Woodland Zoo - Seattle

The Woodland Zoo was extremely nice, much better than Hoogle Zoo, although I can't imagine that a zoo could be any worse than Hoogle Zoo. There were so many animals to see and their cages that they had the animals in were hug.e and they looked as though they were really in their own habitate. It was still a little sad seeing the animals caged up like that.. I try not to think about that while going through a zoo otherwise I become all depressed about the poor animals stuck in the cages.. Anyway - We saw a lot of stuff in a short amount of time, it was perfect, sunny weather, but the way that they have the zoo laid out, you were alway in the shade and it was like walking through a jungle in a lot of the parts. I would highly recommend visiting this zoo, lots of exotic birds and reptiles and animals of all kinds.

Alki Beach, Washington with Yury, Caryn, Levi, Isabelle, Emma, and baby Jack

We made it to Washington!! An extremely long drive but we made it. The first thing on the agenda was to check out Alki Beach which allows you to view the Seattle Skyline. Caryn made us some yummy Chicken salad and we had a picnic on the beach. I was an overcast day but it was still extremely pretty and the atmosphere in this part of Washington was rather, laid back, hippy style. Here is Levi driving his remote control car around in the rocks. What a handsome guy!

Baby Jack (top, with Caryn and bottom, with Yury) is the cutest little boy! He has the a really sweet temperment and would never really cry.. he would just do these soft cries when he got hungry or tired. Not that he doesn't scream or bawl I'm sure, but he was extremely good and calm while we were there. But then again, we are used to the screaming at the top of her lungs, most needy thing on the planet, baby Scarlett :)

Here was our view of the city. It was getting pretty dark with the cloud cover even though it wasn't that early.

Here's sweet Isabelle and Yury behind her looking out at the city skyline. Yury was telling us about the ferries that shuttle people back and forth from all the different islands and various cities as well as the huge loading boats that they use to ship the big crates with.

From this picture you can tell that the downtown portion of Seattle actually sites a little ways from the Space Needle, which I didn't know. The Space Needle is the third largest building in Seattle.. But when it was built, in 1962 it was the largest building on the West Coast.

I wish that these crabs would've been alive. They were actually dead and just had washed up on the shore. We also found jellyfish caps and Emma and Isabelle were able to catch alive jellyfish simply by scooping up some of the waves that hit the shore line!! you could barely see that they were there.. It was like looking and little tiny pulsating dots in the form of a circle. I've included a picture below.

Hermiston Oregon - Hi Grandpa Pat, we miss you!!

We traveled through Hermiston Oregon to visit Andy's dad's house and to see how his house looked now and to reflect on his life. It has been a little over a year since his passing and it's really sad to think that our kids will never get to know their Grandpa Pat. Good thing we have some good stories for them and we were able to get to know Pat when we were able to visit with each other. He was such a warm hearted, kind man. WE MISS YOU!! I thought that these sunset pictures of Hermiston were so beautiful and they were just a little ways down the road from his house, where there is a clearing. We ate at the diner/bar that he would go to every night and asked the waitresses if they knew him or had talked with him. We weren't able to find anyone that knew him that night, we were looking for some good stories/memories.

Not only can I break dance, I can now ride my bike without training wheels!!!!

Today is the best day ever!! I learned to ride my bike without training wheels!! Because I had ridden my bike so much since I got it, I needed a new back tire. So mom and dad went to different stores to try to find one that would fit my extra small tire.. they don't carry them in the stores I guess, I'm pretty sure that Santa Clause would have been able to find one. But my mom and dad had to order one on the internet and dad promised me that as soon as the tire came in the mail that he would teach me how to ride my bike without training wheels.. I got so excited that I started to bug my mom and dad everyday asking if the tire had come in the mail yet. It finally came and I was so excited. Finally the new tire came and mom put the tire on and then dad started to try to help me ride and get my balance. I was already pretty much balancing on my bike, even with training wheels. I was able to pick it up in about 30 minutes and only fell twice! I am so proud of myself and I'm pretty sure that mom and dad are super excited for me... now all I want to do is ride my sweet red bike around and show everyone how cool I am! This really is the best day ever... oh yeah and I'm 5 now because I know how to ride a bike, so not only did I jump ahead by 2 years, I learned to ride by big boy bike without training wheels.. I'm a pretty cool kid!

My name is Boston and I'm a professional Break dancer!

Mom did my hair pretty cool, I sat in the mirror for about 2 minutes looking at myself and smiling.. then about 10 minutes later I went back to the mirror again to make sure I hadn't messed up my awesome hair.


Here I am acting like I'm so cool! When mom asks me to smile for the camera and show off some of my awesome break dancing moves, I just roll my eyes at her. She is so LAME sometimes, always wanting to take pictures of me doing cool stuff like this. I should start charging her!


Here I am demonstrating my killer floor combo.. I get on all fours and stick my butt in the air.. swing my right leg around and then I end up in the opposite direction that I started out in. I really should enter a competition, I would kill'em with this move! FO SHO!!!


When I get sick of picture I just give mom this gross growling face that makes me look like I'm going to attack her. She usually backs off after I throw this face at her, I think she's a little scared of me.... just the way I want it MWAHAHAHAHA!!!


I got a little tired of break dancing, I really need to work on getting some new moves and new combos... To clear my mind and get my creative juices flowing, I jump on the air climber and go to town... it's a great way to think and burn calories at the same time.. and check out my glut's!! BURN baby BURN!!

I'm a big 6 month old girl!!

I am half-way to being a big 1 year old today!!! I can't believe that I'm 6 months old! It's pretty exciting, when I woke up today I felt bigger! I have been soooo happy today, giggling and laughing and playing with my brother, it's been the best day ever. I can roll all the way over on bellies, I get kinda mad when that happens because mamma makes me work so hard to roll back over onto my back again. I reach for toys that are really really far away and somehow wiggle all the way over to them like an inch worm, on my back and on my belly.

Hanging out, being silly, making memories

This is a combination of pictures from mid May the 11th through the 30th. We were just hanging out, getting ready for the day.

I'm 5 months old today!!

Haha - the face that she's pulling in this picture makes me laugh so hard!

Scarlett turned 5 months old today!! We had a busy day! I got cookie all over myself today and so mamma had to give me tubbies. I love my tubbies and today I made a real big mess all over the floor and the mirror and the counter, there was water everywhere!! After tubbies I had some bottles and then a nap and I didn't wake up too happy, good thing mamma and dadda were there to help me feel better on my 5 month birthday! My big brother Boston was really nice to me today too.. We got to watch some spongebob together and he even gave me loves on mamma and dadda's bed. He's the bestest big brother!