Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Cousin Love

Since my last post, summer disappeared again. Seattle was lost in thick gloomy clouds for another couple weeks. On August 16th, blue skies appeared and the beautiful Northwest sparkled! And just in time for my sister Renee, Dan and my niece Lydia and nephew Henry to arrive! Renee, Dan, Lydia and Henry arrived on the 20th for a 10 day visit. They were thrilled to excape the triple digit Texas heatwave, we were excited that summer arrived in time to do some things with them outside!

We did a family hike up Little Si - about 25 minutes east of our home. The little ones did great in their backpacks and the big kids hiked all of the 3-ish miles, much of which was pretty steep and rocky. (Jeremy didn't pick a family friendly trail).

And we managed to get out for dinner together with Jeremy and Dan. What? A picture of two of us? This never happens!
Renee and I spent lots of time at the parks and out for walks around the neighborhood while Liddy and Colden took turns on the bike and scooter.

We had fun feeding the alpacas at the zoo and seeing the new baby joey!
We missed the 10:40 ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge, but managed to make the ferry ride over and back with a super quick stop for lunch and ice cream at Mora Creamery... YUM! Renee took the big kids to a local farm/amusement park for the day while I baked and cleaned in preparation for Colden's birthday party. Renee and I even managed to sneak out to enjoy a spa treatment one morning while Jeremy coralled the kids! It was a great visit... so glad you all came!

2 comments:

Renee Westcott said...

Such a great trip! Thanks for saving "summer" for the two weeks I was with you! Lydia packed some toys today for Thanksgiving...she's pretty pumped to see her Cole again.

The Long Family said...

Supre pretty picture of you guys together...I need that one.