Monday, April 28, 2008

Dash Point Beach

We are continuing to explore our new city. Our newest adventure was on Saturday at Dash Point Beach in Federal Way (south of us.) The kids dug in the sand, we found clams and TONS of sand dollars. We walked across a section of beach where there were thousands of them. We brought a few home and are letting them dry out (aka murdering them...) so they will turn white.



Alki Beach







A few weeks ago we went to Alki Beach in Seattle with Brandon's parents and sister Heidi. It was beautiful, the weather was perfect - our first nice day since moving here. The view of downtown Seattle was great. I kept thinking that we were seeing the best of both worlds - Gods work on one side and mans work on the other.

We loved having the Bradshaw's here. I think it was a big relief for Dillon to have them come. Since we've moved here he is very concerned with directions. He is constantly asking us if we know the way to 'Heidiho' (Idaho) and if we know the way to Grandmas house and cousins house. He thinks of a new person everyday to ask if we know the way there. He's just getting his bearings:)

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Back to the miniture people





Here are the little ones, sorry for the brief detour away from them. They are way more fun than me:)

Before, During & After


If you are looking to see how beautiful my kids are in this post - sorry, look next time:) this is all me baby!!!

A big thanks to my friend Becca, before we moved she permed my hair so here are the before, during - unfortunately - and after. A very cute little 3 year old was taking the last 2 pictures:) He prefers funny faces so I threw in the silly one for him.












Friday, April 4, 2008

Puget Sound


Saturday was a fairly nice day so we tried to go out to the Sound, it's a few miles from our house. Not a good idea. We were there exactly 18 minutes then we couldn't take it anymore, Brandon & Kenzie had already gone to the car - Dillon and I wanted to jump in the ocean with his rain boots. Not as much fun as we thought on a windy miserably freezing day. We discovered it's much colder by the water:) We tried again yesterday and it was perfect!!! The weather was perfect, the sun was shining and the kids were, well for the most part - happy. Dillon told us his tummy hurt, I asked him a whole bunch of questions about it and he said it hurt cause he was tired of walking so much and he needed to be carried:)


Kenzie was really scared at first and wouldn't even let me put her down - very rare is a desire to be held to this was a nice little cuddle time. She let loose after a while and was running around in no time (with me fearfully chasing two steps behind her!!!)



The kids like saying hi to everyone, that was cute and adorable in Boise but here we are encountering ALL different types of people - some of whom might not like being said hi to by nosy babies - I was wrong though. Even gansta lookin' thugs will smile and say hi to small children inside their space bubble.
Dillon is into making strange faces & poses during pictures, we have very few normal smiles anymore.

Except this cute happy little squinty eyed one:)

On the way home we saw Mt. Rainier - very cool because normally it's way too cloudy to even see the sun and it's shining:)