The Life and Times of the Kaemingk's: Chelan Time!

When we found ourselves unemployed and in need of a place to live for several months, Matt and I were overwhelmed by the generosity of both sets of our parents. Matt's mom and husband offered us their lovely soon-to-be-retirement home in Lake Chelan for the academic year, and my parents offered their house as well. Because of all the early baby drama, we decided that it was important to have the baby in a hospital that had lots of doctors, specialists, resources, etc. and opted to do the birthing in Yakima rather than Chelan's tiny little hospital. So, we are now FOUR WEEKS from our due date (hurray!!!!) and have just moved back into my parents house in Yakima to await the arrival of our little guy, have our weekly appointments, and get Calvin all adjusted to a new place. We'll stay for a few weeks after the baby too for all the extra help!

However, since late August we have been enjoying the quiet and beauty of Matt's parents extra home in Chelan. It's a beautiful house, beautiful scenery and a very sweet, quiet town to spend some time in. After LA and Amsterdam, the quiet of a small, somewhat country-like setting was a welcome change. We LOVED the time we had there as a little family to reconnect, get work done, spend time together, and just enjoy each other. After little man is born, we'll head back up for the winter months.

But here are some photos from the last six weeks or so ...

Donna and Gary started a huge, wonderful garden this year that we have been the happy beneficiaries of. Here's Calvin, sporting his ginormous zucchini.

Good times reading "Go Dog, Go" with Uncle Andy.

Picking strawberries! I should mention that Calvin LOVES the garden. He thinks it is his garden, has learned what ALL the plants are, and loves to spend time each day roaming through and checking on his vegetables. It's very sweet.

Dinner one evening - all from the garden!

Calvin is getting so big and independent and fun ... here he is sporting Matt's shoes.

And mowing the lawn! It takes a good 2-3 hours to do the entire lawn and shockingly, Calvin will sit still and ride along with Matt that whole time.

Nothing better than running naked!

Watching the Seahawks :).

We're not really trying to teach Calvin about Halloween, but we are trying to introduce him to the concept of dress up so that he can participate in some Halloween-esque activities in a few weeks. I asked him what animal he would want to dress up as, and he said a puppy and a lion. So I found a costume of each to see which was better. Here he is trying them on ... but the lion won out.