My friend Angela was in town a couple weeks ago and took some pics of my little guy! I always love her photos, she is very talented! Here are my favorites. Carter #1
Carter #2
Carter #3
Carter #4
Carter #5
Carter #6
After gymnastics on Thursday, my friend Tara brought her 3 kids over to play. Tara and I had fun chatting for hours about football, school, gymnastics, etc. It was another really, nice sunny day with an uncharacteristically warm temp for late Aug (93 degrees). These kids played their little hearts out for 6 hours!! 
Natalie loved the waterslide :) What a big grin! (Natalie and Ava are in the same gymnastics class)
Mr. 007
Ava and Natalie
Ava and Alyssa (Alyssa is on the level 5 team at the gym... doesn't she look like a little gymnast?!?!)
Tara and Carter being entertained by Natalie who was jumping like a frog. Carter thought she was pretty funny, and enjoyed all the attention she gave him.
Eating a pizza dinner. By the smiles on their faces, I'd say it was pretty tasty!
It was still over 80 degrees at 7:30pm, the kids had fun splashing in the pool as it drained.
That's one happy baby
Carter loves his sister!
Ava and Carter... you can tell Ava was playing in the grass all day, her legs were getting blotchy and itchy. Poor girl. Hopefully her baking soda bath, aquaphor, and benedryl did the trick and we don't see a major eczema break out tomorrow.
Wednesday we had our regular playdate group over for a final summer playdate before school starts. The kids, of course, had so much fun, and the weather was perfect! Here are Ava and Wyatt playing on the big toy
Bailey and Peyton playing in the sand box
Case
Kaylee
Wyatt, Ava, and Kaylee
Trenton
Hayden
and Cristian. 
Sunday we went to BHC's Company Picnic. It was a lot of fun meeting the wives of Kyle's co-workers, and the kids had a blast! Here's Kyle with his co-worker Jorge and his wife Brenna.
Eating dinner
chatting and eating dinner
Ava playing ring toss
The kids playing volleyball
Carter playing "roll the ball" with mommy
Cousin Joel and Cami
Carter and Brenna
Ava loved playing with the littlest guy, Eli, who is 3 mo old.
Here's Cristian hanging out with the guys who were having a bocce ball tournament. Cristian enjoys the company of adults just as much as he does kids. 
Most of the BHC kids. When Kyle started working with BHC 3.5 years ago... there were only 3 kids (and 2 of them were ours) Now there are 13 of them and 1 more on the way.
We saw a great game on Monday! Great pitching, great defense, and a couple home runs... all which lead to a Mariner Victory!
This looks exactly like baby 1 year old Cristian. EXACTLY.
Self portrait of myself, Kyle, and Chris Parker
David Cook was at the game, he threw out the first pitch and signed some autographs. I guess he had a concert in Seattle that night.
Carter and Auntie
One of our 2 home runs was hit by this guy.... GRIFFEY!!
There's Cristian and Ava on the BIG SCREEN. Too bad they're turning around to look at themselves. They were so excited.
Ava and her baseball
Close up
Chris teaching her how to throw a knuckle ball. Ava really adores Chris... she asked me the next day if Chris was her Uncle or her cousin :)
The Mariner Moose paid a visit to the Mariners dugout in the top of the 9th inning to help cheer on the Mariners to victory.
Posing with the Moose
As the summer winds down, so does the kids' summer sports seasons. This week will be our last week of both baseball and soccer. Here are some pictures of Cristian at his soccer practice last week.
Cristian takes every sport that he plays very seriously... he works hard, plays hard, and enjoys every minute!!
Carter and Ava being so cute while watching Cristian's soccer practice.
Ava clapping for Cristian's goal!
And Carter clapping for big brother too.
Here's Cristian after his last day of soccer yesterday.
And a cute pic of Ava at gymnastics yesterday too :)
