Sunday, August 24, 2008

Lake Quinault Vacation



We all joined the Wilkerson-Everett-Ramerman-Riley clan on a vacation to the west side of the Olympic Peninsula - August 9th - 11th. The trip was in celebration of Duane and Kathryn's 2th wedding anniversary. We had a wonderful time, the houses were right on the water. We kayaked, snorkelled, hiked, spent great times with family, and had wonderful food. We had so much fun that we're going to try to make it a regular outing.

The weather gave us some beautiful sunshine dispersed throughout the typical drizzly temperate rainforest climate. On the hike in the Olympic National Forest, we saw some huge old-growth Sitka Spruce and Western Red Cedar trees. They were beautiful. As usual, Leopold slept through most of the hike in his carrier - this time with Grandpa Duane. Leopold was spoiled hanging out with all the aunts, uncles, and cousins. He's still a few months behind the crawlers - Davis and Lael - but he'll be keeping up with them by Christmas!

Leopold had plenty of great quality time with Grandpa - see the pics below.

This is fun Grandpa!

Leopold is very serious about slobbering all over Grandpa's knee.









Beautiful pictures of Lake Quinault taken by Uncle Garret.


Anthony skipping rocks on the Lake.

Cynthia and Leopold at the Lake - mommy is fascinating!

Sweet sleeping boy in his fancy outfit with the diaper peaking through.

Grandpa is very entertaining!





Catching up on Family and Friend Visits

This post is long overdue. Check out the pics below of Leopold's visitors from the first 2 months. We had such a great time with all the visitors!!

Fussy Leopold meets Great Grandpa Stewart at the State Park in Easton.



Great Uncle Hal meets Leopold during a Father's Day visit on his motorcycle.

Great Grandpa Wilkerson holds the newest member of the family.
Great Grandma Wilkerson imparting her wisdom to Leopold.

Can I keep him Great Aunt Cathy asks?? No, but you can hold him anytime. :-)


Abuela Jane with a sleeping baby Leopold at the beginning of July.



Auntie Pow Pow learns to sooth the baby boy - it was REALLY hot that weekend. Notice his receding hairline!! His head was growing forward, but it took the hair a bit to catch up, but as you'll see in later photos, it has started filling back in.



Uncle David cradles Leopold as he shows off how he can hold up his head at 5 weeks!



Great Aunt Sue hold the sweet baby boy and never wants to let go.