Trip to Washington

Andy and I got to fly into Portland, Oregon to do some babysitting for my brother who lives in Vancouver, Wa. We got to play mom and dad for a couple days and test out our parenting skills. It was a lot of fun to spend some time with my nephews and see my family! Unfortunately it seems that my family can't get together without getting sick though. By the end of the week we pretty much all had gotten sick. Luckily we didn't get it until we were done baby sitting the boys.

So we flew in Saturday morning, Ily showed us the ropes and then her and Bryan took off! Isaac, 8, and Micah,5, were riding their bikes around and playing with the neighborhood boys, so Andy and I only had to watch Reece. Reece is a pretty calm two year old. He played in the sand box and Bryan hooked up a trailer on the back of his bike so we could all go for bike rides. We soon found out that Reece got very demanding as soon as he sat back there in the trailer! He was ordering Andy where to go and how fast to go. Haha, he is too cute to get mad at though! For dinner on Saturday we went to Melinda's and had pizza and watched a movie.

The rest of the week we had a blast going on bike rides, bowling, played hide and go seek for like two hours, watched movies, went to the zoo and the rose garden and just had a lot of fun playing with each other!

It was still good to see family, even though we were all feeling miserable. After Andy and I left we really missed having the boys around. It definitely is a hard job to have and I really appreciate all those moms and dads out there!