Doing a rain dance...

I am doing a rain dance for this weekend! I want the weather to be nice for our first family picture.  Most of the amazing pictures you see on our blog were taken by Auntie K - yeah our photographic genius goes as far as a point and shoot. At least for myself, Steve is definitely more knowledgeable. I get lost once someone mentions ISO settings or Macro mode... One of these days I will take the time to learn about settings. Would it guarantee better pictures? No clue, knowledge is power, but having the ability to apply yourself is a whole different story.  In the meantime I would rather be quilting, scrapping or sewing up something... So for now I am here singing to the boys:

Rain, Rain go away 

Come again another day

... two days in advance. Mother Nature please cooperate! In any event we will be smiling and ready rain or shine, with or without the tulips (you will no longer be my favorite flower if you don't show yourselves this weekend). 

My Parents are coming!!!

Oh boy! I am counting down the days till my parents arrive here Seattle! We are down to just 3 days not including today and the day they arrive! WOHOO! The last time I saw Mum and Dad was about a week before Erik was born,  the tricky part was Mum was commuting from Seattle to our house in Stanwood she spent on average of 3 hours in the car. My dad was in meetings the whole trip, we were fortunate enough to see him on the weekends. The previous time we saw my parents together was on a trip up to Alaska back in November of 2006! 

Suffice to say we are long over due for some quality time together. Both Malia and Rolando will be on their spring break and hopefully Steve will be able to take some time off  from work. To make things even more exciting we are hoping to have both Erik and Elliott baptized while my parents are here on Sunday the 13th of April at the Antiochian Orthodox Church in Arlington. We will find out more today after speaking with him. If you are interested in learning more about the church we are planning on having the boys baptized I have added a link to their website.

All BOY!!!

After all the snow melted in our "Organic" backyard we were left with standing water, which means we will be putting in a french drain before our lawn gets installed. One of the quotes we received stated it would cost about $10/ft of drainage, Steve figures there would be over 80 feet of drainage to lay before we would reach the existing drainage system. So with that in mind we decided we would install the french drain ourselves. We know for sure Elliott doesn't mind the water! He is all boy, knee deep in mud and muck!

"Winter Blast Spring 2008"

So here is the lovely neighborhood we live in covered in SNOW! We got dumped on this past Saturday - 4inches to be exact.