The wind blew off a section of the metal roof! This first picture shows how it flipped over to the other side! (The white is the underside of the metal.)
Matthew went over to help. First they flipped the metal back over, then covered it with a huge tarp. They worked on it till almost 2AM!
This shows the damage to the inside. Water ran down the walls, completely soaked the floor, and even ran through to the rooms below! They have to (I should say GET to! Thanks to State Farm!) replace the livingroom carpet, and the one in Christy's old room, plus their new Tempur Pedic mattress, which is now like a huge sponge completely soaked!
What a thing to come home to! Christy is here now too. 
as an igloo!)
Seattle). We had fun. All the cooking went pretty smoothly, and tasted very good! Sarah and I were the main cooks, and found working it all out with two babies who need nursing and other mommy attentions to be quite a challenge! I decided to start a family tradition this year. I made a Thanksgiving banner which we will add to each year! I had everyone sign it and write 
something they are thankful for. Meadow and Logan made handprint turkeys on it and I will add an iron-on transfer of our group photo. As the years go by it will be fun to see who we gathered with and what they wrote! This idea came to me last night so I was up till 2 AM getting it ready! I'll post a picture of it once I get the picture on. Here's a pic of us making it.
Here's Logan's first time in the snow! He was happy for a while, but then started fussing. I tried to show Meadow how to make a snowman, but she was more interested in taking it apart! As you can see in one of the pictures, she's feeding the stick arm to Bingo who quickly chomped it up! 
We spent the weekend with Christy one last time in Bellevue. Tomorrow she moves in to her new condo in Kent. We had a good time. We went shopping and Matthew got some tools. Matthew and I got to go out on a date again. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory again and had extremely delicious avocado eggrolls. Then we went to see the movie Stranger Than Fiction which was stranger than fiction. Actually it was good. It has Derek Linder's identical twin in it! He's a little smaller than Derek and has different glasses, but if you watch it you'll definitely know who I'm talking about! Anyway we had a nice time. The two pics of Meadow have 
words on them. Click on them to enlarge so you can read what that's about. She was just so cute! She loves her new pink cowgirl boots which she picked out herself! She wears them all the time. How did I end up with such a fashionable daughter?!
Well, here's the picture to verify the first snow, which fell on November 11. I guess that makes my mom the winner.
Not to celebrate Halloween or anything, but recently I was looking through some older photos, and found these creepy old graveyard pictures. The last two have mysterious orbs of light! These orbs aren't in any other photos! My dad took these pictures of an old forgotten graveyard in England. Next to it was a nice graveyard which had the grave of Smith Wiggelsworth.
One of our new favorite places to walk is Ward Lake! Meadow loves looking for signs, and the "broken tree" (the one supposedly hit by lightning, which we are sitting in front of). She runs most of the way! We 
haven't tried going all the way around 
yet, but I'm sure she could do it! Logan loves being outside too! He babbles and squeals the whole time.
Our little boy is 6 months old today!
Logan gets so excited when his daddy comes home from work. Matthew gets the best laughs out of him when they play! He loves to be held and cuddled, and gives very nice hugs and kisses! To get him to sleep he likes having the bathroom fan on, and a cloth over his face. He's a pretty good sleeper. He takes a 2-3 hour nap mid-day, then sleeps from about 9:30-1:30am. After that he always ends up in our bed. I've decided that's ok (as long as he actually sleeps, and doesn't talk or hit daddy) I know it won't last forever.(hopefully!) He's very sweet! I know this is long, but I want to remember him while he's little. Time is going by so fast! 
now the proud owner of her very own 2 bedroom condo unit! It is in Kent which is much closer to where she works. I found these pictures online, and 
I'm not sure if this is her actual unit, but from the description it seems to be. The blue arrow points to the balcony of her 2nd floor apartment. She says there is a little stream next to the lawn that 
you can hear, and it's very peaceful. It has new appliances and new floors. She plans to redo the fireplace because she doesn't like it. She bought it just hours after it was listed for a very good price! She can move in on November 15th.
Finally here's a new post especially for the picture deprived grandparents. We went to the lake to visit the ducks one evening. Meadow threw sticks 
for them. They weren't too interested though! Also the cutest little boy in the whole world happily watched from the comfort of his stroller.
We walked down to Knudsen Cove and had lunch. Meadow enjoyed watching a seagull eat some bread. 
Yup, dad turned 55! We had a birthday party for him with Becky and Sarah & Eric and Eric's brother & family. We ate the traditional applesauce cake. I have a long time tradition of giving him a crab of some sort. This year our gift to him was an aviation documentary set called Wings, but I decorated a 
DVD case with a as a movie called Pinchers. (That's what he's showing in the picture.) Also Logan
windows unblocked.
