The Moose are Loose!

Happy Thanksgiving weekend everyone! I hope your Turkey Day was a good one. We stayed home this year, and had a very low key Holiday. We did get out and about this weekend. The fam traveled to Northwest Trek in Eatonville, WA on Saturday to check out the cool animals, and let the kids run around. Boy, did they ever!

The kids eatin some fruit snacks and taking a break from seeing lots of cool animals.

Beaner enjoying a nice walk in the forest with Daddy!

Josh sitting on the bus and checking out all of the cool animals!



Mommy and the kiddos enjoying a nice Saturday....

The MOOSE are LOOSE!



A Golden Eagle closeup.

Not to be outdone, the Bald Eagle profile closeup.

Enjoy your Holiday shopping everyone, and we'll blog again soon! Happy December!

Josh turns 4! Happy Birthday Bosher!!

Fun times for Josh's 4th Birthday party!


Here's the Star Wars lava cake.



Blowin out his 4 candles!




Eating that yummy cake!



Everybody singing happy birthday....


Posing with the cake. What a stud.




Excitement abounds for the little man.



The birthday boy.


Josh and his cake.



Ashley acting like a ham (as usual).

Can't believe our little boy is already 4. Wow. Happy Birthday J-Dub.

Congrats Obama!

Truly a historic moment in our history. Now let's get this economy rollin!

It's Election Day! Excitement Abounds......

I hope everyone took the time to exercise their right to vote. I know we did.

Ashley has been excited flipping between CNN and NBC to watch the results come in.....



Hope you're all enjoying your Election Day.

Halloween 2008 pictures!

Sorry for the delay in the Halloween pics...I have been pretty sick all weekend. Darn flu! Here's our little Beaner as a sunflower, and the Josh man as Luke Skywalker. The kids had a blast as usual. Now, on to November.......and the Seattle rain......

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Happy Halloween! From our Monsters to yours......have a Spooktacular day!

What a beautiful October Day at Mount Rainier!

We had a great day at Mount Rainier today. The fall color was amazing, and the kids had a blast on their first real hike. The four of us hopped on the Van Trump/Comet Falls trail on the south side of Mount Rainier National Park. It was 1.8 miles basically straight up to Comet Falls (not that great of a falls), and then another 1.8 back to the car. I've included some of our pictures from the hike, and we finished up the day up at the Paradise Visitor Center, and trails leading out from there. Probably the last fall day until Rainier gets buried under a truckload of snow.

Josh, Nicole, and Ashley making their way down the trail.



Josh playing with branches and twigs along the trail




The view from the trail above the Visitor Lodge at Paradise. It was incredible today!



A waterfall along the trailhead that we took today. Very pretty!



Same waterfall with a couple others included from the hike.

Ashley enjoying the ride on Mommy's back on the way down the trail! Daddy carried her all the way up! He's getting old and sore....hahahaha!

Josh and Daddy taking some time on the way down to get some nice pictures!

Mom, Ashley, and Josh enjoying the killer view. Plus, the kids got to eat snow. I'm sure that's all they'll talk about now.

Josh enjoying the beautiful fall colors of Mt. Rainier.

Beans getting the closeup while riding in the backpack. Sweeeet.

Until our next post, hope the weekend went great for everybody!

Sorry for the hiatus

I apologize for not blogging in quite some time. My bad. Sincerely, I do apologize. I hope you all have been well. For the one or two people that actually check this blog, I'm glad you are sticking with us.

Fall has come in the Pacific Northwest. We are getting LOTS of rain. We did have a nice Saturday, and I did get to snap some pictures. So enjoy! Here's some pics of Ashley and Josher....

New Website!

Hi Everyone!

I just rolled out another website! Check out www.pudwellphotography.com for all of the latest landscape, nature, and wildlife pictures by ME!

From now on, www.scottpudwellphotography.com is going to be used for weddings, portraits, candids, and the new website will host all of my landscape and nature photos.

Things are quiet on the homefront. Nicole and I are leaving for Vegas (yeah, baby) on Saturday, and Nicole's parents are coming out to watch the monsters........always good to see grandma and grandpa (or as Josh calls him: Princess Leia).

Have a great Monday night!

Almost Forgot!

A big congratulations to my brother and family for welcoming their newest member to the world. Brayden James was born a couple of weeks ago, and I got to meet the little guy last weekend in Chicago at my Grandma's 85th birthday party.

Here's a couple of pictures to gander at:

Live from Maple Valley, it's Saturday Night!

I thought I would include some pictures from the summer that didn't make the blog or website. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do!



Beaner enjoying bathtime!



The family in Leavenworth, WA. If you haven't been here, it's like being transported into Bavaria (Germany for those that are geographically challenged) and only 3 hours from Seattle!








A lovely Monarch butterfly resting on a flower.

















Josh giving puppy kisses to Cooper

















My favorite picture that I took this summer on my trip to Alaska in August. Here's the road to Wonder Lake in Denali N.P. with Mt. McKinley in the background.

Delay.........

Hey there, blog fans. Sorry I have been on hiatus for awhile. I was back in Chicago for my Grandma's 85th birthday party from last Thursday until yesterday. It really isn't an excuse, but it is what it is. Plus, I had to watch the Packers beat the Vikings for the 5th time in a row, so I really haven't had a lot of time to dedicate to my dear old blog.

Anywho......I promise that I will get some new pics and updates going this week. Just not tomorrow night because I have to coach Josh's first soccer practice. So maybe Wednesday.......stay tuned.

Here's a pic I took of the Chicago theater on Saturday in the Windy City. And another one of my buddy, Steve, who is a rockstar in Rockford, IL. Enjoy the night.

A Whale of a Day!

As some of you know, I am a huge Orca fanatic. Nicole gave me the green light to go on a photography journey with the whales on Sunday. I went on my favorite whale watching boat (and company) http://www.island-adventures.com/. We headed to the southwest side of San Juan Island between Eagle Point and Haro Strait, and our boat met up with many members of J, K, and L pods (the Southern Resident Orca pods of Puget Sound). It was a beautiful day, and a great way to end Labor Day weekend and the summer. If you come to Seattle, this is MUST if you appreciate whales and the beautiful landscape of the San Juan Islands. Anyway, without any further delay, here are some of the pictures:

As the day drew to a close, a couple of orcas decided to wave goodbye. Goodbye to a great summer.

Enjoy your Labor Day everyone. Hopefully, you had the day off. =)