Football Season 2013

I feel like I slept through last football season. I had a newborn, so I kinda did.

But this football season looks much different!

Chris and I went to the Husky home opener ,first game back in new Husky Stadium! Cooper stayed at home with Grandma Mel. 

First game back! We tailgate with the Hurls for every game. The Barkers and the Cahoons are always there too. We all have seats together.

It was a PERFECT day. This is the view from the concourse near our seats. 

The view to the right of our seats.

I am very happy with our seats. We are even under cover! 

Packed house.We beat Boise State. Badly. It was a great way to start the season and break in our new stadium! 

Sundays consist of Seahawks games. Chris goes to most of the home games. We have been watching the away games with our neighbors. Our neighborhood has a fantasy league, so it makes the action even more exciting!

There are loads of kiddos for Cooper to play with.

Blurry photo, but it needed to be documented that Cooper would not let go of the pink stroller (pink bear in tutu included) and Preston rocked the blue purse with cell phone inside. 

We took Cooper to his first Husky game! He did really well :) Considering he is a squirmy one year old, I would call staying through the 3rd quarter a success. The game was a total blow out. The Huskies beat Idaho State 50 something to 0.  

The headphones stayed on most of the time.

He loves Hurl. 

I love this time of year. 

Puyallup Fair

I have lived on the west side of the state now for 11 years (wow!) and I have never attended the Puyallup Fair. So why not share this first experience with my son?

Our little family went on the first day of the fair. The weather forecast called for rain, so it was pretty slow. It ended up staying dry for us the whole time and we missed all the crowds! Win. Win.

He loved walking around (holding our hands) and looking at the animals.

I told him all about my days as a cowgirl...circa 1988. Lead line. Everyone got a ribbon. Even if you fell off. Which I did.

Fair food is something else. They even have fried butter! No I didn't try it, nor do I want to. 

The stroller was really just a cart for us to haul our stuff around. This is how Cooper wanted to get around at the fair. He "walked" the whole time! 

We had a great time! 

1st Hair Cut!

Cooper's doo was getting a little out of control. So a few weeks ago, I took him to a kid's salon at The Crossroads Mall. They were awesome. We will be going back for sure. (kinda spendy, but worth it in my opinion)

Toys are an excellent distraction.

He wasn't so sure about this new chick being all up in his business, but he didn't cry!

Notice the toys still in his little paws. 

Daddy met us there. Trying to get a picture of him looking at the camera smiling is impossible. 

Nice job little man! 

Cooper's 1st Year Video

Our baby is one. More to come in a later post, but I wanted to share this video with you all on this very VERY special day. 

(It should be password protected. The password is: Cooper)

Cooper's First Year from Jacqueline Layton on Vimeo.

I am 30?

I have the best friends. Cliche, I know. But how else can I describe a group of women who have stayed so close through so much? I met (most of) these girls when I was 14. Well technically, I remember Fuller steam rolling me when I was about 12, but that is neither here nor there. Together we survived our teens, boyfriends, broken hearts, college, and the craziness of finding our places in the world. Instead of letting life get in the way of our friendships, life has made our friendships stronger. In the last year alone there has been a beautiful wedding, four little loves born into the world, one parent moved on to heaven, and one parent waved to heaven and became a walking, talking miracle. No matter what we have each other, through the good, the bad, and the real ugly.

To celebrate our friendship entering another decade (we are in our 30s!), we all met in sunny San Diego. It is no small feat to get us all together these days, between babies, boys in our lives, family and career commitments it is damn near impossible to find a date we can all get together. But the stars aligned and we all made our way to San Diego in mid August. (We missed Jamie! She had to cancel last minute!)

I will let the pictures do the talking...

(FYI- the pics are COMPLETELY out of order. It was too much work to get them in order. We spent time at the beach, an evening at Del Mar, and fun nights out on the town.)

It was an amazing weekend. Thank you Chris for taking care of Cooper while I had some much needed friend time. Mike and Jeanne too!