Weekends at home...

After many weekends away, we are really appreciating our recent weekends at home! We have had visitors (Bob's parents came up the first weekend in August to redeem their Christmas gift from us -- a weekend in Seattle!), attended our second Sounders game (where the Sounders stomped on Landon Donovan, David Beckham and the rest of the LA Galaxy), attended a beautiful wedding (congrats Hillenbrands), attended a baby shower (congrats Annie and Kevin) and gotten a LOT of projects done around the house. 


Beautiful day in Seattle - taking advantage with lunch at Ray's Boathouse :)

More from Ray's Boathouse

Sounders vs. LA Galaxy

All smiles after the win (even if it was like 90 degrees, which for you non-Seattle folk... that is HOT around here!)

Congrats Lisa, Tyler and Conner!

This summer also brought about one of Bob's favorite things... the summer Olympics! For those of you that may not know, Bob has a slight obsession with the Olympics. Despite a nesting wife and prepping the house for a large group of Kehrli visitors, Bob made time to watch team USA compete in everything from swimming to track and fencing (he skipped the synchronized diving and rhythmic gymnastics ;)) He stayed up late and got up early - great training for when baby comes! (You all have my permission to remind him of his ability to operate on little sleep once the baby arrives...)

Bob's two weeks of Olympic viewing made for a very busy week last week as we prepared the house for visitors. Our preparation wasn't just a quick clean, but instead included the painting of a bathroom, painting of the nursery and the assembly of several pieces of furniture. Bob got going on projects as soon as we got home from work each night and delivered on all of his promises (nursery pics coming soon...PROMISE!)

And in case you think my belly isn't getting bigger for some strange reason, below is the photo evidence to prove it! Now into week 35 with new pictures coming soon...

Our new niece!

Two weeks ago today, our third niece, Patrice Charlotte Kehrli, was born in Portland (much to the delight of her big sister Paige!) Now that we are in the NW, we finally got to see an extremely "fresh" Portland Kehrli (as Bob would say) - we met Patrice when she was just two days old! It was so fun to hold a new little baby and get a feel for what's to come our way. We loved meeting Patrice, seeing the joy on Bill and Rhiana's faces (seeing them with just one baby was NUTS!) and spending time with the rest of the family in Portland.

For now, the Kehrli grandchildren count is even - three boys and three girls, but come this fall, lucky number seven (our very own little miss) will skew those numbers once again - this time in favor of the girls :)

Getting some practice with a newborn...

Getting some practice with (and a "massage" from) some monkeys!

While we were in Portland we also got a new car! Kidding, but Bob did convince his dad to take him for a Porsche ride. In the 10+ years Bob and I have been together, I think this is the first time I have ever seen the Porsche out of the garage (and Bob in it!) although John does drive it once a week or so ;)

Looking good at 49 years young!

Our weekend adventure in Portland was topped off by a ride on the Columbia in the Kehrlis boat - the aptly named "claustrophobia." Bob took his first ride on this boat as a two week old baby and its been a great summertime treat ever since! Kenai was a bit unsure about the entire ordeal (the walk down the boat ramp, the heave onto the boat, the ride, etc.) UNTIL we got to a beach with a friend for him to play with! Our "water dog" loves the water - splashing, jumping and running...swimming, however is an entirely different story ;)

Staying put...

After a tour of airports, hotels and some great locales these past few months, we are finally staying put in the great NW for the foreseeable future (and I say that with a smile because its finally summer here -- 80+ this weekend!) Staying put, yes, but sitting around... NEVER!

Our first weekend at home came with fresh faces to our new place and we loved showing them our new digs! Our college friends (and housemates), the Kachmariks, drove over from Montana to spend a week with Dan's parents in Woodinville. Lucky for us, we got to see them not once, but twice! Dinner/drinks on Friday night were followed by breakfast at our house on Saturday morning with their cute boys in tow. And, as an added bonus Bob's college roommate, Mike, started his Alaskan cruise in Seattle the same weekend so we got to see him for all the fun too!

 
The following day we finally saw the Whitfields again after several months of talking about getting together. (Elizabeth Whitfield is our friend Chris' sister and we are lucky enough to live in the same area as she and her husband, Doug -- we have loved getting to know Elizabeth and Doug over the years and are excited to have them in Seattle.) We had a great BBQ dinner, caught up, sang songs with their daughter Sophie (she is hilarious) and met their newest addition, Ries. No pics to speak of for that event, but we took excellent mental pictures.

After weeks of looking, ordering and waiting, we finally started actually receiving pieces of the nursery! Bob picked up the dresser and crib, which is now slowly but surely making its way upstairs. The crib made it up just fine (once we removed it from the box, unassembled), but the dresser is another story. There was lots of measuring, repositioning, packaging removal, more measuring, more repositioning and finally, the consensus that there was no way to get it up our narrow staircase. Bob has been scheming ways to get the dresser in through our window (!) and there was even a question about moving the nursery downstairs (not happening). While we LOVE our home that was built in 1917, it doesn't always love our furniture choices. Who would have thought that a dresser for such a wee little thing could be such a hassle! (Thanks for the help and your patience, Tyler!)

The following weekend we continued our busy-ness in the NW! We spent a day at Bob's company picnic, met up with some LONG time Seattle friends (Alison Easter and Lisa Pillitteri) and headed to a BBQ at the Whitfields to celebrate Doug's most recent triathlon. It was great to spend time with everyone - especially since we got to meet Alison and Ben's little girl, Jaya! Alison and I have known each other since we were babies (she came and visited me in the hospital when I was born and she was two weeks and a day old!) - we went to grade school together (5th - 8th grade), spent summers together, went to high school together and even made our way to Santa Clara together. She is now in Brooklyn, married to a great guy and the mama to an almost one year old little girl. It was great to catch up after too much time away and she got to tell me all about being a mama as we prepare to welcome our own little girl this fall! So much fun.

Promise house pictures are coming... we want to actually have a few rooms to show that are put together :)