Road Trip

Last week we packed up the car and headed out on a 6 day road trip. Our first stop was Port Townsend. We camped for two nights at Fort Worden State Park. We spent our time riding our bikes, playing at the beach and exploring the town. This is our palace!

Kite flying at Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend.

Caedan was a little unsure about the whole tent thing but he eventually got used to it. In fact, we all slept better in the tent than we did on night three when we stayed in a motel.

Fort Worden State Park

We then headed down to Manzanita, Oregon for some more fun in the sand.

Playing in the sand is very exhausting.

Manzanita, Oregon


After a night in Manzanita we headed to Fort Stevens State Park for two more nights of camping.

Fort Stevens State Park - Battery Russell

Fort Stevens State Park - Ship wreak

"One more step back Caedan. The picture is almost perfect."

Ballard Locks

Today Robert and I celebrated our 12th anniversary. To celebrate we decided to take a bike ride to the Ballard Locks with the kids. In case you are wondering it was 43 miles round trip from our house to the Locks. Olivia loved watching the boats and learning about the locks. Caedan just wanted to sit on Olivia's bike! We did have some excitement on our trip. For some reason while we were riding through the University of Washington campus we came upon a group of guys also riding their bikes. For some reason that we were not able to figure out they were naked. They rode all the way to Fremont!

Photo by Olivia.

My new favorite thing...

is girls night out!!!

Last night the girls met up for pedicures and dinner.

And what do the girls talk about during girls night out you ask?

Well of course we talk about the husbands, the kids and work and a few other topics that will not be mentioned here!!




As my kids are crawling all over me and screaming for me to do things I can't help but wonder when the next girls night out will be.

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Happy 6th Birthday Olivia!!!

Today was Olivia's 6th birthday. It is hard to believe that she is already 6 and in a few short weeks she will be starting 1st grade.

Today we celebrated with a party at our house. We woke up to rain but by the beginning of the party the sun was out. Thankfully the sun came out because Olivia had her heart set on a water themed party.

This is our swimming pool cake.
We had water gun fights and water balloon fights. By the end of the party it was the kids against Robert. Here is a picture of the kids hiding from Robert waiting to attack!