Kellen's antics

This child is into everything! He goes nonstop from morning till nap, then till second nap, then till bedtime. He just cruises around the house. He crawls into closets, under the coffee table, under our bed, behind our bed (which I can't get him out of so I have to wait until he is bored and come out on his own). He puts everything in his mouth, especially cords to eletrical devices. He is always up in Connor's business, toppling his toys over and grabbing his prized cars, and all this is done with that adorable Kellen smile. This boy loves him some good ole bath fun too. He lives for the bath. As soon as he hears the water turn on, he drops whatever he is doing and beelines for the bathroom and attempts to crawl in the tub, clothes and all. I love the picture below because his knees are so red from all the crawling.

Waiting for the tub to fill with water.

Doing the waiting dance.

Okay, Kellen destroys this miscellaneous cabinet of bowls/bottles/tupperware at least 5 times a day!

Alexis Makenna Piacitelli's Baptism

We are so blessed to be the godparents of Lexi Piacitelli! We drove up and spent the weekend with Steve and Dawn so we could be there for her special day! We love this family! Everytime we head up north to hang out with them we have a great time. However, Don and I almost did not survive the trip up this time. We left Portland around 1230ish and did not make it to their house in Renton until around 730pm. Traffic. I don't think I have to explain this one. Although Don did compair it to what his vision of hell is. Stuck in traffic with two hungry kiddos with poopy diapers who have not napped and you have no more food because you did not expect to be in the car for 6 hours and ate everything already and the nearest exit is 2 miles away but you have only moved 10 yards in the last half hour kind of hell. But Steve and Dawn are the kind of friends who had dinner waiting (literally on the table) and we were greeted in the driveway with 2 stiff drinks. Stiff enough to erase some of the pain of the last few hours of the car ride. But we would have done it again just to be there for sweet Lexie on her day. And she is a blessed and beautiful little girl!

Steve is Connor's godfather.

Lexie Loo!

Lexie and Kellen chillin'. This picture cracks me up because that is such a Kellen blank look. I think all of his pictures have this same look. Really, he is a happy child, just camera shy.

Welcome to the family Erika!

That beautiful girl presenting my brother with a birthday cake is my future sister-in-law! We couldn't be more thrilled for these two! My brother the romatic proposed to her on the Brooklyn Bridge in NY on May 29th! She fits in perfectly to our crazy family, almost as if she was here from the beginning! The wedding will be in March and I can hardly wait! We were all over at their cute house in North Portland for a summer bbq. It was also Michael's birthday. They worked their tails off fixing up the yard. It is awesome. The landscaped it and last summer they completed a huge project of transforming the freestanding garage into a sectioned off unit. One side is storage for the BBQ and lawmower ect, the other end is more storage and in the middle is the party room! Complete with a kegorator. The painted the outside to make it look like a barn and it is so cute. Of course, I have no pictures of it. It was a fabulous evening with the family but our que to leave was during the happy birthday cake presentation, Connor kicked over some neatly lined up shot glasses of whisky, and Kellen simultaneously peed all over me. Yes, it was time for the sissy with kiddos to leave so the older kids could play!

Connor and Uncle Mike feeding Parker.