Hi-Ho It’s Off to Glacier We Go!

We survived Thanksgiving through the exploding Pyrex dish, broken pipe, piles of snow and the power going out. We were thankful for some very basic things. It was an eventful day, but more on that later.

On Friday we went up to Glacier to surprise Tyler for his birthday. He turned the big 3-0 and, although we weren’t there for the surprise part, he had no idea that we were all meeting up to celebrate him! Joey did a fantastic job coordinating.

Barry and the boys got to dote upon Maggie and the following sequence of pictures is really funny. Keep your eye out for a chubby Pug:

I like the fact that Sydney saw her moment to shine and she moved on in, plus Bahl obviously thinks it is a-okay because he decided to give the two thumbs up.

But Jeff is kind of like that – a two thumbs up type of guy. He ran into Tyler at a gas station randomly shortly before Tyler was to arrive at the cabin to be surprised. Bahl hatched a little white-lie to keep the surprise from being discovered. Two thumbs up, right?  Bahl give two thumbs up to the Huskies, funny pictures, and his sweet, sweet girlfriend, Allison, who was with her family and not at the cabin.

Eventually Maggie started to suggest that it was time to go by yelling in Joe’s face. Thankfully he has to nephews and so he was able to tolerate her screaming. Joe and Claire (not pictured, sadly) are getting hitched in a few weeks and Barry is in their wedding. Claire was wondering if the bridal party should do a fun dance at the wedding. Barry is a mover and a shaker, so I volunteered that he would love, love, love to do a fun dance. I may have gotten dagger eyed from Barry, but I survived.

We left the cabin and headed to the Miller/Rhone compound for a good night’s rest….so great to see some of our very favorite people*.

*Kurbbie, we missed you.

A Lunch Date of Sorts

On Sunday Maggie and I headed to Anacortes to meet up with Kara, Lara, Deneva and Jenni to have lunch at Jenni’s house. It was a delight in every sense of the word to see all my friends. Jenni is my newest friend out of these girls and I became friends with her in 7th grade, although I met her a couple years before that.

Thomas, being the only boy there, got super tired of all the girl talk and decided to take a snoozer on Deneva. I’m pretty sure she almost melted out of love for that guy.

Part of the reason that I love Anacortes so much is that the friends that I made growing up are truly life long. When we all get together, it feels like we’re back to our old ways….rehashing tidbits from our lives. I feel lucky to have a crew of girls that I have known for so long.

Also, thanks for the delicious lunch, Jenni!

Five Days of Friends

The stars aligned this week and Maggie was able to meet up with a different buddy each day. It became very apparent at each of these meetings that Maggie really enjoys grabbing her friends and their colorful clothes.

MONDAY:

Connor came over to play on Monday and he was super sweet to Baby Maggie, as he calls her. Lots of Peek-a-Boo and piles of toys. Connor loves Maggie, but I think he might love Sydney more.

TUESDAY:

Uncle Izak came over and played for a few hours. Maggie enjoyed sitting on his chest and grabbing at his nose. Izak also got to see Maggie try her first banana, yummy!

WEDNESDAY:

Will showed up on Wednesday with monkey shoes on and took Maggie on a lunch date to The Red Twig. Turns out their mothers talk a lot.

THURSDAY:

Thursday united the Thomas, Caroline and Maggie trio. Maggie and Thomas seemed like giants compared to Caroline. At one point Thomas and Maggie fell asleep and Caroline had finally woken up.  Maggie enjoyed taking Thomas’ toys and Thomas enjoyed being grumpy about it.

FRIDAY:

Friday brought Peyton in A-Town at Midge’s. Judging by this picture you’d think that Maggie was exhausted by going to so many get-togethers, but quite the contrary. She was a little gem with Peyton and loved getting into Midge’s measuring cups.