kirkland parade

on the fourth we started the day with the kirkland parade! we almost didn't go because we were lazy bums, but the weather was a little overcast and not too hot and not too cold and pretty perfect, so we decided to rally and meet everybody down there. it was a very good choice! i'm so glad we went. beckett loved it! he waved flags and was really serious about the national anthem and got bead necklaces and inhaled way too much candy. plus, just going to watch misty's dad, brian watch the parade was reason enough to be there. he is the most enthusiastic parade watcher. it's wonderful. he especially loved the uni-cyclists, who were pretty impressive. whitney and quinn got down to the parade site very early and saved everybody very good (really... like the best) seats! thanks friends! it was a great way to spend our 4th of july morning!

doh! nuts!

jenni really needed to experience the magic that is mighty-o doughnuts, so we headed into seattle (cramming the carseats into my tiny backseat was only a little dangerous) for a breakfast treat. jenni has a good friend from hawaii who just so happened to also be visiting seattle, so she met us with her daughters and geri came with her girls too! after delicious doughnuts, we headed over to the park to try and burn off those sugar highs. yeah right.

dizzy bus party

we stopped by dizzy's annual halloween party and it was pretty hoppin'. beckett got to enjoy some delicious candy from trick or treating. okay... matt and i ate his candy. he is just a baby. b was pretty overwhelmed with all the people and costumes, but he did pretty good and it made me excited for future halloweens when he can participate and eat his own candy. we also got to see cupcake gianna. gianna really looooooves baby beckett... and beckett is a tad skeptical, as seen in the photo. he really shouldn't be, she is always quite nice to him. also, the highlight of the whole trip was a random balloon that b got. it kept him very happy the whole ride home, and that was very nice for everyone.

gianna is three!

on saturday we were lucky enough to be invited to the gianna mouse clubhouse. the party was at the samena swim and rec club and the sun came out to shine just in time for the party. the weather was actually perfect. geri did a great job decorating for the party with a mickey and minnie theme. there were cute mickey and minnie headbands to wear, mickey wands and rice krispie treats, and red and white polka dots everywhere! thanks to the face painter... there were a lot of crazy animals running around too. the birthday girl was actually decked out as hello kitty! thanks for inviting us to celebrate sweet gianna michael!

could we be more excited to have the thelens here? no!

 

the cutie cute haight family

matt and coen had a lot of catching up to do

present opening chaos... the usual!

beckett thinks abby is the funniest person ever

  

happy birthday gi-ju! you're such a quirky, outgoing, funny, cute little person!