and T Ball

For dinner we had spaghetti noodles and little wheels. Brandon (obviously a preschool pro.) decided to make a necklace with them (yes, the cooked noodles). Me and my sister. My mom wanted us to take a picture together. so here it is. Man I look old next to her.

Alyssa and the boys.

In Kathleen's class at school, they take turns reading to each other during a reading time. It is really cute.

Alyssa came with me to the school and we had lunch with Kathleen.

The kids had their first t-ball practice of the season. And Ryan is their coach. Super fun.

Seattle

Brandon got this awesome shirt for his birthday. He is so cute. Cody had a play date with his best bud Daniel. They loved playing with light sabers on the trampoline.

Cody woke up while I was in the shower the other morning. When I came down, he had gotten himself breakfast. Yup, you guessed it. Ice cream. Mmmm. And healthy too.

Alyssa, my sister, came to visit again. But this time it was to babysit for us so that Ryan and I could have a weekend away in Seattle. We were sooooo excited.

Here is Ryan in the cab on the way from the airport to the hotel. You may be wondering why I would take a picture of him here. Well, there is a very important reason. The car we are in is a crown victoria. For those of you who know us and our obsession with the TV show Chuck should understand the importance of this to us.

Ryan saw this doughnut shop on TV a couple weeks ago. He was so excited when it was like 10 steps from our hotel.

We took this picture for Brandon because I thought it looked like a Bakugan.

The dinosaurs in the Space Science Center moved. These ones were eating another dinosaur. Pretty awesome.

A six foot person can feel like a 3 foot person at a normal table here. Now we know what our kids feel like.

Butterfly pictures just for Kathleen:

Lunch at the space needle. It was soooo fun. The restaurant rotates 360 degrees every 47 minutes. You can see downtown Seattle, the sound, Mt.Rainier, and even be above flying helicopters. We could have stayed there all day.

I ate something I have never eaten before. A purple potato. It tastes like a regular potato, only purple.

Dessert:

Handsome:

Finally, the main reason for our adventure. The Red Sox. Youkilis (one of our favorite players) is hurt and wasn't playing. But we got there early enough to watch him in batting practice.

Safeco Field. It was fun. Probably 1/3 of the fans there were Red Sox fans. We saw them all over Seattle while we were there. And everyone talked with us and were super friendly when we wore our Red Sox stuff. Even avid Mariners fans were friendly with us. Except the lady at the toy store that shot me with a flying monkey. Don't worry, it was all in good fun.

Here is Lester pitching (or something that kind of looked like pitching). Normally I am a fan, but he was terrible.

Sorry I don't have more awesome pictures to show you. But you know. We had a great time. Thanks Alyssa.