To Seattle, Port Ludlow, Iowa, and back to Seattle

Where do I even begin? The past 3 weeks have gone crazy fast and have been filled with lots of family and friends. After our miserable plane situation, we made it to Seattle and started off visiting with family and friends.

Cayden in the airport trying to get some sleep before our flight got cancelled.

We started out at Uncle Shaun and Aunt Courtney's house where Cayden climbed his first flight of stairs and was pumped about it.

The first few days we hung out at my parent's house, went to the Locks with the Fousts, out for lunch with a few different friends, and went to the park. Cayden enjoyed the swing a lot better than his first time and enjoyed going down the slide with mommy.

On Sunday we took off with my entire family to Port Ludlow. This is just a short ferry ride over to the peninsula from Edmonds, WA. We stayed in a awesome house with an awesome view. This house included big screen televisions, a hot tub over looking the water, and let's not forget the sauna. Let's just say that the boys decided to be "men" and stick it out til it was I think 150 degrees before they all almost passed out. That was the end of the sauna after that. We spent four days there relaxing, playing games, golfing (my first time), kayaking, and playing the Wii. It was a great time. While we were there, Cayden got his first tooth! Not very much fun while he was teething but I am glad it finally came through. Not anywhere close to being done with this fun teething stuff.
Wednesday night Evan Michael Foust was born to Luke and Sabrina so on Thursday before we took off for Iowa we went to the hospital to visit. We then headed out for the weekend to see Matthew's Vermeer side of the family. We, of course had bad luck with the planes and ended up being rerouted and getting there much later than planned. It was a good few days of hanging out with Matthew's relatives, some of whom we haven't seen for a long time. Some of them had never met Cayden so that was good too. Derek and Lindsey were willing to house us for a few days as Matthew's parents had his Aunts staying with them. This trip the girls dominated in Rook (go us Lindsey!) to bring back the running score of girls: 3 and boys: 5. We will catch them!

Evan Michael Foust

We came back to Seattle on Sunday and enjoyed hanging out with my family the next few days and getting our family picture. This included one more round of the hat game where the girls only lost by one :(. It was so close! We also made one more stop to see the Foust family.

Matthew left on Tuesday morning to head back to work and his internship. I guess his clients needed him but we missed him all the same. The next four days I spent seeing a lot of my high school friends and visiting people I haven't seen for awhile. It was so nice to be able to catch up with everyone. It made me realize how much I miss everyone over there. During this time Cayden got his second tooth on the bottom middle, tried a teething biscuit, and oh yeah took three steps! Crazy but Cayden has been starting to stand on his own a lot more and I guess he decided that after playing with his friend Alyssa that he wanted to walk. He wants to keep up with her so he secretly practices his skills so that when he sees her next he can show her. Too bad she will always be a few steps ahead of him. Sorry Cayden!

Cayden's first kiss from a girl

Saturday Cayden and I flew home and thank the Lord we had no complications on this flight (maybe I will be able to fly again . . . we will see though!). We have been so blessed with such awesome family and friends. What a great time we shared with each and every one of you! We miss you all!!