Did you miss us?

We are back! And the pictures are intact! Way to go circuit city! I just have to upload some recent pictures now!



We are virus free and I just installed Macafee which comes with our comcast service. Who is the dummy in all this... me. Should have loaded this when they offered, but of course I didn't think it was really free. It was. Lesson learned!

What's new?

Well, we have had a busy week and a half. I am worn out, so no energy for pictures yet. We got our computer back and all our pictures are wiped out. Luckily, most of our pictures were saved on various DVD's and memory disc chips. We will be figuring out a better back-up system.

I had a super long site visit last week, so 4 days of working late and not seeing the family. Caden and Justin went camping on Friday with my sister's family and her husband's extended family. It was a great campground with a swimming and picnic area too. Everyone had a good time. Unforturnately, Caden wakes up at 6am, and no one else does. Especially my sister's tent, so we had some discussion about future trips. We will not have our tents next to each other so that the rings and everyone else can sleep in.

When we got back from camping, Caden was being real fussy. He had 2 white marks on his tongue which I thought he maybe bit his tongue. After daycare on Monday, they said he was not himself. The director even said - could be foot & mouth disease. Well we already experienced that last year, so we went straight to the urgent care. It's just a virus. So Caden stayed home with me on Tuesday. Turns out he is also teething. He is drooling like there is no tomorrow. He went through 4 shirts during the day because of all the drool. The teeth aren't here yet, but he is definitely in pain!

Well I hope to take some pictures and post them tonight. Fingers crossed, but don't hold your breath.

Update

So our computer is being fixed, they removed the virus and are now installing our programs again. I am sure it's an awesome process for them, since the last time this happened, our discs(cd-roms) didn't work. Let's hope since we bought this from Circuit city, they can do this a little better than the repair guy last time.

So Caden is saying animal sounds now. He can "neigh...., moo..., woof..., and sssss...."
Also, he can say no and shake his fingers at us. Pretty funny. :)

Weekly update

So far, no news from Circuit city. Not sure if the virus was removed or it's time for a new computer. We will wait & see.

This weekend we are going to go to green bluff and get some fresh berries. We also may go to the splash pad and run through the sprinklers.

My dad was released from his fire duties last night at 4pm. When he finished, he drove up to see all the damage since his job kept him number crunching at the fire Headquarters in a middle school for the last week. He said it was pretty devastating. Some neighbors came out to thank him for his hardwork and taking the time out to do this.

Afterwards, we all had a family dinner at my sister's house. I am hoping she posts the picture of Caden and Charlie sitting in the flintstone car together soon. The boys played very nicely together in the yard. We both laughed about what a difference it was from last year.

You might catch some pics of Caden on the Ring family blog - that's my sister's blog.

Other news on the work front. I just booked a group for July 2013. That's right, I will have booked the first group for the city for 2013. I am waiting for the official paperwork next week, then I get to ring the gong at work to signal to all that I booked something. Pretty fun!

Spokane on fire!

Well, according to the headlines, Spokane is on fire. The reality is that the area south of Spokane, creeping into the city limits is on fire. Lucky for us, we live on the northside of town. Even luckier for Spokane, my dad has been deployed to Spokane to put out the wildfire. It's pretty wild here in town, but luckily we have not been affected. My boss lives in the area on fire, it's his neighborhood that is burning. His house is intact, but his neighbors have not been so lucky.

No pictures as our computer is out of commission. Circuit city is working their magic as we speak. Fingers crossed they can just remove the virus and we are back in business!

Quick update (from work)

I won't be posting for a bit. Our computer got a virus... possibly a worm. What that means is our computer is going down hill fast. I got it right after Pete graduated from Pharmacy college. I believe that was in 2003? Anyways, can't upload pictures at work or anything else, but when the computer is fixed, I will get some additional cruise pictures up, as well as the fourth of july on orcas. Caden was in the parade and we met Christine Gregoire. Busy weekend!

Fingers crossed that Circuit City will be able to fix us right up!

Some cruise pictures

This is us as we are departing Seattle. It was beautiful this day. Actually the only day of sun on the cruise. This was our evacuation drill. This was miserable for Caden since his life jacket was actually a mummy suit. His arms are zipped inside. He screamed the whole time! What a start to the cruise! We just unzipped him and held onto him for the sake of us and everyone around us.
After our day trip to Sitka, Caden fell asleep in the back pack. I asked someone to take our picture. Justin, his mom, sister and others were out on a whale watch cruise - no pictures to show since I had the camera. They did see 1 humpback whale and lots of birds. While we were in Sitka, Caden & I and his great grandparents went shopping. (Great Grandpa waited outside for us) While we were in the 3rd shop, I got a little too close to a display case and Caden reached out to grab the trinkets. Lucky for us, they were wood carvings, and not crystal or it would have been an expensive day in Sitka.
This is just a picture of some scenery from the boat. The mountains were huge!
These are the killer whales I saw while Caden & Justin were napping. I was just sitting on a deck, reading my book when someone says, "I think I see Orca whales. But they are not killer whales. " Don't worry, I let them know that they are killer whales and that they were Orcas. I didn't even have to go on an official wildlife cruise to see this either!

Fun on the cruise ship

This is a snippit of what Caden likes to do - Repetition. He was entertained for about 5 minutes by moving Ashley & Chris's legs around. When you are 1 1/2, anything you can be in charge of for 5 minutes is pretty great. This was while we were waiting to get off the cruise ship. He also will pull your hands to take you somewhere when he wants to show you something. Today he pulled me to the door because he wanted to go outside. We put on our shoes and hit the deck to play with the bubble mower.

This is another video from the last day of the cruise. Caden was running back & forth between the seats and me. Ashley was keeping him entertained while we waited to get off the boat.

1 year old birthday party's

1 year old birthday parties are for the parents. Recently we have been to 2 parties in the last month. The first was for a set of twins (I work with the mom). The little girl twin is tiny, but what made us all laugh was when Caden went over to her and patted her head. He was so gentle, but it was funny because she has more hair than he does. We actually got a picture of it happening below. These are the twins with their cakes. They each had a half sheet cake to destroy!
This last weekend, we went to another birthday party. Caden had lots of fun walking around the back yard. He took swim lessons with the birthday boy and I work with his mom too. Here we are with our party hats on. Amazingly enough, 3 kids have the hats on.
I just thought this was funny. One of the kids had brought the hulk hands. We put them on Caden but he didn't know what was going on. This older boy came chasing me with the hulk hands, I had to let him know I wasn't playing, his dad told him not to punch strangers. Whew!

Caden wearing the hat!

We hit the jackpot!

.... At the garage sale that is. These pictures are actually from a few weeks ago, but show some of the great finds from the garage sales. This picture is actually of Caden eating a snack with the spatula. (not from a garage sale). We found him a shopping cart (free) and 2 bags of plastic fruit for $3. He is actually trying to eat it in this picture...
He is playing with the pop pop popper in this picture. simple toys that don't require batteries! It turns out they do exist. Just want to point out that is pretend cheese and pretend croissant on the ground. we don't let real food go to the ground if we can help it.
Caden is eating a big boy dinner off a plate. Note - spoon in hand!
this is just a typical afternoon, having some juice by the door, watching the dogs.
For anyone that is curious, Caden weighs 25.5 pounds now. He is 17 months old in a week. Today is 1 year since Justin left Arizona. (my 1 year is coming up mid august). Oh yeah, yes jeannette, I will be making multiple posts today after 3 weeks away.....