Our Staycation with Peps and Archie

Day 1:
Westport

Day 2:
Twin Falls

Day 3:
Scuba Diving at Redondo with Dive Master Mike

Barbecue at Alki


Day 4: Sunday
Relax, games, good food, church, ext.

Day 5: Seattle
Pikes Place
and
The Ballard Locks
(But I don't have those pictures yet)

What fun! Thanks again for coming to visit us Pepper and Archie! We miss you.

Happy Halloween From the Fingamingo and the Skunk

After loading the kids into the car to run some errands today, I ran back in the house to get something that I had forgotten (surprise surprise). When I got back in the car

Olivia said,

"Mom, I yelled at Warner"

Me- "Why did you yell at Warner Olivia?"

In her sad/verging on angry voice she said:

"BECAUSE, I want Pepper and Archie to visit me again!"

Me -"I agree Liv I agree"

Stay tuned for photos of our wonderful and fun-packed week together soon to come.

Sunday Suprise from the World Travelers

At 5:30pm yesterday I received a very exciting phone call. "Jess, this is Liz. We decided to get bumped on our flight home from Paris, and we are in Seattle for the night, how far away from the airport do you live?" I think I may have seriously scared her with my excitement. I think the words "I'm fifteen minutes away we will be right there!!" came out of my mouth faster than you could say "uncle". So my brother Isaac, wife Liz, and two cute kids Sarah and Josh got picked up and brought to the Brown household for Sunday dinner.

They were just flying in from a two week trip to London, where they visited my parents, and also traveled around Europe, visiting Germany and France at the tail end of their trip.
As luck would have it, it was also Isaac's birthday. So we got to all sing the Paxman round of Happy Birthday songs to him while he blew out his tea light and thought of what he wanted to wish for on his 38th birthday. I couldn't believe how good the bunch of them looked and sounded considering they had been awake for 23 hours and counting.

We enjoyed a wonderful visit with the Paxman's and tried to hold on to them as long as we could but after a few hours the travel and jet lag kicked in and it was time for them to go get some sleep.
Amazingly Isaac was able to peel the kids off of my couches and we drove them back to their hotel room to sleep until 4:00 am when they would get on their final flight home.
Sleep well Paxmans. It was fun seeing you.

When I'm all out of Words. . .

Our New Running Stroller. . . dun na na naaaaa

As Warner grew bigger and heavier, the whole pushing Liv/carrying Warner for a morning power walk got really old, really fast. So. . . after lots of painful waiting we finally found this gem of a running stroller on craigslist, and its wonderful. Its a bike trailer/running stroller, and let me tell you, it is much easier on me back. I ran my first run with the kids in it a few days ago and it was great. If I had four thumbs I would give it four thumbs up, but I only have two so I'll just give it two.

The kids seem to like it too. Especially Warner who usuall falls asleep amazingly enough.

So, I'm thinking about running a 10k in November with my cousins and I was really excited about it until I found out that it is actually a trail run, with steep inclines and such. I'm really scared now and don't know if I can do it, because I'm use to running the flats down in the valley. Have any of you out there ran trail runs before? Are they super hard? (And if you're one of those crazies that has actually ran a marathon don't comment, because if you tell me its easy, I might not believe you) :).