Seattle Vacation!

 We went on a vacation! My cousin was getting married in Seattle and my mom decided to make a family vacation out of it so we went with our family and my brother and his little family and my parents and sister as well. We left Tuesday night August 20th after Lee got off work drove half way slept in our suburban at a rest stop then arrived in spokane wednesday morning/afternoon! My moms work is by riverfront park so she took a break and we walked to the big red wagon!

The kids loved chasing the geese more than the slide haha

Thursday (aug 21st) we headed to Seattle my parents drove our suburban and we got to lounge in the back with the kids. we checked into our hotel and swam that night and then Fri the 22nd we went to pikes place market, we rode the Big Wheel that you see in these pictures behind us. and we went to the aquarium :)

This is us on the BigWheel! A view of the sky scraper! the middle picture is a picture of my parents waiting with the stollers we were at the very top and they are above the frog i put in the picture. The restroom sign was at pikes place market..hilarious. 

This was us waiting outside the aquarium and walking around seeing the sights. :) (notice Andy written on the bottom of zeke's shoes? He might just be a little obsessed with toy story and asked me to do that for him lol)

At the Aquarium! So much fun the kids loved it! sooo much to see! It's crazy what kinds of things live in the ocean! They had a touch and feel zone where you could stick your hands in the water and touch star fish and sea urchins and anemones!  

  

 a collage of the many colorful living things we saw! 

The boys and sophie! they just love sophie.

After dinner we went into the city center and Lee and I got to go up the sky scraper! So cool :) They take your picture as you went inline to go up and email it to you for free but ours turned out hideous so i'm not posting it to say the least! lol they take your picture in front of a greeen screen and then you get to pick your skyscraper background which is cool but we looked gross so its not being shared lol. we went up as the sun was going down too so we got to see the lights turning on all around it was cool. it took forever to wait in line for an elevator ride back down though....that was the only annoying thing was waiting for the elevators. but it was worth it. 

Landon palying on the sculptures outside of the space needle. 

Saturday (Aug 24th) we went to the woodland park zoo! the kids had a blast of course.

Drake slept almost the whole time in his backpack and the other two ran around enjoying everything.

little monkeys.

This was my favorite part of the trip we went to holwarth park and walked down to the ocean after we were done at the zoo. :) The kids loved it even more than the zoo i think! They didn't want to leave but we had to go get ready for the wedding.  I almost wish we would have just skipped the zoo and done the park instead and just relaxed it was the perfect day for it. 

Drake really loved it! He only put the sand in his mouth once and didn't do it again haha he was crawling towards the water and digging in the sand he thought it was great!  he didn't mind the cool ocean water at all.

The kids had a blast running and jumping in the waves and playing in the water and sand.

perfect day for the beach. sadly we had to cut it short in order to make it to the wedding in time. Which we did...barely! haha

The boys love their cousin Sophie they were just dancing around to maker her smile it was too cute! Sadly these are really the only pictures i got of the wedding because i didn't have any free hands to take any with until after dinner was served. which btw the next morning we woke up with food poisoning! YUK! we're guessing it was the mac and cheese cuz thats the only thing the kids and Lee and I ate that my parents didn't and my parents weren't sick. Luckily I puked that morning and got better because the car ride back to Spokane was a PUKEY one! ugh! And luckily my parents were there to drive for us cuz lee was miserabley sick. that made for an interesting drive home for sure. luckily we had Monday in spokane to ourselves so we didn't have to do so much back to back driving that way Lee and everyone got over their puking before we headed home to Ashton. But overall it was a fun trip. it went by way to quickly! oh and on the way back to spokane we got to stop in wenatchee and see my old roomie Jannica and her little guy Kobe and her hubby Lane too! 

 Kobe and Drake :) just hanging out

 us :) 

So much fun seeing lots of family and friends wish we could've stayed longer. That week went by way too fast :)