Grandma and Grandpa Sauvé visit Kayla

My parents just spent a week in Seattle to see Kayla for the first time – and to visit us as well, I suppose 🙂 I had not seen them since last August when we went crabbing in the Puget Sound, so it has been a long time! Cheryl had an entire list of fix-it tasks all ready by the time dad arrived, and dad immediately started knocking them off one by one (the list was empty by the end of the week), mom spent the week not just cuddling Kayla, but also helping us out around the house all day, every day – we’re definitely grateful for all the help!

Here are some of the first shots of mom and dad (Grandma and Grandpa Sauvé) cuddling Kayla:

Grandma spent untold hours with Kayla lying on her knees as in the picture above. I think that might be one of Kayla’s new favorite positions!

The week was not all spent inside. Although the weather forecast called for rain all week we had sun every day, and we did make good use of it.

Here’s mom trying out the stroller she bought us, on our way to walk along the boardwalk on Lake Washington on a beautiful day:

We stopped for coffee at Cafe Vita up near the local PCC:

Grandma, Grandpa, and Kayla visiting the new Studios on the Microsoft campus:

And, for St. Patrick’s day Kayla wore green, and the grown-ups had Guinness:

We also spent some time over at the University of Washington to see the cherry blossoms:
 

And no visit to Seattle would be complete without eating some quality seafood! We all went to Ray’s Boathouse to savor some of Seattle’s best seafood, from salmon to halibut, we had an amazing lunch! Kayla slept the whole time! Thank you Kayla!

Here are Grandma, Grandpa, and myself at Ray’s (Kayla at my feet):

After Ray’s, it was clearly time to go to Golden Gardens. It was such a beautiful day, the Olympic ranges were out, the sun was shining, and lots of Seattleites were doing their thing (from kite surfing to building sand castles).

Here are Grandma, Grandpa, Kayla, and myself with the Olympic range in the background:

One benefit of having guests is having babysitters so that Cheryl and I can go out to dinner, or do other things that aren’t easy to do with Kayla around. Grandma and Grandpa held the fort for a few nights during the week to let Cheryl and I go out. One night we went out to La Medusa, a Sicilian restaurant in Columbia City, and another night Cheryl came to watch me play in a volleyball tournament (this is the first time Cheryl had seen this team play together). Those nights were much appreciated!

Here’s a picture Cheryl took of our volleyball team:

This week we also had a party to commemorate Henry’s final MBA exam. He’s spent the past 3 years on his MBA at UW while working full time. Clearly that takes a lot of effort, and after his final exam we wanted to do something for him. The cake you see on the right was clearly not baked/decorated by a professional 🙂

A few pics to on the congratulations dinner:

Well, I drove Grandma/Grandpa to the airport early Saturday morning, and they made it home safe and sound. Usually we do a lot more activities outside of the Seattle area, so this is a bit of a different visit for them. I still think they had a good time, and I’m pretty sure they were both pretty impressed with Kayla – she’s the cutest baby we’ve ever seen 🙂

I want to once again thank mom/dad (Grandma and Grandpa Sauvé), for coming to visit Kayla, it was a great help, and we do hope that they are able to make it again in the summer.

Before signing off I want to make sure everyone is keeping up with Kayla’s activities by regularly checking Cheryl’s blog and checking out the latest big upload to Shutterfly. 

Ok, here are a few more pictures of Kayla before signing off 🙂

Until next time!