Some cute ones of Ike

Here are some latest pix of Ike. He is 9 months and counting, I can't believe he is that old already. The crazy kid is a crawling fool and I think he will be walking in no time. He already walks along the furniture and lunges from coach to whatever is near. He loves going up the stairs and then diving headfirst to the bottom. He has discovered how a dog door works and lets just say what could have turned out a disaster some how was just a great adventure for Ike. I unfortunatly didn't get a picture of his adventure to the great outdoors. You forget to snap those things when your child is sitting on the frozen patio after escaping the warm indoors. The other thing he loves is to attack the camera whenever it comes out so the majority of the pictures are close ups and contain drool. Just one of those things only a mother can love and will spare sharing the real drooly pictures. 

We had our friends Patti and Issaia come visit us from Seattle this past weekend and we had a freaking blast. We had a chance to go out to dinner just adults and let me just say that was much needed. We also had fun tubing up in Garden Valley, ID and that was a ton of fun. Patti and I were a bit nervous at first but soon realized that the 6 inches of mud in the parking lot was avoidable with a little quick move in the parking lot, the inbred sleeveless worker wasn't as scary as he looked, and the slopes weren't as brutal as they looked. Well the Uggs didn't make it, we were very soar the next day, and Matt of course hurt something, was the hero of the day, and has some cougar that would do him in a heartbeat. It is hard to beat tubing and beers, but later that night was a great game of Apples to Apples, drinks, cigars, and Sex and the City movie. It was a great weekend and can't wait until they come back for their next visit. Here are some pix from our fun weekend.