Baby Yamada!

We are ecstatic to announce we're expecting our first bundle of joy in late July/early August!

We took 3 tests just to make sure!

The pregnancy cravings and morning sickness have begun, too!

Current cravings: hamburgers, pizza, carbonated drinks.

Foods that cause nausea: boiled eggs, onions, sweets!

Sport and Pikachu

Just like any parents, we have tons of pictures of our babies. We got Pikachu, the bunny, first in June 2006. Then in August, we added Sport to the family.

Sporty and Piki have grown up with each other, so they think they're the same species

Garrett's attempts at potty training Sport

Sport's first toy, his monkey.

Pika sneaking up on Sport while he's napping

Playing in the apartment

Yes, Sport has clothes. This is his santa hat and snowman jacket.

Pika checking out Sport's "crib". She liked it a lot!

Sport's favorite position to get tummy rubs.

Garrett believes in equal love, so he bought Pika a harness so he could walk her.

Sport loves to lie in the sun, when it's out.

Sport's friend, Max, when we went camping together. Max is Sport's idol! He follows him everywhere!

While cleaning up, we stacked our blankets up and Sport thought it was a comfy place to nap.

Pikachu tore up the potty pad under her cage! It was stuck in her mouth!

Sport and his toys!

Hypnotizing Pika!

Sporty and Pika playing in her cage.

Kyle thought it was funny to block Sport. Poor buddy!

Sport LOVES the laser pointer! He will stare at it for hours.

Sport and Roxy playing tug-of-war with his toys.

Sport refused to jump out of the laundry basket.

What we've been up to in 2007

We moved into our new house in January!

Sporty enjoyed the snow (and mommy's company) during our bad winter storms!

Poor Kyle and Garrett still had to drive to work!

February: Annual trip to Whistler, BC

April: Tulip Festival at Skagit County, WA

April: FINISHED our first half marathon
Whidbey Island, WA

Housewarming

Garrett worked on the yard in the spring; look at the killer weeds!

May: Went to watch Lisa and the UH Women's Golf team at Regionals in

St. George, UT. Of course went to Las Vegas too!

Joy and Shawn's wedding in June

Enjoyed visiting family and friends in the summer.
Also eagerly awaiting the arrival of two babies!

July: Sporty welcomes a new friend, Roxy! (Joy and Shawn's husky)Enjoy the Miyamoto family's visit

A week after the Miyamotos, the Carvalho girls visit us! Yah for visitors!

Celebrating Garrett's 26th birthday in September

Enjoying the Mariners with Joy and Trisha.

(Note: notice how we won't ask the boys to take our picture again! They don't know how to center photos!)

October: Lynn's parents, grandparents, and aunt and uncle came to visit us during their intersession. We enjoyed taking them around WA, especially to the casino!

Went to the Issaquah Salmon Festival with Lynn's family. The two ducks in the picture were getting attacked by the spawning salmon!

Helping Marina and Chester with their hundreds of wedding invites!
Even the boys were allowed to help!

Sporty gets neutered and has to be a "cone head" for 2 weeks!

November: We celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary!The Miyamoto girls worked hard on such a beautiful and yummy cake! Thank you!

Met Chaz boy for the first time! Met Chaelia girl for the first time! Rysee and Naty love their Uncle Garrett!