Welcome Home Huskies

Back home at Husky Stadium for the season opener. Beautiful stadium and awesome game. We had a great time as always with our tailgate crew and are ready for another fantastic year. Go Dawgs!!!!

No Training Wheels

Ella is my little thinker, she has always done everything on her own time schedule. Although at times we wondered if she would ever want to learn to ride her bike without training wheels, as always she proved that she would do it when she was ready. Third time on her bike without training wheels and she got it down! So proud of my girl and by her smiles I think she is pretty proud of herself too.

Kites Kites Kites

We spent two days in Long Beach, WA for the international kite festival. We went a couple of years ago when Ashley was just a baby and had a great time so we decided it was time to make this journey again. The first day we just spent enjoying the beach and watching all of the kites...pretty amazing there are kites all the way down the beach, some really pretty ones, some very unique ones, and then some kid pleasers...of course Nemo was the girls favorite. Ashley seemed to be pretty tired and fell asleep on the beach so as she napped we relaxed and built sandcastles with Ella. Ella was in heaven, she could have played in the sand all day long. After dinner Ashley spiked a fever and we had to head back to the hotel  she was not a happy camper. Ella and daddy went to ice cream and we watched the sunset from our room....bummer because it was AMAZING and I would have loved to have been on the beach to get a picture that could do it justice. The next day we explored the beach some more, we flew kites, drew in the sand and adventured to a nearby rock formation with some hidden caves. The girls were so excited that we could just drive the Tahoe right on the beach. We didn't get a chance to do everything we wanted in the short time we were there...I guess we have to go back :)

Woodland Park Zoo with Monkeys

We spent the day at the Woodland Park Zoo with my college friend Carrie and her little guy Ben and his baby sister Julia. It was so much fun to go to a different zoo it has been a few years since we ventured up there but I have a feeling we will be going back soon. These three monkeys had a great time!