We Hope

Every time she gets the chance she plays on the piano. We would love for her to learn when the time comes. A piano is an amazing instrument to learn. I think if you can play the piano and read music you can play almost any instrument. We look forward to getting her in lessons as soon as she is able!

Cora’s First Camping Trip

We went out with our friends the Rubens to go camping out by Yasaka Dam this weekend. It was a beautiful day. We played in the water, cooked hotdogs, ate watermelon and had a great time during the day. It was a beautiful campsite and area but Peter called it, sleeping in a tent was not all it was cracked up to be. Cora only slept a couple of hours and then woke up miserable. After a while of trying to get her back to sleep we decided to head home. So Peter drove us home and then went back out to the campsite so he could pack up when the sun rose. Camping with a baby is much different than the camping I was used to. Cora was just not having it. But it was a great day trip. I’d go back in heartbeat!

Heading to the dam

The campsite

the view of the river from our campsite

The stairs down to the river

Naked Cora in the water!

My little nature baby

     

Getting messy eating some watermelon.

The men cooking dinner

A final picture before the night “ended”.

Ring ring…

A church friend is a photographer and she took some photos of the kiddos playing in the nursery. So I got free professional photos. I like free! I’ll have to get her to do some pictures and actually pay her though! She is good! I like her style! Thanks Connie McClain!

 

Summer Fun

The weather and water are finally warm enough for us to get some time in the pool. Not too much beats being in the water on a hot summer day! Peter would probably beg to differ. He got super sunburned. His shoulders are one big blister. Poor thing. Cora and I got lucky. No sunburns here. Just memories of the soggy bottom!

We haven’t invested in little swimmer diapers yet. Until then she gets the water soaked diaper. Daaaaaang girl. You got some Junk in the trunk! :)

A Gyuta Birthday

It was Peter’s birthday this past Friday. We celebrated 25 big years with dinner and a movie. We went to a place called Gyuta. It is a Korean bbq place. I’ve had several post on places like this. It’s so darn good.

The outside.

Quick snapshot of us. Peter is happy. PROMISE. He just hates that I take pictures of EVERYTHING.

The sauces that are key to the bbq flavor. And on the right you see a brown and white button thing. This folks is the genius system that the Japanese have in a lot of restaurants. When you need service, you ring a bell. They live you alone otherwise. I give this the Leah approval.

So many choices to choose from, juicy small intestins, much fat large intestine, rumen (not sure), omasum (not sure), much iron liver, resistance to the teeth is good aorta, mix organ, esophagus, asksen (not sure), or big bowels. Mmmm…

We went with the recommended regular beef and short ribs.

We cook it up ourselves. Half the fun in my opinion.

salad and miso soup.

yummy beef bowl.

Different flavors of ice cream for dessert. Their unique flavor would be green tea or green tea with cream. It is actualy tasty at this place but I’ve had some out in town that tasted like what you would imagine green tea ice cream to taste like…plus a putrid fishy taste. YUCK.

Sending out a happy birthday wish to you Peter. I love you. I hope you have a fabulous 25th year or 26th year…confusing….anyways… fabulous!

What a mess!

Every time Cora takes a bath she has to throw everything out of the tub. It is a fun little game she likes to play.

Dear Cora-

Your year and a half mark was a couple of days back. Oh how time flies when you are having fun. You girlfriend…are a lot of fun. You brighten my day and even when you are getting in trouble I can’t help but turn my head (so you can’t see me) and laugh. The newest cute thing you do is tickling. Tickling us, tickling yourself and you don’t just tickle you make the noises too….tickle tickle tickle….you are too adorable!

Love- mommy