Annual Girls Weekend!

This weekend was our annual "girls weekend!" It was a fun get-away with my closest friends from college! (The girls I got to live with in the dorm that I posted being torn down last month!) We took the train from Seattle to Portland and enjoyed two days of gorgeous weather! As always, it was a FUN weekend filled with giggles, shopping, getting dolled up, eating, drinking, walking, sight-seeing, sleeping in, and catching up with each other! We visited the Saturday market, Powells books (WOW!), the waterfront, the Deschutes Brewery, and many other neat spots along the way! Here are some pictures of our fun! Good friends are such a blessing!!! Love you, girls!

My first train ride... can you believe it? :)

A "Crabby" Weekend!

I love the Puget Sound... the whole Pacific Northwest for that matter! It has to be one of the most beautiful places that our God created! :) We had a wonderful weekend on the water with my parents! We visited them on their vacation, and joined them on the boat for a day of salt water fun! Then, we visited our friend's property and fished, rode a quad, caught crawdads, and lots more "messy" fun! The kids had the time of their lives and didn't stop for a minute for two full days! Needless to say, they slept a lot when we got home! We also saw my grandma... who we love very much!



Here are the highlights!

*God's beautiful creation... the smell of the salt water and the clean, fresh air!

*Watching Leah haul the crab pots up and handle those crabs like a pro!

*Seeing Leif fish with Brian for the first time... and help catch a fish!

*Seeing my grandma, and giving her hugs!

*Spending time with my folks and seeing how much Leah and Leif love their Nana and Papa!

*Eating lots of yummy, fresh, dungeoness crab!

*Seeing Leah's enthusiasm for living things as she spent hours looking for crawdads, tadpoles, dragonflies, fish, frogs, etc...!

*The squeals of delight and HUGE smile as Leif rode a quad for the first time! (both Leif and Daddy's squeals and smiles!)

*Time away to enjoy my family!

Leah with one of 18 crab!

Leif LOVES tractors... or any other big machine that makes lots of noise!

Here's Leah pulling up the crawdad pots!

I think this moment was the best part of the weekend for Leif!

Leah created an "ocean in a bucket" to take to school! :)

I love that smile!

"FISH ON!"

We caught rainbow trout... but then released them!

Papa shared wild blackberries with the kids! YUMMY!

Look at my boys... ALL smiles!

Can you see the dragonfly?

Leah even helped cook and clean the crabs!

Way to go, little man! :)

ZZZZZZ....

They had to be just right! Leah became the expert!

Dinner! :)