a fun trip to seattle (part one)

we left last wednesday night after parent teacher conferences for my brother's house

half way to seattle to spend the night

i realized my 13 year old nephew, seth, is now taller than me

by quite a bit

dang it!

 we enjoyed the pretty view thursday morning as we made it the rest of the way to seattle

 our first stop was ikea where we got to shop with just henry while everyone else played

then we went to lunch with my sisters at the kent azteca (classic!)

 it was so fun to see them!

after lunch we headed downtown to pike place

i bought the girls some princess crowns which hazel later cried about 

we decided to leave our stroller at home to save trunk space

so i wore henry in the wrap and michael wore eleanor in the ergo

which was great but somehow made our large family more of a spectacle than it is with the stroller

 we got my mom some pretty flowers

 we looked out at the big wheel

 and watched the cheese being made for a minute

 olive requested visiting the gum wall so we bought some gum and headed down

 it was a gorgeous day in seattle

followed by more driving to my parents house

 friday morning we woke up at my parents house and the kids got introduced to life on the farm

they all love their dogs (even hazel!) and noah helped empty the compost bin

 olive is such an animal lover

 my mom and i spent all of friday morning cooking

while noah and olive played outside

and my dad and michael took the other three kids to run errands

 thursday afternoon we had the olsons and great grandma shirley over for lunch

 henry still loves his grandpa olson

 and made sure to show all his grandparents how busy he is

 my parents gave each of the kids 2 dollars to spend at the joyce store

so we all went over there after lunch

 then we all went to salt creek

the kids loved the deer (especially henry)

 playing with their new boomerangs

 we asked a nice lady to take our picture

 when we got back the grandmas took the kids up to feed the animals

it was such a nice day spent together with all the grandparents

it's really nice our parents live close to each other and get along so well