Visitors from Oregon {July 14-15}

My family made a quick trip up to visit us last weekend. My mom (dad is in France working for a few weeks), brother Jake & his family, and sister Jessica & her family all came up on Saturday afternoon. We tried to make the most of the time we had with them and spent a fun day together.

We started out by walking along the waterfront and stopping for Fish & Chips at Ivar’s.

 

The kids all had fun on the little octopus statue outside the aquarium. We made our way up to Pike’s Place, where the highlight for the kids was picking out a little fabric animal that grandma bought for them. Bennett picked a snake – I think because it was orange. He has since said that next time we go there, he wants to get a turtle instead because snakes are scary.

  

The highlight for the adults may have been getting pastries from Le Panier – the French Bakery. Yum. I may not ever be able to go back to Pike’s Place without making a stop there.

  

Stacey’s picture of our little troop of matching strollers (ignore my weird facial expression), and I finally got a picture of the wind-blown umbrella:

  

We drove over to the Seattle Center to see the Space Needle, and the kids had fun playing in the big fountain. We posed for a few family pictures before picking up some pizza and eating it on the grass at Kerry Park as the sunset. It was a great day!

Bennett stayed awake long enough to eat pizza and then said he was tired and collapsed on the blanket – a late Friday night and no nap finally caught up to him.

 

I was hoping we could get a cute family picture from Kerry Park, but Bennett was asleep so I had Stacey take one of just Nate and I.

Except for Jess & Shane, everyone took off after church on Sunday (Jess & Shane left in the late afternoon after we made a quick trip to the Ballard Locks and salmon ladder with them). It was a fun weekend – thanks for coming to visit us!!