Ride the Ducks

Today we did something really touristy right in our own backyard.

We rode "The Ducks"

-a tour of our beautiful city partially on land and partially by water- and we never left our seats.

Barbie and Jessi were in town (after their exciting Twilight adventure in the town of Forks) so my mom thought this would be something fun to do while they were here. It was fun. A lively tour of Seattle complete with singing, dancing, quacking and Starbucks counting (there are A LOT).

These are the quackers. There was a lot of quacking going on.

One minute you are driving by the waterfront, Safeco, Qwest field, Pioneer Square, Pike Place Market, the hammering man, downtown, and through Fremont and the next thing you know the tour "bus" drives right into Lake Union and you look like this (kind of startling):

 Defiantly a fun Saturday adventure.

Randomly I remembered that THIS is what we did last July 3rd -
how weird... I even mention "The Ducks."
(I thought of it because of the fireworks barge and big Statue of Liberty at Gasworks park).

Camp Out

Me, Kyla, Heidi, Amy, Symantha, Hailey, Addison, Sara, Levi, Landon, and Amy Jo went camping on Tuesday and Wednesday. It wasn't quite real camping- we didn't have to sleep in the great outdoors or use it as our personal bathroom. But by how dirty we were when we got home it felt like real camping. We had a great time at the Edwards Family property. No pictures of the adults on my camera but we too had fun talking and playing games. There might be a part two to this post because I'm sure there were about 600 or 700 photos taken between the three of us.

Heidi wasn't too sure about this camping thing. She was not thrilled when her feet got dirty at the river. She'd rather sit and watch the other kids throw rocks in the water...and cry. She preferred the comfort of the trailer and was actually excited to when bedtime came.

She opted out of the marshmallow roasting...

...Kyla did not.

We hope to do it again.

Wedding Number Three

Wedding Number Three was Saturday. At Suncadia. Drew and Morgan. Another of Casey's many cousins. Sans kids. A beautiful view and a very fun dance party courtesy of my darling Chelsea.

The picture taking opportunities were not as great as the last wedding. The view was spectacular BUT as you can see it was quite windy. I couldn't stand for more then ten seconds without my skirt blowing up. Hard to take pictures and hard to be in them. And I'm sorry but there are no barrel chest poses this time. Sad.

I know I've been talking about my DearLillie Etsy top too much.

Here it is.

Once again, a very fun night with friends. I pretty much laughed for an entire two hours.

backyard fun

Super Kid

Kyla was chosen out of the audience at the library concert today to fly around the room while

this guy, Tim Noah, sang a song about a super kid. She was all smiles. Thanks for this cute picture Lisa.

Later on in the car while we were discussing it she said matter of factly,

"I think that guy picked me because he liked my cute outfit."

Kyla, you make me smile.

Lovin' Lessons

Isn't this the cutest little swim team you've ever seen?

I just got done with my swimming lesson in murky Lake Meridian tonight.

It wasn't quite as cute. Holly? Lisa? Where was the camera?

Today begins an eight day "intensive" sequence of lessons. 

Kyla is an old pro at swimming lessons but this was Heidi (and Pearson's) very first day of real lessons.

 And what better way than to have the other two members of the class be T & A?

These five girls and two teachers!

Kyla is thrilled to be there no matter what the "lesson" entails.

Heidi was smiling the entire time and insisted on a high pony for the event.

Even Harper came to watch (she was NOT impressed).

Maybe tomorrow.

more happy birthdays

It seems as though Heidi's birthday has been going on for quite sometime. It has. This year we decided to opt out of a large party and instead have a big family party and then celebrate with a few of Heidi's "besties". The Monday celebration was to be held at Fairwood (an outdoor pool). If you will recall, yesterday was a cool very cloudy 57 degrees. So Plan B came into effect. The besties met us at our house for goldfish cupcakes (yes those are fish- other guesses were orange turtles and lobsters) and then on to public swim at the local indoor pool. Heidi didn't seem to mind. She was happy to blow out the candles once more and see both of her Addisons at the same time.