Life in Washington

I just wanted to post a few pictures of what we've been doing these last few weeks in our new home here in Tri-Cities, WA. (Yes, I put our location. It's too much of a pain to avoid saying it and it's so obvious anyway-right?). It's been a great couple of weeks and we're having fun discovering and exploring our new surroundings. There has also been this new energy with our family, which I'm kinda likin'! Jon comes home everday so happy and full of energy and eager to play with me and Isaac. With his last job he was more grumpy than happy and it was super annoying! :) Me...I'm waking up earlier in the mornings full of energy too and the first thing I want to do is open all the blinds in the apartment because I actually have sunlight! (my last apartment was a dark, dank hole). Isaac's transition has been great. He wants to go swimming everyday and along with that we've discovered lots of different parks, taken lots of walks, ridden bikes, and just yesterday we signed him up for soccer which he's SO excited about. Two nights ago he told Jon and I, "I'm glad we moved here". I'm glad we made this big leap too. I hope it only gets better.
Here are a couple of pictures of the big beautiful windows in our place. Just humor me okay? I don't have a house and so I have to celebrate what I do get in apartment life! Anyway, our apartment is kind of weird. You walk in the front door and you immediately have to walk up this split staircase to get up to the main floor of the apartment. I don't mind because with it I get these huge tall windows (there's another one to the left-you just can't see it in this picture)

Yeah...don't mind that this is such a dark picture. It's been very overcast these last couple of days. We have those little open archways there that I like, but I have horrible visions of Isaac peeking too far over the edge and falling down to the bottom of the stairs. It would be quite a fall. I put the plant there to deter him, but now I have visions of me walking down the stairs and that plant being knocked off and landing on my head.

Isaac playing at the playground in the complex. It's been so great to have something like this nearby. The first time I took him down to play he had his light saber with him. The Force must have alerted the other nearby Jedi's because out of nowhere came six little boys carrying light sabers and ready for a battle. Isaac was a little taken back at first, but it didn't take long for him to kick some serious Dark Side butt.
The playground in the complex and Isaac's scary face.


We've been doing a lot of this lately.We discovered this bird sanctuary thing and so yesterday I took Isaac out to feed the geese. We were completely swamped by a ton of geese/ducks/pidgeons. It was a lot of fun. I think we might have to make this a weekly thing.
Don't mind the ugly truck/garbage can background. We didn't even get a chance to walk very far from the car before a million geese waddled to us at full force. Do you see the babies? (p.s. That is not my truck)


Throwing rocks in the Columbia River. I've decided I could live anywhere if it had a river running through it, or some body of water nearby.

This little creature kept swimming up to say hello. We couldn't figure out what he was though-river otter or beaver.
The other night we had dinner with Jon's partner and his family. It was great for us all to finally meet each other. On the way home we got a little lost, but we ended up by the river and couldn't resist stopping the car and getting out to admire the lights on the bridge and the beautiful calm Columbia. Then we hung out for a bit and once again threw rocks in the river. I guess that's becoming a new family favorite. Aren't my guys so cute?