WA Trip in May

We drove to WA for a quick week trip to visit family and friends while the kids were off track.

Beach-combing at Auntie Jenny's (while she and uncle were out of the country)

My collector

Jaydon takes after G-pa, hitting rocks on the beach

Going out for ice cream!

Getting to see Brenna and Caedan!

Spending some time with Bob and Mary

Lucy lost a tooth! She wrote the toothfairy a note and even got a response.

AZ Trip #3

The last day in AZ took us to a family brunch at my sister's house where the cousins got to play, a Mariners game in Peoria, and then we started the drive home to CA. It was a great, quick trip but we crammed a lot in!

Lucy rode a horse while waiting for our food at a late pit stop.

Go M's! The bummer was that we had two kids with low fevers and one kid who had been rocking a decent cold so no one felt great and the sun was hot. We didn't last the whole game and poor Jaydon - two times we have made it to an M's spring training game and it is two times he has been sick and not able to really enjoy it!

The three kids getting ready for another two days of 6-8 hrs in the car. They do really well.

We recreated a cousin photo from March of 2016. We didn't do outfits or anything but enjoyed getting the kids lined up on the couch in a similar way.

Throwback - the pic taken in 2016.

Visit to WA

With the kids year round school and having from Dec 21st to Feb 4th off of school I decided a trip to WA was in order. We left on Jan 3rd (when Jeremy had to head back to work) and then got back home on Jan 22nd so we enjoyed close to three weeks of vacation. The kids traveled really well and we had a few different stops built in and a hotel stay each night. Then we got a chance to visit with a lot of family and friends for our stay! It was so fun to see everyone and hang out and bonus - I got to teach at my old school for 6 days while Grandma and Gram had kid duty so it felt like a true vacation for me too. We were bummed Dad had to stay and work but it is a busy time. I didn't get very many pics of all the things we did, too busy having too much fun!

Our first hotel night on the way up. (I forgot swimsuits so we had to run out and grab some)

 First stop, Auntie Jenny's. Unfortunately our Seahawks lost but we still had fun cheering for our team.

 Blurry pics of the cheering cousisn

A canoe ride with Uncle

Some quiet relaxing time

We made it back to 'our' side right in time to see the twins get dedicated at church!

Arriving at Grandma's enjoying the bed!

Kate was 'helping' Gram read her new book. Telling all kinds of made up stories about the pictures she saw.

If you look carefully you can see Kate wrote her numbers 1-10 on the chalkboard

Gram and Lucy would enjoy morning yoga time.

So blessed to visit old neighbors Bob and Mary (the girls even got to have a sleep over there)

Lucy enjoyed visiting with the dogs at Bob and Mary's

Kate was quite decked out for a trip to the Lamb's house.

 More morning yoga, Kate joined in this time.

Our pool on the trip home (way nicer than the way up)!

At a friends house playing in the band!

So many incredible memories, if it wasn't so hard for me to teach a traditional schedule while kids were year round schedule I could do this forever and enjoy vacations in off times like Jan, May and Oct. We truly enjoyed ourselves and survived very well for the long car ride both ways.