Road Trip!

Yay for the weekend and double yay for long weekends! Brian doesnt have to go to work on Monday so we are going exploring. We are leaving tomorrow morning and heading over to Forks and maybe La Push. (gotta get in those Twilight places :) Then we are heading down the coast. We are just going to stop at anything that looks fun. We are going to go down to Vancouver to make a stop at Bucks pizza. I worked there in high school and have been craving it ever since. We went to one with Brian's parents in Iowa when we were there visiting Mike and Lea. Its SO good. Vancouver in really close to Portland but I'm not adventurous enough to go there. I hate big cities. I hate the traffic. I especially hate big cities when I dont know my way around them. I get all tense and grouchy. Probably best that we dont go to Portland. We will head back Monday. Wish us luck. I hope we survive.

Spoiled

They say you cant spoil a baby but I think Claire is getting very close...

Gdiapers

Thank goodness its the weekend! I count down and usually dance around the house with Claire every Friday. Brian NEVER remembers that it is the weekend. He is always one day behind. Yesterday we went to dinner at the Luster's house. Justin works with Brian. It was fun! They have 4 little girls who were so adorable. Its nice to meet more people. Brian even ate some salmon. Impressive.

Today we went to Port Angeles and got our drivers license changed to Washington. I now have a Louisiana one, two Utah, and Washington. Brian only has a measly Illinois and then Washington. We also got new Washington phone numbers...

Brian: 360-670-3675

Megan: 360-670-9672

Feel free to make the needed changes :)

In other news, I am going to Arkansas at the end of September. I am very excited. The only thing that dampens my excitement (besides leaving my husband) is not knowing how Claire is going to handle the plane. Its 4 1/2 hours to Houston and then 1 1/2 to Little Rock. She does not take a pacifier and she also does not take a bottle. And being all by myself. How do I even go to the bathroom? Oh well. Plenty of people have done it, I just am not one of those who have yet. It's the unknown. I'm quite excited to show off my beautiful baby though. :) And to meet my newest little cousin in Tennessee!

Claire is giggling. She has discovered her new favorite toy---her toes. Sometime she will just sit and just stare at things, drinking everything in. She has such big blue eyes. She is just so solemn sometimes. It makes me wonder what she is thinking. I love her so much that it is just crazy. I cant believe she is getting so big. Sometimes it feels like it is going by SO SLOW (her fussy times) but other times WAY too fast. Way too fast.

We are also thinking about doing Gdiapers. They are not cloth diapers. They flush. Or you can throw them away. Whatever. It only takes something like 50-100 days to disintegrate. We don't really know because they are a tad more expensive than disposables. And we would still use disposables at night because with gdiapers you have to double up. You can see them Here. We shall see.

My mom has cross stitched a design for all of my Aunt Samantha's kids and she has carried the tradition on to me. She got it framed while she was here. It is SO cute! Thanks mom!! I love it!


Claire napping in her Amby Bed. I'm taking it to Arkansas so she will be able to sleep in her own bed. Hopefully that means good nights there too.

She is wearing a 3-6 month onsie. I don't know if you can tell but it so big on her. Not quite ready for that size yet.

After bath time.

Fussy

Claire was super duper fussy today. We left church like 1/2 hour early because she was screaming her head off and nothing we could do would help her. We gave her some gripe water and it seems to have helped.

I really I hadnt posted this last night so I will just add that last night was the worst we have had in weeks....like a serious amount of weeks. Claire woke up so many time! Around 4 I fed her and then decided she wasn't hungry so I was just going to ignore her when she woke up. She woke up twice more after that but went back to sleep by herself. Awful though. Hope she takes a good long nap today to make up for it. :)

Blueberries!

Today Brian and I picked blueberries! We picked 12 lbs! No jam with these though. I am freezing them so we can have blueberry pancakes, blueberry syrup, and blueberry muffins all winter long! There were a TON of them. I may want to go back again and get more. These were $2 a pound. Much better than they are at the store! Claire was pretty good while we were there. I had to nurse her and I am getting much less shy about it :) This old lady came up to me and said how glad she was to see me nursing my baby. haha.

Brian has a calling! He is now the Sequim First Ward Early Morning Seminary Teacher. Whoo hoo! Early morning for him! He is not too much of a early morning person. I think its weak sauce though. I had to go to seminary at 5:30. It's like 6:30 here. He will do so good though. I am excited for him. AND, what I am MOST excited about, they are going to put him on the early shift at work when he starts teaching. He will work from 7:30 to 3:30. AMAZING. I am so excited for that!!

I wonder when/if I will get a calling. I don't think I would mind something in Young Womens. That way there would be someone to hold Claire :) The only thing about that is that I can't control when Claire gets hungry. I try to nurse right before church if I can but sometimes that isn't always possible. I usually nurse during church.

This is Claire's favorite toy so far. She will play with it for a LONG time. Maybe she is going to be a basketball player!

WHY are you putting that thing in my face Mom?


Getting SO excited

Mom loves nap time!
Daddy and Claire

Biggest Loser

Brian and I are doing the Biggest Loser contest until we go to Hawaii for Thanksgiving. If I win I get $100 and 3 weeks of sleeping in Saturdays and Sundays and if Brian wins he gets 4 weeks of sleeping in on the weekend.

High stakes.

VERY high stakes.

Catch up

I am caught up! Check out the last couple of posts!

Living Room

Thanks mom for helping! And dad for setting up the bookshelves!























I loved this picture!






The kitchen.

Seattle Aquarium

Saturday we had to take Brian's mom to the airport. We left in plenty of time but we got caught at the Hood Canal Bridge. A nuclear submarine was passing through. It had a barge on either side of it. A guy told us that they were there just in case someone shot a missile at the submarine. It would hit the barges first. lol. Brian thought it was pretty cool. Kinda like a Tom Clancy novel. (Jack Ryan could totally kick Jack Bauer's behind! Yes, I read them too.) After we left the airport we went to the Seattle Aquarium. Can I just tell you I am SO glad that we do not live in Seattle? I HATE traffic. We met up with Brian's friend Jeff and his fiancee Janae. We ate at Red Robin and then went to the Aquarium. It was nothing compared to the Chattanooga Aquarium. Nothing. It was fun though.

Grandma McEwan

I didn't take too many pictures but it was a lot of fun to have Brian's mom here. We went to Port Angeles and Port Townsend. We walked around the John Wayne Marina and downtown Sequim. We also went to the Olympic Game farm. You drive around and there are animals in cages and out running around. They sell bread that you can give to the animals from your car. Brian about gave me a heart attack because he threw bread in between two big bears and they started fighting. The only thing between them and our car was a measly little fence. I could just picture them turning on us and tearing our car apart. Ugh.

The Cake

While Brian was gone I passed some of the time roaming down the aisles of WalMart. Cake decorating caught my eye along. Rolled fondant intrigued me. I decided I would try my hand at that. It was hard finding time to do that between Claire's naps. I am not at ALL creative and I kinda got bored after a while and just stopped.





Lame huh? It tasted good though.

Claire and Grandma McGrath

Logan got into my mascara

And the winner is....

I just won 5 games of Dominos in a row (thats all we played haha) and one game of rummy-o out of two. (Brian's mom won the second) I retire to bed. :)

Fail

I know, I know, I fail.

But its been busy and I can't find my cord for my camera. When I do there will be a lot of pictures and a few videos up. But know I haven't forgotten.

Brian's mom got here last Friday night late. We have been exploring and its been a lot of fun. We've been to Port Angeles and everywhere in Sequim. We are sad that she has to leave on Saturday.

My aunt had her baby on Wednesday. Zebulun King Martin is exactly 3 months younger than Claire. They will have so much fun playing together! He was 9 lbs 8 oz and 21 1/2 inches! Big baby!! Congrats to them! I'm sure the girls are having so much fun with their little brother!