Seattle Trip

So as promised, here are some pictures from our fabulous trip to Seattle this past weekend.

It was Emma's 1st trip there!

We enjoyed a little nap, and there is no better way to nap on a plane, then in 1st class!!! Thanks to Doug's amazing cousin Jeff for the upgrade.

After we landed we headed out to visit Doug's Aunt Tess.

And Emma met her Great Grandma Rosemary (Doug's dad's mom).

4 Generations

Crawled around and enjoyed being the center of attention.

Ate like a big girl at the table.

Licked the plate clean!

Played at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Picked some blackberries with Lauren and Val.

Only in Washington can you walk to the corner and pick some berries... yummy!

Took some baths with the Lauren.

Watched Play House Disney with Lauren.

Looked adorable drinking a bottle.

Had lunch with Great Grandpa Bob, Great Grandma Margaret, Uncle Mike, Aunt Cindy, the Kok's and the folks.

Went on the Redhook Brewery tour... the best $1 ever spent.

I highly recommend this if you ever happen to be in Woodinville.

Enjoyed lots of beer for that $1.

Had a little BBQ with everyone from lunch, plus Ryan, Megan and Hadley.

Rode Benny's quad, and loved it.

Emma even pushed the button on her own as soon as she sat down on it.

That is our girl, she knows exactly what to do on a quad.

I know what we can get her for Christmas ;)

Played on the playground with the cousins.

Sat and chatted with Aunt Cindy.

Tried to take a cousin pick, minus Hadley.

Take 2, minus Ben.

And flew home enjoying a carrot in 1st class, once again thanks Jeff!

We had ourselves a perfect trip to Seattle.

It was so much fun to spend time with family and to see Emma hanging out with her big cousins.

Thanks to all of our Seattle family for being such great hosts!

Seattle...

So I am being a bit of a tease, we just got back from Seattle and I promise to post pictures soon. Just not tonight, because boy I am beat, and to top it off I think i caught a little cold. :(

32 and a funny do!

Here is a cute little picture of Emma's sweaty hairdo.

Her hair is finally getting a little longer, which makes me so excited for barrettes.

Our little girl loves to peak out of the crib every morning when she wakes up.

If you look closely, you can see her two teeth.

So cute! :)

The poor thing has been having a terrible time the past few days with her teeth. I hope that they start to feel better soon.

Happy 32 weeks!

Congratulations Adam Joseph Canfield

On Saturday, we celebrated Adam Joseph Canfield's baptism.

Here he is (in the middle, in daddy's arms) with the Goncalves family. It was so nice that Steve and Dorene, with their three girls, flew in from North Carolina to participate as Adam's God Parents. We know that they'll do a great job.

Here is Emma hanging out with her friend Jillian on the grass at the after-party. We were so suprised that Emma tolerated the grass because she usually doesn't let you put her down on it.

Here is Melissa sitting at a table just her size :)

Welcome to the world Baby David!

David Elias Prieto Jr.

Friday August 14th

12:28 pm

6 lbs. 15 oz.

18 inches

My cousin Cris and her family welcomed their newest little addition, and I do mean little.

Everything about this guys is so little, but maybe that is because I have a volley ball player for a daughter, so it makes him seem tiny.

I had big David sneak our camera in to the nursery to take a few pictures.

Here is a sweet picture of Uncle visiting Cris after the surgery.

Everything went well with the c-section and both Cris and David Jr. are doing wonderfully.

We were all spying on the little guy in the nursery.

This afternoon we made a little trip back down to the hospital to see everyone.

This little guy is adorable.

I think he has more hair than any baby I have ever seen. And not just on his head, he is hairy every where, it is kinda cute.

Emma was really curious to meet her new little cousin.

Here is the happy family!

Cris, David Jr., big sister Anyssa and David

31 Weeks... and all grown up!

What a big week around here...

Emma is now in her big girl car seat.

Don't worry she is still rear facing, I just want to make sure you all knew we are still being safe.

And so far I love them, she slept so well in it today.

Most kids can stay in their infant seat until they are about a year, but not our giant!!! At 7 months, she is right at the 30 inch max, so it was time to upgrade. This seat goes up to 59 inches, so we figure at the rate she is growing, we've got another 6 months left in this seat, haha. :)

Thank you Kevin for sharing your car seat wisdom with Doug!

A few years back while visiting my cousin Val and her family, Doug caught a glimpse of Lauren's super cool car seat. It was a Recaro, and to those of you that don't know about them, Recaro also makes race car seats. Doug said to me, "when we have a kid, they are going to have one of those."

So apparently Emma is cooler than she even knows, because she now has a super cool car seat too!

She has also become quite the crawler!!!

She still falls over often, but she gets right back up and tries again.

This little kid is persistent!

Here is a little clip of her in action.

We discovered that she loves wrapping paper rolls, so we tried to get her to crawl by showing her wrapping paper, and it worked. Awww, she is girl after my own heart, I too love wrapping paper!

Yay for 31 weeks!

Bye bye bangs. :(

So we finally decided to cut Emma's bangs, or reverse rat tail, what ever you want to call the 6 hairs.

Before

Papa Bob was a bit sad, because he used to style her bangs with a little gel and swirl them into a little curl.

Silly mommy even used some scotch tape to hold the bangs still while I cut them.

I also wanted to make sure that I didn't lose those precious little hairs, because those puppies are going in her scrap book.

Emma did so well, she even decided to brush her incoming teeth with her hair brush.

After!

Pretty darn cute, even without the bangs.

7 Months, that's nuts!

Yikes, Emma turned 7 months on Friday.

I know, I am a little behind, but we have had a busy weekend.

She loves to chew on her shoes, actually she loves to chew on almost everything.

BIG NEWS!!!

Her two bottom teeth just cut, but we are still waiting for them to grow in a little more so that we can get a good picture.

Dinner at the Hodgson Home

Friday night we had dinner at the home of Mr. & Mrs. H. They were out of town so since Tim, Heather and Rachel were house sitting they invited us over for some really yummy chicken burgers. :)

Sweet little Rachel. She is 4 months old.

Jillian and Emma decided that they wanted to try and take each other's pacis. Lucky for us, they were pretty gentle.

But we did learn that Emma is a bit aggressive.

We are in trouble, we have an aggressive giant on our hands. I can just see the parent teacher conferences in our future, where the teacher is telling us our sweet little girl is the ginormous bully of the play ground.

Our little bully in action.

She made Rachel cry, poor thing.

Emma wasn't trying to be mean, but she was just so curious and wanted to play with Rachel.

Jillian and her dada (Jason).

She is way too cute to be a bully.

Look at that, "who me, I didn't do it" face.

We tried to lay the ladies down for a group shot, well it didn't work so well.

Poor Rachel, this time Jillian made her cry.

The next attempt wasn't much better.

Jillian was still attacking Rachel and Emma was trying to crawl away.

Crazy little girls!

We had a fabulous time at dinner and we will have to do it again soon.

Next time we can host, and maybe have another pizza party.

Thank you to the Lewko fam (Jason, Kristyn & Jillian) and thank you to the Hodgson fam (Tim, Heather and Rachel), we couldn't have picked a better way to spend our Friday evening.

30 Weeks!!!

Wow, it's hard to believe that our little girl is already 30 weeks old.

She is learning so much lately and it's so cool to see her try things that we "teach" her. I especially like it when she tries to repeat what you're saying...sort of. We're looking forward to her learning how to crawl soon. Happy Birthday little girl.

Congratulations Cris!

This afternoon we hosted a baby shower for my cousin Cris.

She will be having her son David Jr. by c-section on August 14th.

What a beautiful and happy mommy!

It was a perfect day for a shower, a tiny bit warm, but not too bad.

The spread.

"Showering Cris with love."

Playing a few games.

Opening some gifts.

Me, Cris and Ebit.

The family anxiously awaiting their little guy.

Cris, David and Big Sister Anyssa

A few special thank you shout outs:

Ebit - For being a terrific co-host!!!

Bri - For helping with all of the decorations.

Mom, Caubbie, & Connie - For helping with the food.

All in all it was a great shower.