Will write up a review of our stay at Cave B this weekend, but just HAD to get this photo up of Ashley on top of the cliff at the Columbia River Gorge.
She looks AMAZING!
This photo was taken at the same viewing point off the I90. Someone on Facebook smartly suggested that surely you should “listen out” for, rather than look out for these slippery fiends!
We didn’t come across any…. ;-(
Spotted on Broadway in Capitol Hill……….just in case you were out for a spot of nanny…..too!
Look at the size of this whopping trout I caught while camping at Summit Lake!
AJ’s nearly three years old and it’s nearly as big as he is……….
Just spent an idyllic three days camping down at Summit Lake near Olympia in Washington.
Just got round to posting these photos of the little blighter 4 weeks after our last scan!
Looks like he/she has got my nose. Right little ski-jump! Ashley’s amazing cheek bones too.
Ashley is now 27 weeks pregnant and doing really, really well!
Thumb-sucker like me too!
I’ve been painting nursery furniture and Ashley’s been buying paraphernalia like “strollers” and “diapers”!
Just 3 months to go and counting………tick…….tock…….
As I wrote earlier this week, today was my brother-in-law Andrew’s memorial celebration and board ride on Alki Beach in West Seattle.
Well today being the first sunny Saturday of the year here in Seattle, Ashley, her sister Colleen, baby Julia and I ventured 10 minutes from our house, near the Seattle Arboretum, to check out the Japanese Garden on Lake Washington Boulevard.
Took this photo of the lagoon at Purdy near Gig Harbor on Sunday and posted to my Twitter account.
Got some nice comments from people as far afield as Turkey, and a chap called Srinivas from India asking what camera I took it with.
Spotted this in a store south of Seattle today and nearly barfed!
With nearly 3 months to go till D-Day, I’m starting to immerse myself if baby-land and finding the whole infant scene fascinating. So much choice, so many brands and so damn expensive!
Before we got married I read One Perfect Day by Rebecca Mead. It’s a brilliant book about the daftness of the whole wedding industry.
Wonder if she’s got one about the baby industry in the oven too?!
Might write it myself!
This past Saturday held a first in my life – 1st time ever on a pair of skis!
My brother and sister-in-law – Chason and Aubrey – took me up to the Cabin Creek trail in Snoqualmie and we spent many a calorie trudging through some amazing scenery.
I’m paying for my exertion as I write this, because it really is a total body workout!
The skis are much thinner than downhill ones, and the trail is built with grooves in the snow to make it a little easier, but it’s still hard!
Aubrey giving me a helping hand…
Don’t get cocky or distracted though. I was admiring the scenery a bit too much and managed to perform an involuntary impression of the abdominal snowman!
Me and Chase
What’s amazing is A&C turned up at the house with some chocolate waffles and coffee at about 8.30am, we were on the trail by 10 and back in downtown Seattle by 1pm.
I had no idea the mountains and all this funtivity was so close.
Hoping to get up there next week.
Might be the last time before it all turns to slush…
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