Snow Lake Hike

We went for a wonderful hike yesterday with some friends. It was a wonderful time and a wonderful reminder of God's majesty and beauty. Sofia really enjoyed being outdoors.

Zoo trip

We went to the Woodland Zoo in Seattle on friday. It was a lot of fun, it was Sofia's first zoo trip, she enjoyed it; but she didn't like the lady with the snake :-( She did get to pet a goat and a bunny. In a couple more years she'll enjoy the zoo even more.

Visit to downtown

We tried to find a church today but somehow the directions were wacked! we didn't find it. So, we ended up going to downtown visited pionner square and waterfall park. It's been such great weather, high 60s cloudy; so we walked around downtown taking it easy and of course had a cup of coffee. We've somehow managed to drink a lot more coffee since we've been here. It's been rainy/cloudy the last couple of days, that's what we blame it on. ;-)

Happy Birthday Aaron!!

Today is Aaron's birthday, so happy birthday honey! Unfortunaly he's at work, but yesterday we celebrated his birthday. We went into seattle, quickly walked through pike's market; then our plan was to go the aquarium but when we got it was so packed just to get in, so we decided to go somewhere else. we visited the seattle center; it's where the space needle is and they have a little fair there and a museum of science fiction. Then we went to a lavender fest in marysville, which is about 20 miles from where we live. It was small, but nice. oh, in the morning i went to the fresh market at edmunds it so nice. Beautiful weather, beautiful day. ;-)

Sofia is 8 months!

Lots of new things going on with Sofia, now she's been crawling around all over the place. We have to keep a closer eye on her, she loves to pull everything down; and pull up on everything too. I even caught her picking at the safety plugs in the wall! yikes! she's getting so heavy too.

Camping

We got a great camping spot at the Hoh Park, they're not too close together and we got a corner spot next to the river with beautiful views of the mountains. The first day we hiked to a waterfalls called marymere falls it was a nice hike; the second day is when we did the 6 mile hike. Also on the way back home on saturday we stopped at a lavender field farm; it was great, I took lots of pics! By the way Aaron didn't carry Sofia the entire way, we took turns I'm just the one always with the camera. :-) (in case you were wondering.) In case you didn't know you could click on the pic and it gets bigger and I wrote little notes on them.

Olympic National Park

Last week we went to the Olympic National Park and we stayed in a cabin at Lake Cresent and the second day we camped at Hoh Rain Forest. We had a great time, everywhere we go is just so beautiful! I took so many pictures! Sofia did great, she never fusses when we're outside and she's in open air. She takes naps in her backpack and just chills out looking around. The night and the mornings were quite chilly. It was in the 70s during the day, perfect weather. Our next big adverture will be San Juan Islands in 2 weeks. In other news, Sofia is crawling and standing on anything and everything; she babbles a lot in a high squeeky voice it's quite funny to listen to her. Also she loves to eat paper and anything off the ground, but for sure paper is her favorite, she's obssesive when she sees a piece of paper she'll pull it out of your hand so fast and it's straight into the mouth! It's been difficult to figure out which pics to put up, so I'll probably put a bunch up. :-) Have a good week people.

Snoqualmie Falls

Yesterday was a beautiful day here, we were in the 70s, warm and sunny. We went to visit Snoqualmie Falls; it was quite impressive. We hiked down to the bottom only to find it a bit too crowed and all the people that we saw on the river rocks had jumped out of the observation deck and climbed down a little trail. We all had a great time, and Sofia loves being outside in her little backpack; which by the way we found in goodwill for $7 we were looking at other ones at REI and they were $100 so we were really blessed.