Consider "The Puyallup" done

Fair day today! We had the genius idea to park at Destiny's house (my brother Erik's wife) and save on parking fees. The house just a couple down from hers was making bank charging $10 a car, but the whole street was a "no parking zone" so we got lucky she lives there :)  We walked down in a little sprinkle which was off and on throughout the time we were there. By the end, it was raining pretty hard though. We pretty much just walked around, avoiding the ride and animal areas because i dont really like those lol. When we first came in the little kids were doing that thing where they hold the sheep and try to stay on like rodeos.  Andy says Sawyer is totally going to do that one day. I think it looks barbaric though- you are pulling on the poor sheep's wool and skin and making it run through the mud, only to have your kid thrown off eventually... :(  I'm not into PETA or anything, and pretty much hate animals as a general rule, but things like that (and hunting) bother me so much! I just wish they could live in a giant pasture eating grass and not have to worry about kids tugging on them lol. Anywho, we visited the hobby hall and got our Earthquake Burgers ($25 for a double cheeseburger, fries, and drink which we shared all of them and was more than enough) which is the main reason for going to the fair anyway. I also heard Dierks Bentley singing "sideways" (didnt want to buy tickets to the concert though) which was kind of cool too. Sawyer loved it- he was not sleepy at all and you could tell he was just amused by everything going on. He wouldnt even eat at all most likely because he was over-stimulated; we tried to feed him long after he should have been hungry and he wouldnt even take it. Here are a few pictures:

Sawyer in his stroller

Earthquake Burger

We ran into Natalie and family, and she took our picture- andy's arm muscles are huge as you can see here- lifting all that propane lol.  We are both pretty sweaty because it was so warm and muggy!

Today was also my cousin Kerrie's wedding. It was actually sunny this morning so that was nice. It was on lake tapps on a golf course.

The centerpieces

My cousin's in blue- i had a bad view

Some of the family

The cake

You cannot see it very well unless you look in the trees, but we parked at my Aunt Irene's house since she lives on Lake Tapps and carpooled over to the park w/ my parents, and in the short time we were gone, a spider had built an entire web from our antenna (left) to the corner of the house (right) CRAZY. I felt bad driving away!

Drive-thru etiquette

As a former drive-thru worker at DQ for 3 years in high school, and current customer, i think people need a lesson in drive-thru etiquette :)

People that should not use the drive-thru:
-Diesel truck owners (even if you turn your engine off when you arrive, you make it so the worker can't hear the car in front of you. Plus imagine that noise amplified 400x into the worker's headset- OUCH!)
-People with very large orders. The D-T is like an express lane at the grocery store; People go there for fast service.  Every fast food "doesnt make it until you order it" and very large orders make the people behind you have to wait forever (while running their engines), and the workers' "drive time" go up (causing trouble from corporate usually)
-People that have no clue what they will order (again, the whole express lane thing, i had someone wait 10 minutes at the box before ordering...we have a clock and time to keep it under and one person spending 10 minutes was ridiculous!)
-People with accents.  It is hard enough to understand through the speaker when people are speaking clear english.  Accents make it nearly impossible.
-People with complicated orders.  Again, it is pretty hard to hear through that thing and when you are very specific, details can be lost.

A few more things:
- Dont arrive on your cell phone and when asked for your order say "hold on a sec" to finish  your conversation. They can hear you on the other end talking to your mom, and it is rude to make people (in line, inside) wait for you to finish talking. This happened a lot!
-Dont arrive at the box, then call your family to see what they want, while listing the menu items.  The drive time is going up and people are waiting behind you. Plus it is annoying to hear someone listing the entire menu into your headset lol.
-Dont smoke in the drive through- it is illegal, uncomfortable for the worker getting smoke in their face, and it blows inside to the food!
-If you drop your change, dont expect workers to pull out more from their drawer.  It was your fault, and a lot easier for you to open your door than for workers to go all the way outside and around to pick it up.
-Motorcycles dont trigger the sensor very well. Even if it triggers it in the first place, sometimes even if you are still there it thinks you pulled away sometimes.  Actually, as a former gf of a firefighter, it is a bad idea to ride motorcycles in the first place lol- i would get daily accounts of what body parts he would find mangled and not attached to the body that day from accidents that werent always the motorcyclists fault! (lol safety lesson)
-Dont go up to the window on foot and knock. It scares the crap out of everyone lol

Funny phone pictures

I thought i'd put up a few random pictures i had on my phone.

What does my son and Saturn have in common? Rings! There is a ring of skin going through the middle.

This is Sawyer trying to roll over from back to front.  He even got his head and hips all the way turned, but his arm just wasnt moving so his shoulders were stuck!

Andy's solution to having to carry both the laundry AND Sawyer up the stairs to our room

This is the position he sleeps in.  I always try to put him on his back again, but he immediately goes back to this.

We were washing the bottles and there was a bit of excess foam.

Your problem negatively affects me in the following ways...

Ok, I just had to use a line from "Intervention" :) BTW i was watching Intervention one time and i totally knew a girl on there. I was friends with the addict's sister when i lived in Las Vegas for a year- she was in my sorority. It was pretty funny. I was like "man that looks like Nikki" and then it shows the mom going "NICOLE!", then it showed that they were in Las Vegas. I called my "sister" in LV and she confirmed it.  I thought the girl i knew had some issues but apparently her sister was a bit worse off LOL. Ok ANYWAY....

I was thinking yesterday how someone's small actions can affect you so much, and how some people are just mean inside.  Yesterday i was in traffic and i came around the corner and my lane was blocked off. They say if a lane is blocked off and they have to merge, that cars should go to the end, then take turns to have the most efficient flow of traffic. I did just that (besides the fact that i couldnt merge earlier because i didnt know it was blocked off).  Well it was my turn to go between a car and a truck and i started to pull into the lane when there was a space.  I was halfway into the lane, and the truck behind me just kept going....not letting me in at all. She was exactly next to me!  I looked at her and gave her the "wtf?" look. She just raised her eyebrows as if to say "sorry sucker!"  This was a grown woman (probably at least 50), not a punk teenager.  What causes someone to be so mean? Would she get there any faster because she let ONE car in? No. All she accomplished is making me upset and angry the rest of the day because she ruined my morning.  The worst part was as soon as the blocked off part of the road ended, i pulled into the lane again and turned at the next light, passing her (she was stuck at a red light).  She ruined someones day just to be one car ahead for about 50 feet.  This also applies to people who don't push the door open for the person behind them, but just slip through the open door. You can brighten someone's day by doing such small things that don't inconvenience you at all, or you can make them upset. It just makes me sad that some people are wired to want to bring others down.  My last example is that when people would see we were expecting, they would say things like "enjoy your sleep now" or "you wont get to leave the house again so go out now while you can".  Is that really necessary to say? Cant you just say things like "congratulations, you must be so excited!"  And guess what? Babies can go pretty much anywhere except bars. So far we have gone out to eat MANY times, gone to soccer game, gone to a concert in Eastern WA, gone to 2 weddings, gone away for an overnight at the beach with just the 2 of us, gone to stores at least once a week, and all of andy's indoor games.... and i have got plenty of sleep thank you very much! I got less sleep when i was pregnant because my stomach was so big and i had to empty my squished bladder every hour.  People should do little things like smile at strangers more, let someone out while driving that is waiting (and courtesy wave in return), and hold the door open for the person behind you and i think everyone would just be a lot happier!

Gross Spider

I was wiping off the counter and i found the biggest spider i have ever seen in a house. I don't kill things, but i planned to make my second bug-kill to save Sawyer. I went to squish it and it didnt move. I think it might have been dead already.  I squished it anyway for good measure.  Here's the kicker...it was stuck to a lint roller!  Pretty sure it couldnt escape! I took a picture of it before throwing that piece of roller away.

On a lighter note, Sawyer was super smiley just now while i was writing that so i went to take some pictures....the flash just caused a bunch of funny faces/pictures so here they are :)

Oh and i did a cool edit today that reminds me of kind of dreamy so i'll post that too. I guess today is a mash-up of posts :)

"Just another American Saturday night" with Brad Paisley

We got free tickets to the Brad Paisley/Darius Rucker/Justin Moore concert a couple weeks ago and yesterday was the day. We left at noon and arrived at 3:00. We had to wait in line outside, then wait again inside.  They had the main seating blocked off until "6:00" probably because there were some acts on a smaller stage.  A couple people ran under the rope and chaos ensued so they just let us all in at like 5:30 because they couldnt stop hundreds of people. We found our spot on the hill and waited a few more hours.

These people next to us were smoking. We were trying to fan it away from Sawyer because we knew there was nothing else we could do- it was legal to smoke outside and there was not a square inch of extra space that we could move to.  Some girls behind us yelled at them "they have a baby and the smoke is going into his face" so the old couple started to walk down the hill whenever they had to.  That lasted until the concert started at dark and they stopped leaving so every 5 minutes (yes that often) we had to fan him :( Even though a lot of people around us were making comments like "WE HAVE LUNGS" and "ITS GETTING THE BABY".  It makes me so mad! If you have a dirty habit and either you will have to suffer waiting a while, or 20 people around you have to suffer inhaling cancerous toxins (including a baby) you think people wouldnt be so selfish as to make the 20 people suffer. It is your dirty habit, you can be uncomfortable for a couple hours. Especially because towards the end some punk-looking drunk 20-something year old came next to us and lit up and andy was like "hey i have a baby" and he was like "oh my god, i am so sorry, i didnt see!" and went far away.

That aside, the concert was awesome! The Gorge has always been my favorite venue because of the view.  Sawyer was so good- didnt cry or anything and was only hungry at convenient times.  Justin Moore was good, played the only 3 songs i knew. Darius Rucker was awesome- i didnt expect him to play any of his old Hootie and the Blowfish songs but he did, along with his new country hits.  Brad Paisley was awesome with a cool backstage light up thing going to the music and playing every song i would want to hear.  He even played old songs like "celebrity" and "mud on the tires".  It was definitely worth the  drive, wait, and sore feet (one of my boots was tearing up my feet while the other fit perfect).  We ended up getting home at 3am and i dont know how andy did it because i slept the whole time.

Cowgirl me and Cowboy Sawyer

Laying on the hill

Andy and the pretty view

The sun setting

Outfit close-up

It was a handkerchief-bib

Justin Moore

Not that you can see, but Darius Rucker

YAY finally Brad Paisley!

"I'm so much cooler online"

Sawyer's First Sounders Game

After asking the people that always say to us "when can we watch Sawyer?" if they could watch them, and everyone either working or having other plans, we decided to take Sawyer to his first Sounders game.  He was great :)

I dont think we have ever been this early- check out the empty seats lol:

He got to spend the game in his carrier: