Vacation!!

The following is a really long picture blog of our trip to Washington. We had a wonderful time, the weather was perfect (highs in the mid 70's), the house we rented was awesome (it was a beach house in a town outside Seattle and sat right on Puget Sound), it was great to visit with all the family that was in town for my cousin's wedding and the kids did awesome with all the traveling!! It was such a great location for a summer vacation that we plan to rent the same house and go back next year!! (NOTE- the pictures are in reverse chronological order, sorry!)

When you looked out the back windows of the house we rented you could got a great view of Mt. Rainier in the distance, on the last day the sky was really clear and the Mt. looked beautiful!!
Bryan's first experience with sand, no so much a fan!!

Emma building sand castles on the beach

Patrick and Juan roasting marshmallows for s'mores, hmmm!!

Haley and Bryan waiting for s'mores!

Emma painting at the children's museum in down town Seattle

Bryan investigating a plastic taco at the children's museum (they had miniature restaurants that the kids could explore and pretend to be working in, Bryan just wanted the taco!)

Emma doing some grocery shopping at the children's museum

Bryan the firefighter, children's museum

Emma the firefighter, children's museum

Both kids sitting inside a whale at the children's museum

The family walking in Seattle (notice the Starbucks in the background- my mom is in heaven when we are in Seattle because it is the home of Starbucks!)

Emma and I on the ferry we took over to downtown Seattle (most everyone else stayed inside the ferry but Emma loved being out on the deck and watching the water and boats that went by)

Emma and Patrick on the ferry

Emma at the wedding reception

Wedding reception- everyone else was outside enjoying cocktails but Emma saw the dance floor when we walked into the reception and she wanted to dance right away!!

The reception was at this beautiful golf course that overlooked the water, it was in one of those big white tents and the back was open so you could see the awesome view!!

The four of us at the wedding reception (no it's not a flying saucer at my head, it's a heat lamp- yes I said heat lamp in the middle of the summer, it got down in the 50's at night)

The happy couple, my cousin Pat and his wife Kelsey!!

Kodak moment while we explored downtown Gig Harbor

Chelsey and Brandon at the rehearsal dinner with sleepy Bryan

Lindsy and Juan at the rehearsal dinner

Me and my sisters at the rehearsal dinner (the dress was Hawaiian attire, thus the flowers in our hair)

Emma with Ryan, Emma was the flowergirl in the wedding and Ryan was the ring bearer- the two got along great!!

The four of us in the matching outfits I made

The deer that hung out along the road our house was on

I LOVE this picture I took of my dad on the beach!!

Emma loved all the Adirondack chairs they had on the deck

Patrick and Juan found this type of seaweed on the beach that they kept calling "whale sperm" real appropriate when the 3 year old asks "what's sperm" but I guess boys will be boys and I get the feeling it will be a inside joke between the two of them for a long time to come

Patrick and Bryan on the beach

My sister Chelsey and her husband Brandon missed their flight because they had to drive back to their house to get Brandon's wallet (they live two hours from the airport) so Lindsy wrote in the sand on the beach "What's in your wallet?" and poor Brandon suffered through lots of wallet jokes the rest of the weekend!

Patrick and Emma dancing on the beach

Emma checking out the views with the binoculars

The weather was so nice we just left the back doors wide open and the kids played on the deck for hours each day! (no we didn't travel with the exersaucer, my aunt had one that we borrowed)

Emma eating breakfast on the deck

A view of the houses next door

The living room, the windows went all the way around the backside of the house, it was awesome! (Yes, I am feeding Bryan)