We are Homeless!

Well, the movers finished packing and loading our house today and our stuff is somewhere on the road on its way to Carpinteria, CA. We are hanging out in a nice hotel in downtown Redmond for the rest of the week until our one-way flight Saturday morning to Santa Barbara. The weather this week in Redmond has been typical Seattle weather being cool and spitting rain, but we've been making the most of it by still heading to the parks pretty much every day including a Subway picnic at Marymoore park Sunday after church that got rained out and blown away. One thing we will miss about all that rain is the beautiful greenery it produces and the peacfulness of the pitter patter on the roof as you're falling asleep.

Seattle Seafair

We headed down to the shores of Lake Washington once again this year for the annual Seafair Airshow. We got to the beach park with plenty of time for a picnic lunch and some playing in the sand and mud before the show started. There were a couple of different shows including a performance by the Blue Angels that was pretty cool. Braedyn really had no interest in looking at the planes and wanted only to stick his hands in the mud. The planes were pretty loud and scared him a little bit a couple times, but all in all it was a fun day and is certainly worth the traffic hassles.

 
 
 
 

Parks and Friends

With Grandma in town we headed to Lincoln park again and met some other friends there for some playing and a picnic lunch. Eva and June have become good friends of Braedyn's while we've been living here and came to the park with their mom. Eva is Braedyn's favorite, she is much older which means more fun for Braedyn. He talks about Eva all the time when she's not around and when she is he just loves to follow her and imitate her every move.

 
 
 

Grandma

Grandma Davis is here on a visit during her summer break. She was at home in Colorado for the summer and is on her way back the the Philipines for the upcoming school year but has stopped by for a couple weeks to visit. We spent some time showing her some of our favorite parks around the area. Here we headed back to Lincoln park for the day. The last picture is of a local neighborhood park.

 
 
 
 

4th of July

Well Michael was left at home by the rest of the family for the week preceeding the 4th. I got lots of work done around the house in preparation for putting it on the market to sell which is a good thing, but it was a little boring being at home alone and I kind of miss my family... I went out one night to the cinema to see Wall-E since I can never talk Talisha into seeing Pixar, animated movies. That was pretty good.


Then, Arye, a guy from work invited me to come down to his boat at the Elliot Bay Marina in Seattle for the 4th of July fireworks with his family and another guy from work, Will, and his family. That was a great place to watch the fireworks. We sat around his big sailboat and grilled hamburgers and watched all the excitement happening at the marina and then kicked back to watch the fireworks shot off over Seattle. I even climbed up into the crows nest for the display!

Volunteer Park

It was another hot day in Seattle so we decided to check out another park that has a wading pool. This time we went to the second largest Seattle Parks wading pool located at Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill.

 

Green Lake Wading Pool

With the Seattle temps in the low 90's we took advantage of the wading pool at Green Lake Park in Seattle. Braedyn hasn't been real interested in water lately so we weren't sure how long we'd hang out, but this kid had some major fun there. The hard part was getting him to take a break to eat some lunch and then getting him to leave. We ended up spending a few hours there along with about a hundred other kids. Braedyn barely left the water and had so much fun it should be illeagle.

 
 
 
 

Green Lake Park

We headed over to Seattle on Saturday for a visit to Green Lake Park. It was a pretty hot day so the promise of a lake and a wading pool was too much to pass up. Braedyn and daddo threw some rocks into the lake for awhile while mommy went to some of the shops across the street and then we headed to the wading pool.

 
 

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.

Hanging out at the Aquarium

More Science Center

 
 
 

Science Center

MeMa and PaPa were in town this weekend for the big birthday party so we spent the morning at the Pacific Science Center again on Friday. As usual it was a big hit.

 
 
 
 

Another beautiful weekend day found us off to another nearby parks, this time in Kirkland on the East side of Lake Washington. We took quite a few pictures so here is a short slideshow. Click here to see the large format slideshow. Click here to browse the pictures on your own.

Chocolate

Hanging out at Theo chocolate in Seattle. Braedyn really loved all the free samples they had even though 10 minutes earlier he was too full to eat lunch....

More Weekend hanging out

The weather was really nice this weekend in Seattle. After some time at the park we headed over to check out Seattle's surf shop, Urban Surf, and then we had lunch at another park then headed for some samples at Theo Chocolate.