PEPS in the Patch! Lily's 1st Pumpkin Patch!

We decided to take advantage of the great weather and a free weekend to meet our PEPS friends at the Pumpkin Patch! We headed to our family's favorite spot, Craven Farm, in Snohomish. It was very entertaining trying to get all the babies to take pictures together. We will definitely have to go back with the fam and get KK's annual pictures! Here is Rachel's post from last year...we took Lily, but she was just a little bump! She is even cuter now.

Happy Retirement Auntie Theresa!

Aunt Theresa retired after 41 years at Fred Meyer! Never ones to miss a party, we piled Brehms in the car to head down to Portland. We decided to rent a minivan so we could all ride together. We have to admit, it was pretty niiiiice!

 Lily and I cuddled in the back row with lots of room for her giant seat and for me to stretch out. :)

 My view for most of the ride...

 Congrats, Theresa!

 High School Friends

 Married AND Co-Workers for many years!

 Grandpa tells the best stories.

  Lily is thinking that she might someday soon consider crawling. In these pictures she is rocking back and forth. She sometimes rolls over and then looks confused, like "that's not what a meant to do!" It's very exciting...but we are enjoying this time while she sits up and plays with toys...and is not mobile!

Mom, Dad, Aunt Chris and Uncle Chris watched the baby so Rachel and I could go out line dancing for a friends' birthday! Whoo hoo!

 Brunch at Grandma and Grandpa's the next morning.

 We girls entertained ourselves while Mom and Rachel rented the rental car. :) Tutus!

These ones snuck in...this week @ PEPS! The babies are getting so big! One is crawling, and the rest are not far behind. Everyone is stealing each other's toys, getting jealous, and grabbing fistfuls of hair. Things are getting a lot more entertaining with each get together!

First Day of School! and some September stuff

Here we are on our first day of school! We literally left the house at O'dark-thirty.

 FIRST first day of school!

 Big day for all of us. We dropped Lily off at her first day of infant care.

 Lily is off to a great start! The teachers are so great, and she is excited and happy every morning to see her teachers, baby friends, and all the great toys they have there! Sometimes when I pick her up she is strapped into the 4-baby stroller with her friends...too cute! She passes out every day in her carseat on the way home and sleeps for a good hour or two. She must be worn out from so much stimulation and play at school!

 We have been having fun since then. Lily is loving her adventure in solid foods. Recently she has been eating things like grilled zucchini, curry, pickle, and pizza. Yum! She is really getting good at gumming things up. Still no teeth in sight!

 This is Jason's class at the school "Olympics" fundraiser. He's so cute leading his little class in the Opening Ceremonies!

We took Lily to her first regular season Seahawk game! It was a great one, with fantastic weather. Lily loves checking out all the action. She may have been the most photographed person in the CLink...EVERYONE wanted to know about her headphones or take her picture!

 She loved her free flag!

PS:  Here's Jason's classroom tour from the day before the 1st day.  It's been stranded on his phone all month!  Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16uYnzjrj_Q&feature=youtu.be

I'm a featured student!

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Wrapping up the Summer

This week has been CRAZY with both of us setting up classrooms and going to professional development, but we DID manage to sneak in some fun, too!

 On Tuesday, Lily and I went to Remlinger Farms with the Kings on KK's actual birthday. She got to ride ponies, a canoe, a train, an old fashioned car and more! Apparently this is becoming an annual event since we went last year around the same time...it was fun that she is bigger and can go on more things this year! Plus things are always better with your baby cousin along!

 Thursday Night: Seahawks Football! Lily loved the stadium, particularly its many giant screens that she could watch at any time (dangit!). She checked out the new talent on the team, and then slept great through the second half.

 We went to an Open House at Lily's new school! We got to drop in and meet the teachers, who are very sweet and immediately grabbed the babies so they could play together. Here Lily is meeting two new friends. She was so happy and smiled and chatted the entire time. We dropped off some gear and got her all situated for next week. She is going to love watching and playing with the other 8 "Baby Knights" (7 of them have one or more parents that work in the district). Even the babies in our district are "college bound:" the infant program has adopted the University of Hawaii, mostly selected for its mascot, the Rainbows. Too funny! These ladies obviously love love babies and we feel very comfortable leaving Lily in their confident hands.

Lily spent a lot of time hanging out with me in my classroom this week. We were...somewhat...productive. Thank you to Nan for coming with us on Monday so I could actually get some work done!

This baby is sitting up AND eating real food...she's like a real person or something!!

Here we are excited...we are on the ferry to Anderson Island to see Shaina and Jon! It's also the Huskies' home opener, so we had to get decked out. We are such a purple family.

Lily is still working on her W.

 And these guys call themselves Husky fans....

 Yay, Lily finally gets to meet Shaina!! Since they live in LA, we only get to see them a few precious time each year.

 And we enjoyed one last beach day of the summer. We played in the lake and enjoyed a beautiful afternoon and some delicious food before heading home.

 Jason sneaked away early to join some friends for the Husky game. Football season is officially here!