craig & whitney

the smiths visit the smiths

last week brady and jocelyn (with their two kids, lucy and tucker) came to visit. it was a very fun couple of days and we are so excited to have them living only three hours away now!

the first day they were here we went down to the fun center. the kids loved the swings. tagg's weird.

im flyiiiiiiiiiing.

good thing the worker insisted that an adult rode with the kids. brady and craig were clearly paying attention the kids' safety.

the frog hopper. apparently is was make-a-weird-face-day for tagg.

tagg, lucy and sully were super brave and went into the 3d motion theater. they have a camera on the audience so the worker can make sure everything is okay during the three minute movie. i have never laughed so hard. their faces! horror mixed with excitement.

that afternoon it cleared up so went back home to play on our homemade white trash slip n side.

tarp from home depot + dish soap + water. hours of entertainment.

that night we had dinner downtown and took a ride on the great wheel.

a couple of my favorite people.

after the wheel we went over to hot cakes for dessert. super tasty. except for the smoked chocolate. ew.

we had sully and tagg in our room so the smiths could have more space. i set up a mat for tagg to sleep on (i was going to have sully sleep in our bed) but apparently these two wanted to get cozy. looooove sleeping kids.

the next day was more fun in the sun. aaaaaand one of our (four) chickens laid her first egg! so exciting.

we headed down to golden gardens to play in the "real" sand. look at these four!

the ballard paseo is about thirty seconds from golden gardens so we hit that up. happy humans.

later that afternoon we brought out the slip n slide again. this time the men got in on the action. this was craig's "baseball slide".

go brady, go!

that night we got a babysitter again and went over to bellevue for dinner, shopping and a movie.

little did we know that the movie would royally blow so we got our money back and went downstairs to bowl instead. such an upgrade.

and to end the night? we danced on stage. craig and brady were still in their movie. what else were we going to do? i honestly cant believe that jocelyn moved to camas. now its only a short drive to fuuuuuun.