Bowling!

Evan is very demurely standing on the carpet while Matt bowls- so as not to get "bumped by the ball".

He is informing me that "this is Satur-en" on the carpet square. Of course.... "and Neptune is blue. It is very cold. Merc-ry is very hot and has deserts, we will have to wear shoes."

check out Evan's bowling skills! He's almost as good as the guy in the lane next to us!

Little Linnea

Basking in the afternoon sunshine at Gramma's house:Modeling the lovely new sweater that Aunt Ching Yi gave her... is that a smirk I see?

Sleeping on the deck with Papa Chuck:

Chilling in the early morning with Mom and Evan:
Enjoying the sites on our day trip to Seoul:

Everland w/ C&C

We visited Everland, again, with Chuck and Cheryl, on Monday, August 18th. Cheryl carried Linnea around in the Baby Bjorn- and made friends with the various Korean characters. It was a rainy and blustery day- which was great for keeping the crowds away! Chuck and Evan went on "Flash Pang Pang":We had our run of the place and Evan went on his first amusement park rides. Which included three trips around the racetrack as the "Seahorse Driver." Apparently, there is a charge for this ride, but we played stupid Americans and showed the operator our cute blonde-haired little boy... and then she wouldn't let him OFF the ride. What a charmer!

Raspberry picking

Picking raspberries at Boxx Berry Farm with Pops and Kissy- the berries were HUGE and delicious! Evan managed to eat the raspberry on his pinky before I could snap a picture

Farm fresh strawberries

It was a cloudy and stormy day... thunder and lightening intermittently through the afternoon. And we went strawberry picking! Yeah! The two munchkins took a nap in the backseat of the car while Matt and I picked strawberries in the rain.

Total time: 45 minutes. Total poundage: 69 (pilsung) pounds. Total cost: a few soaked rainjackets and muddy sneakers.

We came home to put the berries in the freezer- all of them had to be destemmed, rinsed and individually frozen on cookie sheets before being placed in 5 gallon tubs in the deep freeze. This should provide us with plenty of strawberries to make strawberry-rhubarb jam next week, and strawberry-raspberry jam in about 3 weeks.

Our little girl!

We welcomed Miss Linnea Hanson into our family on June 24th at 12:10pm. She was 7 lb, 10 oz and 19.5 inches when she arrived. Her proud brother, Evan, was very eager to meet her. She is a happy and healthy little girl. Everyone is home, doing well, and enjoying the mild summer weather in the Pacific Northwest.