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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Seattle trip

In September, we headed back to WA for a weekend trip, mainly to do another Tough Mudder with my siblings. We made some great memories.
This guy was so excited to go on an airplane!
We had a great day at the Puyallup fair with the kids.
Tough Mudder was TOUGH. I was sick too, but we had so much fun together: Laura, Kelley, Paul, Ben, Spencer and me.
Spencer's first year and he did amazing!
Happy to be done!
I love my siblings!
Spencer and I got a fun date to Seattle, to do a food tour of Pike's Place. The kids hung out with Aunt Amanda and baby Thomas, who she babysits every Monday.
Amanda, Spencer and Carly, siblings reunited.
Before we dropped the kids off with their aunt, we had to visit the Fremont troll, which we'd missed on our summer visit.
Vacations are exhausting! We were very happy to fly home after an extremely full five days, with me sick and the five of us cramped at a crappy hotel (my parents had just moved and had no place for us this trip). Whew!

Saturday, September 9, 2017

Family life

 Back to normal family life!
Declan's favorite food at present, and how we got him to sit still for a family night lesson.
Our favorite store had some fun deals and face painting for their 50th anniversary.
I love that this kind of set up still happens with my girl.
Lego and brother time.
So proud that Ian earned his gold belt at karate!