update

Kirk and David, my kids LOVED the jib jab movies! Thanks for the entertainment, and I'm glad you had a good trip, Kirk and Cherrie.

We had such a great time seeing all of you this summer. It was very hard to come back. We love you all so very much and miss being around family. Please feel free to come visit us in North Dakota any time. We actually fixed the hole in our wall, and have a stove that works great. So you could even come when it's cold if you wish. (Ha! Like that would ever happen!)

Mom and Dad came up to visit and wow! They are fantastic! Not only did they drive all the way to be with us, which is hard enough, they also helped fix so many things, helping with all kinds of projects! Thanks mom and dad! And they were there to support me in my first ever marathon race! (Sounds like a great accomplishment, but really I was on a relay team and only ran 4 miles. But that was great for me!)

Also, I was going to call everyone, but thought I might as well just post it on the blog, we are expecting another little person in our home around the end of April or beginning of May. We are not going to find out what we are having this time, as that seemed to be of no use last time. However, we are assuming it will be another boy.

TRIP TO SEATTLE

I had to go to Seattle for training at work, and Cherrie wanted to come with me, so I arranged for us to go out there a few days early.
First I must thank Mom and Dad for generously offering to watch the kids while we went.
We had a good time and Devin got us a hotel with a deep discount thanks to his having access to hotels and being on the inside of the business. At first I wondered how it would all work out, since the hotel we opted to reserve was across the puget sound from downtown seattle. We stayed in Port Orchard, and it turned out to be wonderful (the first picture is just straight out about 30 yards from our hotel room door). The hotel was a five minute walk from a small ferry that brought us across the little bay to Bremerton where there was a much larger ferry that took us into downtown. (see 2nd picture of us leaving downtown on the ferry) It was alot of fun and really affordable to ride the ferry into downtown, where, upon arrival we were walking distance to all the fun stuff, like the Pike Place Market and the Seattle Aquarium. The Buses were very convinient so we took buses around too. Then after three days in port orchard, the company I was training at sent a car to pick us up at the ferry terminal and we transfered to a hotel in Redmond on the Microsoft campus. The company took us around to the sites too and so they brought us to a Native American Dance thing on Tillicum village Island State Park, and to the Space needle. It was alot of fun because I also got to have dinner with our cousin Rick, and we sat around and told stories and got to know each other a bit better. Cherrie put a bunch of pictures on our blog too if you want to see more.


KIRK