Hello Seattle

By -
I like the Owl City song, Hello Seattle 
 I liked it before we moved here, but since moving here, I really like it. 
Every time we cross the bridge from Bellevue into Seattle, I think of that song. 
We rarely go into Seattle on Mondays, because its Jason's day off and since he's 
always going there for work, we usually do something somewhere else 
on Dad's day off. But this day happened to be a beauty and we really hadn't been to Seattle 
{all five of us} in a long time, so we went.







we had lunch at a yummy place on the wharf called Steamers.


peek-a-boo!! 

Kara was fascinated with the water below the pier. 
She kept saying "hi Nemo! hi sharks!" 

watching the people board the cruise ship. 

this is her "oh my goodness, NO WAY!" look :) 

my husband understands how much I love pictures from behind, 
so he'll humor me from time to time ;-) 


************************************







we took the kids on the marry-go-round and then played air hockey. 
this was Ethan and Rachel's first time playing each other, all by themselves. 
They loved it! We all decided we'd like to buy an air hockey table and a ping-pong table. 

I was really into the game :) 


Ethan won, 7-6 

Comments

Jane said…
Oh WOW--beautiful day just like we had!! You'll have to get someone to take a picture of all of you together next time! That one on the pier would make a great Christmas card if you were in it :) I love that I know just where you are--and when I see the pics I remember the smells and the sounds and the kids responses to everything!
You and Kara were into the air hockey--with the same look of concentration :)
Love-Mom
August 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Nicola said…
Hey Stef, it looks like you all had a great day. Beautiful! I was in Seattle once and I really didn't get to see much, I'd really like to go and explore. I love the picture of Kara saying, hi to NEMO and the sharks as well as her oh my goodness face!
August 25, 2010 at 6:37 PM
Stef said…
Mom, Kara and I were totally into the game. Ethan and Rachel did really well; keeping the score about 1 point away from each other through the whole game, so it was intense :)

Cola, next time you're here, we'll meet you there and show you around!!
August 25, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Krista said…
Beautiful pictures, looks like you guys had a great time!

Is Kara's hair getting more and more curly? Or am I just not remembering correctly?
August 25, 2010 at 8:56 PM
Charlotte said…
We totally LOVE Owl City's Hello Seattle. My kids love to blast it when we are cleaning the house.

And this post made me miss Seattle....my MIL has moved back to CA so it has been a few years since we have visited. It is such a beautiful place!
August 26, 2010 at 8:00 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blog Giveaway!!

By -
Image
I am so excited about this blog giveaway! Some friends of ours in Northern California have started a company called Blackflower & Company   and we're doing a blog giveaway with them here! I received my tea a few days ago and it is, hands down, the best peach ginger tea I've ever had. I wanted to help them get word about their business spread and in the meantime, one of you gets to win pretty cool prizes :)  The prize is 2 (4 oz.) bags of tea {your choice} and one of their very special teapots!  This is an awesome giveaway, valued higher than $30  Here are the rules to follow:   enter a comment in this post  If you'd like to go to their website 1st, you can look around and let us know what flavor tea you'd chose and which color teapot you'd like if you win.   If you have a Facebook account, be sure to 'like' them on FB and then  you get to leave a 2nd comment here, letting me know and it will increase   your chances of win...
Keep reading »

One Thousandth blog post + GIVEAWAY!!

By -
This marks the  one thousandth blog post   for me !  If you added the blogging over at Jastef.net, I'm sure it would be far more, but I haven't blogged over there since Kara was a baby. For my simple mind, Blogger worked out much better for me. Sorry, husband.  I've been at this blogging thing for almost 8 years and I'm still not sick of it! I like to write {never thought I'd say that} and I really enjoy interacting with people; friends and then strangers who become friends.  Its great and its been a great way for us to share our day-to-day life with our families, since we moved.  Jason and I have been mulling around what I should do for a 1,000 blog post giveaway, just for fun. Not because I think my 1,000 post is as special to all of you as it is to me. We tossed around the idea of a Kindle, since Amazon dropped the price, but it was still... too much for me. We settled on a fun idea. You get to pick the final result, so read on and then be ...
Keep reading »

keeping the sickies away

By -
Image
Probably like most of you Moms, I've been sick of being sick throughout the winter. Its such a fun, holiday time of year and totally stinks when you're stuck inside, with illnesses. And, if you're not a fan of getting a vaccine for every little bug that goes around, you end up realizing you have to do your research to learn how to build up the immune systems and keep your brood healthy. I'm also learning that when it comes to sickness {we're talking sickness that won't cause death}, its actually good for our bodies to learn to fight things off naturally and not constantly running to get shots or drugs to cure us from ever getting sick again {which those shots don't do anyway}.  I'm no pro and my oldest child isn't even 7 yet, so I'm definitely not posting this to teach you ladies anything. And, for those of you with older kids, feel free to leave tips for how you keep your family healthy or natural ways to fight off colds and viruses.  ...
Keep reading »