Dylan Weighs In

The last day of our road trip was Thursday. We spent a good part of the day relaxing at Grandpa and Grandma Johnson's house. Here, Dylan and his Grandpa Johnson take a snooze together.

Here, Dylan takes a nap with Mommy.

Mommy and Daddy bought Dylan a new shirt in Portland. Dylan shows it off for the camera.

Dylan had a check up scheduled for noon today.



Dylan went to see Dr. Lester in Everett. The nurse weighed and measured him. He weight 13 pounds and 6 ounces! He was in the 95th percentile for weight. He measured 23 inches, which was in the 90th percentile. Dr. Lester said that everything looked great. Dylan had to get a second hep shot, and he only cried for a few seconds. He was very good!

Portland

Here are more pictures. These are from a photoshoot yesterday.





Above, Dylan is happy that it's dinner time.

To the left, Dylan shows off the third of three outfits that he wore yesterday. He can soil them pretty quickly!
On Tuesday, we relaxed at my parents' house for most of the day. Grandma Johnson watched Dylan while Daddy and Mommy went out shopping for a bit in the afternoon, and later watched him while we went out to dinner. We have been hanging out inside again today, even though the temperature has dropped 40 degrees here since 48 hours ago.

Above, Dylan takes a nap under the covers (while Grandma Johnson sits on the bed with him).

Below, the first picture of the entire family!

Dylan's First Vacation

Our vacation began on Thursday morning when we left for Spokane. We traveled all the way from Marysville to Moses Lake before we needed to stop for Dylan to eat. We then drove straight to Post Falls where we met up with the Soumas family. On Thursday evening, we visited Aunt Melody, Uncle Dick, Aunt Irene, and Danni. We had a great steak dinner at Dick and Melody's. Lynette started to feel sick on the way back to Post Falls, and she later called the Everett Clinic. The doctor on call diagnosed her illness over the phone and called in a prescription to a Couer d'Alene pharmacy.

On Friday, Dylan and I met up with Larry and Heather Trefry for breakfast. Mommy stayed home to get some more time to get better. Daddy and Dylan picked up Mommy and then headed to Glen and Ellen Anderson's house. Daddy shot clay pigeons with his new shot gun, and Mark Anderson and his buddy shot an assault rifle and a British WWII rifle.

We then met up with Nana and Papa at their home. We then all drove up to a buffet lunch on the North end of Spokane. We headed back to Post Falls in the evening so that I could practice basketball with Rob Soumas, his brother-in-law Shane, and his friend Russ for Hoopfest.

On Saturday, I rode with Rob to downtown Spokane for our first 3-on-3 game at 8 AM. Lynette and Jamie later joined us downtown, and we met up with Tim and Brittany. The tournament draws 25,000 players and thousands of spectators. Our team won one game and lost two games, so we were out of the tournament on Saturday evening.

After the tournament, we headed to Larry and Heather's house for a BBQ. We were able to hang out with more of our friends from Spokane, and some of them got to meet Dylan for the first time.

On Sunday morning, we met up with Nana and Papa at Denny's. The meal spanned several hours, partly because of slow service, and partly because Dylan apparently did not like Denny's. He cried the first time and Mommy and Daddy went out to the air-conditioned car to feed him. We returned and Daddy scarfed down the main part of his breakfast before having to take the again-crying Dylan back out to the car.

After breakfast, which didn't finish until past lunch time, we headed up to Bank's Lake/Steamboat Rock near the Grand Coulee Dam. We arrived around 5 PM, and headed into Stealth and Badass's home-on-wheels (a really nice fifth wheel). Unfortunately the air conditioning wasn't working...

So this was the attempted solution to the heat problem. It wasn't working too well, though, because the thermometer showed the temperature inside the fifth wheel to be over 90 degrees.

Dylan slept for a few minutes, but he woke up from being too warm...

So he ended up taking a bath in the fifth wheel shower. He seemed to like it.

Here is a view of Steamboat Rock. We left Monday morning at about 7:15. We made it to Kennewick before Dylan needed to eat. We then made it to Hood River before our next stop, and it was 100 degrees there. We then made it to Hillsboro, OR, where it was even hotter--104 degrees! Gracie and Harley, who have been staying with my parents in Hillsboro, got to meet the new addition to the family for the first time, and they were very intrigued.

Our vacation continues until Thursday. We will keep you posted.

June 21st

Today, Daddy hung out with Dylan for about four hours while Mommy had her hair cut and colored. Later, Mommy hung out with Dylan for the same amount of time while Daddy went and played basketball with some friends. Can you guess who dressed Dylan today?

We leave tomorrow for a roadtrip to Spokane and then Portland. We will keep you posted with the details of our adventure.

The Weekend

On Friday, we headed out to Mutiny Bay on Whidbey Island. We arrived at the ferry terminal in Mukilteo, and we were immediately loaded onto the ferry. After we drove on, the workers closed the gate, and we realized we were the last car that made it on the ferry that trip! We spent most of the afternoon and evening hanging out with Stealth, Badass, Dave, Gayle, and Melissa. Melissa gave us a blanket that she had made for Dylan. We thought that was very sweet of her!

Sunday had several special meanings attached to it. Sunday was our first Wedding Anniversary and was my first Father's Day. I woke up and received a present from Dylan. He bought me a new tennis racket (I'm guessing his Mommy helped him pick it out).

We drove up to Bellingham on Sunday and met at a restaurant at the Bellingham harbor to celebrate Tim's birthday. We discovered that morning that we were able to leave by 10 AM if we got out of bed at 6 AM. Later in the afternoon, we left Dylan with Grandma Helen and headed out to Semiahmoo, the location of our wedding one year earlier. We had a nice dinner there, and then drove along the coast at Birch Bay. We returned home about four hours after we left, and Dylan was sleeping soundly. It was the first time that we had left Dylan, and four hours was about as long as we could stand it.

June 16th

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the day we met! Lynette's co-worker Cindy invited Lynette to meet her, Cindy's husband (and my co-worker) Jason, and me at a restaurant in Lake Stevens. After we all hung out for awhile, Lynette and I headed to Denny's in Everett and talked for hours, into the early morning. And the rest is history!

Today is my parents' 33rd Anniversary. Happy Anniversary!

This week has been quite busy. On Monday, Tim came down from Bellingham and helped me start working on the back yard. I tilled the ground, and then we dug several ditches with a ditch digger. On Tuesday, I picked up a yard of drain rock (thanks for letting me borrow your truck, James!). I did some manual digging to get the ditches dug to my satisfaction, and then filled the bottom with drain rock. I then laid corrugated pipe in the ditches and covered them with more drain rock. On Wednesday, I had the help of Kay and Cherelyn Schander and Pete Shove. We transported 5 yards of topsoil from our driveway into the backyard. The 5 yards wasn't enough, so I had to order more. Later that afternoon, my dad and I transported another 5 yards to the backyard. On Thursday, my dad and I spread peat moss over the topsoil, then rolled out the soil with a yard roller. Today, we had a company hydroseed the prepared portion of the backyard.

Thank you everyone who helped out!

We are now headed out to Mutiny Bay to meet up with Stealth, the Badass, and friends.

Talk to you soon!

Dylan's First Cruise

In this picture, Dylan has just had dinner, and he is feeling pretty happy in his Mommy's arms. Much of his happiness and sadness depends on the fullness of his tummy...

Here, Dylan is letting Daddy know that he is hungry and doesn't want his picture taken until he has had breakfast.

This picture and the next few are from more photo shoots with Daddy.

This weekend, we went up to Bellingham and spent time at Grandma Helen's and Papa Rob's. We celebrated Rob's Birthday and Father's Day since he will be gone on a Harley ride through Utah, Colorado, etc. during those events. On Saturday, we hung out at Amy's garage sale, and then headed south to Seattle. We boarded a 50-passenger boat on Lake Union. The boat was chartered for the graduation party of Jane Anderson. She graduated Saturday from the University of Washington with an engineering degree. Her parents, Glen and Ellen Anderson, threw a great three-hour long party for Jane. I (Dave) used to babysit Jane, and her brother Mark, about 15 years ago.

The cruise, which took us onto Lake Washington past some very extravagant homes, was Dylan's first boat ride. We even had a great view of Bill Gate's mansion, including the security guard on his property that watched us through his binoculars.