Knox and Kole are Here

Knox Madsen and Kole Patrick were born on Friday, March 25th at 5:06 and 5:07. If you click on the link, it will take you to pictures of them. http://johnandjodyellinger.shutterfly.com/knoxandkole Also I have decided to start using Shutterfly's Shared Site to post pictures from now on. The website is http://johnandjodyellinger.shutterfly.com/ . You can check it out by yourself or if you would like to get an email (no more than once a week) when we add pictures just let me know your email address and I can add you as a member.

Two Boys!

Baby B 20 Weeks
Baby A 20 Weeks

Baby B Boy

Baby A Boy

Baby A's head laying on Baby B's stomach

We found out yesterday that we are having two boys! We are still in a little shock since we were thinking that we were going to have two girls or one of each, but were not thinking two boys. We are very excited as they will have lots of boy cousins close to their age for them to play with.

Tree Hunting 2010

We continued our tradition with John's family of going out the Vladmir Tree Farm in Sylvania to get our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. John was really excited this year as he had purchased a chain saw to cut down our tree. Unfortunately, he had put the chain on wrong and by the time he fixed it the owner let us know that because of insurance he wasn't allowed to use his chain saw. John was very disappointed, but I am sure he will find something else to use the chainsaw on.

Twins!

Both Babies at 12 Weeks
Baby B's Face 12 Weeks

Baby B 12 Weeks

Baby A 12 Weeks

Baby A's Legs 12 Weeks

Both Babies 7.5 Weeks

We are excited to share with everyone that we are expecting twins this April. Our original due date was May 3rd, but full term for twins is 37 weeks so that puts our due date at April 12th. Besides feeling sick most of the time, everything is looking good and our twins are fraternal. Since I am not working right now the doctor thinks that I most likely won't have to have any bedrest.

Pumpkins

We went down to Spooner Farms in Snohomish to get our pumkins the other day. Luckily for us it was a nice sunny day. We still have yet to carve them.

San Francisco

We went to San Francisco at the beginning of October for one of John's friends wedding. He has known this friend since he was 18 months old and was in the wedding party. We didn't have a lot of time to sight see, but it was a good weekend.

Seattle Aquarium

For my niece's Riley and Petyon's birthday I said that I would take them to the Seattle Aquarium once their new brother Austin was born. So last week we went to the aquarium, then Red Robin's for lunch, and finished off the day with ice cream. They had a lot of fun. They got to see all of the fish, the sea otters and seals, and also get their faces painted.

John's 31st Birthday

Dinner at the Waterfront
Mariners Game

Our view of Mt. Rainier

With John's Parents at Canlis

For John's Birthday we stayed downtown at the W for the weekend. On Saturday, we walked around Seattle and did some shopping at the Nordstrom's Anniversay Sale. John picked out a new watch for his birthday. That night we went to Canlis for dinner with John's parents. We celebrated his and his mom's birthday at dinner. On Sunday, we went to the Mariners game with his whole family. Our seats were great and the Mariners won, but it was really hot out and we didn't have any shade. This last weekend we went out to dinner at the Waterfront with my parents to continue his birthday celebratin.

South Dakota

We went to South Dakota for the Fourth of July. We decided to make it a roadtrip and made stops in Yellowstone, Deadwood, Mt. Rushmore, and Wataga before making it to our final destination in Aberdeen South Dakota. All of John's siblings came and we meet up with John's mom's cousins to celebrate her uncle's birthday. John spent the majority of his summers growing up visiting his grandparents in Wataga so it was great to see the family farm and all of the places where his mom spent her childhood.

Everyone in front of Mary's childhood home
Pat and Mary in front of the church they got married in 40 years later

At Mt. Rushmore

Deadwood, South Dakota
(Wild Bill was shot here in 1876 and Clamamity Jane is buried next him in the city cemetary)

Pepper and Mocha spent most of the car ride sleeping

In Front of Yellowstone Lake

Celebrating Three Years of Marriage

Update

John gave Mocha a Mohawk which fits his personality perfect

John had grown out a beard and when he was shaving it off, he shaved it down to a mustache before it was all gone. Now I have some great blackmail pictures.

John with his sister Jessie and nephew Henry who were in town for Mother's Day

On our way to the Mariners game with John's family

At Lake Washington in Kirkland with our nephew Henry

John playing with our nephews Henry and Brody at Cameron's Birthday Party

John and I with our newest nephew Evan

John's New Love

John has taken up a new hobby this last year and it has reached a new point. He has become a little obsessed with remote control cars and these are not the ones you buy at Target. He decided to buy a new one, which involved building the car from scratch. After taking over my dining room table for the last month, it is done with. According to John, this one will be completely dedicated to racing.

Home Projects

Our vegetable garden.

We thought the flowers in the hanging basket above all died last year, so we were very happy to see flowers growing back.

All done in the bathroom.

Not finish yet, but looks a lot better than it did.

We took down our base about a year ago when we put in our hardwood floors and John finally put it back. The only thing he has left to do is put in the shoe molding - he did do it in the bathroom, so the picture shows what it will look like when it is all done. We also decided to do a vegetable garden this year. John built me a planter and then we planted some corn, green beans, and onions. We planted some strawberries and tomatoes in some pots out back. Because of the nice weather our bulbs are starting to bloom out front and we planted some flowers in the garden beds in the front yard.

Alki

We have been having great weather the last few weeks in Seattle. John and I went with his parents to the home show a couple of weeks ago and then afterwards we headed to Alki to have dinner. We got some great pictures with downtown in the backgrouns.