Trip to Iowa (#2)

Kathryn and I were able to go to Iowa again the beginning of August for a surprise party my mom planned for my dad's 70th birthday. We stayed for 10 days and had a lot of fun with family and friends. My little brother and 2 of my sisters also came from out of town. My dad was SO surprised which was really fun. We had a lot of fun celebrating...

(Kat's root beer float mustache at my dad's party.)

Kathryn loved digging into some watermelon. (Can we say someone's a little possessive?)

Fun with cousins...

We even got to meet a brand new niece/cousin who was born on my dad's birthday. She is beautiful and her name is Charlotte Grace...

And friends...My friend Amy invited us to go to her son Alex's kindermusic class. Kathryn loved it, but cried every time we moved on to the next activity.
They made these cool little tambourines. Amy got this cute picture of Alex
Some of our friends from church have a farm and planted a ton of sweet corn for anyone to come pick and eat. So we went there twice to get some delicious fresh corn. I had never picked corn before and it was a lot of fun.Kathryn loved crawling around and munching on little baby corns we found.Just check out this cute face ;)The first time we picked 350 ears of corn and the second time we picked a little over 100. Here's Kat, my dad and all the corn we picked the first time.
Unfortunately the corn I brought home (and was so excited for Drew to try) got warm in the box and wasn't very good. Anyway, we had a lot of fun on this trip but missed having Drew there with us.

Trip to Seattle

It's been a long time since we've posted anything, so we have a lot of catching up to do and I'm determined to get everything posted today before we go on vacation again and have more to blog about :) So here it goes...

We were able to go up to Seattle the end of July to be with all of Drew's immediate family for a little informal family reunion. We had a lot of fun and did a lot of things the few days we were there. The second day we were there, we went on our first ferry ride together. We went with Drew's brother and family over to Bremerton. It was kind of chilly on the ferry, but really pretty and fun to finally go on a ferry together.
The next day we went downtown and walked around the Seattle Center. The kids had fun going on rides and playing in the children's museum. Here's Kathryn and her cousin Owen having fun together :)They had a lot of fun things in the museum and Drew's sister Sara took these really cute pictures of Kat playing in a log.
Then on Saturday we went to a Mariners Baseball game. They lost by a lot, but it was still fun to go as a family. When we got back, we put together a huge slip 'n slide in the yard with 3 or 4 really big tarps and had so much fun. It was awesome.

(Kathryn's cousins having fun on the slip 'n slide)

We also were able to get a good family picture...
And we got to see my sister, Sherene, and her family for a few hours. It was a short but very fun trip. We loved spending so much time with family.