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Monday, September 25, 2006

Look what I made!


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Friday, September 08, 2006

Still following in his Daddy's footsteps

It's great to see Micah grow...he continues to LOVE playing the piano. He now insists on sitting on the piano bench in order to maximize his playing ability. Grandma Fast & Daddy were quite impressed!

Our growing piano player

First trip to the Zoo

During Isaiah's last week of freedom before returning to school we decided to take Micah to the Zoo. We weren't too sure what he would think of it. But it was a hit!


Micah checks out the petting zoo
Mommy shows Micah how to pet the goat
Micah stares down the goat
Micah stares down the goat
Micah realizes the goat isn't so scarry
Micah finally thinks the goat is ok
Checking out the animals with mommy
Us infront of the Giraffes
Isaiah & Micah check out the zebras
Isaiah & Micah in front of the Zebras
playing with the concrete animals
too much fun at the zoo
Look Mom!  No Hands!!
Look Mom, NO HANDS!

Ft. Stevens Campout

As many of you know, every summer we look forward to the Temple Baptist Annual Ft. Stevens Campout. This is a great opportunity for family and frineds to spend a weekend "roughing it" (with running water, flush toilets, and showers) at the beach. This year was no exception...although unfortunalty at the last minute Ryan was not able to join us due to his heavy work schedule right now :-( We did have a good time though. Micah LOVED playing in the sand & with his cousin Ella. Here are a couple shots from our weekend.

All suited up and ready to go
Micah enjoys his first bike ride at Ft. Stevens
This year Micah was finally big enough to ride on the back of Uncle Ben's bike. I was smart enough not to try to ride him around myself, 'cause most of you know...I'm quite the clutz!
Ella & Micah take a bath in Grandma & Grandpa Johnson's trailer
This year my parents finally broke down and bought themselves a trailer...which I don't think they regret buying anymore. They enjoyed staying warm at night, sleeping on a comfy mattress & having the four walls block out the sound of crying babies at 3 am :-) Andree & I were personally very excited to make good use of the bathtub in the trailer since our kids (mostly Micah) were a total mess!!
My dirty little boy
This is my dirty little boy...he did not hessitate to lay down in the sand, face down, and do an immitation of a snow angel (a.k.a. sand angel)
Real Ft. Stevens Camping...standing in the road
Enjoying Grandma's Wagon
Mom's contribution to the camping trip was buying this little red wagon. It was great to take the kids around the loop and have them sit back & take it all in. I think by the end of the week the two of them weren't too keen on sharing the space anymore though, you would often find one trying to push the other one out of the wagon with their feet.
True Camping...dirty!
...another dirty face.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Grandma & Grandpa Fast visit

Grandma & Grandpa Fast decided to do an end of summer "surprise" visit to see us. After visiting the bridge on Saturday I decided to take everyone on a short hike to a local swimming hole in the park that I had found a couple weeks ago. It was a total hit! We only wished we had brought our swimming trunks.

Micah & Grandma enjoy the water
Micah had fun splashing around in the water. He was soaking wet by the time we were done.

Micah & Grandma explore the water
Grandma showed Micah how to throw rocks & go pick them up. He had a little trouble when the rock would land in water that was a little deeper than his arm would reach...he was surprised when his face got wet trying to retreive the rock.

Micah climbs a rock
While he wasn't splashing in the water he was climbing on the rocks. I think I have a rock climber in the making :-)

Micah shows off his rock climbing skills

Ryan's Bridge

Many of you have heard about "Ryan's Bridge," well last week Ryan's parents came down & visited. They took the liberty to snap some photos & I thought I'd share them with all of you. Traffic has been driving across the bridge for about three weeks now & they are just doing some cosmetic finishing touches.

Ryan's Bridge
View from top of bridge

Finishing up the footers
View from northeast side of bridge. If you look closely you will see Ryan & I walking across the bridge.

finishing up the bridge
This is a view from the southwest side of the bridge. Here they are working on staining the concrete form-liner rock wall.

Micah makes some mischief

So the other day we were hanging out in the trailer (because again it was too warm for us to go outside). And I discovered that Micah had snuck behind my chair and emptied his dirty clothes basket. Once he had emptied the basked, which he had done many times before, he climbed right in & began to ham it up for the camera (which he had never done before). So therefore, being a first time mommy I had to catch some cute shots. I hope you enjoy!!

Micah makes mischeif

can you resist that smile?

look at those eyes

isn't he precious?!