day at the park

Talisha taking in some sunshine on a nice beached log...



Braedyn hanging out with Angelina and Isaiah (Ying's kids), playing in the water.

Carkeek Park Scenery

Some of the scenery at Carkeek Park in Seattle

Carkeek Park, Seattle

Saturday was absolutely gorgeous. 70 degrees and sunny. So we headed out for a sampling of some more local parks. Carkeek park was recommended as a great park for kids. It has everything Braedyn could ever want: A large beach on the Puget Sound with sand, rocks, mud and water; a large playground with slides, rock structures to climb on, and wide open fields; and finally a bridge over a railroad track that has lots of trains going by at high speed! For parents its also great as there are nice logs laying around to relax on and an easy view of wherever your kid might roam to, there are awesome views of the Olympic mountains over the sound, and a host of friendly parents haning around.

We weren't the only ones in Seattle that knew about this park, it was packed with kids of all ages out enjoying the perfect weather. We spent a couple hours at the beach park playing with Isaiah (a friend of co-worker Ying), getting wet and dirty and throwing rocks in the water. Then we attempted to leave to go sit at a coffee shop for lunch, but when Braedyn caught sight of the playground there was no leaving until it had been explored.

Sunny Seattle

We've been getting our fair share of sun here lately and the temps are starting to warm up a bit as well. This makes park visits all the more enjoyable for everyone. This particular to trip to Houghton Beach Park in Kirkland with Amiee and June was a gorgeous day.

Bouncy Castle

Breadyn and mommy got to spend the day at the bouncy castle place with Isaiah and Marilyn. It was quite a hit.
 
 
 

Hiking Cont'd

More of our hike at St Edwards State Park. We made it down to the beach which had some nice rocks and sticks for throwing. We even got to watch a sea plan land pretty close, that was pretty cool! The wind was a little cold so we headed back after a little while and went for lunch at Oobas.

Hiking

Saturday was a little cold and wet, but we still were able to make it out to a local park. This time we went exploring and headed to St Edwards State Park, which is in Kirkland and on Lake Washington. Part of the park used to be a Catholic seminary or something like that. But there is a really pretty hike, about a mile, down to the water. It was especially pretty now that all the trees are starting to bud which makes it even greener than it already was.

Gardening

Braedyn was so excited today to see that the seeds we planted indoors had sprouted! He wanted to make sure they got watered again and kept wanting to show mommy and daddy the new plants.

Rocks in the Beach

We had told Braedyn that we were hiking down to the beach. The whole hike down to the water he kept asking to throw rocks in the beach. It certainly made him happy to see that the entire beach was made up of rocks!

 
 

Hiking

With friends in town we took Monday to go do a nice little hike on Bainbridge Island. After a short ferry ride and a quick stop for lunch we headed out on a 2 mile walk down to a really nice, rocky beach on the sound. It was a perfect day with cooler temps but lots of sunshine. And there were tons of rocks to be thrown in.

 
 
 
 

A Night on the Town

More like a night with a view of town. We had a babysitter and went out for a nice dinner with Jon and Heather to a favorit restaurant of ours with a nice view of Seattle from across the water.

 
 
 

SNOW!

Jon and Heather came to visit from Colorado and brought some cold weather with them which caused the rain here to turn to snow. Braedyn of course was grateful and immediately wanted to go play in the snow.