Travels | Darrell & Sharyn

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Winter activities

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December 30, 2016

There are always a bunch of stuff going on for the Christmas holidays in Seattle. This year, we took advantage of some things we hadn’t before and we loved doing them. First up, we took the link train downtown and wandered around to see the sights down there. We wandered through the Sheraton Hotel’s Gingerbread village, the Olympic Fairmont Hotel’s Christmas Tree Festival and their Teddy Bear room. Then we grabbed the monorail and headed towards the Armory and the Seattle Center to see the Space Needle, the train setup, and we took Edward ice skating for his first time. He was nervous at first, but after a bit, he became more stable and loved going around.

We also went to Woodland Park Zoo and did Zoolights. It is the one thing we try to make sure we do each year. Edward loves seeing the lights and playing at the Zoomasium with all the snowballs they have.

We got a snow day and the neighborhood kids had a blast sliding down our street. Edward and Darrell spent a good portion of the day outside. They sled down the street, built some snowmen in the park, and even built an igloo. Darrell also brought out a bunch of hotchocolate for the kids to drink and they all loved that.

We took some family photos for Christmas Cards and even went and did our annual Santa Photo. We have been doing the Santa Photo since Edward was a year old and we have made it to see the same Santa thus far. We love him!

And last but not least, we began something we hope is a tradition. Edward loves watching the Polar Express, so we decided to do a Polar Express movie night and invite his friends. We put the movie on, got some pizza and hot chocolate and all watched. Since most of the mommy friends I have love to bake, we added a side mommy thing and did a cookie exchange. There were lots of cookies to go around and everyone seemed to love it. I made these cute little snowmen with Reese’s in them for each family to take one home.

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July roundup

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August 15, 2016

July was a super crazy month for us! To kick off the month, we headed over to Idaho to visit the Ednie family. We try to head out that way once a year if we can. Edward has been reading a book (“Emmet’s Pig”) that Grammy had brought out once and she use to read it to Darrell when he was growing up. Because of that, Edward was super excited he got to see some pigs up close and even got to give them some weeds to nibble on! Darrell’s uncle Adam was even nice enough to let him wander out and visit with the cows. We went into town and watched the 4th of July parade and overall had a great visit. We stopped at the Wild Horse wind farm and the Columbia Gorge on our way back.

We decided to go ahead and hosted another student from Spain again. We hosted another girl, Sonia, from Valencia. It was a lot of fun and we did a bunch of traveling and seeing different things while she was here. Edward had a blast hanging out with her and was a bit sad that she left at the end of the month. We hit up Kerry Park overlooking Seattle, The Fremont Troll, Mukilteo Beach, and Dash Point State Park during the week between dropping her off and picking her up at the bus.

The first weekend she was here, we headed up to Mt. Vernon to go to the Skagit Valley Highland Games and since we were so close, we went ahead and headed over to spend some time at Deception Pass before it got to dark.

The next weekend, we headed out and did some blueberry picking. It was our first time doing this and it was a lot of fun. Hopefully we will continue doing it for as long as we live here.

Sunday after blueberry picking, we headed out again to meet with some friends and did the Wallace Falls Hike. It was a beautiful hike, but really hard on a 27 week pregnant lady. But I am happy to report that it might have taken almost 5 hours, but I made it to the lower falls and then back to the car!! Not sure when or if we will do that one again, but nice to say we did it at least once!

The following weekend, we headed down to Oregon and went to my family’s annual gathering at Pheasant Rock. Sonia wasn’t super sure as the drive to get there is longer than if you were to drive all the way across Spain. Then we forgot to make sure she knew how to use an airpad, so poor thing slept on the ground. But we made it through the weekend! We got to help paint the dining hall. Sonia got to do a lot of firsts: Camping, Road Trip, sitting in a Semi-truck, and sleeping in a car.

The last weekend in July my family made a trip up to Seattle and we had a full house. There were 9 people in our house for the whole weekend. It was insane but so much fun! We headed down to Enumclaw and the Highland Games there. Maybe we will get a chance to have a full house again sometime!

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CWU trip

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October 26, 2015

Our alma mater had a football game at CWU and since the whole band wasn’t coming up, there was an alumni contingent who went ahead and went out to see the game and play. We headed over the mountains to Ellensburg and spent some time with friends. We were of course late because of Edward. However, even getting there late, the football team rocked and won hardcore! And the small but mighty band rocked as well. We were definitely overshadowed by the other band and they didn’t really let us get much playing in, but we still played.

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SoCal Trip

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October 16, 2015

Edward and I headed down to San Diego to visit with Sharyn’s family for 10 days. We were originally going down for my folks’ 30th wedding anniversary party they were going to have. Things didn’t come together, so they ended up canceling it and we all went out to dinner (all of us girls were there). We spent a glorious week just hanging out and having fun with the entire family. Edward loved spending the time playing with his cousin Hazel. We went out to Balboa Park and then did little things here and there.

Getting on the plane in Seattle:

We made it!

Grandma with her Grandbabies:

Hanging out at Grandma & Grandpa’s!

Balboa Park:

Spanish Landing Park:

And of course, the day before we were leaving, Edward found a dumbbell and then was playing with it in the living room. He decided that the fish, Hella, needed to play too, so he threw the dumbbell at the fishtank. Mom and I were in the kitchen and heard the crash and then the splash as almost 8 gallons of water hit the carpeted floor. Edward went running from the room and was scared and kept telling me “Hella gonna get me.” I felt bad for him, but I can’t stop laughing about it. At least, I am ok with laughing about it now that we are not trying to clean water up out of the carpet. So, needless to say, Hella got a brand new pad before we left. 🙂

On the way home to see Daddy!

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Snoqualmie Falls

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September 22, 2015

We have been here in Seattle for 2.5 years and haven’t yet made it to Snoqualmie Falls. But since we were already in Issaquah for the Drive Electric Week, we decided to bug out a little early and drive the last 20 minutes out to see the falls. It was fabulous and a lot of fun. Edward was sleeping for the first part of it. There were a ton of people there, so we had to park about as far away as you can. Then while there, we decided to take the path down to lower falls and wow.. that was a hike. We took the stroller and then had to push it back up. Took us a little longer than we had planned, but we did it! We have talked about going back sometime, but not sure if or when we will get around to it. But at least we can say we did it once!