Celebrating With Family ~ Part I

Kaden had a healthy dose of family last weekend! We were unexpectantly surprised when Joel's dad called on a Wednesday night and announced they were coming up for the weekend! Yippee!! But we had already made plans to head up to Seattle for a big "One Month Party." (I know he's 8 weeks now, but who's counting.)

Any way so we changed our plans because Joel's parents don't get up to Portland that often and plus he had convinced Joel's cousins from the Bay Area to take a trek up and visit Kaden and the rest of the To Family in Portland.

On Friday morning the To clan made their way to Portland to start the weekend of fun. It was so great to see the cousins. It has been almost 3 years since we had seen Lam, Seon,  Brandon and Hannah.   The kids are so big and so bright. They are a blast to hang out with. 

We went to lunch at one of our favorite Vietnamese eateries ~ Pho Hung. (that's a tip for all of you that ask what a good Viet place to eat is) We filled our stomachs and then went over to AT & Thu's (Joel's middle sister's) We figured the kids could see their crazy cousins and play hard there and we were right!!

A water war seemed to break out while we were visiting... It didn't become North against South like you may have thought. I became everyone against Little Nathan! I know it sounds mean, but most of the time Nathan ask for it when he declares all out war on anyone who comes close to him yelling "Naa naa naa naa... You Can't Get Me!"

We wished we could stay longer but we did have a party to get to in Seattle. So after an afternoon of playing and hanging out with Joel's side of the family we jumped into the Honda Fit and drove up to Seattle to begin the party with Lisa's side. Stay tuned for Part II.