T-party

Friday we went with our friends to the T-Mobile company party. Our friends work for them. It was in North Bend, at mountain meadows farm. Food, games, and other activities, we had a great time. It was a beautiful day. We enjoyed the train ride, ice cream, the bouncy house, and boats, and the beautiful surroundings.

So on June 30, we went to Olympia to celebrate Joe's B-day, and it was also our last day to use our Zoo pass, so we stopped off at Woodland Park Zoo, for some fun.

First stop was the park outside the zoo, Isaac had to drive.

We saw the otters, and bears too. We had a front row seat as a bear jumped into the water and started blowing bubbles with his nose, that was funny for Meagan, and Alex. Isaac was a little nervous when the bear stopped right in front of him and placed both paws on the window like he wanted to eat him. The bears head was bigger than Isaac.

Meagan and Alex were pretty excited to play in the infant zone, a first for them, but it soon lost the appeal. 

Yes, there are 50 candles on that cake.

Strike!!!!

silly grandma

Okay, if you haven't checked out my sisters (Lydia Moyer) blog, go now, read her post about "pead pods".

Welcome back, now that your caught up, this morning my mother (Grandma Debi) called to ask when I could come over and fix their cable situation in the apartment. "Aunt Susan is moving in and it needs to be up and running for Wimpleton." I had to clarify, sure enough "Wimpleton".
Sorry Mom, I had to tell everyone. Maybe Elsie is just a reflection of her mother, AND Grandma.

Great Wolf Lodge

One day in Mar or Apr Aaron came home from work and said I heard about this great place to take the kids.  So we check it out on line and Aaron books us two nights at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound, WA (20 min or so south of Olympia).  The whole draw is the indoor water park.  The whole way there I am thinking I want to stay in a kid cabin (quoted at way more expensive than we want to spend) for the same price we are paying per night for our standard room (which definitely is not cheap).  Aaron checks in and says "so they upgraded us because so many people want a room with out a reservation." While we did not get a kid cabin (I imagine very popular) we did get a 1 bedroom suite.  Can't complain!!  

The water park stays open until 10p.  So we had 4 opportunities to play at the park.  First day when we checked in around 3p.  The next morning (no lines, much less crowded), that night after dinner around 8p (much less crowded than the afternoon, but not as much as the morning.)  Which was after my parents joined us for dinner at the Loose Moose Cottage Cafe.  They stuck around for about an hour afterwards so Aaron and I could go on a few runs together.  Finally, the day we departed, also in the morning.  Isaac did great.  He went with the flow the first two days and then he put his foot down on the third morning and said I've had enough.  The water makes him nervous.  There was also definitely a lot of commotion. We only had a 2 hr drive home.  That was great.  

As much as we enjoyed it, (shhhh, don't tell the kids)  we probably won't go back.  

What the kung fu?

It seems like all the cool people are going to see Kung Fu Panda. Not to be left behind we went also, actually Meagan and Alex were invited to go with some friends, so Shari, Isaac and I snuck, sneaked, whatever, into the back and watched it too. Its pretty pathetic being a Dad and having to beg to go see a cartoon.

me: I promise I won't sit by you, or talk to you, or anything.
Meagan, Shari, Alex, and Isaac: Wellllll, I don't know....fine, stop your crying. Your making a scene!!
(Not word for word.)

It might not make sense but the kids like it.

Schools out for summer

So we all went to Field Day, the last day of school.
We were able to just hang out with the kids and play.
It has been a good year volunteering in Alex"s class, every Wed.
All the kids in his class are great, it was weird being called Mr. Williams.
I think I'm going to actually miss that part.
Here's some more pics of the rug rats...


Alex's class of monkeys

These kids are goofy

Alex was pretty proud of his dragon tat

Meagan always the little angel

Its been a few days since the school got out and already we have had the "Your driving me nuts" talk, and the "outside or inside, not both" discussion. Summer vacation? For who?