Sophie and Xander's birthday bash

We got invited to Sophie and Xander's awesome birthday bash!  This year they had a petting zoo, bug lesson and of course the yummy cake and snacks.  Jaydon and Lucy had a fabulous time!  It was also super cool because S and X don't ask for presents, they ask for donations to help them supply fresh water to an area in the world that truly needs it, I think for the second year in a row their party was able to build an entire well for a community!  Yeah S and X!

Lucy petting the goat and then the baby wallaby

Both kids getting ready to hold their animals

Jaydon got a black guinea pig to hold

Lucy started with this guinea pig but it was pretty active and didn't want to stay in the blanket so they gave her a fluffy bunny instead.

Gently petting their animals

"cheese"

Then playing on the swings

Watching the bug lesson

Singing "Happy Birthday"

Blowin' out the candles

Lucy and Xander sharing big hugs

Lucy playing with the Madagascar Hissing cockroach!

Happy Birthday Sophie and Xander, we hope you had a great day celebrating.

Our 10th wedding anniversary

Jeremy and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary!  We were planning to do a short weekend trip but t-ball and family vacations and company has caused us to push back our weekend outing.  We will get to it but for our actual anniversary we had some fun time as a family and took the kids out to dinner with us to a new restaurant.  Happy 10th to us!

Meeting Robinson Cano

Jeremy was doing a friend a favor and getting his bat signed at the local signing place. It worked out really well because J and the kids got to take the picture with Cano.  Pretty fun for them.  Lucy was going to stay home with me as it was close to bedtime but as Jeremy was leaving she said she was ready to see her 'best friend Cano' and she was wearing her M's shirt.  How could we refuse to let her go after that.

Olympic Game Farm

On our way home from the Ocean we stopped by the Olympic Game Farm to see the animals.  Some of it is a bit sad to see the small pens and animals, but it is nice to know they are rescued animals.

The kids loved seeing and feeding the animals (whole wheat bread only)

Jaydon fed this guy some bread, he wanted more!

The yaks were determined to get something

Pretty peacock, there were lots of peacocks roaming the fields

Zebra

Love the expressions from Miss Lucy

Both kids were so intrigued

Fun to see the bears

This guy waved to us

Jaydon's favorite tiger

Giving out the last of our bread

Now time for the small petting zoo

Really just some goats in the grass, a little aquarium place, and a reptile room.

La Push visit

The kids and I headed to the ocean with Grandma and Gram for a couple nights.  We had a fun trip and the kids enjoyed playing at the beach.

Starting out on the car trip, both kids slept for a bit of the car trip and handled the few hours in the car really well.

Getting out on the ferry to check out the view

Beautiful - the mountain is out!

Checking out our cabin.  The kids and I shared the loft to sleep.

Gram at the kitchen table, a view down from the loft

Some beach time!

This little stream drains down, seems like it stops but just goes under the rocks and sand and then trickles again into the ocean

Fun washed up trees

Walking to the end of first beach

.Playing with the waves

Running to the other big tree that had washed ashore

Playing in the stump

Jaydon wanted to climb up a certain spot and he was too short so he started to build some rock steps to try climbing up, he didn't quite make it but it was fun to watch his attempts.

We had some bike and playground time.