Happy Birthday Daddy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

To the Bestest Daddy

a girl could EVER ask for!!!!

I LA LU!

This Is Going Viral...

Okay so for our first 

Spring Break since high school,

we journeyed south;

not quite to Cancun, though.

We went to Utah!

And we had a blast.

But I must confess I 

learned something of myself...

I am very very good at

taking pictures of Kale,

but I'm very very bad at

taking pictures of anyone else...

And so, Pattersons beware,

because I am learning from my mistake

and will be taking an 

annoyingly large amount of pictures

of you all the next time 

we see you!

So we started driving at about 8 PM...

the strategy was to drive through the night

while Kale was sleeping,

so as to make the trip as smooth as possible.

And it probably would have worked,

if I hadn't been pulled over

at 1 AM in Boise.

Oops...

I thought I was going 5 over but

I was actually going 15 over.

Luckily, all I got was 

very interesting speech from the lady cop

and then was sent on my way.

Although it was amazing

not to get a ticket,

it wasn't so amazing that it

woke Kale up and he stayed up until 

4:30 AM.

Poor Tyler didn't get a wink of sleep.

But we made it all the same!

And now, the pictures!

Kale loved going down the slide

at the Raff's house.
As you can see, his favorite
way to go down was
head first.
This was the first time he ever
went down a slide on his own,
or up a ladder.
He may or may not have
fallen off the ladder at one point,
but the only witness to that
is sworn to secrecy.
You know who you are....Janie. :)

These kids were having a ball.

Gracie and Sadie were

super cute about 

helping Kale.

And Grandpa was just praying

he would catch Kale every time!

Silly Gracie!

Go Sadie Go!

Barely caught him...

While we were down there,

we went to a park in

Spanish Fork.

This park was the bomb.com!

But it was CRAZY windy!

On the slide again...

I don't know why,

but he insisted on crawling

across the bridge.

Maybe it freaked him out

that it moved.

We also got to 

see our good friends

Clint and Ashley Braithwaite and

their adorable little girl Cambry.

Kale was like,

"Baby!"

And then I was lucky enough

to get to spend some time

with my amazingly wonderful friend,

Brittany Crumback!!

She treated me to dinner and dessert,

which was way nice of her,

and we just caught up

and laughed together.

It was so awesome to get to see her.

I miss her like crazy!

And then we blinked and the week

was over and it was time to go.

We did other things too,

I just didn't take pictures,

because I'm lame.

Or maybe I'm too busy being awesome 

to take pictures...

Anyway, Kale was sad to leave

everyone, but did some

extra good cuddles with 

Grandpa just before we left.

The trip back took a little 

bit longer than the trip down

because we drove all day

instead of all night.

Kale was a champion though.

He even took a driving shift 

so Tyler and I could rest...

And then it was his turn to rest.

And Tyler took us the rest

of the way home.

It was a really great trip
and we were so grateful
that we had the chance
to go down and see everyone.
Thanks to you all for
feeding us and taking time
to hang out with us!

Also, I have more pictures I've taken since
we've been home that I would really like to post
but our computer's memory is full,
so we're working on getting things
backed up and then
more will be coming at ya!

Baby Kisses

Hello Hello!

I know it's not like this everywhere,

but it's spring in Ellensburg!

And I've probably just jinxed 

everything by saying that.

Crap.

Well, anyway, here is an update.

A few weeks ago

my very good friend, Marlee,

came up to Washington

for here little sister's reception

near Spokane.

So, I decided to take

Kale and go see her!

The drive was super easy 

and it was so great to 

see Marlee and her adorable

baby Ivy.

On the drive up we had about

thirty minutes to go when

Kale started to fuss. 

So, I gave him my Sobe bottle

to entertain him.

Ten minutes later I look back

and the bottle is empty,

but when I had handed it to him

it was practically full.

So, Kale knows how to take

caps off of bottles now...

He dumped all over his cute

reception-going clothes,

so that's why he appears to be

in pajamas. 

I had to hold Kale

back from devouring her.

I think Kale really likes her

and Ivy is indifferent.

Like mother like daughter ;)

If these two get married someday,

this picture will be priceless!

 

To celebrate our budding spring 

we went to the park and 

played with sticks and stuff. 

And, of course, I took a bunch of pictures to

 show off how adorable

 my little guy is.

And that was that.

Pretty adorable, right??

Anyway, we're leaving for Utah in

a couple of days, and 

we couldn't be more excited.

And so, in a couple

weeks there should be a post

with an overloaded amount of pictures.

Happy Spring to you!

Please tell me Winter is over!

Howdy Ya'll.

So, a while back it was

super nice outside, 

so Kale and I went to the park...

Just moments after this picture was taken

Kale turfed and caught himself

with his face.

He literally ate gravel.

Poor guy!

But man those were some good cuddles ;)

The next day it was nice again so we went for 

a walk..

This look makes me think of

Kolby,

but it also makes me think of

Kyle.

His poor nose!

Kale absolutely loves the bridge.

More specifically,

he loves to throw things 

off the bridge into the stream.

Over and over and over.

It's adorable.

Except for when he tries to bypass 

the bridge and run down 

the hill into the rocky water.

Goof.

All in all,

it was a really nice walk.

And then tonight,

while I was getting Kale's bath ready,

he pulled a little prank on me...

"What Mom? Didn't you want me to get 

in the bath? I don't

get what I did wrong?"

He's so silly!

And with those blue eyes he 

can get away with just 

about anything.

Happy Birthday Nana!

Hope it was a good one!

Love ya!