Spring is HERE!

We have been having some amazing weather around these parts. This past saturday was projected to be around 70. And since Garrett was out of town, I decided to pack a picnic and head over to this place

The kids and I took the car on to the ferry and spent 35 minutes going across the sound. They LOVED it, to say the least. They all piled onto the front seat while we were in the parking lot waiting to board.

The kids just smiled all day. We really had a great time! I want to do it again this weekend it was so much fun!
We locked the car and went to the upper deck to get a better view of the scenery. The kids wanted the ferry to go faster, too bad that didn't happen!


We spent the whole day collecting rocks and shells, throwing things into the ocean and just playing. We got a few skinned knees and some sand in our shoes, but it was SO.MUCH.FUN!

Here are some misc. St. Patty's day pics. Our cute boy Brady eating his green french pancakes!
Sophie loves to help cook. No matter what it is she's helping! Just like her dad used to be at that age!

Eating green french pancakes (or crepes at someone else's house). The kids weren't sure at first, but then they decided they are their favorite. We'll probably have to color them green every time from now on.

And here we are spending some time at the UW Huskies home course. The kids can usually only last about a half hour and then they want to do something else. Lucky for them it started raining after only 10 minutes.


We are having so much fun and doing so many fun things. Life here in the Northwest is amazing. We have some really fun things planned for the next couple of months too.

And we are always, always working on our home. We have been knee deep in sheetrock and mud and insulation around here. And hopefully in the next couple of weeks we'll be able to show you done pictures of our attic playroom. (Which i CANNOT for!)

If anyone wants to come and visit...we will welcome you with open arms! How could you not love these three kids? Before we all know it, they will be all grown up.

Our Busy Life

We have been super busy lately...not a great excuse for the lack of blogging, but that's reality. So here is a picture-loaded post with all of our happenings from the past month. We have also had the best weather too. 60+ during the days and sunny too. My tulips are blooming already. We have been to the park, the zoo, the lake, gymnastics meets, the golf center at UW and many other things. Enjoy!

Daddy and the kids at Rattlesnake Lake. A short 15 minute drive from our home to the most gorgeous setting. The kids could have thrown rocks in the lake all day...and the dog could have dug them up all day too! We posted some pics of Bitty for Grandma Annie and Grandpa in Spain. Bitty is doing great and here is proof!





Bitty in the water! Grace LOVES her too!

Since Garrett works at UW we can get into a lot of the sporting events for free. So last weekend we packed up the kids and headed to the gymnastics meet. We got dinner and ate in the Golf Center on campus and the kids played and ran and played and ran and played some more. We could only get them to sit still for 5 minutes of the meet, then they wanted more golf time!
Brady LOVES Dr. Pepper. I hate to admit that I gave my 18 month old pop, but hey, no harm once in a while. I rarely get pop too, so if mom can have a treat, then so can Brady, right?!?!
Little Miss Sophie...always the sassy one!
The cute girls! We just love these two!

Here is a rare glimpse of me...i'm usually the picture taker, hence not very many pictures of me. Garrett got a new pair of glasses too and they look very stylish. Quite handsome if you ask me!

Brady is getting his eye teeth right now and last monday he had a fever all day. So the lady at the store gave him a balloon. He sat on this chair sucking on his binkie and got super sad when he lost the balloon to the ceiling. He's such a crazy kid.

Here we are working on Grace's valentine's for her preschool class. The girls thought it was great to glue on the eyes! I thought they turned out awesome!

We have had many great days full of sun and have walked to the park a lot. Just some fun shots of the kids having a blast! They love the park and would play all day. It's so great that we can walk to two parks from our house and have probably 10 more within a couple of miles.


And as if we're not busy enough playing, we are still working on our house. Garrett and I built this great handrail ourselves. We actually copied Hillary and Rob's. Thanks for the great idea guys! Then we stained it and a couple of weeks ago a good friend helped us hang it. Then we passed our final inspection shortly after...SO GREAT!!! WE aren't totally done with the house though. Still have some window trim and baseboards to put on, but we're getting so close. Stay tuned too, because we are fixing up one of our attic rooms into a great playroom for the kids. That is happening in the next couple of weeks. There is never a dull moment around here.

Birds

We have had the best spring weather here in Seattle lately...my tulips are already blooming! That is crazy considering it's not even March yet. Since is has been so nice, we took the kids to the zoo this past weekend. We found this amazing bird sanctuary that we never knew was there. You just pick up a feed stick and wait to see if you can get one to land on it. Grace was a little scared, but LOVED it! These were taken with our phone since I left the camera at home that day.

And I have a million pics to post of all of our fun times...but that will be for tomorrow...I have the Olympics to watch tonight!

Happy Birthday Sophie!

Wishing the sweetest 3 year old in the whole world a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
We had a friend party yesterday for lunch. We did homemade pizzas, tinkerbell skirts, and yummy chocolate cupcakes. Her special cake will be eaten on Monday night. So it's like a birthday weekend!
The cute girls: Grace, Madelyn, Cami, Ava, Sophie and Lucy.