We built (almost) the rest of it...and w/o a fight!

This girl could not be happier.

Now this was my kind of game

On Sunday we went to the Mariners game. It was short, Hope had a TON of fun activities (even though we barely acknowledged her), the weather was great and the Mariners won.

Happy Sunny Weekend

Here we are Friday afternoon. Went to my parent's house to take pictures of my lovely sailboat that my mom is making me sell. I don't understand why she doens't want it sitting on her dock anymore??! Just kidding. Madeline and Rudder had fun. Once she got over the shock of being knocked over and her popsicle taken.

Our (never ending) yard project

Yay! Finally getting the driveway out of our backyard

Making a level area for Madeline's play set

Terracing the yard. We had SOO much dirt.

This pile of rocks = ten tons. We now have 25 tons sitting in our yard.

Let me tell you, this guy was helpful!

And so was she! We loved watching the machinery but, "mama, no tuk" (no truck-our U-haul experience from 2 weeks ago has apparently scarred her for life. No, nothing happened. She just doesn't like trucks for whatever reason)

Instead of bark we opted for pea-gravel.

Probably the cutest two pictures I've ever taken of these two.

Okay, Zaide, Baba and Nonna showed up Sunday morning to help put together our "Rainbow" System. This is step one.

This is also step one.

My dad showed up around 1:00 or so. We are now on step two at this point.

By 4:30 we made it to step 9. Anyone want to come over on Wednesday and help finish? Bob knows how to read the directions now so it should go faster :-)

White trash baby

No clothes.

Dad couldn't resist putting the slide up for Madeline to play on.

The dirtiest baby of all time

Thank you so much everyone for all of your help today!!!

Viet Wah?!

Madeline is quite the little helper in the kitchen. Maybe I should write "helper"? Today we went to Viet Wah grocery store on MLK to get some authentic stir fry making stuff.

I decided to drag a chair into the kitchen b/c this girl was DYING to help do something...

The green stuff is Chinese Broccoli. It was really good!

Tofu

Helping evolved into eating...

Chinese Spinach and Onions

Dancing with dad post-meal.

Mother's Day

At Marymoor Dog Park with Dada, Zaide, Rudy and Rudder

What a great park!

Out on Chris' boat we had a fancy meal at Kid Valley

It was so cozy sitting in the back of the boat!

Nonna was kind enough to hold Maddie despite the poo poo in her pants. Jamie dry heaved the whole way up the lake. We're a special family.