Woodland Park Zoo

Quinn had been asking us to go to the zoo for the past week to see the animals, so we took him. Today was an awesome day to be outside. This whole week has been clear skies and sunny. Today was about 85-90 degrees. All the animals were out and very entertaining to watch. They were all active moving around and making sounds.

our little butterfly.

Quinn got to go feed the giraffes.




We got some good shots of the animals today being active.

This is a sloth bear. can you tell?

QUINN'S 3RD BIRTHDAY!

Yesterday we celebrated Quinn's birthday Spiderman style. The party turned out really good with friends and family present. It would have been nice if Matthew, Jack and Quinn's other friends from Provo could have been able to be here to celebrate. Here are some pictures from the party. Christina made the cake and of course we had a pinata. We also played pin the mask on spiderman. Quinn scored a ton of spiderman stuff from posters, costumes, balls, playing cards, baseball bat, stuffed spidy, sunglasses, lunchbox and there might be more that I'm forgetting, but Quinn absolutely loves spiderman. Quinns costume is reversible so we know what mood hes in by which colors he is wearing out.

This is when we know quinn is going to make bad choices.



This is Quinns tough man look. Be afraid! Be very afraid!

Spidy spun his web for Quinns birthday.

Christina made this cake all by herself. Way to go Christina. I think she'll start taking cake orders in the fall.

Ava and Quinn

Sunday was a bitter sweet day. Ava started nursery. Yes she is only 17 months but I talked the nursery leaders into letting her come in early. She is so ready, every Sunday when we drop Quinn off it's hard to get her out of there. Thankfully they have the nursery split for the younger and older kids so Quinn and Ava aren't together until the very end when it's almost time for us to go pick them up. She did a great job for her first time, they only had to bring her to me for the last 20 minutes of church because she was getting tired and wanted her mommy. So I actually got to listen in class which I haven't been able to do in a long time, I only had one month off between Quinn going into nursery and having Ava. I can't believe my baby is getting so big, it makes me so sad, but also happy because she just gets funnier the older she gets, like for example the above picture is the face Ava makes when she sees you point a camera at her, oh the girls hilarious.
And speaking of getting older I can't believe my little Quinny is going to be 3 on Sunday. He is getting so big. This morning I told him that his birthday is on Sunday and that he is going to be turning 3. He is very excited, we haven't told him yet that he is having a Spiderman birthday party, I know once we tell him he won't talk about anything else until his party. We were even able to find a Spiderman pinata because as most of you know it's not a Stevulak party without a pinata, and I am also going to try my hand at a Spiderman cake, we will see how it turns out. Quinn is also one of funniest people that we know, the above picture is of Quinn showing off his big muscles in his cute blue camo underoos. Oh, and Matt told me I forgot to mention Quinn's potty training, it is going very well. He is only wearing a diaper now when he goes to bed at night or if we are going on a long car ride. I got some great pointers from Sarah, we did a pee pee chart that he got to put stickers on every time he went to the bathroom, and he also got a treat which was usually one jelly belly, and then every time he filled up a row on his pee pee chart he got a bigger surprise (like new Spiderman sandals). It helped keep it exciting for him, because it seems to get old real quick especially when he's playing and doesn't want to take the time to go. Yeah Quinny!!

New niece

My newest niece was born this morning at 3:33am. Her name is Xochitl (pronounced Sochill) and she is so cute. We are so excited to add her to our family.

Christinas First Salmon

Christina and Matt went fishing Monday and Tuesday. Matt's sister lives right on the Puget Sound right infront of a salmon hot spot. There were two ways we fished, one was wearing waders and fishing from shore and the other was fishing off a pier. Our preferred method was fishing from shore. We hooked a lot of salmon, but were unfortunate to only land a small percentage of those. The cool thing is that you can fish for four different types of salmon in that one spot, which are pinks, silvers, humpies, and even Kings. Christina wanted to make sure that everyone knew that she caught the biggest fish. GO CHRISTINA! Christinas is the first one and the bottom of the picture.

We had a great time and will heading back to do some more when Matt gets back in town. Christina will probably sneak back down next week to catch some more while Matts gone.

The next day we took the salmon over to Christinas parents house and BBQ the salmon. Yummy. Heres a picture of Quinn and Ava swinging with their Papa at the salmon BBQ.

Point Defiance Zoo

Christina has been slacken on the blog. Last week Christina, the kids and our good friends went to the point defiance zoo. Since I wasn't there it makes it hard to say how exciting it was and what all went on, but I'll have to make it up as I go from the pictures that were taken from the trip. This is how I think the zoo trip went. When everyone got to the zoo and met up, there seemed to be some confusion. Rob was wondering what he got himself into being the only guy in the group. while Kim, who is a trained teacher and I'm sure has been on many of field trips, was trying to figure out how they were going to handle all those kids in such a big place. Quinn was climbing around pretending to be a monkey.

Kim came up with the solution to put all the kids in strollers and strap them down.

Ava loved cruising around in her sweet ride, while she got to check out the wildlife.

The kids were amazed that they were under the ocean playing with ocean mammals. Or maybe Evan was just wishing upon a star. I bet he was wishing that he could be up close and personnel with the Ocean animals.

Evan was thinking that maybe this was closer than he wanted, as Evan and his friends were being eaten. Quinn of course was trying to open his mouth big enough to bite back.

Peter sat shocked and scared that his brother Andrew was being eaten by this massive shark.


Wait! That all must have been a dream. As you can tell everyone was happy to have been there and they all had a great time. But to know the truth you must ask someone who was actually there.