Monday, May 25, 2009

Our Day Playing Tourists


We decided since we have been in Washington for almost a year, that it was time we saw some of the "tourist" attractions. So for Memorial Day, we got to play tourist. We went to the space needle early this morning (we left at 8:30 am - early for Emilee). We wanted to beat a lot of the people to the Seattle Center, since the Folklife Festival was also going on this weekend.







Family Togetherness!!!





Brian - trying to see over the edge - but not getting tooooo close!!!




Checking out the sights!




Oh - what a view!!!













Emilee and Michael wanted to see which direction they were going!!









The front entrance





Then we decided to visit Pike's Place Market to see what was there.


The famous pigs you can follow to Pike's Market.


They had some gorgeous flowers - too bad we can't tranport them to Utah for the wedding.




The famous Pike's Fish Market - fish toss!!





We then decided to make an impromptu visit to the
Seattle Aquarium.




















There were tide pools where the kids could touch the star fish, sea anemones, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, etc. Everything that is found in the Sound.




Emilee even touched things - there was a bathroom close by to wash her hands.




There was an enormous octopus - well it looked pretty big anyway.








Emilee surfing on an orca whale's back.



It was Michael's turn to catch a ride!




Morgan has to keep up with the others.


And the kids all together!

We had a great day and a lot of fun. We finished the day off by going to eat at the Cheesecake Factory. Morgan even finished her entire meal - and that says a lot!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day! We definitely celebrated this at our house. Dianne got cards and presents from Brian and the kids. Morgan's card had a sign inside of it that says, "Go away all of you! Just leave me alone!" This was for Dianne to put on her door so she wouldn't be disturbed.
Morgan wrote Dianne a poem in school. It was very sweet of her, but the poem made us all laugh.


Morgan also gave Dianne a thermos, it had a drawing of the whole family around the outside.

These are mom's presents from the kids! All Disney! The Mickey and Minnie on top are salt and pepper shakers.



Precious Moment of the Disneyland Teacup Ride! It's very cute!


Precious Moment of the Dumbo Ride! Definitely a favorite at our house!

Dianne couldn't wait to put them up on display.


Aren't they cute?



Dianne also got a Cinderella Carriage Antenna Ball.



Last, but not least, Brian's present. He gave Dianne a choice of an iMac, iPhone, and Ipod!